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This week Stuttgart’s Center for High Performance Computing (HLRS) held an inauguration ceremony for Hermit, the fastest supercomputer in Germany. With over 1 Petaflop of performance, this “industrial supercomputer” will be also used for health, energy, environment and mobility research.

Supercomputers like Hermit contribute to strengthening Germany’s position as a research pole. Computer simulations have evolved to be the third pillar of science, together with theory and experimentation. Many research areas can no longer do without it; a good example being health, energy, environment protection, and mobility. Those are themes which the federal government supports inside the high-tech strategy,” says, Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister of Education and Research. “Great computer resources have also become an important means for the industry for the ability of shortening development time. With the commissioning of the supercomputer Hermit in Stuttgart, we continue the expansion of the national high performance computing centre, the ‘Gauss Centre for Supercomputing’, which is already a big success. Germany will maintain a leading position in supercomputing and become more attractive to excellent scientists from all over the world.“

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Don’t count SGI out just yet. Today the company announced that global energy producer Total S.A. has ordered a 2.3 petaflop SGI ICE X supercomputer.

The needs for compute-intensive data processing in the oil and gas industry are constantly increasing,” said SGI interim CEO Ron Verdoorn. “With data files exceeding ten petabytes, technological innovation for reservoir modeling and simulation relies not only on compute architectures but also on storage architectures, as well. Within this framework, SGI offers a complete integrated solution including compute, storage, and services.”

The new system will help Total to identify and develop oil and gas resources. Read the Full Story.

Last week the Advanced Systems Engineering and Integration Division of ARINC Engineering Services announced it had installed a new Linux cluster that will allow the company to offer an expanded supercomputing capability at its Annapolis, Maryland headquarters.

The new supercomputer can now fully implement ARINC’s analytical toolset, including the Geometric Theory of Diffraction and the more broadly applicable Method of Moments, Physical Optics, and Finite Element methods, along with hybrid implementations. This significantly increases both the size of the objects that can be modeled and the frequencies at which they can be analyzed. It also greatly reduces the computational time needed to solve simpler problems.

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Mexico’s Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) has powered up Xiuhcoatl, a the country’s most powerful supercomputer at 25 Teraflops. Joining a three-way grid knows as Lancad, the system will be used to research such areas as Alzheimer’s, the Earth’s climate, tsunamis, and the formation of stars.

According to Cinvestav chief Rene Asomoza, the Xiuhcoatl (fire serpent in Nahuatl) supercomputer has 3840 cores. As part of the Lancad project, it will generate physical infrastructure that will improve Mexico’s competitive position in the world. Read the Full Story.