In this video, Neelie Kroes from the European Commission discusses the Human Brain Project with Prof. Henry Markram. This week the project won the EU’s “Future & Emerging Technology Flagship” grant for 1 billion euros of research funding. The future desktop will have a normal digital processor and neuromorphic computing processor. And that will give […]
Archives for January 2013
Altair PBS Works to Power Minerva Cluster University of Nottingham
January 29, 2013 by
Today Altair announced that the University of Nottingham has selected Altair’s PBS Works suite to expand the capabilities of its campus-wide HPC service based on Minerva, the university’s latest generation HPC cluster. Working in partnership with ClusterVision, Altair will provide PBS Professional, Compute Manager and PBS Analytics to transform the 45 Tflop cluster into a […]
Radio Free HPC on the First Rule of Exacale: Do Not Talk about Exascale
January 29, 2013 by
In this episode of Radio Free HPC, the topic of Exascale is under the hosts’ scrutiny once again as they discuss some interesting stories released by The Exascale Report featuring opinion by Bill Gropp of NCSA and Bill Harrod of DOE. Rule #1: You do not talk about Exascale. (Kind of like rule #1 of Fight Club, except […]
SGI Announces Software Support for Intel Xeon Phi
January 29, 2013 by
This week SGI announced that the company has developed new software tools that enable customers and software developers to get the most value from Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. SGI UPC (Unified Parallel C) compiler, the first UPC compiler for Intel Xeon Phi, supports MPSS, the coprocessor software stack. It enables PGAS programming on SGI servers […]
Stanford Researchers Conduct First-ever Million-core CFD Run on Sequoia Super
January 28, 2013 by
Andrew Myers writes that Stanford researchers using the Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at LLNL have set a new record, harnessing a million compute cores to model supersonic jet noise. These runs represent at least an order-of-magnitude increase in computational power over the largest simulations performed at the Center for Turbulence Research previously,” said Joseph Nichols, a […]
Video: Xyratex CEO Steve Barber on 2013 Strategy
January 28, 2013 by
In this video, Xyratex CEO Steve Barber discusses the company’s accomplishments in 2012 as well as their strategy for 2013. I believe that we are executing well on the long-term strategy that we outlined in October and we have positive results with new customer wins and opportunities heading into fiscal year 2013,” said Xyratex CEO […]
Mellanox Wins Data Center Interconnect Awards for Ethernet Switching and Virtual Protocol Interconnect Technology
January 28, 2013 by
Today Mellanox announced it has been presented with two data center interconnect awards from ZDnet China and China Network World. The annual awards recognize vendors and products that facilitate low latency and high efficiency across small businesses and enterprise data centers in Asia. The ZDNet China Best Network Switch was awarded to Mellanox’s SX1024 non-blocking Top-of-Rack […]
Slidecast: Eric Barton Updates Progress on Fast Forward Storage & IO Program
January 28, 2013 by
In this slidecast, Eric Barton, Lead Architect for Intel’s High Performance Data Division presents a progress update on the Fast Forward I/O & Storage program. Back in July 2012, Whamcloud was awarded the Storage and I/O Research & Development subcontract for the Department of Energy’s FastForward program. Shortly afterward, the company was acquired by Intel. […]
Job of the Week: Senior Researcher at the Texas Learning & Computation Center
January 28, 2013 by
The Texas Learning & Computation Center is seeking a Senior Researcher in our Job of the Week. The Senior Researcher consults with university research faculty on research design, parallelization and optimization of computer software for high performance computing as well as developing solutions for large-scale data collection, analysis and visualization. Are you paying too much […]
Video: How Exascale will Power Climate Research
January 27, 2013 by
In this video, Climate modelers James J. Hack of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mark Taylor of Los Alamos National Laboratory discuss how Exascale computing capabilities will improve climate predictions. In the meantime, scientists must figure out how to refine their models to make full use of all that power. With exascale computing, climate-change models […]
