Ansys has announced plans to acquire Reaction Design, which develops chemistry simulation software.
New Moab Task Manager & Support for Intel HPC Distribution for Hadoop
December 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
New innovations from Adaptive Computing include: Moab Task Manager, a localized decision-making tool within Moab’s HPC Suite that enables high-speed throughput on short computing jobs. Adaptive has also announced a partnership with Intel to integrate Moab/TORQUE workload management software with the Intel HPC Distribution for Apache Hadoop software, which combines the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software with the Intel Enterprise Edition of Lustre software.
Job of the Week: Assistant Director Research Computing at Univ. of South Florida
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The University of South Florida in Tampa is seeking an Assistant Director of Research Computing in our Job of the Week.
How Asia is Competing Ahead of the Exascale Pack
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The path to exascale by 2020 is certainly achievable, and Intel is supporting organizations across the globe as they attempt to be first over the line. If Asia is to continue leading the charge, then hurdling the challenges posed by energy constraints and adopting and identifying the latest technologies will make the journey much easier.
Scality RING: A Petabyte-scale, Software-only Storage Solution
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In this video, Scality CEO Jérôme Lecat describes the company’s innovative RING storage platform that turns generic x86 servers into a reliable, high performance, storage platform.
NCI Powers Research with PBS Pro on the Raijin Supercomputer
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In this video from SC13, Lindsay Botten and Allan Williams from NCI describe how they use Altair PBS Pro to manage workloads on the Raijin supercomputer.
Avere Delivers Storage Solutions for the HPC Cloud Era
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In this video from SC13, Jeff Tabor from Avere Systems describes the company’s optimized NAS storage solutions including the new Cloud NAS. “Avere has always been on the forefront of pushing the boundaries of file storage performance and efficiency. Avere Cloud NAS is a natural evolution of the product, advancing the adoption of cloud storage for serious business use cases.”
Aeon Computing Ties HPC All Together at SC13
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Aeon Computing was recently selected by the San Diego Supercomputer Center to build and deploy a 7 PetabyteLustre parallel file system as part of the new petascale-level Comet supercomputer. The performance of the 7 PB (Petabyte) filesystem will exceed 200 Gigabytes per second.
Why OpenACC 2.0 is a Step Forward
December 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over at the Cray Blog, James Beyer writes that the 2.0 Version of OpenACC has some important new features for parallel programmers.
University of Florida Tackles Big Science Data Growth with DDN
December 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) has selected DDN high-performance storage as the foundation for a converged infrastructure designed to accommodate ever-increasing life sciences and bioinformatics workloads.