HPCWire: Mitrionics and Nallatech have announced that they have partnered to create an FPGA Accelerator Kit. The kit is targeted toward customers in the defense and bioinformatics sectors interested in using COTS [FPGA] products. The kit is composed of a PCI Express card [x8] with a Xilinx FPGA coupled with multiple, independent banks of SDRAM […]
Archives for June 2008
Sun's First German Constellation
June 19, 2008 by
Sun has announced that it has been awarded its first contract for the installation of an HPC system for commercial applications in Germany. The Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace and Engineering [CASE] will take delivery of the new Sun Constellation system. The center is supported by Airbus, the German Aerospace Center [DLR] and the […]
Argonne's Intrepid For Open Science Computing
June 19, 2008 by
Argonne National Lab’s BlueGene/P supercomputer, Intrepid, has been named the fastest supercomputer in the world available to open science. The third ranked Intrepid is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. With a peak performance of 557 Tflops and an achieved speed of 450.3, the new BlueGene/P edged out the Ranger supercomputer at TACC for […]
PNNL Set to Break Ground on New Labs
June 19, 2008 by
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [PNNL] has announced that it will break ground later this month on two new laboratories. The privately funded construction project will house the Biological Sciences Facility and the Computational Sciences Facility. The combined 148,000 sqft will be developed and owned by the Cowperwood Company, a real estate […]
Microsoft HPC Server 2008 RC-1
June 19, 2008 by
Microsoft has announced that it plans to release the last beta [which is also the first release candidate] of its HPC Server 2008 product by the end of the month. This follows our coverage back in May of the Beta2 release. HPC Server 2008, which is based on Windows Server 2008, features high-speed networking, cluster […]
Rattner talks Exascale at ISC in Dresden
June 19, 2008 by
Intel’s Justin Rattner, speaking as one of the keynotes at the ISC event in Dresden, presented Intel’s vision for Exascale computing and their work towards production class Petascale computing. Rattner started by highlighting the real world applications that represent the market for exascale beyond just scientific computing. Then, building from Intel’s Terascale research program, he […]
Initiative for open standards for programming compute accelerators
June 19, 2008 by
The Khronos(tm) Group has announced the formation of a new Compute Working Group to create royalty-free, open standards for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs. The creation of this open standard is intended to enable and encourage diverse applications to leverage all available platform compute resources on a wide range […]
400 TFLOPS down under
June 18, 2008 by
From BioTechNews.com today comes news of a 400 TFLOPS super down under Melbourne will be home to a $100 million, 400 teraflop supercomputer, expected to be the world’s largest supercomputer dedicated purely to the life sciences. …Expressions of interest for the facility, to be called the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, will be released later […]
Acceleware speeds up linear solver library 20x on NVIDIA gear
June 18, 2008 by
Today Acceleware announced… acceleration of matrix equation solvers found in simulation and data processing software commonly used for scientific and industrial applications. These new methods significantly extend the problem solving capability of the Acceleware Platform, allowing a broad new range of application providers the opportunity to deliver the compelling performance of multi-core and hardware accelerators […]
A ClearSpeed three-fer
June 18, 2008 by
This week ClearSpeed had a series of announcements out of Dresden. I’ll try to recap them here. The company announced… the launch of its new Advance e710 accelerator board and CSX700 processor.Thanks to enhanced features and aggressive new price-points, the Advance e710 accelerator board achieves more than twice the price/performance of its predecessor while consuming […]
