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Fujitsu to Resell Altair Workload Management Software

By Staff | Published June 7, 2013

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Altair, a provider of simulation technology and engineering services, has announced that Fujitsu will resell Altair’s workload management software product, PBS Professional, as a component of Fujitsu’s recently announced HPC cluster software stack.

A leader in worldwide information and communication technology, Fujitsu is now an Altair global authorised reseller and will offer PBS Professional on all Fujitsu Primenergy HPC computing systems. Fujitsu has also selected PBS Professional as the default workload manager for its Fujitsu Software HPC Cluster Suite (HCS) Advanced Edition, which includes such extended features as large cluster support and high availability, as well as support for multiple clusters at a single site.

By providing our HPC users with first-rate workload management products like PBS Professional, Fujitsu is maintaining its leadership in simplified, reliable HPC computing solutions,” said Uwe Neumeier, vice president for global server business at Fujitsu. “Altair is a leader in HPC software and services, and PBS Professional is the default product for commercial-grade workload management. We are happy to be partnering with Altair to provide the highest quality HPC solutions for our customers.”

Bill Nitzberg, chief technology officer for PBS works at Altair, added: “With Fujitsu as an authorised PBS Professional reseller, Altair is ensuring our users have access to a broader range of HPC computing options. We are proud that Fujitsu chose PBS Professional for its top-level HPC Cluster Suite solution, which of course needs to offer the best available workload management for HPC users.”

The HPC Cluster Suite is a comprehensive, purpose-built software stack that includes a set of fully validated HPC software components for x86 HPC clusters. The stack combines the best-of-breed open source and proprietary software products and tools that ensure optimal usage of the Fujitsu Primergy x86 hardware platforms, along with ease of management and use.

This story appears here as part of a cross-publishing agreement with Scientific Computing World.

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Interview: Asetek to Demonstrate Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling at ISC’13

By Rich Brueckner | Published June 4, 2013

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Asetek has been gaining traction with their liquid cooling technology for the datacenter. After checking out their impressive display at SC12, I decided to circle back with Asetek’s Steve Branton to learn more about what the company has in store for ISC’13 in Leipzig.

insideHPC: Asetek is known for its innovative cooling technologies for extreme PCs. What does your company have to offer the HPC marketplace?

Steve Branton: In the extreme PC market the benefit of our technology is performance, especially for over-clocking. We are also know for providing the same cooling technology for workstation PCs. In the workstation market the benefit is silent operation. Both of these benefits flow from the fact that our liquid cooling technology is more efficient than air cooling. More efficient cooling is the direct benefit we are bringing to the HPC market using the same proven technology. This technology allows HPC data centers to lower their cooling costs, increase density and even recycle the power used by their supercomputers for things like building and water heating.

insideHPC: It seems like more and more high end supercomputers are being deployed with some form of liquid cooling. Does this trend represent a growing business opportunity for Asetek?

Steve Branton: Absolutely.

insideHPC: Is liquid cooling only practical for the very high end of supercomputing?

Steve Branton: No. Asetek liquid cooling is practical for the whole of the HPC market. Certainly if one looks at very high-end supercomputers it is easy to conclude that liquid cooling is expensive. However, the cost of liquid cooling in these systems is more a result these computers being manufactured in rather small volumes which makes everything about them rather expensive. The use of centralized pumping and the associated high pressure design also contributes to the cost of these systems. Asetek uses a distributed pumping model, a low pressure pump on each CPU and GPU. The pumps are arranged in series, giving redundancy. With this approach Asetek is able to do is leverage our manufacturing scale from the desktop market to enable liquid cooling that is affordable across the whole spectrum of HPC product offerings. In particular, we expect to see adoption in the x86 segment of the HPC space.

insideHPC: You recently announced some wins in the U.S. federal space. What do you think are the key differentiators that helped you win the day?

Steve Branton: The US federal government operates close to 2,500 data centers today and many of them have been in operation for quite some time and many were designed at a time when energy efficiency was not a priority. The government has recognized that substantial cost savings opportunities exist. They have mandated both data center consolidation down to approximately 800 data centers and energy efficiency improvements. The government views both reductions in cooling energy and recycling of the energy used to run servers as energy efficiency gains. Asetek’s RackCDU products are capable of increasing density which enables consolidation into existing sites, lowers the energy need to cool data centers and enables the recycling of IT energy. Moreover it is capable of delivering these benefits with at a cost that often has a payback period of less than one year.

insideHPC: What will Asetek be showcasing in your booth at ISC’13?

