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Video: SC11 Coming Attractions – insideHPC Takes on Watson

By Rich Brueckner | Published September 24, 2011

In this video, Rich Brueckner tries to match wits with Watson at ISC’11 with a little help from IBM’s Martin Hiegl. This week, IBM announced that attendees at SC11 will have the opportunity to play a game of Jeopardy against the Watson computing system.

Watson will be featured in a kiosk located on the 6th floor of the convention and trade center, separate from the main IBM booth. The kiosk is a version of the full IBM Power Systems-based Watson system that competed on the game show. Watson represents a significant advance in a computer’s ability to understand context in human language – a technology with potential applications in such domains as medicine. As has been demonstrated in some well-publicized contests, man versus computer in a game of Jeopardy is not the mismatch one might imagine. Understanding the complexities of natural language, which comes naturally to humans, is an extraordinary challenge for computers.

So there you have it — go for the geography questions and you might be able to beat that bad boy. Read the Full Story.

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Video: ISC’11 Hot-Seat – Motoi Okuda: “Fujitsu’s Technologies to the K Computer”

By Ralph | Published August 22, 2011

In this video, Motoi Okuda presents “Fujitsu’s Technologies to the K Computer.” Recorded at ISC’11 in Hamburg.

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Video: Why Create a European Open File Systems Initiative?

By Rich Brueckner | Published August 16, 2011

In this video, Hugo Falter of the EOFS leads a panel discussion on Why Create a European Open File Systems Initiative? Recorded at ISC’11 in Hamburg.

Panelists:

  • Eric Barton, Whamcloud
  • Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • Peter Braam, Xyratex
  • Johannes Diemer, Hewlett-Packard GmbH
  • Jean Gonnord, CEA/DAM
  • Brent Gorda, Whamcloud
  • Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, CEA/DAM
  • Prof. Dr. Volker Lindenstruth, Goethe Univ. of Frankfurt a. Main
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
  • Eric Monchalin, Bull
  • Norman R. Morse, OpenSFS
  • Klaus Wolkersdorfer, Jülich Supercomputing Centre

A tip of the hat goes to Hugo Falter and Frank Severin for sending us this video.

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Video: PROSPECT – Creating a European Technology Platform for HPC

By Rich Brueckner | Published August 15, 2011

In this video from ISC’11, PROSPECT panelists discuss the creation of a European Technology Platform for HPC. PLATFORM is the “Promotion of Supercomputing Partnerships for European Competitiveness and Technology.”

Discussion Panel:

  • Moderator: Dr S. Girona, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Operations Director
  • Kostas Glinos, The European Commission
  • Dr. G. Tecchiolli, Eurotech, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
  • Mr. H. Falter, ParTec Cluster Competence Centre, Chief Operating Officer
  • Prof. T. Lippert, Research Centre Jülich, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS), Managing Director, also Prospect Executive Committee member
  • Prof. A. Bode, Leibniz Research Centre, Managing Director, also Prospect Executive Committee member

A tip of the hat goes to Hugo Falter and Frank Severin for sending us this video.

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QLogic InfiniBand at ISC’11

By RichB | Published August 9, 2011

In this video, QLogic’s Bill Webster describes how the company’s InfiniBand solutions help to scale HPC applications performance. Recorded at the ISC’11 Conference in Hamburg.

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Video: Cray Showcases XK6 Supercomputer at ISC’11

By Rich Brueckner | Published August 2, 2011

In this video, Cray’s Barry Bolding describes the features of the GPU-powered Cray XK6 system, which was designed to scale to 50 Petaflops of performance.

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Video: Penguin Showcases POD HPC Cloud at ISC’11

By Rich Brueckner | Published August 1, 2011

In this video, Penguin Computing’s Arend Dittmer and Jeff Fettig discuss the company’s offerings for HPC at the International Supercomputing Conference. Recorded at ISC’11 in Hamburg.

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Exascale Report Relays Flap from Intel’s ISC Press Conference

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 30, 2011

 

The latest issue of The Exascale Report is out with interesting grumblings from the community about Intel’s recent announcement of exascale leadership. Personally, I came away from the press event (watch insideHPC’s exclusive video here) with a much stronger sense of clarity as to where the company wants to go by 2018, but others quoted in the article were highly critical:

Intel has yet to demonstrate a deep and credible plan to get to exascale. This [announcement] is about claiming ‘turf’ and is more of a strategic move for Intel – in an attempt to keep any of their major customers and partners from defecting to AMD or NVIDIA in search of longer-term exascale capabilities. Intel still has not been able to adequately address the interconnect issue – and that’s become a rather sensitive topic for them.”

There are also two really insightful audio interviews in this issue – one with IBM’s Don Grice (who is rumored to be the one taking over for Alan Gara as chief architect for Blue Gene), and one with Wilf Pinfold from Intel. Wilf is currently the Director of Extreme Scale Programs with Intel’s labs, but many of us know him from his role as the General Chair of SC09.

And also, for those of you who missed it, there’s a recap and pointer to the new exascale RFI issued by the E7 Consortium. Check it out at The Exascale Report.

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Video: Bull Showcases Tera100 at ISC’11- The Fastest Supercomputer in Europe

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 26, 2011

In this video, Bull’s Pascale Bernier-Bruna showcases the company’s HPC systems that make up the Tera100 system at CEA–Europe’s fastest supercomputer. Recorded at the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg.

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Video: PBS Professional Looks Out 20 Years on Scalability

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 26, 2011

In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works at Altair Engineering. The company recently celebrated the 20th anniversay of PBS Professional, Altair’s EAL3+ security certified, commercial-grade HPC workload management solution.

Recorded at the ISC’11 Conference in Hamburg.

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HP Showcases High Performance Computing at ISC’11

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 25, 2011

In this video, HP’s Ed Turkel showcases the company’s HPC solutions on display at the International Supercomputing Conference 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.

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Video: SGI – The Future of Technical Computing

By Rich Brueckner | Published July 23, 2011

In this video, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea presents SGI: The Future of Technical Computing. Recorded at the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg.

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Video: Panasas ActiveStor12 Aggregates 150GB/s

By Staff | Published July 20, 2011

In this video, Geoffrey Noer from Panasas showcases the company’s HPC storage solutions. Recorded at the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg.

Panasas ActiveStor 12 brings appliance-like plug-and-play simplicity to large scale storage deployments. It provides industry-leading performance and unrivaled performance per gigabyte for complex business-critical applications. This fourth generation Panasas storage blade system more than doubles performance over the previous generation product, going from 600MB/s to a stunning 1.5GB/s per chassis.

After ESG installed, configured, and connected to the system, completing the entire set-up procedure in only minutes, they saw ActiveStor 12 aggregate performance to be 1.5GB/s per chassis with near-linear performance scaling.

Download the report.

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Video: Russian Vendor T-Platforms on Building a 10 Petaflop System

By RichB | Published July 20, 2011

In this video from ISC’11, Andrey Slepuhin from T-Platforms presents: “On a Way to Build 10 Petaflop System.” These fast-paced Hot Seat Sessions have been a trademark of ISC for many years, providing HPC vendors an opportunity to present their latest technologies in front of a board of inquisitors.

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Video: ISC’11 Hot Seat – Cray’s Steve Scott

By RichB | Published July 15, 2011

In this video from ISC’11, Cray’s Steve Scott presents an overview of the company’s supercomputer offerings. These fast-paced Hot Seat Sessions have been a trademark of ISC for many years, providing HPC vendors an opportunity to present their latest technologies in front of a board of inquisitors.

Also posted in Compute, GPUs, HPC Hardware, Video | 1 Comment

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