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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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Alongside SGI’s earnings press release delivered this afternoon, they also announced a large supercomputing win with NASA. There aren’t a great deal of details related to the deal, but this is rumored to be the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Columbia replacement.
They did, however, release some rough system specs. The system will be …
AMD is currently preparing presentations for next week’s annual stockholder meeting to the tune of one million quad core chips have shipped to customers. This includes AMD’s latest run at the Top500 courtesy of the Chinese government. After witnessing the Tata Group hit #4 on the coveted Top500 list, China decided to outdo their …
The University of Bristol has unveiled its new £7m supercomputer named “BlueCrystal.” The new machine is destined to perform research on climate change, drug design and aerospace engineering. The machine, built by IBM and Clearspeed, is theoretically capable of hitting 37 TFlops.
Serious research in many disciplines can no longer be undertaken without high
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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.
The Department of Energy’s [DOE] Argonne National Laboratory, yesterday, celebrated the dedication of their upcoming Argonne Leadership Computing Facility [ALCF]. The event was attended by several key federal, state and local officials. The ACLF is a facility dedicated to enabling the research and development community to make innovative and high-impact science and engineering …
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. …
Penguin Computing has announced that Professor Min Zhou from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology has installed a Penguin Computing cluster. The new machine will utilize the much anticipated AMD Barcelona quad-core processors.
We believe the AMD based solution offers a more suitable architecture for our HPC applications and we chose Penguin Computing for their expertise and
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SiCortex has announced a collaboration with Dr. Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee. Jack is most famous for being one of proprietors of the Top500 [as well as HPL] and Director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory [ICL] at UTK. Dongarra has acquired a SiCortex SC072 Catapult deskside supercomputer as …
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 …
According to HPCwire today the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee held a dedication ceremony yesterday to kick of plans for its $65M Track II award which will result in a big ‘ol Cray at first…
The system, a Cray XT4 dubbed Kraken (after a gargantuan sea creature in Norse mythology), will come online in
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South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR] will receive a new BlueGene/P supercomputer donated by IBM in the second half of this year. The new machine, worth an estimated $1.6 million, will be managed by the Meraka Institute at the Center for High-Performance Computing [CHPC] in Cape Town. The Meraka Institute …
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that has successfully taken delivery of two new SGI Altix 4700 systems. The two shared memory systems have just entered the testing phase. The first, “Pople”, is named for Nobel-Prize-winning chemist John Pople. Pople will join BigBen at PSC in being assimilated [not by the Borg] into …
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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