Fujitsu is going for the gold in 2011. Early in 2011, they want to deliver a 10-petaflop supercomputer. Namely, they want to deliver the machine to Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, or RIKEN. Fujitsu’s head of processor development, Takumi Maruyama, outlined some of the plans during his talk at the Hot Chips conference […]
Archives for August 2009
Amazon introduces virtual private cloud offering
August 26, 2009 by
The idea of a hosted computing offering (what today is called cloud computing but that’s just a label) can be intellectually appealing, especially to datacenter managers who would like to turn the day-to-day mostly mechanical management of capital expenses on hardware and maintenance of large datacenter infrastructure — things that for most large users of […]
Eadline on Comparing MPI and OpenMP
August 26, 2009 by
Dr. Doug Eadline has written a great article for those new to the computational arts in comparing MPI and OpenMP. With the advent of multi core processors, one has a myriad of decisions to make on how you natively express algorithmic parallelism in your application. Its quite feasible to consider buying a workstation with more […]
NOAA and ORNL in Cahoots
August 26, 2009 by
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] will provide $215 million to Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] over the next five years to help support climate research. One of the main attractions of contracting ORNL to help with computational activities is their Cray XT5 behemoth, Jaguar. NOAA’s investment is huge,” [Thomas] Zacharia said Monday, noting […]
Sun Regensburg HPC workshop full
August 25, 2009 by
I found this on Twitter, and thought it was interesting given the changes afoot with Oracle’s acquisition of Sun RT templedf Looks like the #sunhpc09 is full again! You can always get on the wait list. http://hpcworkshop.com/ And, indeed, if you check the workshop homepage it is currently (Tuesday; August 25, 2009) showing “-1” slots […]
NASA adds 4K processors to iDataPlex for climate simulation
August 25, 2009 by
NASA announced this week that the first part of an expanded capability for climate simulation was made available to scientists this month at NASA Goddard. The upgrade added 4,128 Nehalem processors to Goddard’s existing Discover system “We are the first high-end computing site in the United States to install Nehalem processors dedicated to climate research,” […]
LSI Releases Update to 3994 Controller
August 25, 2009 by
LSI has announced the release of a new enhancement to their 3994 controller model. The new version, called the 4900, offers dual controllers and an interface bump to 8Gbps fibre channel connectivity. Just like its 3994 predecessor, the 4900 can host up to 112 disk drives using the FC4600 disk shelves commonly found throughout the […]
Sun and IBM still Running with RISC
August 25, 2009 by
As the Hot Chips conference wraps up today, Internet News has a quick rundown of two engineering powerhouses and their insistence to continue producing RISC processors. Sun and IBM have been long proponents of RISC architectures. IBM has garnered quite a bit of success with their latest Power series processors. The current Top 500 list […]
Platform adds HP's MPI, developers alongside Scali MPI [Updated]
August 24, 2009 by
Jeff Squyres posts news on his blog that Platform Computing has added HP-MPI to its stable of technologies. Why is this a little unexpected? They already owned Scali MPI. First, the news from Platform Platform Computing, the leader in workload and resource management software for clusters, grids and clouds, announced today an agreement whereby Platform […]
Iowa State Spin Up Sun Super
August 24, 2009 by
Iowa State researchers led by Srinivas Aluru recently completed a new machine build deemed Cystorm. The Sun Microsystems-based machine boasts a peak performance of 28.16Tflops, which is 3.3X more powerful than the previously HPC resource, an IBM BlueGene. The new machine will be dedicated to workloads in materials science, power systems and systems biology. These […]
