After attending quite a number of high performance/technical computing conferences, one comes to realize that there are really three types of users related to how they utilize HPTC to perform “work.” There are those that think inside the box, those that think outside the box and those that have forgotten that the box ever existed […]
Archives for March 2008
IMSL Numerical Library for Fortran comes to Windows
March 26, 2008 by
Visual Numerics announced yesterday that their IMSL Fortran Numerical Library is now available for PGI’s line of multi-core optimizing parallel Fortran compilers for Windows. From the release “We are pleased to be working closely with The Portland Group to bring the IMSL Fortran Library to their latest generation of Windows Fortran compilers,” said Tim Leite, […]
City College of New York Using SGI for Traffic Sims
March 26, 2008 by
The recently unveiled Universal Transportation Model Simulation Center [UTMSC] at City College of New York has chosen an SGI Altix 4700 high performance computing platform. The machine is destined to run traffic simulators and models for traffic planing, signal optimization and network flow. The 40 processor [Itanium2] will assist in developing models to meet the […]
ISC launches new blog
March 26, 2008 by
In our effort to report all of the new media advancements in the HPC ecosystem I wanted to let you know that Interactive Supercomputing, the makers of Star-P, have started a blog. From the release The new Parallel Lounge blog aims to be an online resource for researchers seeking the latest in parallel programming approaches […]
Yahoo! delivers free HPC to Indian universities
March 26, 2008 by
You’ve probably read about this deal already, but in case you haven’t, you might be interested to learn that Yahoo! has teamed up with Computational Research Laboratories to give free access to HPC cycles for researchers in India working on large scale computing around Hadoop. Hadoop is the open source implementation of Google’s MapReduce. It’s […]
HPCC 2008: Glen Lupton's talk
March 26, 2008 by
Glen is with HP. He’s still talking, so I may have more to say, but he just showed an interesting slide comparing dual core and quad core processors on a FLUENT benchmark of varying sizes. For the two largest cases, the quad core processors win. But as the problems get smaller, dual core wins. But […]
Marathon introduces software to protect VM from physical failures
March 26, 2008 by
Ashlee Vance has a piece at The Register on a new product just leaving beta from Marathon that protects virtualized servers — possibly running business critical apps — from failures on the physical hardware. …Marathon thinks it can encourage customers to move what could be considered as business critical software over to virtualized servers. At […]
Ars Technica on DARPA's contribution to the recent CS funding drop
March 26, 2008 by
Ars Technica has an interesting article that gives an overview of the much-discussed DARPA CS funding drop and the state of science funding in general in this country: From a computer science perspective, the timing of DARPA’s flight from university-led basic research to applied defense and classified research couldn’t have come at a worse time. […]
Intel's new low power server chips
March 26, 2008 by
Yesterday Intel announced two new lower power chips for use in servers and workstations. The new quad core L5400 series uses a 45 nm process runs at just 50 watts at either 2.33 GHz or 2.5 GHz. These chips replace the previous 65 nm low power Clovertown gear. Benefiting companies with power-constrained, high-compute density environments, […]
HPCC 2008: Tim Germann
March 25, 2008 by
It’s pronounced ger-men, hard g. I asked. Tim is from Los Alamos and talked largely about his work simulating pandemic flu, and potential strategies for managing a national pandemic. Toward the end of his talk he touched on Road Runner, the large AMD/Cell hybrid from IBM. LANL’s machine uses IBM’s recently revved Cell processors (double […]