Steve Branton: We will be showcasing our direct-to-chip (D2C) RackCDU hot-water liquid cooling systems which is available for deployment today. The Cray CS300-LC is the first supercomputer available with this cooling system. We will show case the Cray system as well as several prototypes show casing Asetek Direct to Chip liquid cooling implementations on servers from HP, Cisco and Fujitsu. By cooling the hot-spots in a server (CPUs, GPUs, and memory) these systems remove 60 to 80% of the heat generated by servers with facilities supply water that can be as hot as 40°C.

We will also be showing a prototype of our next generation In-Server Air Conditioning (ISAC) RackCDU system. ISAC is a warm water liquid cooling system that makes it possible to operate servers in hostile environments and in CRAC-less data centers.

insideHPC: What makes ISC’13 appealing to you as an HPC exhibitor?

Steve Branton: European energy markets make the financial benefits of Asetek RackCDU quite strong for data centers operating in the EU. The high server utilization rates common in HPC data centers shortens the time to reaching a positive ROI from liquid cooling. The European Union’s strong stance on environmental leadership provides a favorable social climate that encourages companies and data centers to innovate in energy efficiency. This combination of financial and political forces makes Europe a strong market for Asetek Liquid Cooling. ISC’13 is well positioned to reach the EU supercomputing community and to raise awareness within the community of what is possible with hot-water liquid cooling.

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Nagoya University to Scale to 3.66 Petaflops with Fujitsu

By Staff | Published May 23, 2013

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Fujitsu has received an order from Nagoya University’s Information Technology Center for a high-performance supercomputer for academic research.

The system will have a hybrid configuration, composed of a Fujitsu supercomputer PrimeHPC FX10 and an HPC cluster comprised of Fujitsu Server PrimeRGY CX400. At deployment, it will have a theoretical peak performance of 561.4 teraflops, and will be scaled up in the future to 3,662.5 teraflops, making it one of the biggest systems in Japan and the largest in the Tokai region where Nagoya is situated.

The new system is due to start running from October 2013 and will be used for advanced research and academic purposes at Nagoya University’s Information Technology Center.

Nagoya University, the largest national university in the Tokai region and a center of academics and research there, is home to the Information Technology Center, a shared resource for universities and researchers conducting academic research throughout Japan. Since December 1981, numerous researchers have used the mainframe computers and supercomputers deployed there, mostly for work on science and technology.

The new system consolidates the Information Technology Center’s three existing systems: the supercomputer system, application server, and information-academics platform. It was designed to meet demands for more computing capacity, to make computing resources in other academic areas, to create new computational services, and to help educate people who will reach into new areas of inquiry.

This story appears here as part of a cross-publishing agreement with Scientific Computing World.

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HPC Wales Announces Innovation Fund to Bring Supercomputing to Industry

By Ralph | Published April 30, 2013

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HPC Wales has announced a new £300,000 fund, to help fund 20-25 research projects that would benefit from the power of supercomputing technology. Academics and businesses across Wales are being encouraged to apply for a new fund designed to boost collaborative research and innovation projects.

Part-funded by £24 million through the Welsh Government, including support from the European Regional Development Fund, HPC Wales is committed to boosting the Welsh economy by providing academic researchers and businesses with some of the most advanced computing technology in the world.

With access to research funding becoming more and more difficult, we are pleased to be able to offer this support for projects at the leading edge of scientific research,” said David Craddock,Chief Executive of HPC Wales. “We are particularly keen to fund projects that involve collaboration between universities and businesses, and look forward to hearing from researchers looking for a helping hand in taking their projects forward.”

The call also coincides with the final call for HPC Wales Fujitsu funded PhD studentships. Six new studentships are available in the areas of financial and professional services, advanced materials and manufacturing, creative industries, ICT – fourteen have been awarded to date.

The deadline for applications to both funds is May 31, 2013. Read the Full Story.

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insideHPC Video Archive

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insideHPC Video Archive

We try to keep this page up to date, but you can always find our latest works on our RichReport YouTube Channel.

2013 Event Coverage:

SC12 Videos (Alphabetical by Vendor Name):

Adaptive Computing

Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth Theater

Aeon

Allinea

Altair

AMD

Asetek

Bull

CAPS-Enterprise

Colfax International

Cycle Computing

DDN

  • DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold (Skip) Garner from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describes how Big Data I/O is required to crunch Genomics data in the fight against cancer.
  • DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12. Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
  • Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University. Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DDN to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.

