The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center [NERSC] has officially accepted a series of upgrades to its Cray XT4 supercomputing system. The upgrade to Franklin included a phased series of quad-core processor upgrades and memory upgrades. Franklin’s upgrade has already provided a tremendous benefit to the DOE computational science community, which now […]
Archives for July 2009
Symposium on Application Accelerators in HPC papers available online
July 23, 2009 by
Found at MultiCoreInfo.com, news that the SAAHPC papers are available online, ahead of the actual conference (July 27-30). I think this is a great idea: people that are going are going whether they can read the papers online or not, but people that weren’t going might decide to go based on what they read ahead […]
Rackspace Releases Cloud APIs Open Source
July 23, 2009 by
Rackspace Hosting has announced that they have officially open sourced the code associated with their Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs. Developers are now permitted to download, implement and modify the code under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. We welcome Rackspace’s decision to provide their client-side tools as open source to the community,” stated […]
LSI Buys NAS Vendor, ONStor
July 23, 2009 by
Chris Mellor over at TheRegister wrote up an interesting in the storage world. LSI, proprietors of a wide array of DAS and SAN devices, has purchased ONStor, makers of clustered NAS devices. The deal is said to be worth roughly $25 million, which leaves ONStor’s investors at a significant loss. Their claim to fame was […]
Power capping as a strategy to get the most from your datacenter
July 23, 2009 by
An article yesterday by Ted Samson at InfoWorld talks about power capping and its role in getting the most out of the power you already have, rather than planning for the nameplate maximum draw (rarely seen) or hoping you never cross some draw less than that As the name implies, power capping refers to the […]
SC09 Mentoring and Travel Assistance Grants deadline extended
July 23, 2009 by
This in from SC09 this week Students and faculty still have time to apply for an SC09 Broader Engagement (BE) Travel Grant, as the application deadline has been extended to August 17, 2009. …The SC09 Broader Engagement (BE) initiative will award participation grants to provide travel assistance to individuals from groups that have traditionally been […]
Call for the Ubiquitous Reconfigurable Computing Workshop
July 23, 2009 by
Found at HPCwire, news that the Ubiquitous Reconfigurable Computing Workshop at HiPC 2009 is accepting submissions July 21 — The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Reconfigurable Computing Platforms for Adaptive, Secure and Distributed Computing Systems will be held in conjunction with 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) in Kochi (Cochin), India, […]
Greg Pfister looks at why now may be the right time for accelerators to stick
July 22, 2009 by
I was up late two nights ago and happened to see Greg Pfister’s latest post go live. It’s an interesting piece that starts with a snapshot of the elephant that everyone likes to ignore: this technology isn’t a new idea (it goes back a very long way to companies like FPS and earlier), and if […]
Version 2.3 of NVIDIA CUDA toolkit released
July 22, 2009 by
Over the email transom today, news that NVIDIA has released the latest version of its CUDA toolkit. There are a lot of changes; here are a few from the list The CUFFT Library now supports double-precision transforms and includes significant performance improvements for single-precision transforms as well. The CUDA-GDB hardware debugger and CUDA Visual Profiler […]
IBM combats Cisco's computing move with a switch partnership of its own
July 22, 2009 by
As reported by Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM, IBM is responding to Cisco’s move into computing with a partnership that will put it in datacenter networking, creating a(nother) one stop datacenter shop IBM said today it will resell switches and routers made by Juniper under the IBM brand to compliment Big Blue’s server products aimed at […]
