John Grosh is the Director of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at LLNL. He covered elements of LLNL’s petascale computing strategy, including Sequoia. A part of his talk that I was particularly interested in is the work going on at LLNL dealing with architectures to process very large volumes of data. They are studying […]
Archives for March 2008
HPCC 2008: Steve Wheat's talk
March 25, 2008 by
I’m at the 22nd annual HPCC Conference in Rhode Island over the next two days. I’m chairing the session today so I can’t spend a lot of time posting or even post a nugget for each speaker, but as particular items strike me I’ll post them here. Intel’s Stephen Wheat just got done talking. He […]
CRL's Top5 supercomputer to be used in Yahoo! collaboration
March 25, 2008 by
The 4th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, based at the Computational Research Laboratories (CRL, www.crlindia.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited, will be used by CRL in a collaboration with Yahoo! on cloud computing research. See here for the Yahoo! press release. This effort is the first of its kind in terms […]
HPTi Wins NOAA GFDL Contract
March 24, 2008 by
High Performance Technologies has announced that they have won a contract to support NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dyanmics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ. The contract, worth an estimated $4 million, began on March 3. The team will consist of 21 computational scientists, software developers, systems support staff and senior consultants. This is a very significant win and […]
Summer 2008 GridEngine Training Workshops
March 24, 2008 by
The BioTeam has just announced the beginning of a new series of regular, open-enrollment training workshops focused on educating users and systems administrators in the art of Sun GridEngine. The workshops will begin in the greater Boston area and expand elsewhere as demand increases. So far, the schedule includes: 1-Day GridEngine User/Usage Workshop .: April […]
Sun Wins DARPA Contract
March 24, 2008 by
Sun Microsystems has announced that they have been awarded a research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] focused on developing microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by silicon photonics and proximity communication. The contract, part of DARPA’s Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communication program, is worth an estimated $44 million over 5 1/2 […]
Intel to release grand HPC vision
March 23, 2008 by
According to Pat Gelsinger, as reported by The Register, Intel will release its grand HPC vision targeting Petascale at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco later this year. Whilst Intel chips (mostly Xeon family) dominate the Top500 list, the most demanding supercomputers still tend to be custom designs, and in many cases using non-Intel […]
Linux Networx Users Google Group
March 22, 2008 by
Thanks to the efforts of several former LNXI engineers, there is now a place to openly discuss issues with, now defunct, Linux Networx gear. If you currently own an aging Linux Networx cluster, but don’t feel the need to purchase a comprehensive third-party support contract, toss your issues over at the LNXI Users Google Group. […]
Lockheed Martin Wins HPCMO Management Contract
March 21, 2008 by
Lockheed Martin has been awarded the Next Generation Technical Services contract by the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office [DoD HPCMO]. The contract, valued at $344 million, will support the operations, management and maintenance of the high performance computing centers at four major Department of Defense scientific research sites. Steve Lubniewski, President of […]
NEC Claims 10-Petaflop Supercomputing Breakthrough
March 20, 2008 by
NEC and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are claiming they have developed technology that will allow supercomputers to breach 10 Petaflops. Apparently, they have laid the groundwork using a network of optical interconnections between nests of chips. The optical interconnects allow systems to perform chip-to-chip communication at 25 Gbps [No mention of latency]. The prototype […]