Dell

Gnodal

HPC Advisory Council

  • HPC Advisory Council Announces Student Cluster Teams for ISC’12. Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, and Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council revue the organization’s outreach efforts for the past year and look forward to 2013. The council is an active sponsor of international Student Cluster Competitions that encourage young people to learn parallel programming skills.

IBM

IDC

  • IDC HPC Market Update from SC12. Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents the latest on the supercomputing market.

Inktank

  • Inktank Boosts Open Source Ceph File System. Neil Levine from Inktank describes the company’s efforts to commercialize and support the Ceph open source file system. With high reliability and nearly unlimited scalability, Ceph has great potential for Big Data applications as well as an enabling technology for Exascale computing.

Intel

Intersect360 Research

NAG

Nirvana

Numascale

Nvidia

Mellanox

  • Mellanox Breaks Performance Records, Dominates TOP500 at SC12. Todd Wilde from Mellanox describes the company’s recent advancements in high speed InfiniBand interconnects. Infiniband recently InfiniBand has become the leading interconnect on the TOP500 with 224 clusters and the Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapter recently achieved the industry’s highest throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions.

OpenSFS & EOFS

Panasas

  • Panasas Showcases ActiveStor 14 at SC12. By accelerating small file and metadata performance with Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, ActiveStor 14 delivers extreme performance, for the technical computing and big data workloads commonly found in HPC environments.
  • Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop. Panasas ActiveStor not only accelerates product design and scientific discovery applications, but will perform seamless Hadoop analyses, ensuring that customers can extract maximum value from their existing big data infrastructure.

Penguin Computing

Rogue Wave Software

Samplify

SC12 Committee

  • SC12 Press Conference with Jeff Hollingsworth. In this video, SC12 General Chair Jeff Hollingsworth opens the show press conference in Salt Lake City. This year there were a record number of exhibitors have booths at the show. Recorded Nov. 12, 2012.

Scalable Informatics

Seneca

SGI

  • Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
  • Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.

Solarflare

Spectra Logic

Supermicro

Sugon

Texas Instruments

The Portland Group

  • PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposed to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.

VMware

  • Interview: Josh Simons on HPC Cloud Trends at SC12. Josh Simons from the VMware CTO office describes recent trends in Cloud Computing for HPC. The company is looking at how virtualization technologies could benefit supercomputing on the road to Exascale.

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New Supercomputing Hub Launches in Swansea

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 17, 2013

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The new HPC Wales facility in Swansea has been earmarked to become south Wales’ innovation hub for businesses and academic researchers.

Both the Swansea and existing hub in Cardiff have been outfitted with the latest Fujitsu Primergy equipment with Intel Sandy Bridge processors. In this latest Phase-2 development of the pan-Wales distributed network, total capacity will grow to over 17,000 cores and nearly 320 Teraflops of processing power.

HPC Wales aims to make Welsh businesses more competitive in global markets and to grow the knowledge economy as well as creating employment opportunities,” said David Craddock, CEO of HPC Wales. Tod ate over 100 businesses have sought our advice and we have trained over 500 individuals. Since we opened for business in early 2012, demand has been particularly strong from those in the engineering, environment, life sciences and creative industry sectors.

The Swansea-based installation will boast a purpose-built datacenter with an environmentally friendly water-cooling system. Read the Full Story.

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Fujitsu Supercomputer Powers Alma Telescope Array

By Ralph | Published March 14, 2013

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Today Fujitsu announced the launch of operations of the purpose-built Atacama Compact Array (ACA) Correlator supercomputer system, which will process images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project, a Chile-based radio telescope featuring unprecedented sensitivity and resolution.

With the observations from ALMA, we hope to gain insights into such mysteries as how galaxies have formed and evolved, how planetary systems orbiting around a Sun-like star are formed, and whether the origin of life is to be found in the universe. The data processing performed by the ACA Correlator system is essential for these types of radio astronomy research. I am confident that ALMA will open new horizons for astronomy.”

Fujitsu and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) worked together to develop the ACA Correlator, a purpose-built supercomputer responsible for processing data from the Atacama Compact Array, which can make high sensitivity observations.

