Edge HPC survey – HPC in non-technical areas
From Tabor Research:
Does your organization use a scalable, high performance IT infrastructure? Then we need to hear from you! Tabor Research is conducting an exciting research project on the use of Edge HPC in non-technical areas and we’re looking for case study participants. To see if you qualify, please tell us a little bit about yourself via the survey below. All participants will be entitled to one complimentary copy of the final study results which
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Apple Blade-Server?
Chalk another one up for speculation. Those of you intimately involved with the Apple and/or IBM server community have probably seen the dust IBM is kicking up over Mark Papermaster. Uh, who? Papermaster, until recently, was the head of IBM’s blade server division. After 20 years of black coats and red ties, he opted for t-shirts and Birkenstocks by taking a gig at Apple. Apparently, Mr. Papermaster had forgotten the ‘no-compete’ agreement he signed with …
My other shirt is multi-threaded
Congratulations to all those who voted for “My other shirt is multi-threaded.” That’s the winning slogan, by a freaking landslide, for this year’s insideHPC.com “Cover Your Nakedness” t-shirt giveaway. It won with 44% of the popular vote, while the next closest finisher won only 15% of votes cast.
Now I just have to get them printed…stay tuned for details on the where and when we’ll be giving them away. First come, first served, just like last …
Wales Unveils Blue Ice Super
Swansea University in Wales has unveiled their new research supercomputer, deemed “Blue Ice.” The machine, procured from IBM, will be tasked almost completely with climate change workloads. According to researchers ar Swansea, the machine is capable of running 10,000 model years per week.
Previously we had only worked on individual components of a climate change model,” [Tavi Murray, scientific director of the Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research] said. “The computer will enable us to put
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SURA Grows Partnership with IBM
The Southeastern Universities Research Association [SURA] has announced a major milestone in cultivating the high performance computing and grid infrastructure for the southeastern US research and education community. Through their partnership with IBM, SURA executed a bulk purchase of IBM HPC gear and saved over $4million.
“SURA is very pleased that we could broker the purchase of these IBM p575+ systems for our membership at such an aggressively low cost, particularly in these difficult times
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20 years is a long time in HPC years
This is the 20th anniversary of the annual SC conference, and organizers are doing up the dog this year. Part of the celebration will be a recognition of companies and individuals who have been involved with all 20 conferences. It’s enough of an achievement for an individual to have been at each of the conferences, but thinking about how dramatically the hardware and software landscape have changed in that time it’s really quite remarkable …
What the earth’s core and eggshells have in common
The answer? HECToR’s Cray XT4. Last week Cray announced
…that researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) are already achieving breakthrough science in a number of key disciplines using the powerful and highly scalable Cray XT4 supercomputer that was unveiled in January 2008 as part of the UK’s High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) project.
…These critical research projects include determining the composition of eggshell and how it’s manufactured, the ease
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EGI.org is looking for a home
Reader Katja Rauhansalo sent in this news a couple weeks ago, but it got buried in my inbox
The EGI Design Study (EGI_DS) project aims at establishing a sustainable long-term grid infrastructure in Europe and at moving from the existing short term funded project structure to a sustainable service. The EGI_DS is financed by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme. It was launched in September 2007 and will continue until November 2009. It is planned that
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Oxford chooses 11.52 TF Streamline Computing super for genetics work
Earlier this week UK HPC provider Streamline Computing announced a big win at Oxford University for an 11.52 TFLOPS machine to be installed at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.
The new cluster is based on Dell M1000e enclosures which are fully populated with M600 Dell blade servers, 45 terabytes of direct attached storage and an Infiniband network backbone. The solution includes a dedicated Cluster Management Appliance (CMA) per compute rack, which in turn coordinates
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Wallach to receive Seymour Cray Award
Reader John Becker just sent in a bit of HPC news about computer pioneer Steve Wallach.
Wallach is specifically named for his “contribution to high-performance computing through design of innovative vector and parallel computing systems, notably the Convex mini-supercomputer series, a distinguished industrial career and acts of public service.”
“This is one of our industry’s greatest honors and I am deeply honored,” said Steven Wallach, Chief Scientist for Convey Computer Corporation. “At Convex Computer Corp., and
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