Archives for May 2014

Fujitsu Interconnect Wins Imperial Invention Prize

“Fujitsu invented high-dimensional interconnect technology that does not employ partitioning switches. This technology enables failed nodes to be circumvented, with no decline in the level of parallelism that can be executed, and a high level of system availability to be maintained. This technology is being used in the K computer, which interconnects 88,128 nodes, and which was named the world’s top-performing supercomputer in the 37th and 38th editions of the TOP500.”

Video: Symmetry Insights for Supercomputer Network Topologies

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Brazil Conference, Alexandre Ramos from the University of São Paulo, Brazil presents: Symmetry Insights for Supercomputer Network Topologies: Roots and Weights Lattices.

It’s Time for Code Modernizaton: New RFP for Intel Parallel Compute Centers

“It’s frustrating to think that antiquated software is hampering discovery and innovation across the board. This is one of the driving reasons why Intel launched the Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) program last October with an initial five collaborators and an open call for additional collaborators.”

EPCC in the UK is Now an Intel Parallel Computing Center

The EPCC supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh has just become the newest Intel Parallel Computing Centre (IPCC).

Trading Show Chicago to Showcase HFT Technologies

Next week, purveyors of HFT will meet with top traders and investors at The Trading Show Chicago at the Navy Pier on June 4-5, 2014.

Not Created Equal: Techila Publishes Cloud HPC Benchmark Report

Techila Technologies has published an interesting Cloud HPC Benchmark Report. In comparing Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Azure, they come to the conclusion that a successful move to Cloud HPC is all about effective middleware.

Recent Advances in High Performance Computing for Multiphysics Problems

“In this talk we consider multiphysics applications our group has been working in the last years from algorithmic, software and hardware perspectives. These encompass engineering applications such extreme wave-structure interaction phenomena in floating structures, coupled multi-material flow with heat transfer and polydisperse mixtures, the latter with applications in geology.”

Video: Designing Software Libraries and Middleware for Exascale Systems

“This talk will focus on challenges in designing software libraries and middleware for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Two kinds of application domains – Scientific Computing and Big data will be considered. For scientific computing domain, we will discuss about challenges in designing runtime environments for MPI and PGAS (UPC and OpenSHMEM) programming models by taking into account support for multi-core, high-performance networks, GPGPUs and Intel MIC. “

June 15 Deadline Approaches for SC14 Broader Engagement Travel Grants

SC14 is now accepting applications for their Broader Engagement program. With a mission to increase the participation of individuals who have been traditionally under-represented in HPC, the Broader Engagement program offers travel grants to the conference, which will take place Nov. 16-21 in New Orleans.

Niagara Installs 600 Teraflop Supercomputer at State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Russian HPC vendor Niagara has installed a 600 Teraflop supercomputer at Moscow State University.