In this video, Bob Tomlinson from LANL describes the recently acquired Mustang supercomputer from Appro.
The Mustang system has been supporting larger jobs as was intended and in just few months of use it has already offered 434 Million CPU hours for competitive, peer-reviewed, open science. According to the latest November 2011 Top500 list, Mustang was ranked as the 46th fastest supercomputer in the world supporting Climate, Environment, Electronic and many other science research projects.
In this video, Xoreax Co-Founder and Chairman Uri Mishol describes how the company’s XGE Grid Engine technology accelerates applications through distributed processing in Windows environments. Recorded at the Israel Supercomputer Conference on Feb. 7, 2012.
Trusted by over 2000 companies and organizations worldwide, XGE combines unique Virtualization technology with robust and flexible distributed computing algorithms to offer a powerful Grid Computing solution for the Windows platform that’s exceptionally simple to deploy and integrate.
In this video, Richard Graham from Oak Ridge National Laboratory presents: Advancing Research and Science through Supercomputing. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Israel Supercomputing Conference on Feb 7, 2012 in Tel Aviv.
Presentations will soon be available from the conference site.
In this slidecast, Mike Smith from Solarflare describes the company’s ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE), a new platform that moves application processing into the network adapter for applications that rely on real-time, high-performance network data.
Our new ApplicationOnload Engine is a new class of product that results directly from interaction with our end-user customers. Our engineers have worked closely with these customers to create a platform that leverages OpenOnload’s proven framework for creating a direct path from applications to the network, and incorporates on-the-fly processing of real-time network data,” said Russell Stern, CEO at Solarflare. “This solution provides not only the lowest latency and highest message rate network I/O performance, but achieves an unparalleled boost in application performance, all while maintaining a seamless, compatible interface with our existing server adapter products.”
Solarflare’s AOE combines a fully featured 10GbE server adapter with a state-of-the-art FPGA that provides a seamless, low-latency network interface to the host server and application processing. According to Smith, AOE is an open platform that utilizes applications developed by Solarflare, its customers, and third-party developers.
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In this video, Gilad Shainer, Chairman of the HPC Advisory Council, and Yan Benhammou from Tel Aviv University open the Israel Supercomputing Conference 2012. Recorded Feb 7, 2012 in Tel Aviv.
Presentations will soon be available from the conference site.
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this 90 minute program from the World Science Festival. IBM’s WATSON and a group of leading roboticists and computer scientists discuss the thinking machines of today and the possibilities to come in the not-too-distant future.
In recent years, machines have grown increasingly capable of listening, communicating, and learning—transforming the way they collaborate with us, and significantly impacting our economy, health, and daily routines. Who, or what, are these thinking machines? As we teach them to become more sophisticated, how will they complement our lives? What will separate their ways of thinking from ours? And what happens when these machines understand data, concepts, and behaviors too big or impenetrable for humans to grasp?
In this video, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and others speak at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new LBNL Computational Research and Theory (CRT) facility. The CRT will be at the forefront of high-performance supercomputing research and be DOE’s most efficient facility of its kind. Joining Secretary Chu as speakers were Lab Director Paul Alivisatos, UC President Mark Yudof, Office of Science Director Bill Brinkman, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. The festivities were emceed by Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences, Kathy Yelick.
According to Yelick, the new CRT facility will be one of the most energy efficient supercomputer centers on the planet.
In this slidecast, Nvidia’s Steve Keckler describes the evolutionary path of GPU computing and where it’s heading on the road to Exascale computing. Keckler is part of the team working on the company’s Echelon research project, which is looking into technologies that will eventually enable an Exaflop supercomputer to operate at under 20 Megawatts.
Nvidia’s Echelon extreme-scale computing project is partly funded by DARPA under the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. The other UHPC program teams include the X-Caliber team led by Sandia National Laboratories, the Intel UHPC Runnemede team, and the Angstrom team led by MIT.
The Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program seeks to develop the architectures and technologies that will provide the underpinnings, framework and approaches for the resolution of power consumption, cyber resiliency, and productivity problems. The UHPC program aims to develop computer systems, from embedded to cabinet level, which have extremely high energy efficiency and are dependable and easily programmable. These systems will have dramatically reduced power consumption while delivering a thousand-fold increase in processing capabilities. Dependability technologies developed under the UHPC program will provide adaptable and hardened cyber resilient computer systems. Productivity will be significantly improved by developing scalable, highly programmable computer systems that will not require significant system expertise for the development of high performance applications.
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In this video, AMD’s Joe Macri describes the company’s HSA architecture (formerly known as Fusion). Recorded at the 2012 DesignCon conference in Santa Clara.
The architectural path for the future is clear,” Macri declared. That path will be paved with the programming patterns established on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) systems migrating to the heterogeneous world. The architecture will be open, with published specifications and an open source execution software stack, and heterogeneous cores would be able to work together seamlessly in coherent memory, with low latency dispatch and no software fault lines.
A Tip of the Hat goes to Sylvie Barak at IEEE Times for pointing us to this video.
In this slidecast, Tom Isakovich from Nimbus Data Systems describes the company’s new high-availability E-Class Storage devices based on high performance, high density EMLC flash memory.
The Nimbus E-Class sets a new standard for solid state storage scalability and operating cost economics,” stated Benjamin S. Woo, program vice president, worldwide storage systems at IDC. “Large enterprises and cloud providers must consider the significant infrastructure consolidation possible with all-flash storage systems. By providing both innovative hardware and comprehensive software, Nimbus is well-positioned to not only capitalize on the need for high-performance systems but also the significantly greater trend towards primary storage based exclusively on solid state technology.”
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In this video, Jean Goddard, Head of the Computer Simulation and IT project at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) explains the agency’s focus on HPC. Designed by Bull, the 1.25 Petaflop Tera-100 cluster at CEA is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe.
In this video from Fox News, researchers describe the power and capabilities of Gordon, the flash-based supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
In this slidecast, Allan Evans and Al Wegener present: APAX Application Acceleration. Samplify Systems is leveraging their advanced compression algorithms to reduce the amount of data that needs to be moved and stored in high performance computing. Read the Full Story.
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In this video, Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee talks about how the annual ISC conference in Germany brings the HPC community together from around the globe.
In this video, Panasas hosts a panel discussion: The Road to Exascale. The panelists: Panasas founder and CTO, Garth Gibson; Deputy Division Leader, HPC Division at LANL, Gary Grider; Chief Executive Officer and CTO of Instrumental, Inc., Henry Newman; and Addison Snell, Chief Executive Officer of Intersect360 Research. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle.
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