This in from NCSA’s newsfeed, an item that warms the cockles of my heart Looking for a stocking stuffer this holiday season? Check out NCSA’s supercomputing coloring book! Learn more about the resources NCSA provides and how this computing power helps scientists, engineers, and major companies. This is fantastic. Makes me want to go ahead […]
Archives for 2008
IBM teams with Irish researchers to create optical networks for next gen supers
December 15, 2008 by
Found at Silicon Republic A team of researchers at the Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR) has begun working with technology giant IBM on a project that could ultimately lead to the creation of the world’s fastest and most powerful computer. The CTVR was set up in Ireland in 2005 by Bell Labs as part […]
Back up at a new host, temporary email weirdness possible
December 15, 2008 by
Hi! We’re back up on some space in Tabor’s collo facility, and I hope all of our quota exceeding is done for a while. I for one have had enough of that error for a long time. If you see an problems, errors, or weird behavior, drop me a comment on the site or send […]
HPC info graphic in the NYT
December 15, 2008 by
Penelope Clayton-Smith pointed out this info graphic from the New York Times to me which shows the relative speeds and home countries of the top 100 supers on the list. Hovering over the scaled circle representing the performance of each machine brings up an information box on the system and its rank. Fun to play […]
UC and P&G Create Simulation Center
December 12, 2008 by
The University of Cincinnati and Proctor & Gamble have announced a collaborative effort to develop a center of expertise in computer simulation. The UC Simulation Center will provide P&G with cost-effective, high-value virtual modeling and simulation capacity and capability not currently found within the halls of P&G. It will also serve as a pipeline for […]
Renault F1 Unveils New Appro Supercomputer
December 12, 2008 by
The Renault F1 team recently unveiled a new Appro supercomputer at its headquarters in Enstone, Oxfordshire. The new machine was procured to help Renault regain the lead in the 2009 drivers and manufacturer point standings in FIA. The article doesn’t include any technical details, but does include several snazzy pictures of Renault F1 personalities and […]
Tour of NASA's Pleiades
December 12, 2008 by
With video, Shazam! EETimes, yesterday, had the pleasure of attending the official launch of the Pleiades machine at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility in Mountain View, CA. Pleiades constitutes a major architecture shift away from its older sister, Columbia. The shift from Itanium to Xeon, however, seems to be paying dividends already as it debuted […]
Intel's Parallel Composer in beta
December 11, 2008 by
Intel announced yesterday that they’ve released the beta for their Parallel Composer Intel has released the public beta of Intel Parallel Composer, the first product in a new line of software tools to enable Windows developers to adopt parallelism for multicore. Intel Parallel Composer is a comprehensive set of compilers and libraries for Microsoft* Visual […]
All that, and a room to put it in
December 11, 2008 by
The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has a story up this week on the efforts going into designing the datacenter meant to house NCSA’s Blue Waters machine A month ago, IBM and the University of Illinois broke ground for the data center that will eventually house the Power7-based “Blue Waters” massively parallel supercomputer. The data center, […]
OpenSolaris revved
December 11, 2008 by
Yesterday Sun announced that the latest version of OpenSolaris is out OpenSolaris provides a platform for developers to take their work from testbed to worldwide deployment. New features in OpenSolaris include Time Slider, an easy to use graphical interface that brings powerful ZFS functionality, like instant snapshots, to all users. Developers also have expanded access […]