Set at 5,000 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes, ALMA is a massive radio telescope developed through a partnership among East Asia (led by NAOJ), North America and Europe. The telescope is capable of producing astronomical radio wave images with the world’s highest resolution. The facility consists of 66 antennas arranged in a 18.5 km-diameter array, equivalent to the span of the Yamanote railway loop encircling the central part of Tokyo, and by processing millimeter/submillimeter wave(1) signals from each antenna, it is possible for the antennas to act as a single, giant telescope that can generate radio wave images with the same resolution as those produced by a massive 18.5 km-diameter parabolic antenna. This makes it possible to see the dark regions of the universe that cannot be observed at optical wavelengths, such as galaxies that were formed shortly after the beginning of the universe, the birth of stars, planetary systems like our solar system, and matter related to the origin of life, such as of organic molecules.

A ceremony was held in Chile to commemorate the inauguration of ALMA on March 13. Read the Full Story.

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Fujitsu Develops 32 Gbps Transceivers for Inter-Processor Communications

By Ralph | Published February 20, 2013

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This week Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of transceiver circuits capable of communicating at 32 Gbps, a world record. The company said the new technology will support inter-processor communications at roughly twice today’s rates, leading to improved performance in next-generation of servers and supercomputers.

Figure 2: Schematic of transmitter circuit and breakdown of power consumption

Transmitter circuits transmit data from multiple channels that have been multiplexed into a single channel. The final-stage multiplexer not only consumes considerable amount of power, but also will approach the limit of its operating speed as data rates increase. Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a transmitter circuit that eliminates the need for a final-stage multiplex circuit (2-to-1 multiplexer). Rather than using conventional binary values (0, 1) in the transmitted signals, the new circuit uses ternary values (0, 1, 2). This makes it possible to restore the original data on the receiving end using only the existing receiver circuit functionality, without having to add any special circuitry (Figure 2, left). As a result, it exceeds the speed limit of conventional transmitter units. This is also why power consumption can be reduced by roughly 30% compared to the existing technology (Figure 2, right).

Details of the new technologies were presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2013 this week in San Francisco. Read the Full Story.

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Video: Fujitsu Cluster Install at NCI

By Ralph | Published January 17, 2013

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In this time-lapse video, technicians install a Fujitsu Primergy cluster at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australian National University in Canberra. With 57,000 x86 cores, the Primergy is #24 on the TOP500 list.

A Tip of the Hat goes out to Datacenter Knowledge for pointing us to this video.


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Video: Big Iron Processors at Hot Chips 2012

By Rich Brueckner | Published January 6, 2013

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Our Video Sunday feature continues with this session on Big Iron from the Hot Chips 2012 conference.

You can also check out the rest of the Hot Chips 24 sessions.

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Time-Lapse Video: Construction of Fujitsu Supercomputer at Australian NCI

By Rich Brueckner | Published December 14, 2012

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In this time-lapse video, a Fujitsu Primergy supercomputer is constructed at the National Computational Infrastructure at the Australian National University.

System Specifications:

  • 57,000 cores = 15,000 home PC’s
  • 160 terabytes of RAM = 40,000 home PC’s
  • 10 petabytes of hard disc = 10,000 PC hard drives
  • 1,200 teraflops of peak computational performance

Debuting at #24 in the world in the TOP500 list, this supercomputer is based on technology developed for the ‘K’ computer in Japan, which was until recently the world’s fastest machine.

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SC12 Featured Videos on insideHPC TV

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insideHPC Video Archive

We try to keep this page up to date, but you can always find our latest works on our RichReport YouTube Channel.

2013 Event Coverage:

SC12 Featured Videos

This year at SC12, we shot over 50 video interviews. It was a lot of work, but we want to bring you the very best of what this amazing conference had to offer.

SC12 Videos (Alphabetical by Vendor Name):

Adaptive Computing

Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth Theater

Aeon

Allinea

Altair

AMD

Asetek

Bull

CAPS-Enterprise

Colfax International

Cycle Computing

DDN

  • DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold (Skip) Garner from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describes how Big Data I/O is required to crunch Genomics data in the fight against cancer.
  • DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12. Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
  • Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University. Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DDN to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.

Dell

Gnodal

HPC Advisory Council

  • HPC Advisory Council Announces Student Cluster Teams for ISC’12. Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, and Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council revue the organization’s outreach efforts for the past year and look forward to 2013. The council is an active sponsor of international Student Cluster Competitions that encourage young people to learn parallel programming skills.

IBM

IDC

  • IDC HPC Market Update from SC12. Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents the latest on the supercomputing market.

