We’ve been following this machine for a long time, motivated by our general despair over the distribution of supercomputers relative to the equator (virtually none south). We announced back in March that Sun had won the tender to deploy a supercomputer in South Africa at the Centre for High Performance Computing [CHPC] in Cape Town. […]
Archives for September 2009
Even more behind Blue Waters
September 30, 2009 by
If you’ve been keeping up with the “Behind Blue Waters” series of videos from NCSA, you’ll be interested in watching the sixth installment, out this week NCSA’s John Melchi highlights progress made on the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility, focusing on the energy efficiency of the building’s electrical system. The Petascale Computing Facility will house Blue […]
NVIDIA's CUDA Fortran compiler in beta
September 29, 2009 by
In more NVIDIA news, the company announced today that its beta Fortran CUDA compiler, developed in association with the Portland Group, is now available to registered developers. From the insideHPC mailbag What: NVIDIA today announced that a public beta release of the PGI CUDA-enabled Fortran compiler is now available. Developed in collaboration with The Portland […]
NVIDIA OpenCL drivers now publicly available
September 29, 2009 by
NVIDIA was the first one to announce OpenCL drivers conformant to the spec back in June, and now they’ve move the ball to the goal line by announcing this week that those drivers are publicly available (back in June they were only available to registered developers). From the insideHPC inbox NVIDIA today released the first […]
TACC and NSF add $7M visualization service to open science community
September 29, 2009 by
My buddy Kelly at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (home of Ranger) has just landed a $7M grant from the NSF to build one of the largest visualization resources and services offering available to the “open science community” The new compute resource, “Longhorn,” will provide unprecedented VDA [visualization and data analysis] capabilities and will enable […]
European Grid Initiative elects new chair
September 29, 2009 by
Just over the email transom this week, news that the European Grid Initiative Council has elected its first chair on 24 September 2009, during the EGEE’09 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Per Öster, representative of the Finnish National Grid Initiative (NGI), was chosen by the European Grid Initiative (EGI) Council members to lead the project’s governing […]
Sun Compute Cluster Video Overview
September 29, 2009 by
Sun has posted a video recording of Michael Schulman, HPC Marketing Manager, delivering an overview of Sun’s compute clusters. If you’re interested in grabbing more info about Sun’s compute cluster offerings, the thirteen minute video is a great start. You can view the video here.
Alcatel achieves 100 Petabits per second.kilometer optical transmission
September 29, 2009 by
GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham is reporting on a new long distance optical data transmission milestone achieved by the fine folks at Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent today said that scientists at Bell Labs have set an optical transmission record that could deliver data about 10 times faster than current undersea cables, resulting in speeds of more than 100 Petabits […]
LSI Upgrades 7900 Series Storage System
September 29, 2009 by
LSI Corp, today, announced enhancements to its Engenio 7900 series storage system. The enhancements include high-density SATA drive enclosures, solid-state disk support and iSCSI host interface support. The seventh generation system architecture from LSI will also include advanced storage monitoring and reporting capabilities through the Tek-Tools Storage Profiler. Cost-effective midrange storage is becoming the centerpiece […]
IBTA Announces 16th Compliance and Interop Plugfest
September 29, 2009 by
The Infiniband Trade Association [IBTA] has announced the 16th Compliance and Interoperability Plugfest. The Plugfest will be held October 12-16 in the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Lab. The event provides a venue for Infiniband device and cable vendors to test their gear in compliance with Infiniband architecture specs as well as test the general […]
