UCAR has announced the latest release of the Visualization and Analysis Platform, or VAPOR application. The new release, 1.4.2, is a minor release with fixes for a number of bugs introduced in version 1.4.0. A few of the bugs fixed in this release: .: Two-dimension data was not displaying correctly on all platforms. Problems were […]
Archives for 2008
CIBC Winter Workshop Boston
December 20, 2008 by
Through the SCIRUN-USERS mailing list, Rob MacLeod announced the 2008/2009 Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing [CIBC] Winter Workshop: Boston Edition. Scientists and engineers interested in applications for image processing, modeling, simulation and visualization of their biomedical research are encouraged to attend. Topics will include tutorials on Seg3D, ImageVis3D, SCIRun 4.0 and general workflow techniques. Show […]
NVIDIA Releases CUDA Version 2.1
December 19, 2008 by
NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. In response to the CUDA developer community, NVIDIA has released this beta version with support for Windows Vista and 32-bit debugger support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x. The new beta release also includes support for VisualStudio 2008 on Windows XP […]
NOAA NCEP Cuts RFI For HPC
December 19, 2008 by
HPCWire posted the 411 on a new Request for Information released out of NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Prediction [NCEP]. From the release: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) anticipates acquiring advanced high performance computing systems (HPCS) to meet its operational and research and development computing requirements. This requirement includes the possibility of accommodating […]
GridEngine 6.2u1 and Hedeby 1.0u2 Released
December 19, 2008 by
The folks at Sun [Regensburg] have just announced the release of the latest version of GridEngine, the popular batch scheduling system. Version 6.2u1 is ready for download via source or courtesy binary. As this is only labeled as a “maintenance release”, there aren’t too many new features, just bug fixes in the software, install procedure […]
Acceleware ditches hardware, goes software only
December 18, 2008 by
Back in July I wrote about the restructuring on HPC appliance maker Acceleware. Acceleware’s model was to take a piece of ISV code, accelerate key parts of the solution using NVIDIA’s technology (GPUS and CUDA), and then sell the code plus the box to run it on to users. It picked its ISV targets in […]
How to Build a PS3 Cluster
December 17, 2008 by
Those of you asking for a pallet full of PS3’s for Christmas listen up! Two researchers from UMass have created an illustrated how-to for assembling your very own Sony PS3 cluster. Professor Gaurav Khanna and Principal Investigator Chris Poulin, both of UMass Dartmouth, publish and manage the guide. Last year, Khanna made headlines when he […]
Andrew's Corner: How to Stand Out in HPC
December 17, 2008 by
Andrew Jones, VP of HPC at Numerical Algorithms Group, has yet again hit the proverbial nail on the head with this month’s ZDNet article. How do you, as an HPC consumer, technically differentiate yourself in the HPC landscape? Those of you reading this from a comfy chair within the walls of a national laboratory may […]
Distributed Computing with NVIDIA Cuda
December 17, 2008 by
NVIDIA cut a press release this morning highlighting their participation [as a vendor] in various distributed computing projects. Using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing [BOINC], researchers are tapping into the computational power sitting on the desks of every Dick and Jane NVIDIA user. NVIDIA CUDA technology opens up processing power for scientific research […]
DCMA Deploy's Parabon Grid Platform on 10k Computers
December 16, 2008 by
The Defense Contracting Management Association [DCMA] has setup a licensing deal with Parabon Computation to deploy their Frontier Grid Platform on 10,000 computers. DCMA is responsible for more than 300,000 active contracts within the Department of Defense. The first test of the deployment will be using Parabon Crush, a statistical modeling application that will allow […]
