University of Iowa Lands Grant for New Gear
University of Iowa professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, Ching-Long Lin, has received a grant totaling $473,636 from the National Institutes of Health in order to procure a new supercomputer. Eric A. Hoffman, professor of radiology at UI’s College of Medicine, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Iowa Comprehensive Lung Imaging Center is co-investigator on the grant.
The system will be targeted at providing computational, storage and visualization resources to researchers of pulmonary flow, …
Bull Appoints New Director of HPC Solutions
Bull has announced that they have appointed Fabio Gallo as their Director of HPC Solutions. Gallo was previously VP of Sales Development for Europe and the Middle East for Scali, the HPC middleware solutions firm. Gallo has run the full gambit of HPC companies, working for IBM, SGI and most recently LNXI. He successfully increased revenues at LNXI by a factor of five in just over three years.
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Free HPC workshop at Rice
If you’re in Texas and have a hankering for crude with your big compute, head over to Rice on Tuesday next week for the 2008 Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop.
The Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop is the second in what we hope will be a regular event. The workshop on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 is the follow-on to the inaugural workshop organized at the 2007 SEG Annual Meeting in San
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Computational Physics Prof Earns Oscar
When Ron Fedkiw, now an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University enrolled as a freshman I’m sure that he never listed winning an Oscar on his list of academic goals.
You’ve probably never heard of Fedkiw, but if you’ve seen the roaring oceans waves crashing around Johnny Depp in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies or the splattering lava flows in the final duel in “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” you’ve
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Selling Those Unused Cycles
ICT Results has an interesting article on how an EU funded CATNETS project is tackling the problem of unused compute cycles to create a stock exchange.
You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers developed a successful free-market approach to grid computing.
Existing grids generally
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SGI Unveils New Multi-Vendor Support Portfolio
SGI has unveiled a new multi-vendor support program for global infrastructure, logistics and secured site services. The Support Solutions Plus program offers customers, OEM’s, integrators and partners the ability to leverage the SGI support infrastructure at their sites or on their products. SGI has already announced they will support products from IBM, HP, Sun, Solid Data Systems, Barco and several others under a single support agreement.
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NSF allocations on Google’s cluster: the rise of large scale hosted HPC
I thought that this would probably start in 18 months or so from the bottom up as the small manufacturing and engineering firms out there with HPC needs looked for someone to host their gear. But it looks like hosted HPC is making its way to large scale science first.
No, not Network.com. Remember back in summer of ‘07 when Google and IBM announced they were teaming up to provide hardware and expertise to …
Just how much Sun could we cram in here?
If you’re in a buying mood, or just wanting to do some productive doodling, head over to Sun’s relatively recently added web page detailing Constellation reference designs. See what it takes to host systems at 70, 210, and 579 TFLOPS.
I love the moxie of the web pages; note the marketing language that informs you that yes you can scale Constellation “down to TeraFLOPS” …if you’re that …
Xtreme part 2, Appro’s sequel
Early November last year Appro announced its new Xtreme-X1 line of quad Xeon-based cluster HPCs. The X1, is designed to be the lego building block of cluster solutions by allowing customers to build systems up in 128-node blocks. Earlier this year they announced the sale of a 95 TFLOPS Xtreme to the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and the company has had recent wins of note with …
Our man in Texas: the Ranger dedication
[Ed: our very own John Leidel packed up the Chevy Nova and headed over to TACC to watch the goings on at the Ranger dedication. That's right, we now have a nationally roving team of reporters! Sure, he only got in because HPCwire scored him an invite, and he does live close by. But still: roving reporters.
Here are John’s thoughts. I’ve linked in a few pics, but you should check out his whole album of …
