I don’t usually cover the Top500 slice and dice releases anymore (you know, vendor XX claims to dominate the red supercomputers installed in Iceland stories), but this one about Lustre is at least a little interesting since it’s not a slice and dice so much as a peek under the covers. I covered some of […]
Archives for November 2008
LLNL's Hyperion testbed [UPDATED]
November 24, 2008 by
There was a lot of talk last week about Hyperion, the technology testbed project led by LLNL along with 10 other technology partners (including Intel and Dell). We should probably do a feature article on it for HPCwire, but until then here are a few nuggets I’ve run across. First, from the Intel web site […]
Intel's next generation running WRF
November 24, 2008 by
From Intel’s website last week. I didn’t get to talk to NCAR, so I don’t have any details. If you do, please leave a comment. This is interesting because not many Intel partners are allowed to talk about performance of the Core i7 at all right now Intel’s advances in the high performance computing field […]
Tesla C1060 announced for CX1
November 24, 2008 by
Last week Cray and NVIDIA announced a rev to the recently announced CX1 that incorporates Tesla NVIDIA Corporation and Cray Inc. today announced the availability of NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU Computing processors in the new Cray CX1 line of supercomputers. With “ease-of-everything” features and the ability to fit into a standard office setting, the Cray […]
Centennial of scientific computing
November 24, 2008 by
SiCortex opens up its press release from the show last week with an interesting perspective on our business – not the HPC bit, but the things we have HPC for One hundred years ago, Lewis Fry Richardson completed the first true scientific simulation, a two-dimensional model to predict the behavior of a dam under stress. […]
SC08 Debrief
November 21, 2008 by
My three-hour trek up I35 from Austin to Dallas finally allowed me the time to gather my thoughts and reflect on this year’s Supercomputing extravaganza. Rather than slogging through paragraphs of what I saw this year, I decided to condense my thoughts into highlight bullets. Here goes… .: Thanks go out the the SC08 committee […]
Fujitsu Makes it on the Top500
November 21, 2008 by
Fujitsu has made its way back on the Top500 list. Their latest system design, the Fujitsu FX1, put the company back on the list. The system is actually the first piece of a larger system in current development for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA. The eventual system will comprise 3,392 nodes with a theoretical […]
Butte, You're Getting an IBM
November 21, 2008 by
Butte, Montana has been musing the idea of starting a local supercomputing center for quite some time. The goal being to educated Montana residents in high technology and attract research opportunities to the area. Well, they’ve done it. It’s coming, it’s a done deal,” said Phillip Curtis of the Montana Economic Revitalization and Development Institute, […]
K.U.Leuven Buys SGI ICE
November 21, 2008 by
Belgium’s K.U.Leuven has selected an SGI ICE 8200 system to power their latest research projects. The group recently installed a 928 core ICE system with 29 terabytes of SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS 2000 IB-attached NAS storage. Academic research is the lifeline of a university, the substrate of education, and the basis of its community service,” said […]
Argonne's LCF Win's HPC Challenge
November 21, 2008 by
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility [LCF] has been named the winner of this year’s High Performance Computing Challenge. Argonne was the clear winner in two of the four categories using 32 racks of BlueGene/P. “It is an honor to be recognized as a winner of the HPC Challenge,” said […]
