Article in Australian TechWorld about the Top500 as an upper bound on available compute performance. “The Top500 list is only useful in telling you the absolute upper bound of the capabilities of the computers,” Loft says. “It’s not useful in terms of telling you their utility in real scientific calculations.” The problem, he says, is […]
Archives for September 2008
Latest GridsWatch Course Registration Open
September 24, 2008 by
The Advanced Research Computing group at Georgetown University have just announced that registration has opened for its latest series of GridsWatch training courses. Registration has opened for the Intermediate Sun GridEngine Configuration and Administration Course as well as the Introduction to Beowulf Design, Planning, Building and Administration. The courses take place in October 2008 and […]
Gizmodo spends time with CX1
September 24, 2008 by
I’m assuming at the HPC on Wall Street conference. Their post includes video that appears to have been shot on a show floor of some kind. Interesting observation Cray’s CX1 supercomputer looks oddly petite in its weird press shot, but we checked it out in person today, and it’s actually like a small sarcophagus loaded […]
HPL Gets an Upgrade
September 24, 2008 by
HPCWire: The University of Tennessee, yesterday, announced the latest release of the ever-popular High Performance Linpack [HPL] benchmark code. The version 2.0 release is the first stable release in nearly four years! The new release does not produce results that are bit-wise identical with the old results due to complete overhaul of the random number […]
SGI lifts OpenGL, software kilt a little further
September 23, 2008 by
How about that for a headline? News from SGI late last week that SGI is making changes to the terms under which it is releasing some of its graphics IP: As software developers the world over prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the GNU System, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced it is […]
IBM enables HPC Server 2008 testdrive in the cloud
September 23, 2008 by
For the low low price of $99, IBM will let you give Windows HPC Server a test drive IBM said today it will offer remote, $99 “test drives” of Microsoft’s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM Computing on Demand facilities. You can get your test drive […]
Microsoft opens new computing research lab in New England
September 23, 2008 by
Found at HPCwire yesterday, news that Microsoft has opened a new research lab in Cambridge, Mass. Microsoft Research’s newest lab officially opened today with a symposium hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Microsoft Research New England was founded this past July by Managing Director Jennifer Chayes, Ph.D., and Deputy Managing Director Christian Borgs, […]
Windows HPC Server 2008 shrink-wrapped and ready to go
September 23, 2008 by
Headline says it all. Press release, download.
NCCS Buys IBM iDataPlex
September 23, 2008 by
The NASA Center for Computational Sciences [NCCS] at Goddard Space Flight Center has announced that it has purchased an IBM iDataPlex cluster. The 4,096 Intel Xeon cores will provide an additional 42TFlops of compute to the center. The current plan will integrate the new machine will an existing cluster, “Discover.” The end goal being to […]
Saudi super to be a Blue Gene
September 23, 2008 by
Saudi Arabia is executing a program to build up world-leading academic institutions, and part of that is to add significant computing to the mix. Today we have news from Business Intelligence Middle East about the new large HPC system headed for KAUST But Saudi Arabia is turning its oil wealth in a new direction. This […]
