From Interactive Supercomputing during the show last week Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) launched a new version of its Star-P® software that features a wide array of new or improved function libraries to make High Performance Computing (HPC) applications run faster and users more productive. The new version will also expand its platform support to include […]
Archives for November 2008
"Parallel Programming in the Age of Big Data"
November 24, 2008 by
An article by that title over at GigaOM has gotten a lot of attention on the interwebs over the past couple weeks, so I hereby present you with a link to said article, plus an excerpt to keep you warm while you sink into your pre-Thanksgiving lethargy In this context, there is some good news […]
How to kill OpenMP
November 24, 2008 by
A post on Christian Terboven’s blog recently caught my attention When I was asked to give an answer to the question of How to kill OpenMP by 2011 during the OpenMP BoF panel discussion at SC08, I decided against listing the most prominent issues and challenges OpenMP is facing. It turned out that the first […]
Helping write "CS for DARPA Directors"
November 24, 2008 by
Peter Harsha with a post at the excellent CRA Policy Blog that points to some creative thinking that CS smart guys Peter Lee and Randy Katz have been doing about the types of problems our next science leadership needs to understand Their inspiration comes from a book written by Katz’s colleague, Richard Muller, called Physics […]
HPC in space…
November 24, 2008 by
You have to read that title with the same echo effect that the Muppet Show used for “Pigs in Space.” Anyway, here’s a mostly cool use of HPC, what with the space angle and all (from an article at Forbes) In early 2007 the Chinese destroyed an aging weather satellite in orbit with one of […]
PGI and AMD team up for FireStream compilers
November 24, 2008 by
Last week The Portland Group and AMD announced that they’ll… …cooperate on the development of compiler technology for AMD FireStream compute accelerators. As part of the agreement, PGI and AMD will investigate and develop technology to enable PGI Fortran and C compilers to generate code directly for AMD FireStream boards and to generate heterogeneous x64+GPU […]
2009 Fellow noms open at the Computer History Museum
November 24, 2008 by
Found at HPCwire The Computer History Museum (CHM), home to the largest international collection of computing artifacts in the world, today announced that it will begin accepting public nominations for its 2009 Fellow Awards. The Awards honor distinguished technology pioneers for their outstanding merits and significant contributions to both the advancement of computer history and […]
A possible "in" for virtualization in HPC
November 24, 2008 by
Server virtualization is not an idea whose time has come to HPC. One of the big economic motivations that have driven the adoption of virtualization in the enterprise — server consolidation — simply doesn’t apply in HPC where utilization is typically north of the high 80s. Timothy Prickett Morgan agrees wholeheartedly with this in an […]
More Beef on Butte
November 24, 2008 by
The Montana Standard has an interesting perspective column on the recent news that the State of Montana will help fund a supercomuting center in Butte. The Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center [humming John Denver song] has driven some skeptics due to previous failed economic development projects in the area. The state of Montana and IBM have […]
Oklahoma Deploys Sooner Cluster
November 24, 2008 by
The University of Oklahoma has announced details of its latest cluster install, deemed Sooner. The University of Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education and Research [OSCER] deployed a cluster consisting of 534 compute nodes and Qlogic DDR Infiniband. OSCER serves more than 400 students, faculty, and staff in virtually every science and engineering discipline, as well […]
