Randall Hand from VizWorld.com, the web’s best site dedicated to computer graphics and scientific visualization, recap’s the week’s best stories related to supercomputing in the visualization and graphics industries. This week it’s a little bit of science, a little bit of flash, and a whole lot of CUDA.
Archives for June 2009
Voltaire introduces Open MPI Accelerator
June 25, 2009 by
This week Voltaire announced an interesting piece of software to enhance the performance of Open MPI-based applications by as much as 30% according to the company. From the release at HPCwire Voltaire OMA works transparently over any interconnect technology that works with Open MPI, including InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE). It improves inter- and […]
EuroTech debuts Aurora super at ISC
June 25, 2009 by
This week EuroTech debuted their first HPC solution at ISC. The company as a history in industrial computers, networking, and wearable PCs, but this is their first time in the HPC segment. The system is called Aurora. A few details from the release Eurotech, a leading provider of special purpose computing platforms, today unveiled Aurora, […]
A summary of talks at the Sun HPC Consortium
June 25, 2009 by
Josh Simons at Sun has a summary of customer talks from this week’s HPC Consortium in Hamburg It’s crazy time again. I’m in Hamburg for two HPC events: Sun’s HPC Consortium customer event, and ISC ’09, the International Supercomputing Conference. The Consortium ran all day Sunday and Monday and then ISC started on Tuesday. It […]
SGI announces SMB storage solution
June 25, 2009 by
At ISC this week SGI announced a new storage offering for mid-range installations SGI…announced immediate availability of the SGI InfiniteStorage 6120, a new cost-effective storage product designed for superior density, high capacity, IOPs performance and multiple drive options at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2009 at SGI’s Booth #131. Developed to deliver enterprise-level data services, […]
Panasas upgrades software tools
June 25, 2009 by
Panasas announced this week from ISC that they’ve upgraded the set of software tools that ship with ActiveStor 7 and 8 series hardware Panasas, Inc.,…announced that it has begun shipping a new software release that increases data protection capabilities and overall application performance for data-intensive enterprises. Available on all new shipping ActiveStor Series 7 and […]
And this week's HPC indicator is 80%
June 25, 2009 by
From the “signs of the times” department, this press release from Intel this week, which highlights the fact that a larger share of significant HPC machines than ever uses Intel chips — 79.8% to be exact The 33rd edition of the TOP500 list shows that 399 of the world’s top 500 systems, including two in […]
NVIDIA's analyst day
June 25, 2009 by
insideHPC’s pal Andy sent along an email pointer to this article at c|net, where author Peter Glaskowsky outlines his experiences at NVIDIA’s latest show and tell for people who think and write about tech, Analyst Day. Glaskowsky starts off with a good sign, CEO Huang acknowledging a strategic error and then outlining a plan to […]
IBM establishes exascale research effort in Ireland
June 25, 2009 by
IBM announced this week that it is partnering with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in Ireland on a new research effort to build an exascale computer IBM also declared its intent to break the exaflop barrier, and announced that it had created a research ‘collaboratory’ in Dublin, in partnership with the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) […]
Cray adds CX1 storage options
June 25, 2009 by
This week Cray announced they have expanded the storage options available with their deskside CX1 personal cluster. There are two new storage blade options, an SSD option and a large capacity hard drive option The large capacity, fixed-drive storage blade accommodates up to 4.5 terabytes of storage per blade. With a configuration that allows for […]
