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I just happened to be feeling nostalgic and took a look at our stats. Over the past 12 months we’ve served about 1.2M pages to nearly half a million visitors at a rate last month of right at 2,000 visitors per day. Those are big numbers!
Thanks for stopping by so often. And if you have a poor, unfortunate friend who doesn’t have an HPC news source, mention us to them. And take them out for …
NASA’s big screen
Joab Jackson writing in GCN reports on NASA’s new display, Hyperwall-II, a piece of gear that they assert will be the largest high resolution unclassified display in the world.
The display should be operational within the month, [Rupak Biswas, chief of advanced supercomputing at the NASA Ames Research Center] said.
…The Hyperwall-II will be made of 128 LCD monitors, arranged in an 8-by-16 matrix. Collectively, they will generate 245 million pixels, making it, Biswas said, the
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Optics.org surveys recent developments in optics in computing
Short article at optics.org from last week that can bring you up to speed on three significant developments in the use of light for information transfer in next-generation computers.
First, IBM
Hot on the heels of its recent demonstration of an all-optical data bus, IBM revealed a silicon photonic switch based on cascaded microring resonators that can route data at speeds of 1 Tbit/s.
Then NEC working with Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed
…[a] device – which
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New Indian supercomputer
After a quick Google I haven’t find many details on this yet (what machine, size, etc.) but I ran across this news piece I wanted to share.
The Times of India reported late last week that a new supercomputer came on line last week in Hyderabad at the Centre for High Performance Computing and Research
Supercomputer Dhruva was on Wednesday logged-in in the city to help in defence research and perform functions faster than the existing
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Juniper’s HPC push
I don’t usually cover hiring and firing, but this one is a little interesting. ChannelWeb reported last week that Sun Microelectronics group executive vice president David Yen has moved over to Juniper to help the networking company focus on the development of new hardware specifically for HPC.
That team will draw on Yen’s high-performance computing experience in developing new products at Juniper. Juniper, which produces networking switches and routers and which is moving ahead on
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HPC in business ‘pockets’
PC World Canada ran a short piece last week covering remarks made by a Sun executive to a group of business leaders about the relevance of HPC to mechanics of running a business
The discussion, which centered on HPC’s shift to mainstream from its traditional research sphere, served to help CIOs identify current uses of the technology and potential opportunities for its use in the business.
A business probably already houses “pockets” of HPC technology scattered
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OpenSolaris and NUMA
When we as HPC technologists begin speaking about operating systems, most of us immediately assume Linux to be the center of conversation. There is always IRIX, UNICOS, AIX, Windows and Solaris lurking in the wings. Solaris is not traditionally thought of as an operating system of choice when constructing some sort of HPC system. However, the pieces are beginning to come together. [ie, …
UT/ORNL Set to Celebrate Track2 Award
The University of Tennessee [the *other* UT... hook em' horns!] and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are set to celebrate their National Science Foundation Track-2 supercomputing award on April 3 at ORNL. The $65 million project will mark one of the largest research grants in UT history. The event’s attendee list includes Gov. Phil Bredesen, Daniel Atkins [Director of NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure], Thom Mason [Directory of ORNL] and UT President, John Peterson.
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SGI Collaborates with NIMSAT
SGI has teamed up with the National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies [NIMSAT] Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. SGI’s goal is to develop and deliver technologies that will help prepare the nation for emergencies and facilitate response and recovery activities in the event of a disaster. The company will contribute expertise ranging from supercomputing, storage and visualization in order to assist NIMSAT …
PSC Takes Delivery of Two SGI’s
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that has successfully taken delivery of two new SGI Altix 4700 systems. The two shared memory systems have just entered the testing phase. The first, “Pople”, is named for Nobel-Prize-winning chemist John Pople. Pople will join BigBen at PSC in being assimilated [not by the Borg] into the Teragrid. It features 768 Itanium2 processors and 1.5 terabytes of memory.
The second system, …
