Archives for July 2013

Up Front Molecular Dynamics Research Speeds through Titan’s New GPUs

Over at OLCF, Katie Elyce Jones writes that Oak Ridge’s move to a hybrid architecture with the Titan supercomputer required years of code planning that is now paying off with new levels of application performance. Porting the same models and algorithms meant for CPUs to a GPU will not get as good of gains as […]

Video: Cognitive Computing with the SyNAPSE Project

In this video, IBM’s Dharmendra Modha describes the SyNAPSE Project, a research effort to develop a computer chip inspired by the human brain. I, along with seven IBM labs and fabs, and four universities are trying to bring together neuroscience, supercomputing, and nanotechnology to create a radically different computer architecture that mimics the function, low […]

Los Alamos National Laboratory Upgrades Simulation Theatre

Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected visualisation specialist Christie for an upgrade to its Powerwall Theater (PWT), an innovative facility that enables researchers to view the complex models and simulations they have created using some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The theatre will feature 40 Christie Mirage WU-L WUXGA DLP 3D LED projectors in a […]

Preprocessing DNA Data for Less with GENALICE MAP

This week bio IT firm GENALICE in the Netherlands announced the completion of the first customer validation study of MAP, a pre-beta alignment solution that preprocesses DNA data using commodity dual-processor hardware. According to the company, MAP can process raw DNA data produced by next-generation sequencers in an ultra-fast, cost-effective and reliable way into a small file […]

Big Data in Healthcare – Saving Lives with Personalized Medicine

In this video, Intel Fellow Eric Dishman shares a personal story of how his 25 year struggle with kidney cancer was finally resolved through Big Data and personalized medicine. Dishman’s doctors were able to treat him successfully after sequencing his complete genome. For personalized medicine, only 50,000 people on earth have had their entire genome […]

Researchers Put the D-Wave Quantum Machine through its Paces

Scientists at the University of Southern California are putting the first quantum processor through its paces. Housed at USC’s Viterbi Information Sciences Institute, the D-Wave machine now boasts a 512 qubit “Vesuvius” processor. Using a specific test problem involving eight qubits, we’ve verified that the D-Wave processor performs optimization calculations – finds lowest energy solutions […]

Video: How Adaptive Computing helps Power the COSMOS

In this video, Adaptive Computing CEO Rob Clyde describes how Stephen Hawking and the COSMOS project uses the company’s Moab software to maximize the utilization of supercomputing resources.

PRACE Pilot Program to Foster HPC Adoption in Europe

The European PRACE organization is launching a pilot program called SHAPE to help small enterprises take advantage of HPC innovation and increase their competitiveness. Advances in simulation on HPC systems creates new business opportunities. Today, the innovation capabilities of many businesses depend on HPC-supported prototyping, modelling and processing. However, SMEs often lack the knowledge and […]

NOAA Deploys a Pair of Powerful Supercomputers for Improved Hurricane Forecasts

Over at Computerworld, Patrick Thibodeau writes that much-improved hurricane forecasts will now be possible thanks to NOAA’s new pair of 213-teraflop supercomputers. As part of the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System, NOAA’s National Weather Service runs the two identical systems at different locations with the ability to switch over in approximately six minutes. These […]

Dell Closes HPC Cloud Deal at NCI in Australia

Over at Datacenter Dynamics, Penny Jones writes that even as Dell’s shareholders prepare to meet in the US to decide the fate of the company, Dell continues business as usual with a AU$2million deal for Cloud HPC at the Australian National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). The 3,200 core HPC compute cloud based on OpenStack will use […]