EnterpriseStorageForum.com posted an introduction to clustered file systems last week that you may be interested in perusing if storage is a source of fear and confusion for you. I’m in a twelve step program to get over my own storage fears. Many options exist for setting up clustered and highly available data storage, but figuring […]
Archives for August 2009
This Week in Viz – 8/21/2009
August 21, 2009 by
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 he talks about the likelihood of MultiGPU by 2012, professional-grade render farm clusters, and the recent win for VAPOR at the Hayden Planetarium.
IEEE Hot Chips 21 Preview
August 21, 2009 by
Timothy Prickett over at TheRegister has a great preview of next week’s IEEE Hot Chips 21 conference. Hot Chips is IEEE’s symposium on high performance chips and chip technology. This year, its being hosted at the Stanford University Memorial Auditorium. Prickett highlights several folks of interest: .: Intel Intel follows right after that with a […]
Platform teams with NVIDIA for GPU management goodness
August 21, 2009 by
Yesterday Platform announced a new agreement between itself and NVIDIA that will result in Platforms cluster provisioning and management tools being GPU aware. From the release Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud computing software, announced that it is providing new GPU kits for its Platform Cluster Manager and Platform HPC Workgroup products […]
Oracle-Sun deal passes US anti-trust test
August 21, 2009 by
Quick news from Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register that the Sun acquisition has passed the anti-trust sniff test, as expected The $5.6bn takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle moved another step toward closing as the US Department of Justice has given the acquisition its nod. That’s not the last wicket, however. The acquisition still […]
Green HPC podcast episode 3 transcript available
August 21, 2009 by
Just a quick note to update you on the Green HPC podcast series, which continues to get a tremendous response (thanks!). I’ve added a transcript of the third episode, in case you’re more of a reading person than a listening person. If you don’t know about the series yet, take a listen to the episode.
Platform Introduces NVIDIA GPU Toolkit
August 21, 2009 by
Platform has announced that it has constructed a toolkit aimed at building, provisioning, managing and scheduling workloads on a cluster of machines with NVIDIA GPUs. The new toolkit will support NVIDIA’s CUDA-enabled GPUs, including the full Tesla line. With the market need for GPU clusters rapidly increasing, working with an HPC leader like Platform is […]
RapidMind acquired by Intel, likely good news for the community
August 20, 2009 by
Remember way back when PeakStream was acquired by Google? That acquisition was characterized by total silence, and then PeakStream disappeared into the Googleplex to become a competitive advantage for Google’s own code development effort. The newest multicore development tool acquisition is at least starting differently. A reader pointed us to a blog post and thence […]
Cray announces partnership for embedded diagnostics in supercomputers
August 20, 2009 by
This week ASSET InterTech announced a new partnership with Cray that will put ASSET’s technology into Cray’s supercomputers …Cray Inc. has selected ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform for embedded instrumentation as the basis for embedded test solutions critical to Cray’s next-generation supercomputers. ASSET (www.asset-intertech.com) is the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation for design […]
New NSF team to develop customizable computing for health care
August 20, 2009 by
News from a press release that Rice is part of a new $10M NSF effort to create a new research center along with Ohio State and UCSB The grant will support the creation of a collaborative Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), which includes researchers from UCLA’s engineering school, medical school and applied mathematics program, Rice, […]
