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The Australian iTnews (yes, the capitalization is both correct and odd) was the most interesting pointer I found to this story.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab researchers shooting for a practical solution for modeling climate at a resolution of 1 km came up with a system design based on low-power embedded processors. You know, the kinds of processors you find in cell …
Following closely on the heels of yesterday’s announced 20,480 core SGI ICE system headed to NASA, today we have the announcement of a 1 PFLOPS system named Pleiades (info on _the_ Pleiades here).
Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational capabilities
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Jonas Dias has posted a link on his Sun blog to a video tour of TACC’s Ranger, including some great shots of the infrastructure and the switch. If you can’t make the trip to Texas, it’s almost as good as being there.
Regular readers will no doubt remember Ethernet switch maker Woven Systems from previous coverage in this space. The company makes adaptively routed 10 Gbps Ethernet switches that can be ganged together to connect up to 4,000 servers while staying in layer 2 (and thus avoiding all that nasty overhead).
They’ve got news this week; Woven…
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Microsoft was talking about this in June of last year, but to coincide with the Master’s Golf Tournament in Augusta this year they’ve just released an HPC case study on Callaway Golf, makers of fine golf gear for duffers the world over.
I’m a sucker for “ordinary stuff meets HPC” stories. Here’s the lead from MS
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A post on SivaG’s blog about MDGrape-3, Riken’s super-petaflop machine built specifically for molecular interaction modeling
RIKEN’s MDGrape-3 is the first machine to break the petaflop barrier — that’s 1 quadrillion calculations (floating-point operations, to be specific) per second — and it’s three times faster than the currently ranked fastest computer in the world, IBM’s BlueGene/L. But MDGrape-3 is so
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To all of our readers out there, we’re still looking for submissions for next week’s issue of OutsideHPC. Last week, we featured the work of undergraduate ACM students at Fordham University.
What is OutsideHPC? OutsideHPC is our attempt to feature users and organizations utilizing high performance/technical computing to solve problems outside the norm. …
Oddly, I haven’t been able to corroborate this story. Not that I suspect it’s not true, but just that news, sometimes very very old “news”, often gets recycled on the Internet and it’s easy to publish something that’s not very new at all. So if you know something about this, leave a comment.
Anyway, blog4it.com is reporting today on …
Yesterday IBM and the University of Edinburgh announced they were teaming up in a five year project to to increase the efficacy of HIV drugs
The project includes powerful computing technology, including IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer, combined with new experimental characterization aimed at targeting the infection process itself by designing inhibitors for the part
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Continuing our proud tradition of bringing you all the happenings in the lucrative “HPC in Formula One racing news” niche, we find this from SGI
The Honda Racing F1 Team, based in Brackley, UK, installed in September a high performance SGI Altix ICE integrated blade platform, which it expects to make a significant
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Joab Jackson writing in GCN reports on NASA’s new display, Hyperwall-II, a piece of gear that they assert will be the largest high resolution unclassified display in the world.
The display should be operational within the month, [Rupak Biswas, chief of advanced supercomputing at the NASA Ames Research Center] said.
…The Hyperwall-II will be made of 128 LCD monitors, arranged in
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After a quick Google I haven’t find many details on this yet (what machine, size, etc.) but I ran across this news piece I wanted to share.
The Times of India reported late last week that a new supercomputer came on line last week in Hyderabad at the Centre for High Performance Computing and Research
Supercomputer Dhruva was on Wednesday logged-in
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After attending quite a number of high performance/technical computing conferences, one comes to realize that there are really three types of users related to how they utilize HPTC to perform “work.” There are those that think inside the box, those that think outside the box and those that have forgotten that the box ever …
From SC Online comes news of a new federal HPC center aimed at transportation research
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has announced the opening of the Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC) in suburban Chicago.
The new, state-of-the-art modeling, simulation and high-performance
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According to Pat Gelsinger, as reported by The Register, Intel will release its grand HPC vision targeting Petascale at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco later this year.
Whilst Intel chips (mostly Xeon family) dominate the Top500 list, the most demanding supercomputers still tend to be custom designs, and in many cases using non-Intel …
