The National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that it will appoint James J. Hack director. Hack is currently a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. We are thrilled that Jim Hack is joining us to lead America’s premier open computing facility,” said ORNL […]
Archives for February 2008
ClearSpeed downsizes
February 4, 2008 by
It seems that the recent financial downturn has taken its toll on accelerator specialist, ClearSpeed. Following decreased spending from the financial services market, ClearSpeed is being forced to downsize their workforce. Large cuts occurred in the marketing department with smaller cutbacks in sales, finance, administration and engineering. One source reckoned that ClearSpeed dropped about 40 […]
Intel Set to Leak More Info on Tukwila
February 4, 2008 by
Intel is set to divulge more information on the upcoming Itanium codenamed “Tukwila” today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. So far, we know that Tukwila will be a quad-core Itanium chip at 65nm. It will operate at up to 2Ghz with dual-integrated memory controllers using Intel’s QuickPath interconnect [rather than […]
Daily Takeout for February 4
February 4, 2008 by
In today’s Takeout we count yet one more reason it sucks to be AMD as we consider recently reported news that AMD may be losing out as the chip vendor of choice on the KISTI supercomputer. You can find the original story by Michael Feldman at http://insidehpc.com/2008/02/04/korean-super-may-bail-on-amd-switch-to-intel/. Download the podcast. Subscribe to the podcast feed. […]
Korean super may bail on AMD, switch to Intel
February 4, 2008 by
Last week, The Inquirer’s Nebojsa Novakovic reported that AMD is losing its spot as the processor vendor in a Sun Microsystems supercompter for the Korean Institute for Science and Technology Information (KISTI). According to him, because of the Barcelona production delays, Sun is looking to dump the original system spec, which called for 2.5+ GHz […]
This is not a supercomputer
February 4, 2008 by
Glance at this here article. With apologies to René Magritte. It is a cell phone. But this piece, with this same title, got a lot of play on the interwebs. So my mom says “hey, can you bring your XT3 home with you so I can see it?” Hype kills.
UIUC, LSU, NVIDIA team up
February 4, 2008 by
The Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced on Friday that it has teamed up with researchers at LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) and NVIDIA Corporation to push the state of the practice in GPGPUs. “The combination of CUDA parallel programming tools and NVIDIA […]
Richardson's new super: an enchanting opportunity with a troubled future
February 4, 2008 by
I learned something interesting about the new SGI super being fired up in New Mexico: the state intends for it to “pay for itself.” Sue Vorenberg has a profile piece on the machine (named Encanto, Spanish for “enchanted”) in the Santa Fe New Mexican (here) that focuses primarily on the visualization challenge — getting from […]
Panasas Mulling Office in Qatar
February 3, 2008 by
On a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Garth Gibson announced that Panasas is exploring the option of opening an office in Qatar. Gibson, who is also a professor at Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, is the founder of Panasas, a company focused mainly on clustered storage and file systems for high performance computing applications. Panasas is […]
Java Parallel Processing Framework rev'd
February 1, 2008 by
The fine folks over at LinuxHPC.org are carrying news this week that JPPF 1.0.1 has been released. JPPF is a “grid computing toolkit” for Java. Check out JPPF.org for more info.
