httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHMb_2chLE In this video, IBM’s Keith Olsen describes the company’s BladeCenter H systems for HPC. Over 10 percent of the TOP500 systems are based on the BladeCenter H platform. With the November 2011 TOP500 list, IBM is once again #1 in leadership with the: Most installed aggregate throughput with over 20,234 out of 74,064 Teraflops, […]
Archives for November 2011
Video: Convey Computer Rocks the Graph500 at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SakKlF62rAg In this video, Kirby Collins from Convey Computer discusses why the company’s hybrid-core architecture is so effective on Graph500 computing applications. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. On the most recent list, announced at SC11, multiple Convey single-node, hybrid-core systems clocked in at between 1.60 to 1.76 GTEP/s (billion edges per second) on problem sizes […]
Video: SC11 Keynote by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
November 28, 2011 by
The SC11 Keynote by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is now posted in the ACM Digital Library. It is not easy to find, and non-ACM members will need to create an email account to view the thing. Bless their little hearts. For the less patient, this Vimeo copy posted by Lewey Anton streams directly if you […]
Video: HPC Advisory Council at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9F6zI0G8G0 In this video, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council describes the organization’s efforts to share best practices and do outreach and education . The Council is an active supporter of the Student Cluster Challenge at SC11 and ISC’12 and recently became the recipient of Intel’s Explorer Award: The HPC Advisory Council has been honored […]
Video: The Portland Group Showcases the PGI Accelerator at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1s9bpcjl4 In this video, Doug Miles from The Portland Group discusses how the PGI Accelerator, which is designed to help programmers make their code go faster on x64+GPU platforms. Recorded at SC11. Using PGI Accelerator compilers, programmers can accelerate Linux, Mac OS X and Windows applications on x64+GPU platforms by adding OpenMP-like compiler directives to […]
Announcing Our Newest Rock Star of HPC: David Bader
November 28, 2011 by
At insideHPC, we are pleased to announce that David Bader is our latest Rock Star of HPC. While HPC tends to focus on compute-intensive problems, Big Data challenges require novel architectures for data-intensive computing. My group has been the first to parallelize and implement large-scale graph theoretic algorithms, which are quite a challenge because of […]
Video: BlueArc Does Big Data at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOGsEESduRM In this video, Bjorn Andersson from BlueArc discusses the company’s advanced storage solutions for Big Data and HPC. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. Joining forces with Hitachi Data Systems is a win-win situation for our employees, our partners, our customers and our shareholders,” said Mike Gustafson, CEO, BlueArc. “The strength of the long-standing partnership […]
Video: StackIQ Big Data Infrastructure Management at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfRvjxN3BVE In this video Tim McIntire from StackIQ discusses how the company’s Big Infrastructure Management soluitons make it easy to deploy cloud computing for Big Data applications. Analyzing Big Data takes a lot of computing power. We’ve spent the last 10 years building enterprise-class software that makes the task of designing, deploying, and managing compute […]
Video: Spectra Logic at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkO98swhoZY In this video, Spectra Logic CMO Molly Rector describes the company’s latest tape storage technologies at SC11 in Seattle. Spectra T-Finity sets a new benchmark in library design with an intelligent Enterprise library that offers a highly flexible hardware architecture and an evolutionary management interface, helping you achieve the highest scalability, availability and performance […]
Video: QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand at SC11
November 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dGt4TrZvc In this video, Joe Yaworski from QLogic discusses the company’s TOP500 momentum with their TrueScale InfiniBand technology. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. Building upon the advanced “host on-load” design is a very efficient protocol designed to deliver unsurpassed message rates to power even the most complex MPI applications and workloads. Measured using industry accepted […]
