Archives for January 2012

Travel Feature looks at HPCC Conference – Destination Newport March 26-28

By Robert Murphy The National High Performance Computing and Communications conference, scheduled this year for March 26-28 in Newport, Rhode Island, will bring together an elite gathering of industry insiders for its 26th annual conference. New this year is the focus on a global perspective of supercomputing along with emphasis on manufacturing and competitiveness. With […]

Mexico Powers up “Fire Serpent” Xiuhcoatl Supercomputer

Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) has powered up Xiuhcoatl, a the country’s most powerful supercomputer at 25 Teraflops. Joining a three-way grid knows as Lancad, the system will be used to research such areas as Alzheimer’s, the Earth’s climate, tsunamis, and the formation of stars. According to Cinvestav chief Rene Asomoza, the […]

New Whitepaper: Boost RAM Bandwidth by 20% with a Single Command

Colfax International has published a new whitepaper by Stanford’s Andrey Vladimirov entitled: Terabyte RAM Servers: Memory Bandwidth Benchmark and How to Boost RAM Bandwidth by 20% with a Single Command. Colfax International produces servers capable of supporting up to 1 TB of RAM and up to 4 Intel Xeon CPUs. This paper reports the memory […]

Interview: Nvidia Updates Cuda Platform to 4.1

This week Nvidia announced the latest update to their Cuda platform for parallel computing. To learn more, I caught up with Will Ramey, Nvidia’s Sr. Product Manager for GPU Computing. insideHPC: When we talk about a new Cuda platform, are we talking about the Cuda Toolkit plus SDK? Does this new update have a version number? […]

Agenda Published for Israel Supercomputing Conference

Clipped from: hpcadvisorycouncil.com (share this clip) The HPC Advisory Council has published the agenda for the Israel Supercomputing Conference coming up on February 7 in Tel Aviv. Featuring speakers from AMD, Intel, IBM, NetOptics, Mellanox, ORNL, ScaleMP, and Tel Aviv University, the one-day event will cover advanced HPC topics from around the world. I’m looking forward […]

University of Manchester to Head Up Algorithm Network

This week the University of Manchester announced it is heading up a large interdisciplinary network of institutions focused on numerical algorithms and HPC. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the network will develop short courses and workshops for training undergrad and postdoctoral researchers. This is an exciting opportunity to bring together […]

Podcast: Turning Up Performance Profiling with Intel VTune Amplifier XE

In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Allyson Klein and Ramesh Peri discuss developments and benefits of Intel Vtune Amplifier XE, a performance analysis tool for checking app performance on Intel processors. Download the MP3.

India to Invest $1 Billion in Supercomputing Race

Dinesh C. Sharma writes that India is rebooting their efforts in the supercomputing race with a billion-dollar initiative to create next-generation supercomputers. The government has committed `5,000 crore (nearly $1billion) for the plan, making it the largest ever grant for a single research programme since Independence. The money is likely to start flowing during the […]

Video: Gordon Supercomputer Wows TV Audience

In this video from Fox News, researchers describe the power and capabilities of Gordon, the flash-based supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Three Issues that Stymie HPC Growth

Douglas Eadline over at HPC Admin writes that while the HPC market has come along way in the last decade, the same three issues continue to impede the full potential of the market: the last mile problem, the lack of a missing middle infrastructure, and a lack of focus on parallel software. The absence of a […]