Every year at the SC conference, the Beowulf Bash is the one party you don’t want to miss. This year, Beowulf Bash 2012 has a theme based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and takes place on Monday, Nov. 12 from 9 to midnight. As for the party location, they are keeping that information […]
Archives for October 2012
INCITE Awards 4.7 Billion Supercomputing Hours to Spark Innovation
October 29, 2012 by
Each year, the DoE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program promotes transformational advances in science and technology through large allocations of time on state-of-the-art supercomputers. To date, the program has awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery […]
Slidecast: Samplify APAX Compression Lowers Cost of Big Science
October 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juA5NQERLKQ In this video, Samplify CEO Alan Evans presents: APAX: Lowering the Cost of Big Science, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. Multi-core CPUs are hitting the memory wall,” said Al Wegener, CTO and founder of Samplify. “With each new process node, the number of processor cores on a die can double with Moore’s Law, but […]
Cray Launches XK7 Hybrid Super with Titan Debut at ORNL
October 29, 2012 by
Today Cray launched the Cray XK7 series of production hybrid supercomputers in conjunction with the debut of Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. With up to 20 petaflops of performance, is now the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science. Today’s unveiling of the Titan supercomputer is an exciting moment for Oak Ridge and […]
Video: NOAA Briefing on Hurricane Sandy
October 28, 2012 by
httpv://youtu.be/teVE0qSfM-4 In this video, Dr. Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center gives a briefing on Hurricane Sandy on 10/28/2012 at noon Eastern time. With computer models showing storm surges of up to 11 feet, the Category 1 storm is extremely large is already causing life-threatening situations on the Eastern seaboard. In fact, New […]
$99 Supercomputing Coming Soon – Parallella Project Reaches Kickstarter Funding Goal
October 27, 2012 by
The Parallella Kickstarter project has surpassed its funding goal and will go forward a product. As reported here, Parallella is Adapteva’s open-source development platform for low-power parallel computing. With a mission to “bring supercomputing to everyone,” Parallella development platform will be offered for only $99 dollars. Congratulations go out to Adapteva Founder & CEO Andreas […]
Video: Extreme GPU Speedups on Monte-Carlo LIBOR Swaption Pricing
October 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5kT3oUrT7Y In this video, Xcelerit co-Founder & CEO Hicham Lahlou shows the speedup achieved on multi-core CPU and GPU (compared to sequential) using the Xcelerit platform for pricing a LIBOR Swaption. Monte-Carlo simulations are among the most common numerical methods in computational finance. This white paper shows the benefits of using the Xcelerit platform to […]
Nvidia to Host Free Developer Sessions at SC12
October 26, 2012 by
Nvidia will be hosting a set of free developer sessions at SC12 in Salt Lake City. Getting Started with CUDA on Monday, November 12, 2pm – 3:30pm. Massively parallel NVIDIA GPUs provide the bulk of the computing power behind many of the World’s top supercomputers. This talk will start with the basic architecture of the […]
Video: Optimizing Every Milliwatt with ARM-based Servers
October 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAl-K_lARns In this video, Calxeda co-founder David Borland describes the Boston Viridis server platform, which optimizes ARM-based Calxeda EnergyCore technology to achieve unprecedented power performance. We don’t worry about just watts, we optimize every milliwatt in the system.” Learn more at the LowPowerServers blog. In related news, AMD is reportedly ready to announce a 64-bit […]
Megware Fires up Mogon Super in Germany
October 26, 2012 by
German IT integrator Megware has completed installation of the Mogon HPC cluster project at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. With over 225 Teraflops of Linpack performance, the AMD-powered supercomputer features ASUS servers up to 64 cores per node and QDR InfiniBand. Performance and product reliability were essential decision criteria when choosing ASUS server hardware. ASUS delivered […]
