Reader Luca Bianchi from Pavia University in Italy dropped me an email to let insideHPC know about opportunities for PhD research. I’ve pasted in Luca’s email and contact info below. If you’re interested, get in touch directly (oh, and if you end up headed to Pavia for some of your thesis work, send some snaps […]
Archives for May 2008
ClearSpeed user group meeting
May 26, 2008 by
If you’re headed out to Dresden early next month you might consider cutting your sightseeing a day short and dropping in on the second ClearSpeed User Group meeting: The meeting will be held at International Congress Center in Dresden, Germany on June 16, 2008; the day before ISC’08 starts. This is a unique opportunity to […]
Platform aims at cluster management market
May 26, 2008 by
I missed this news last week, but Platform launched a new product suite called Platform Manage in the cluster management market at the company’s annual Platform Global Conference. From coverage at The Register it is clear that CEO Songnian Zhou is after the HPC management market. More from this article The company’s new Linux cluster […]
HPC needs more rock stars
May 26, 2008 by
We need more rock stars in HPC: people like Larry Smarr, Jack Dongarra, Dan Reed, and Seymour Cray who accomplish big things and, periodically, capture the imagination of the lay press. In HPC it’s the accomplishment that matters, and some of our superheroes achieve cult status inside the community. But in their rock star role […]
Cray in Oz
May 26, 2008 by
That may be the coolest of the iHPC headlines so far. From “The Australian” late last week (while I was in the woods with a bunch of campers) comes news that Cray CEO Peter Ungaro keynoted the Cooperative Research Centre’s annual meeting — CRCA08 — in Sydney, Australia last week. From the article CRCs are […]
Green500 Deadline
May 23, 2008 by
Virginia Tech’s Green500 project has announced that the submission deadline for its next list is Jun 13, 2008. The Green500 List was originally developed to track the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world alongside the top performers of the Top500. From their homepage: Despite the importance of the TOP500 list, we argue that the […]
Tata Group Continues Push Towards Commercial Applications
May 23, 2008 by
Nearly six months after announcing their number four supercomputer “Eka”, the Computational Research Laboratories at Tata Group has leaked details on several pilot projects dedicated to developing commercial applications. The application areas will span a wide variety of subjects including aerospace and aerodynamics, automotive design, academics, animation and weather forecasting. CRL is working on several […]
ASU HPCI Aids Myanmar Relief Effort
May 23, 2008 by
Arizona State Univerisity’s High Performance Computing Initiative has established a website for relief organizations of the Myanmar cyclone disaster. The website is dedicated to providing up-to-date satellite images of the current ground conditions the area. The images are aiding relief organizations in preparing effective strategies in delivering supplies to those that need it most. The […]
Polymers Workforce Development Program in Ohio
May 22, 2008 by
The Ohio polymers industry and Ohio Supercomputing Center [OSC] have received a $1 million federal grant to build a computer-based resource center that companies and organizations in the state of Ohio can utilize for workforce training and product development. The PolymerOhio group and OSC will jointly develop a “polymer portal” that will offer computer models […]
MoabCon 2008
May 22, 2008 by
Cluster Resources alerted us to an upcoming event they are holding: MoabCon 2008. The four day event is geared towards industry users and developers interested in utilizing Cluster Resources products on their compute infrastructures. Session experts come from a wide variety of organizations including government, commercial and academia. The gory details: .: What? MoabCon 2008 […]
