Archives for October 2011

An Interview with The Portland Group’s Doug Miles

Discussions around Titan always circle back around to the tools and the programming environment. As the systems get more complex, we all agree there will be an increasing need for enhanced compilers and development tools. At the core of this discussion, we always hear reference to the same company – The Portland Group.

It’s no surprise to many that PGI compilers will be an integral component of the user application development environment, not just for Titan, but for many generations of systems to come.

To talk about the compiler heartbeat of this new system and the changing user environments of larger petascale deployments, The Exascale Report talked with the Director of The Portland Group, Doug Miles.

An Interview with Pete Ungaro, CEO of Cray

The award of Titan to Cray is a milestone event for the HPC community. But for many of the hardware and software engineers at Cray, it’s just another day in the office.

This is what Cray does. They build very large systems and they push the envelope.

China Surprise: A Petaflop Super With Homegrown Chips

John Markoff writes that China has built the first Petaflop supercomputer based on Chinese CPUs, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States. The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second — a petaflop — will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, […]

Scientific Computing Honors René Luna-Garcia as HPC Innovator

Clipped from: www.advantagebusinessmedia.com (share this clip)   Scientific Computing continues its SC11 HPC Innovator series with an interesting profile of René Luna-Garcia from CIC-IPN in Mexico. René’s many years of physics research tie him to hundreds of collaborators around the globe. His work has spanned premier facilities and much of the planet, from the Tevatron […]

Russian Supercomputer Vendor RSC Group Joins PROSPECT

This week Russian supercomputer vendor RSC Group announced that it has joined PROSPECT (Promotion of Supercomputing Partnerships for European Competitiveness and Technology). PROSPECT is pleased to welcome RSC as a new member of our association. We are delighted to have such a strong partner from Russia in the field of European HPC and are looking […]

PRACE Awards 721 Million CPU-Hours to Advance Science

Clipped from: prace-ri.eu (share this clip)   Today the PRACE supercomputing consortium announced a grant of 721 million compute hours on Tier-0 systems to twenty-four European research projects. As an international non-profit, PRACE’s mission is enable high impact European scientific discovery and engineering research and development for the benefit of society. A total of 53 […]

Video: Microsoft Gives us a Glimpse of Minority Report Gadgets

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0 At insideHPC, we like to keep a look out for what’s coming around the bend in terms of technology. Enter Microsoft with this new video snapshot of the future complete with augmented reality, transparent business cards, and curiously enough, iPhones! As a video guy, I’m intrigued that they used no narration or dialog in […]

Virtualization and HPC

Brian Proffitt writes that while Virtualization has a strong appeal in the enterprise, it has yet to catch on in HPC. Realistically, there are few reasons why a virtualization solution, when properly deployed, would not be appropriate for an HPC task set, as many of the early bugaboos have been removed by new innovation and performance […]

LSI to Acquire SSD Manufacturer SandForce

This week LSI Corporation announced an agreement to acquire SandForce, makers of flash storage devices and SSDs. Flash-based solutions are critical for accelerating application performance in servers, storage and client devices,” said Abhi Talwalkar, LSI president and chief executive officer. “Adding SandForce’s technology to LSI’s broad storage portfolio is consistent with our mission to accelerate […]

Podcast: CycleCloud BigScience Challenge – Win 8 Hours on a 30,000 Core Cluster

Clipped from: blog.cyclecomputing.com (share this clip)   In this podcast, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe about the company’s Big Science Challenge 2011. The winner of this contest will receive 8 Hours on 30,000 Core Cluster. Three quick take-aways: It’s easy to enter. The submission form has four quick questions. Finalists will be […]