Archives for June 2008

Niagara 3 to have 16 cores and 16 threads in late 2009 [Title corrected]

From Ashlee Vance writing at The Register on Monday this week We’ve confirmed that Sun is looking to push the UltraSPARC Tx line to even greater heights with a 16-core, 16-thread per core eight-socket server. So, each socket is chewing through an insane 256 threads. And the eight-socket box will do 2,048 threads….Rock does, in […]

IBM mixing good works and business in sub-Saharan Africa

From BusinessDay today IBM has opened its Africa Innovation Centre in Johannesburg to help companies develop their IT skills and help workers meet business challenges in sub- Saharan Africa. The centre, which opened yesterday, is the first of its kind on the continent, and forms part of IBM’s commitment to invest $120m in Africa within […]

Cell-based laptops coming

Not HPC, but interesting, so I’ll keep it short. From ElectronicsWeekly.com The Cell microprocessor is going into laptops. Toshiba will use it in versions of its Qosmio laptops which start selling next month in Japan. …While the Qosmio laptops will still use an Intel Core 2 Duo to run the OS, Cell will do intensive […]

China Daily: we're number 7! Maybe. In November. Ish.

This from China Daily today Dawning 5000A, with a capability of 160 trillions of computing operations per second, is signed to be installed in the Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC) which specializes in super computing outsourcing services for daunting jobs such as genome mapping, quake appraisal, precise weather forecast, mining survey and huge stock exchange data. […]

Cloud Computing and Applications '08

From Ian Foster’s blog Bob Grossman and I are putting together a workshop on Cloud Computing and Applications (CCA), to be held in Chicago October 22 and 23. We have a distinguished organizing committee (see below), and will soon announce a number of invited speakers. If you’d like to present, please submit a position paper […]

Tom’s Trends and Highlights

Always a popular slot at the ISC event is Tom Sterling’s “A year in review” talk, where he covers the highlights and key trends of the last year. Some InsideHPC highlights of this year’s highlights: This year, the obvious first highlight was ‘Petaflops: IBM and LANL make it happen’, i.e. that after all the anticipation, […]

Siemens and A*STAR-IHPC to Establish Joint CFD Lab

Siemens Water Technologies group and Singapore’s Institute of High Performance Computing [IHPC] have announced that they will proceed with plans to establish a joint computational fluid dynamics laboratory. IHPC, a research institute within Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research [A*STAR], has experience in modeling large multi-phase and multi-dimensional fluid dynamics problems, well suited to […]

NAL To Build New Weather Forecasting Machine

The National Aerospace Laboratories, an arm of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR], has announced plans to construct the country’s most powerful supercomputer dedicated to to forecasting localized weather phenomena.  The rough technical specs have put the machine around 10 TFlops.  This is ten times more powerful than the current machine, a Cray, […]

Science in the FY08 emergency supplemental final

From the excellent CRA Policy Blog The House and Senate Leadership agreed on a $400 million bump for science agencies that got shortchanged in the FY 08 Omnibus Approps — a far cry from the $1.2 billion included by the Senate in its version and an even further cry from the levels called for in […]

HECToR Boots First Public Cray X2

Hot off the presses, the High-End Computing Terascale Resource [HECToR] at the University of Edinburgh has officially integrated the first Cray X2 blade into its XT4 system. Formerly known as the Black Widow project, these X2 blades are the first to be publicly installed in the field, a big milestone for Cray. The first few […]