Today the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator announced that the Silicon Wolves Computing Society (SWCS) will be joining their incubator program. SWCS is a consumer-friendly high-performance computing system developer and manufacturer of the most advanced workstations and computer gaming solutions on the market. The high-tech start-up company recently relocated to the Incubator from Anaheim, Calif. We […]
Archives for March 2012
Video: HPC Panel at Structure: Data
March 28, 2012 by
Watch live streaming video from gigaombigdata at livestream.com In this video from the Structure: Data conference, Rich Brueckner from inside-BigData moderates a discussion on Exascale computing and the common ground between HPC and Big Data. Speakers: Gary Grider – Deputy Division Leader, HPC Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Garth Gibson – Co-Founder and CTO, Panasas
Nvidia Helps Power Bid For 2015 X-Prize Moon Mission
March 27, 2012 by
Today Nvidia announced that the company’s Tesla GPUs are being used by a team of German scientists participating in a global competition to land a robotic rover on the moon by 2015. NVIDIA GPUs will be instrumental in helping us land the Asimov rover safely and allowing us to calculate a wealth of detailed information […]
Xcelerit Quant Toolkit Speeds Financial Service Applications
March 27, 2012 by
Financial software acceleration providers Xcelerit have launched their new ‘Quant’ toolkit, an extension to the Xcelerit SDK targeted at quantitative analysts and developers working to speed investment banking, asset management, and insurance. The launch is timed to coincide with the forthcoming Global Derivatives, Trading & Risk Management conference in Barcelona which gathers together a global […]
Video: Josh Simons from VMware on Virtualization for HPC and Big Data
March 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5jGn8CRutA In this video, William Wallace from insideHPC interviews VMware’s Josh Simons on the topics of virtualization and RDMA, high performance computing, and Big Data. Recorded at the Open Fabrics Workshop on March 26, 2012 in Monterey, CA. Josh has also posted some interesting notes on his presentation on RDMA at the Workshop: In my […]
An OpenACC Example Shows Power of Directives
March 27, 2012 by
Clipped from: developer.nvidia.com (share this clip) Mark Harris from Nvidia has posted a quick code example highlighting the power of OpenACC compiler directives for heterogeneous computing. OpenACC is a promising new standard that I think will be a powerful tool for high-productivity acceleration of existing C and Fortran code. It will also be very valuable […]
Sponsored Post: Big Data for Enterprise – Free Report: Technology, Strategy, Adoption, Outlook
March 27, 2012 by
Clipped from: www.datadrivenbiz.com (share this clip) To mark the launch of their Big Data for Enterprise conference (June 27-28, San Francisco), Data Driven Business has commissioned a FREE 5000 word report full of practical advice, recommendations and predictions from big data experts. The report includes insights on the current big data technology landscape – […]
Slidecast: The Need for Datacenter Automation Powers OpsCode Chef
March 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfzhEevoao In this slidecast, OpsCode CEO Mitch Hill describes the company’s Chef products for Datacenter automation. Opscode just came out of a $19.5 Million Series C round of funding and is gearing up for its first annual ChefConf 2012 user conference May 15-17 in San Francisco. As we enter the era of cloud computing, it […]
Rutgers Launches HPC Center for Big Data
March 27, 2012 by
Today Rutgers launched a new HPC center at the university focused on the application of Big Data analytics in life sciences, finance, and other industries. As part of the newly created Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute, the new HPC center will utilize supercomputing equipment and software provided by IBM. There is immense potential here because Rutgers […]
Video: Supercomputing in Russia
March 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZxRhvxeOas In this video, Alexey Komkov from T-Platforms presents: Supercomputing in Russia. Recorded March 26, 2012 at the National HPCC Conference in Newport, RI.
