HPCwire is running an article this week by a couple of Intel folks on the basics of parallel programming Parallel programming uses threads to enable multiple operations to proceed simultaneously. The entire concept of parallel programming centers on the design, development and deployment of threads within an application and the coordination between threads and their […]
Archives for May 2009
Irish Centre for High End Computing Roadshow
May 22, 2009 by
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing [ICHEC] has scheduled an event at Dublin City University as a part of its annual Roadshow series. From the release notes: These meetings are organised to provide the ICHEC with an opportunity to meet researchers across the country and bring them up to date with the latest developments concerning […]
MET Office Buys Big Iron for Forecast Accuracy
May 22, 2009 by
Yesterday, the UK MET Office unveiled its latest supercomputer in an effort to improve current forecast accuracy. The £33 million machine from IBM is actually a long-term contractual agreement to increase the overall computational capability. The first portion of the install is rated at an estimated 125Tflops peak, certainly no slouch. However, by 2011, the […]
Fran Berman to speak at Grace Hopper conference
May 22, 2009 by
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (whose director, Telle Whitney, I met at a conference recently; her passion and commitment are inspiring) has announced that HPC’s own Fran Berman will be among those to speak at the 9th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing The Anita Borg Institute for Women and […]
New Energy Star spec for servers
May 22, 2009 by
Earlier this week we covered SiCortex’s take on the new Energy Star specification for servers, but we didn’t have much to say about the rating itself. For that we’ll point you to Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register On Friday, the server makers participating in the EPA effort, which will put Energy Star labels on […]
Windows HPC Server CTP 2 released
May 21, 2009 by
The Windows HPC Server 2008 team has announced that the second community technical preview (CTP) is now available It was almost exactly one year ago that we signed off on beta 2 of Windows HPC Server 2008 and today we made available the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Based on […]
Keynote for TPC benchmarking conference announced
May 21, 2009 by
Got email news of the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s upcoming Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPC TC), August 24 in Lyon, France. This year’s conference will feature a keynote by Michael Stonebraker. From the release “The TPC has been integral in shaping the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over the […]
Anticipation over early Istanbul
May 21, 2009 by
Back in late April we posted news that AMD’s 6-core Istanbul processor was going to be released earlier than scheduled, with server OEM partners shipping in June. This week John Fruehe has put up a blog post at AMD reaffirming the early release. Customer anticipation over “Istanbul”, AMD’s new six-core AMD OpteronTM processor, is growing […]
Final contest winner
May 21, 2009 by
We have the final winner in the “Bribery is Fair Play” survey contest! Lindon Locks from SGI/UK was selected at random from the pool of people who have completed the survey. And, get this: I finally get to ship a black iPod Shuffle. We’re ending the contest, but if you’re a community-minded kind of person […]
Sun Video: Chip Multithreading with the UltraSPARC T2 Plus
May 21, 2009 by
Sun’s Ruud van der Pas was recently featured in a Sun video presentation recorded at the Sun HPC Consortium meeting in Dresden, Germany on June 15. The video features his presentation of Sun’s chip multithreading architecture [CMT] on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus platform. Take a look here.
