Yesterday Acceleware announced an interesting product, the C30-16 Based on NVIDIA Tesla GPU computing technology, Acceleware’s new cluster solution is available in four pre-defined configurations, allowing for customers to match their processing needs. The cluster solutions start with a 16 GPU configuration and progresses through 32, 48 and up to 64 GPUs. The NVIDIA GPU […]
Archives for June 2008
Southern Utah brings HPC into the classroom
June 18, 2008 by
Southern Utah University (SUU) believes high performance computing (HPC) should move beyond the realm of just a school’s elite research labs and become a common classroom resource for a variety of undergraduate studies. Hey, I believe the same thing (as I’ve said over, and over, and over…well past the point when everyone stopped listening).What […]
TotalView available on Cell B/E
June 18, 2008 by
It seems that if you build the world’s largest supercomputer out of a new processor, people will port tools to it. Following closely on the heels of Allinea’s announced support for DDT and its profiling tools on the Cell B/E, TotalView Technologies has announced that it’s setting up shop on the same street The new […]
Allinea's new Cell
June 18, 2008 by
Honestly, I don’t know how I keep coming up with them. It’s a gift… Allinea announced earlier this week that they are making their debugger and other parallel development tools available on the Cell Broadband Engine Allinea Software, a leading provider of innovative products for large-scale scalar and parallel high performance computing applications, today announced […]
Under the Hood of Nvidia's Latest GPU
June 18, 2008 by
Following John West’s coverage [also here] of AMD/ATi’s latest FireStream GPU technology, I wanted to add a complementary article focusing on Nvidia’s new technology. We’ve all seen the flood of recent articles following the announcements of new HPC-targeted products in the realm of GPU-accelerated computing. We’ve all probably read the associated “speeds and feeds” numbers […]
LSI announces "bullet proof" HPC storage
June 18, 2008 by
Yesterday storage vendor LSI announced the latest in their line of storage products, the Engenio 7900, designed specifically for what the company calls HPC workloads. LSI Corporation …introduced the Engenio 7900 HPC storage system which combines leading-edge performance and high levels of system availability for applications requiring uninterrupted data access. Designed for compute-intensive applications and […]
HP's Finis Terrae shared memory super
June 18, 2008 by
On Friday HP announced a new HP Integrity Itanium-based shared memory cluster in Spain. The system is named Finis Terrae (a Latin phrase meaning “the end of the earth,” and its also the name of the southernmost school of its kind in the western hemisphere) Finis Terrae offers an unparalleled high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that […]
Microsoft's big little numbers
June 18, 2008 by
Today Microsoft announced something big in a little number. NCSA put one of its systems, the 9000+ core Abe system, on the latest Top500 list at number 23. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 25 of the world’s top 500 largest supercomputers with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications […]
CINES Lands a 147Tflop SGI
June 17, 2008 by
HPCWire: The Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif [GENCI], the French national HPC organization, has announced that it has recently procured a new SGI ICE system. The new system is scheduled to be installed this July at CINES, France’s National Computer Center for Higher Education in Montpelier. The new machine is said to peak at […]
Blogging from ISC
June 17, 2008 by
Rich Brueckner from Sun dropped me a line to let me know that Josh Simons, one of his Sun buds, is blogging the ISC sessions. You can find his notes at http://blogs.sun.com/simons/category/HPC. If you know of anyone else blogging what they hear, drop us a line and I’ll link to it.
