Archives for August 2013

Video: Thomas Anderson Presents Networking as a Service

Tom Anderson from University of Washington contends that the ISPs are selling something they don’t have.

DANTE Sets the Pace for Optical Capacity

DANTE in Europe has achieved the fastest ever rate for implementing multi-terabit optical capacity.

Video: Designing Optimized MPI Broadcast and Allreduce for MIC Architecture

In this video from the 2013 Hot Interconnects Conference, Krishna Kandalla presents: Designing Optimized MPI Broadcast and Allreduce for Many Integrated Core (MIC) InfiniBand Clusters. The emergence of co-processors such as Intel Many Integrated Cores (MICs) is changing the landscape of supercomputing. The MIC is a memory constrained environment and its processors also operate at […]

Xyratex Continues as World’s Largest OEM Storage System Supplier

Xyratex is World’s Largest OEM Storage System Supplier for the fifth straight year.

An Overview of NUMA

Christoph Lameter has posted an overview of NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) in today’s computing architectures.

Slidecast: License Management is Not Boring!

In this slidecast, Fritz Ferstl from Univa discusses complex issues of application license management for cluster and grid deployments.

HPCAC to Host China High-Performance Computing Workshop Oct. 28

The HPC Advisory Council will host the China High-Performance Computing Workshop on Oct. 28.

As IBM Readies 12-headed Power 8 Chip, Will it Leave x86 Behind?

IBM released details this week on its massive 12-core Power 8 microprocessor for datacenter servers.

Paul Grun Named Vice Chair of OpenFabrics Alliance

Today the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) announced that Paul Grun from Cray has been named as the organization’s new vice chair.

Bare-Metal Clouds for High Performance Requirements

Gopala Tumuluri writes that the “bare-metal cloud” has emerged as a way to complement virtualized services with a dedicated server environment that eliminates virtualization overhead without sacrificing the flexibility, scalability and efficiency benefits of the cloud.