RPI Appoints Lead For Computational Nanotechnology Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced that it has appointed an individual to lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI). James Myers, currently the associate director for cyberenvironments at NCSA, was announced as the new appointee.
Today’s information technologies drive new discovery and scientific breakthroughs. Jim Myers brings a wealth of experience and strategic vision in these technologies to CCNI and Rensselaer,” said Rensselaer Vice President for Research Fran Berman. “We are excited that Jim will be joining us and we look forward to his leadership of CCNI.”
Jim Myers’ strong grounding in
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TACC Lands Another Super
The Texas Advanced Computing Center and the University of Texas announced details on the latest in computing gear to enter their Austin campus. The $9 million machine, named “Lonestar”, will land on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus early next year. Wait, don’t they already have a “Lonestar” machine? Indeed they do, but this version is a big upgrade.
The new system, like its predecessors, will be dedicated to open science research. As such, it will join its older [and larger] brother “Ranger” as being served out to Teragrid consumers. How much new research? 302 Tflops worth. Not too shabby.
I think the most interesting thing about this system is that it’s really optimized for achieving real performance on scientific applications,
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Cell phones, MPI, and extending the boundaries of supercomputing
Jeff Squyres has a post to get your Friday morning off right in which he issues a challenge for someone in the community with a little free time to extend Open MPI…into your pocket
We’ve actually idly chatted about such things in the Open MPI community for a while. It would be tremendously fun to write an iPhone/Android app that could talk to an MPI implementation and/or application. Perhaps a good starting point would be to have the MPI implementation talk to an iPhone/Android phone.
Indeed, a simple first feature might well be push notifications when an MPI job completes. Open MPI supports “notifier” plugins that exactly fit this use-case scenario. We just need someone to
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PNNL Names New Molecular EMSL Science Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Bill Shelton has been named the associated director for the Molecular Science Computing at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Shelton was a distinguished senior research staff member and a group leader with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computer Science & Mathematics Division. When he takes the new job on September 7th, he will manage EMSL’s high-performance computing capability, including the Chinook supercomputer.
We’re looking forward to the contributions of Bill’s scientific excellence and leadership as EMSL looks to increase the impact scientists can have in using our computational capabilities,” said EMSL Director Allison Campbell. “He will be instrumental in
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NICS To Add 300 Teraflops
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) managed by the University of Tennessee has announced that it will add an additional 300 teraflops of computing capability to the NSF’s Teragrid. With twin awards totaling $3.4 million, NICS will add 200 million additional service units per year to the allocations pool, bringing their total to over 800 million.
We are extremely pleased to be able to put more continually available resources at the disposal of researchers with smaller codes, while still supporting the very largest applications,” said NICS Director Phil Andrews. “The importance of a research activity cannot be defined by the size of the code involved, and we want to give all NICS users the
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LSU To Participate in DARPA UHPC
LSU announced details today of their participation in the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing Program. A research group consisting of LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology [CCT] received two awards associated with UHPC. LSU Department of Computer Science Arnaud & Edwards Professor Thomas Sterling and his research group at the CCT, where Sterling has a joint appointment, will lead LSU’s contributions to the project. The various focus points of LSU’s research staff will include execution models, runtime system software, memory system architecture and symbolic applications.
Such systems will enable applications that require months of computation time today to take hours by the end of the decade and make possible real-time applications that cannot be done at all
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EM Photonics and University of Delaware Collaborate on Air Force Project
EM Photonics and the University of Delaware Computer Science Department have been selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AFOSR] to develop libraries for modeling and simulation in a multi-GPU environment. Multiple Air Force research disciplines are targeted with the project, including electromagnetic modeling, computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and radiation transport.
The EM Photonics’ GPU Computing Team Lead John Humphrey, who developed the GPU-accelerated math library CULAtools, will be working closely with Dr. Michela Taufer’s group, the Global Computing Laboratory at the University of Delaware. The new team has tremendous experience in the massive parallelization of computationally intense algorithms on GPUs and can rely on the deployment of …
NVIDIA Names GATech CUDA Center of Excellence
NVIDIA announced today that they have officially named Georgia Institute of Technology a CUDA Center of Excellence. Jeff Vetter, joint professor of the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as principal investigator for the center.
Georgia Tech has a long history of education and research that depends heavily on the parallel processing capabilities that NVIDIA has introduced with its CUDA architecture,” Vetter said. “This award allows us to focus, what is now a large amount of activity across 25 different research groups, under a single center, which will significantly amplify our research capabilities.”
NVIDIA and Georgia Tech are already collaborating on several projects. The National Science Foundation Track 2D Keeneland Project will initially deploy a …
Microsoft parallel runtime expected to go commercial next year
ZDNet wrote last week about a new HPC offering that Microsoft is evidently planning on moving from research to commercial product in the coming months. The platform is called “Dryad”
Dryad is an ongoing Microsoft Research project dedicated to developing ways to write parallel and distributed programs that can scale from small clusters to large datacenters. There’s a DryadLINQ compiler and runtime that is related to the project. Microsoft released builds of Dryad and DryadLINQ code to academics for noncommercial use in the summer 2009.
As you can see from the diagram (click for a larger view), there is a lot of technology in the platform, including a compiler, runtime, a new file system …
UHPC, the Sandia team
The third of the four task area 1 teams has done its UHPC press release. Sandia has added its name to the list of teams that have told us at least a little about what they are planning to do (see the news on NVIDIA and Intel). Sandia’s Richard Murphy is the PI.
To accomplish the mission, Sandia Labs is leading a team of industry partners, including Micron Technology, Inc. and LexisNexis Special Services, Inc. Academic partners include Louisiana State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Notre Dame, University of Southern California, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University and North Carolina State University.
The Sandia team, …
