Each year, the Maui High Performance Computing Center provides more than 38 million hours of computing time per year in high-tech research for the military. Now, Hawaii News Now reports that the University of Hawaii has lost a multi-million dollar contract to run the supercomputer center on Maui. As one of six supercomputer centers in […]
Archives for August 2012
Video: Weighted Differential Scheduler for Reducing Jitter
August 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSFtnPKsKJ0 In this video, Hans Eberle from Oracle Labs presents: Weighted Differential Scheduler. The Weighted Differential Scheduler (WDS) is a new scheduling discipline for accessing shared resources. The work described here was motivated by the need for a simple weighted scheduler for a network switch where multiple packet flows are competing for an output port. […]
John Gustafson Joins AMD as Chief Graphics Product Architect
August 28, 2012 by
AMD announced today that John Gustafson has joined the company as senior fellow and chief product architect, Graphics Business Unit. In this role, Gustafson will set the technical vision for the AMD graphics business unit, driving the technology roadmap and platform for the AMD Radeon and AMD FirePro product lines. I look forward to working […]
Sponsored Post: PBS Works User Group 2012 – Top Minds in Supercomputing
August 28, 2012 by
Engineers will have the opportunity to learn and collaborate with the best minds in supercomputing development at the first-ever PBS Works User Group Conference October 2-3, 2012, at the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. High-performance computing (HPC) experts from industries including government, life science and manufacturing, will speak at the event, organized by the […]
Video: A Tour of SDSC
August 28, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuIbEMpRirM This video profiles the San Diego Supercomputer Center including a brief history and review of supercomputing and Big Data applications.
SDSC to Lead Development of NSF Science Gateway Institute
August 28, 2012 by
This week SDSC, ECSU, IU, Purdue, TACC and Michigan were awarded an NSF grant to plan a new Science Gateways Institute. SDSC will be the lead institution on the project, which will support development of Web-based portals to aid researchers. The gateway framework we envision is a modular, layered approach that supports community contributions and […]
Supercomputing For Market Regulation
August 28, 2012 by
Over at Wall Street Technology, Melanie Rodler writes that the Center for Innovative Financial Technology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has received $100,000 in research donations to study the use of supercomputing and data intensive science to improve stability, regulation, and enforcement in U.S. markets. Those responsible for market oversight could benefit from real-time ability […]
Video: Radia Perlman on How to Compare Alternative Network Architectures
August 28, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxlpmQwIfCs In this video, Radia Perlman from Intel presents: How to Compare Alternative Architectures. There are various aspects of network infrastructure that are orthogonal, and therefore can be compared conceptually. For example, the syntax of encapsulation, how forwarding tables are calculated, and whether forwarding tables are filled in proactively, or on-demand when a new flow […]
NCSA Announces Petascale Day: 10/15
August 27, 2012 by
In celebration of the pending Petascale Blue Waters supercomputer, NCSA will host Petascale day on Oct. 15 in Urbana, Illinois. Petascale” refers to computing and data in the quadrillions, like the more than 11 quadrillion calculations Blue Waters will be able to perform and the more than 380 quadrillion bytes that will be available in […]
Call for Participation in Small Business Tech Transfer for Exascale
August 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9_133ltt8 Got Exascale ideas? In this video, Thomas Ndousse-Fetter from the DoE Department of Science announces a Call for Participation in the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs (SBR/STTR). The programs are designed for small businesses that want to get involved in the Exascale technology development ecosystem. Recorded at the Hot […]
