Last week the DailyTech reported that AMD is talking about developments that will lead first to six-core processors, followed by a twin-die package that will put 12 cores in a socket The first breadcrumb comes with a new “native six-core” Shanghai derivative, currently codenamed Istanbul. This processor is clearly targeted at Intel’s recently announced six-core, […]
Archives for April 2008
AMD announces Q1 results, posts loss
April 21, 2008 by
Last week AMD announced its Q1 2008 results. The news is, predictably, not good. AMD today reported first quarter 2008 revenue of $1.505 billion, a net loss of $358 million, or $0.59 per share, and an operating loss of $264 million. These results include an impact of $50 million, or $0.08 per share, from ATI […]
MPI in 30 minutes at Linux Magazine
April 21, 2008 by
The ever-insightful Joe Landman from Scalability.org has an article over at linux-mag.com entitled “MPI in Thirty Minutes” Learn how to obtain, build, and use an MPI stack for Linux machines. This tutorial will take you from “hello world” to parallel matrix multiplication in a matter of minutes. Reminiscent of my presentation from 10 years ago […]
Dr. Dobbs article on CUDA programming
April 21, 2008 by
Bill McColl points to an introductory article on programming HPC apps with CUDA Dr Dobb’s Portal has a good introductory article on programming supercomputing applications with CUDA. The author, Rob Farber of Pacific Northwest National Lab, claims that he is able to achieve one to two orders of magnitude performance improvements over standard multicore processors […]
Slides from Hadoop summit
April 21, 2008 by
Bill McColl points us to an update from Yahoo! Research that slides and videos from last month’s Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Computing Symposium are going up on line. A reminder what these were about: The Hadoop Summit brought together leaders from the Hadoop developer and user communities for the first time. Apache Hadoop, an open-source […]
Happy Birthday NAS
April 18, 2008 by
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing Center in Moffett Field, California is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Monday, April 21. The events will begin with a morning symposium at NAS highlighting the division’s legacy of accomplishments in high performance computing. [Rest assured the videos will be displayed on their new viz wall]. Unfortunately, the event is by […]
IBM and Intel: two financials for the price of one
April 17, 2008 by
Financial performance posts don’t do well here at insideHPC.com…unless it’s really bad news. Neither of these is really bad news, so I’ll hit the high points of both for you. First in the chute is IBM, which reported Q1 2008 earnings today. IBM today announced first-quarter 2008 diluted earnings of $1.65 per share from continuing […]
Boeing to Certify Indian Supercomputer
April 16, 2008 by
Boeing Corporation has announced that it has partnered with the Computational Research Laboratory [India], a subsidiary of the Tata Group. The goal of the partnership is to test and validate the Indian-made Eka system, currently number four on the Top500 and the fastest in Asia. The Eka system is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the […]
A step toward computing with terahertz radiation
April 16, 2008 by
This week the University of Utah made an announcement that one of its research teams has been able to construct a terahertz wave guide “We have taken a first step to making circuits that can harness or guide terahertz radiation,” says Ajay Nahata, study leader and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Eventually – […]
IB better bet for converged networks
April 16, 2008 by
Post over at Blocks and Files talking about the recently upgraded IDC InfiniBand predictions. IDC raised its compound annual growth rate projections from 29% in 2007-2011 to 51.5%. The post closes with this observation InfiniBand supporters point to InfiniBand being available here and now whereas Fibre Channel is stuck at a pedestrian 8Gbit/sec and 10GigE […]
