Multicore.info points to an article at EE Times Asia with a partial overview of the approaches to multicore as highlighted by Intel and Microsoft at the recent IDF Microsoft stressed its vision for placing new layers to its system software stack and point extensions to its .Net environment. Meanwhile, Intel said it plans to have […]
Archives for August 2008
Patterson on the multicore challenge
August 27, 2008 by
The Computing Computing Consortium weblog is carrying an opinion piece this week from David Patterson, Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, on why we need more government funding in multicore research. You can read it here.
Does high-speed copper threaten to dim optical's future?
August 27, 2008 by
Michael Feldman ponders that question at HPCwire this week …Optical has already notched a high-profile HPC win with the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer. That system is linked with EMCORE’s optical gear using DDR (InfiniBand) connections. According to IBM, they used over 55 miles of cable to hook all the compute and storage nodes together. For a […]
TACC software sees TeraGrid as one big resource
August 27, 2008 by
I think this is an interesting bit of technology (tip of the hat to HPCwire for the link). The tool, developed at TACC, is called MyCluster and allows researchers to aggregate resources on the TeraGrid such that they appear to be a single large cluster This wasn’t a trivial task a few years ago, when […]
ANSYS and Win HPC Server 2008
August 27, 2008 by
From news at HPCwire ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that preliminary performance data for its software running on Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 will be highlighted during the 2008 International ANSYS Conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in late August. …Early […]
Federal R&D and CS funding in "unprecedented" decline
August 27, 2008 by
From news at the excellent CRA Policy Blog The Chronicle of Higher Ed yesterday covered the release of a National Science Foundation Info Brief on the decline of U.S. funding for academic research for the second straight year, noting that NSF declares the decline “unprecedented for this data series, which began in 1972.”
NVISION 2008: Keynote WrapUp
August 25, 2008 by
The opening keynote address of NVISION 2008 was no less than visually exciting. Set in the San Jose Center for Performing Arts and framed by three HD displays, Jen-Hsun Huang ran us through the full gambit of what NVIDIA considers to be their key focus areas of technology. Interestingly enough, his slide aptly titled “Visual […]
Ansys Previews Support for Windows HPC Server 2008
August 25, 2008 by
Ansys, today, announced its preliminary performance data for its software running on Microsoft HPC Server 2008. Apparently, there are significant performance gains when using HPC Server 2008 [as opposed to what? …no word on what the baseline runs were performed on]. ANSYS invests significant resources in optimization of our software for high-performance computing (HPC), and […]
Live Report: NVISION 2008
August 25, 2008 by
I have the pleasure of attending this week’s Nvidia NVISION 2008 conference in downtown San Jose, CA. I’ve come to bear witness to the magic that is “visual computing” orchestrated and performed by the NVIDIA CUDA and Tesla products respectively. Personally, I’ve been very intrigued by the whole technology [not just NVIDIA’s entry into HPC] […]
NCAR On Track to Build in Wyoming, Despite Budget Crunch
August 25, 2008 by
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO has announced their current budget woes will not affect the proposed Cheyenne, Wyoming supercomputing facility. The new facility project is estimated to cost a cool $60 million. NCAR has laid off nearly 100 people in the last year and deferred raises for many others. All this, […]