Inktank

  • Inktank Boosts Open Source Ceph File System. Neil Levine from Inktank describes the company’s efforts to commercialize and support the Ceph open source file system. With high reliability and nearly unlimited scalability, Ceph has great potential for Big Data applications as well as an enabling technology for Exascale computing.

Intel

Intersect360 Research

NAG

Nirvana

Numascale

Nvidia

Mellanox

  • Mellanox Breaks Performance Records, Dominates TOP500 at SC12. Todd Wilde from Mellanox describes the company’s recent advancements in high speed InfiniBand interconnects. Infiniband recently InfiniBand has become the leading interconnect on the TOP500 with 224 clusters and the Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapter recently achieved the industry’s highest throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions.

OpenSFS & EOFS

Panasas

  • Panasas Showcases ActiveStor 14 at SC12. By accelerating small file and metadata performance with Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, ActiveStor 14 delivers extreme performance, for the technical computing and big data workloads commonly found in HPC environments.
  • Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop. Panasas ActiveStor not only accelerates product design and scientific discovery applications, but will perform seamless Hadoop analyses, ensuring that customers can extract maximum value from their existing big data infrastructure.

Penguin Computing

Rogue Wave Software

Samplify

SC12 Committee

  • SC12 Press Conference with Jeff Hollingsworth. In this video, SC12 General Chair Jeff Hollingsworth opens the show press conference in Salt Lake City. This year there were a record number of exhibitors have booths at the show. Recorded Nov. 12, 2012.

Scalable Informatics

Seneca

SGI

  • Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
  • Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.

Solarflare

Spectra Logic

Supermicro

Sugon

Texas Instruments

The Portland Group

  • PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposed to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.

VMware

  • Interview: Josh Simons on HPC Cloud Trends at SC12. Josh Simons from the VMware CTO office describes recent trends in Cloud Computing for HPC. The company is looking at how virtualization technologies could benefit supercomputing on the road to Exascale.

Xyratex


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New TOP500 List is Full of Surprises

By Rich Brueckner | Published November 12, 2012

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The new TOP500 list is out with a new world leader and more than a few surprises. Coming in at #1 is the newly built Titan Cray XK7 supercomputer at Oak Ridge with 17.59 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. As a hybrid system, Titan is powered by 299,008 AMD Opteron cores and 18,688 Tesla K20X GPUs.

The Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Labs falls into second place with 16.32 Petaflops and Fujitsu’s K computer round out the Top 3. IBM BlueGene/Q powers the next two entries with the Argonne’s Mira coming in at #4 and the newly upgraded JUQUEEN at Germany’s Juelich becomes #5 as the most powerful system in Europe.

Surprise #1: The Intel Xeon Phi co-processor makes its debut in the Top10 with TACC’s Stampede supercomputer from Dell with 2.6 Petaflop/s.
Surprise #2: The highly anticipated Blue Waters supercomputer is not on the list. NCSA did not submit.

Here are some highlights from the list.

  • 23 Petaflop systems total
  • The U.S. is the leader with 251 system on the list with Europe coming in with 105 systems and China with 72
  • 62 systems are accelerated by Nvidia GPUs
  • 7 systems are accelerated by Intel’s Xeon Phi processors
  • 226 systems use Infiniband and 188 use Gig Ethernet
  • Intel processors are used in 76 percent of the Top500 systems, with AMD at 12 percent and IBM’s Power processors at 10.6 percent
  • IBM has six of the top 10 systems and 192 total entries, followed by HP with 149 and Cray with 30

We’ll be hearing a lot about the TOP500 this week as there are a million ways to spin this thing. Read the Full Story.

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Oracle Teams with Fujitsu on Sparc64 Athena Chip

By Rich Brueckner | Published October 2, 2012

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Over at Computerworld, Joab Jackson writes that Oracle is partnering with Fujitsu on a new liquid-cooled 28 nm SPARC chip called Athena.

Perhaps the most novel aspect of the processor is how it will be cooled by liquid, in a process the company calls “liquid loop cooling.” In effect, each server will have a radiator, which pipes cool liquid to individual CPUs. The approach will cut down on the noise caused by individual fans and extend CPU life, as the components will not grow as hot in daily operation, the company claims. Each chip will also get 512GB of DDR3 memory. Each core will have a Level 1 memory cache of 64KB (instruction cache) and 64KB (data cache), and each chip will have a Level 2 cache of 24MB. Fujitsu’s high-speed interconnect technology will allow the CPUs to share data at a rate of up to 14.5Gbps.

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