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Archive for January, 2008
In today's Takeout we talk a little about SGI's 14k core New Mexico system, and what it means to be up and running in 48 hours. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/30/14k-core-nm-altix-up-in-48-hours/.
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Portland Group has just announced general availability of its Cluster Development Kit for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster 2003. The CDK for Windows is a package full of C/C++/Fortran compilers and development tools built specifically for the Windows environment. Until recently, the CDK was only available for 32 and 64-bit x86 platforms from AMD and Intel.
With an accelerating trend towards platform
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The LSU Department of Computer Science has announced that it will offer two classes by High Definition streaming broadcast. One course, High Performance Computing: Models, Methods and Means, will be broadcast to LSU students residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and the Czech Republic. The class will eventually be converted to DVDs and podcasts.
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Acceleware has announced the launch of its seismic data acceleration solution for the oil and gas industry. The product uses the massively parallel architecture of GPUs to accelerate 2D/3D land and marine data processing.
Acceleware is growing its presence in the high performance computing sector, in part, by expanding into new industry verticals,” said Sean Krakiwsky,
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In today's Takeout we think inside the box with a look at new announcements around Sun's Project Blackbox. You can find the original story at http://insidehpc.com/2008/01/30/blackbox-gets-a-new-name-and-shiny-new-customers/.
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The Ohio Supercomputer Center announced yesterday that their new IBM Cluster 1350 is on line at 17 peak TFLOPS
With the deployment of the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s new IBM Cluster 1350, the State of Ohio is now home to the 65th fastest supercomputer in the world and the 9th fastest among U.S. academic supercomputer centers.
…”The new machine will accelerate research
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Ashlee Vance at The Register looks briefly at Intel’s HyperTransport-esque offering, now called Quickpath.
Early information apparently pegs QP (yes, as far as I know I made that abbreviation up) at 96 GB/s processor-to-processor and 34 GB/s peak memory bandwidth.
We’ll wait to hear a bit more from Intel before squaring QuickPath - formerly known as CSI - against Hypertransport 3.0,
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Sun’s Project Blackbox — originally announced back in October of 2006 — is going places. For example, it has a new name: “Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD)S20.” And a YouTube video.
The one thing it hasn’t had much of publicly announced customers. Counting the Stanford Linear Accelerator installation there was…one.
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SGI put a release on the wires earlier this week about its success out west: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s 14,336 core SGI Altix ICE was “up and running in just 48 hours.” This is significant since it would currently rank third on the Top500 list.
Good stuff, no doubt. Of the major providers …
The National High Performance Computing and Communications Council’s 22nd annual government HPC and IT conference, otherwise known as the “Newport Conference”, will be held March 25 and 26 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa in Newport, RI.
I’d always heard about this conference, but had never attended until last year. It immediately became my favorite annual event. It’s small — …
Over 60 representatives from 14 European Countries held the kick-off meeting of the PRACE project at the Research Centre Jülich on January 29 and 30, 2008. PRACE lays the foundations for a future European supercomputer infrastructure. At the end of 2007 the project received a grant from the European Commission towards a total budget of 20 Mio € for the …
CNET News.com has an interesting with Dave Turek, VP of IBM’s Deep Computing group. The interview covers everything from the competitiveness of the US in the world HPC arena, IBM’s Top500 dominance with the BlueGene and the future of HPC on a global scale.
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Sun has just announced details for the 6th annual Lustre User Group meeting. This will be the first LUG meeting since Sun bought CFS in 2007.
Details:
What? Lustre User Group Meeting [LUG] 2008
Where? The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa
When? April 28-30, 2008
For more details and registration information, wander over here.
ATI has announced the release of their Radeon HD 3870 X2 GPU, which marks the first graphics processor to break the teraflop barrier. The X2 combines two 55nm Radeon HD 3870 GPUs on a single graphics board connected through CrossFire technology. The mixture combines to nearly double the performance of the original 3870.
PC gaming enthusiasts demand the ultimate
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Sun’s HPC Watercooler vectored us to an interview posted on Sun.com with Peter Bojanic, formerly of VP of Engineering at CFS and now Sun’s Director of Engineering for the Lustre group. Some excerpts
Q: Will Lustre continue to be open source? A: Absolutely.
…Q: How will Sun continue to support customers like HP, Dell, DDN that currently ship Lustre?
A: The
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