Another one from Ian’s blog. This time, 10 reasons why you should attend the Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, to be held in Oakland May 12-16. My fave: “Gorilla and guerilla free.” Link through to find out which one is your reason to attend.
Archives for April 2008
Ian Foster on heating with the grid
April 25, 2008 by
This is a great, quick post at Ian Foster’s blog. An article in the local paper desribed a pilot project involving an HPC cluster in the South Bend Potowatomi Greenhouses. The result is a significant reduction in both cooling expenditures for campus HPC and heating costs for the greenhouses–the latter alone being $100,000 per year. […]
Power efficiency webinar
April 25, 2008 by
Just a quick note that Accelware is offering a free Webinar next week: “Power Efficiency: How Acceleware Solutions Please Your Green Conscience.” Lead by Mike Weldon, hardware product manager for Acceleware, the Technology Webinar will discuss how Acceleware’s software solutions combine compelling performance gains for commercial applications while being power-efficient in the workplace, resulting in […]
Angstrom Microsystems Announces xBLAS for GPUs
April 23, 2008 by
Angstrom Microsystems today announced their release of xBLAS, a highly tuned implementation of the basic linear algebra subsystem. The fun part is, it runs on GPUs. From what I can gather from the parent article, xBLAS is compatible with the single precision ATLAS implementation of BLAS. For those running apps compatible with ATLAS, no code […]
The Green Grid and the EPA, SNIA
April 23, 2008 by
Just a quick note with this announcement for those of you following The Green Grid The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today announced Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). The Green […]
NYC HPC Users Group
April 23, 2008 by
This news was just passed on to me by one of our readers. If you’re in the NYC area, you might want to make plans to attend. NYCA-HUG (New York City Area HPC Users Group) is a group of computer enthusiasts with a common interest in High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters. We hold a meeting […]
Bull to supply 300TF hybrid supercomputer for GENCI and CEA
April 22, 2008 by
GENCI, CEA and Bull have announced that Bull has been selected to supply a 300TF supercomputer in 2009. The system will comprise 1,068 Intel based nodes totalling 103TF coupled with 48 specialist GPU based nodes providing an additional 192TF. Details on the Bull website here.
DOE Dedicates Leadership Computing Facility
April 22, 2008 by
The Department of Energy’s [DOE] Argonne National Laboratory, yesterday, celebrated the dedication of their upcoming Argonne Leadership Computing Facility [ALCF]. The event was attended by several key federal, state and local officials. The ACLF is a facility dedicated to enabling the research and development community to make innovative and high-impact science and engineering breakthroughs. I […]
UCSD Scientists Construct 3-D Genome Structure
April 21, 2008 by
University of California, San Diego scientists in collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center have successfully mapped the genome structure as a three-dimensional image. The image was a first of its kind. The research team was led by Cornelis Murre, professor of biology at UC San Diego and Steve Cutchin, senior scientist for visualization services […]
BW article: A new model for innovation in HP labs
April 21, 2008 by
This article caught my attention because I’m working on an article on innovation in the HPC community that (I hope) will run in this week’s edition. This particular article at BusinessWeek isn’t focused on, of course, but on all of HP’s research operations. As the computer giant cuts its number of major research projects, its […]
