IBM has announced that Georgia State has just plugged in a new IBM Cluster 1350 to keep its POWER5+ company. The new system has 320 Intel Xeon quadcore processors and 18 TB of storage. The system was acquired through a parternship between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), and its 3 TFLOPS of […]
Archives for February 2008
Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference
February 22, 2008 by
The Globus, Rocks and GridEngine development/user communities have teamed up to hold the 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference. The conference will include the normal sessions covering user experiences, best practices and interesting applications. The conference will also feature tracks dedicated to GlobusWorld, GridEngine Workshop and Rocks Cluster Workshop. The gritty details: What? 2008 […]
Tech-X Announces Vector Math Lib for NVIDIA GPUs
February 22, 2008 by
Tech-X Corp has announced the release of GPULib as a technology demonstration. The library makes available vectorized mathematical functions that execute directly on NVIDIA GPUs. The library provides bindings for common very high level languages, including Java, Python, MATLAB and IDL. As such, no prior knowledge of GPU programming or memory management is required. Many […]
IDC Releases Preliminary HPC Growth Figures
February 21, 2008 by
IDC has released its preliminary report on the market for HPC servers. Apparently, we saw 15.5% growth in 2007 to reach a record of $11.6 billion. This proves to be a recovery from the 9.2% increase of 2006. Over the five year period from 2002 to 2007, the market has grown an aggregate 134% at […]
Win cash in the HPC Challenge at SC08
February 21, 2008 by
Jack Dongarra sent me a note today to let me know that the HPC Challenge gauntlet has again been thrown down! Time to show off your l33t skills and take home the Benjamins (ok, so I’m paraphrasing, but I’m sure this is what Jack meant to say). From the announcement The goal of the competition […]
Digipede demo
February 21, 2008 by
John Powers, the head Fred over at Digipede, has posted a quick video showing how the Digipede Network can speed up a straightforward (but I suspect common) financial modeling use case using Excel and .Net code. He adds 20 lines of code to the original serial app, and the calculation runs in parallel on the […]
NVIDIA Unveils Largest Performance Jump in Company History
February 21, 2008 by
NVIDIA has announced details on the first GPU from its next generation, GeForce Series 9, graphics cards. The announcement constitutes the largest leap in generational performance in company history. The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU is said to deliver 116% more peformance than its predecessor [priced at below $199]. NVIDIA continues to innovate in hardware […]
AMD Performance Library goes open source, marketing co-op gets entry for portfolio
February 20, 2008 by
AMD announced today that they’re making their AMD Performance Library available under version 3 of the GPL as “Framewave” (dumb name; what was wrong with AMD Performance Library?). Today’s announcement makes official the change that AMD has been testing since December 2007 when it first made Framewave available at SourceForge. The result of nearly three […]
Arkansas installs 13 TFLOPS Dell
February 20, 2008 by
The University of Arkansas is installing a new 1,256-core Xeon super from Dell (InfiniBand interconnect) with all that money they got from the NSF late last year. The computer, called the Star of Arkansas, is the fastest super in the state. Like Red Diamond, Star will be connected to the Arkansas Research and Education Optical […]
