Today the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’14) announced two key appointments to its management structure.
Archives for March 2014
Jeff Layton on Lustre Shared Storage in the Cloud
March 28, 2014 by
“In addition to NAS, you can also create parallel storage solutions. For example, in Amazon AWS, there are two options, one for Lustre, and one for OrangeFS (PVFS). Both use the same compute and storage instances that you use for NAS, but you create several instances that are combined to create a single file system. If you need more performance, just add more instances. If you need more capacity, just add more instances. Since this is the cloud, it’s very easy to spin up a new instance and add it to the existing storage.”
Video: Rob Farber Looks at Nvidia’s New NVLink Technology
March 28, 2014 by
In this video, industry analyst Rob Farber shares his perspectives on the recent GPU technology announcements from Nvidia. “At the 2014 GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a new interconnect called NVLink which enables the next step in harnessing the full potential of the accelerator, and the Pascal GPU architecture with stacked memory, slated for 2016.”
Job of the Week: Data and Analytics Services Group Lead at NERSC
March 28, 2014 by
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is seeking a Data and Analytics Services Group Lead in our Job of the Week.
Why Big Data Translates into Big Bucks
March 27, 2014 by
“UK-based Maxeler Technologies took the opportunity to get over the message about the importance of big data to the highest political levels when British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited its stand at CeBIT this month. Oskar Mencer, Maxeler CEO, spoke to the two world leaders about the design of the company’s dataflow engines and their use in the finance industry where stock exchanges and banks employ the engines to accelerate risk analytics in real-time.”
Video: Penguin Computing Steps up to the Enterprise
March 27, 2014 by
“Penguin Computing is the largest private supplier of complete high performance computing (HPC) solutions in North America and has built and operates the leading specialized public HPC cloud service Penguin Computing on Demand (POD). Penguin Computing also applies its core expertise in the field of distributed large-scale enterprise computing delivering scale-out compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud solutions for organizations looking to take advantage of modern open data center architectures.”
Student Cluster Teams to Battle in Leipzig this Summer
March 27, 2014 by
ISC’14 will host a Student Cluster Competition, organized in collaboration with the HPC Advisory Council. Held during the ISC exhibition in Leipzig towards the end of June, the Student Cluster Challenge is not just an opportunity to showcase student expertise but is designed to encourage the next generation of students to take up the challenges of high performance computing.
Video: Dr. Adam Gazzaley on the Future of Cognitive Enhancement
March 27, 2014 by
“I will describe an approach developed in our lab that uses custom-designed video games to achieve meaningful and sustainable cognitive enhancement, as well the next stage of our research program, which uses video games integrated with technological innovations in software (e.g., brain computer interface algorithms, GPU computing) and hardware (e.g., virtual reality headsets, mobile EEG, transcranial electrical brain stimulation) to create a novel personalized closed loop system.”
Peter B. Littlewood Named Director of Argonne National Lab
March 26, 2014 by
This week Argonne National Lab announced that Peter B. Littlewood from the University of Chicago has been selected to serve as Argonne’s 13th director.
Silicon Mechanics Adds Tesla K40 to Product Lineup
March 26, 2014 by
Today Silicon Mechanics announced that the company now offers the Nvidia Tesla K40 as part of its GPU Solutions product line.
