SC08: make a date!
There are a couple big dates for SC coming up right quick now…
Today
Education Program Applications due July 31
Entries for Challenges due July 31. Demonstrate your expertise in the Analytics, Bandwidth, Cluster or Storage Challenge.
Poster submissions due July 31, for both student posters and regular posters.
Birds of a Feather (BoF) submissions due July 31. Suggest a stimulating group discussion on your favorite HPC topic.
Doctoral Showcase submissions due July 31. Soon-to-be Ph.D.s, this is your chance to …
NVIDIA names Utah new center of excellence
Today NVIDIA recognized the University of Utah as a CUDA Center of Excellence
Distinguished members of the University of Utah’s faculty and alumni have been behind a remarkable fraction of the graphics innovations made in the last 40 years, as well as pioneering companies such as Adobe, Evans & Sutherland, Pixar and Silicon Graphics. Together, NVIDIA and the University of Utah will continue this industry-changing
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Embedded.com looks at the long history of acceleration
Embedded.com featured an article some time ago (I’m digging through my backlog) on the convergence of the lessons in accelerated computing learned by the embedded processing community and the needs of the HPC community.
A little known fact in the HPC community is that the embedded computing market has always solved their problems with a combination of CPUs and accelerators.
…As these two markets collide, the emergence of some of the world’s largest companies from HPC
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Dan Reed’s testimony before Congress
On Wednesday Dan Reed testified before Congress (again) before the House Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology (the committee that funds NITRD). I could do a summary of Dan’s testimony, but as a citizen of the HPC community you should read it all yourself at his blog.
All of the points that Dan makes resonate deeply with me, and I’ll make a public offer: Dan, if you’re ever looking for someone to clerk for you …
Rumored Windows replacement all about concurrency
This is mostly non-HPC, but I thought it might be of interest. Gizmodo is reporting on article in the SD Times speculating on the future of operating systems from Redmond. The SD Times article is reportedly
…based on “internal Microsoft documents” that give more details on the skunk-works research project currently brewing in Redmond.
..Midori’s design treats concurrency as a core principle, beyond what even the Microsoft Robotics Group is trying to accomplish, said Tandy
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Microsoft’s cloud efforts
Dan Ciruli’s blog points us to an article by Sarah Perez on Microsoft’s cloud efforts. The article comes from comments Ray Ozzie made at Microsoft’s July 24 Financial Analysts Meeting. According to Dan
While it’s not terribly in-depth, it does highlight the breadth of Microsoft’s efforts in cloud computing: the Connected OS, the Software Stack, the Developer Tools, and the Datacenter effort.
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Bull reports results for 1H 2008, posts profit
From Bull’s release yesterday:
Thanks to a 4.3% increase in consolidated revenues in the second quarter and an strong growth of 19.9% in Services and Solutions, revenues for the first six months of 2008 were €550.6 million, representing an increase of 0.1% compared with the published figure of €550.2 million for the same period in 2007. After recasting to exclude businesses sold during 2007 and 2008, growth in consolidated
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Cray announces Q2, posts loss
Cray just posted its Q2 results; from their release
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Revenue for the quarter was $46.7 million compared to $26.6 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of ($5.0 million) or ($0.15) per share compared to a net loss of ($6.4
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Concurrent Thinking gains one million pounds
From UK web site Real Business comes news that Concurrent Thinking — a company that develops and markets pre-configured clusters — has gotten a fresh infusion of capital
Concurrent Thinking, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC) systems and software, has secured £1m from Oxford Capital Partners in second round funding to help drive international sales and marketing of the company’s newly released range of products.
See what I did there? This is a story about …
Bull gets PFLOPS order
This week Bull announced that it’s partnering with CEA to provide a PFLOPS system in France
The Military Applications Department (DAM) at the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) and Bull have signed a collaboration contract to design and build Tera 100, the future supercomputer to support the French nuclear weapons Simulation Program.
The build out will happen in two phases: a smaller validation phase, and then what they claim will …
