The San Diego Supercomputer Center [SDSC] at UC San Diego is part of a team of universities chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and operate an experimental grid test-bed. The “FutureGrid”, as its called, will allow researchers to collaboratively develop and test new approaches to parallel, grid and cloud computing. The four-year project, […]
Archives for September 2009
UT Lands $10 Million NSF Visualization Grant
September 28, 2009 by
The University of Tennessee has announced that it will receive a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation [NSF] over four years in order to establish a state-of-the-art visualization and data analysis center. The Teragrid eXtreme Digital Resources for Science and Engineering (XD) award will be used to fund UT’s Center for Remote Data […]
Sun Announces HPC Consortium Meeting Alongside SC09
September 28, 2009 by
Sun Microsystems announced that they will hold a Sun HPC Consortium meeting alongside the SC09 conference. The special Sun HPC customer event will take place November 14-15, right before SC09. Sun HPC Consortium participants represent a broad range of computing applications and environments. The meeting format is designed to give participants the opportunity to present […]
NVIDIA Collaborates with Microsoft on GPU Computing
September 28, 2009 by
Today, NVIDIA has announced recent work with Microsoft to promote NVIDIA Tesla GPU computing systems using the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. The NVIDIA Research group developed several GPU-enabled applications on the HPC Server 2008 platform in order to highlight the performance accelerated aspects of the team. One such application was a ray-tracing app […]
NSF Awards $23million to UH for EPSCoR
September 25, 2009 by
The University of Hawaii has been awarded two grants for a grand total of $23 million from the National Science Foundation [NSF]. The new grants are destined to help stimulate the research enterprise in Hawaii and create for educational opportunities for local students. The awards came at the hands of the NSF Experimental Program to […]
"The Internet is proof that government doesn't bungle everything"
September 25, 2009 by
Title of an article in the LA Times business section this week. Credit to The CRA’s TumbleLog for the find.
Sign up for the Intel Ct beta
September 25, 2009 by
According to Dr. Dobb’s, interested developers can start signing up to be part of the beta program for Intel’s new Ct parallel programming technology Intel developed Ct technology to provide programmers with tools that would abstract data-parallel programming away from the hardware, as well-known programming languages have done for single core processors, while also delivering […]
Ballmer says assessment "we haven't done enough in HPC" motivated purchase of Interactive Supercomputing
September 25, 2009 by
I’d like to report that he said that to me in an email. He didn’t…in his defense, though, I didn’t try to get to him. But he did say it to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, and I read TechCrunch, so that’s almost the same thing. Right? MA: You just bought Interactive Supercomputing a couple of days […]
RENCI faces 35% budget cut, reduces staff [CORRECTED]
September 25, 2009 by
HPCwire pointed us to this article at Local Tech Wire, where new director Stan Ahalt is facing some serious challenges even before he shows up for his first day on the job Budget cuts within the University of North Carolina system last week took a huge 35 percent biter out of funding for one of […]
Chronicle article paints supercomputing codes as "rickety," misses the mark
September 25, 2009 by
The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation just held its annual meeting Monday and Tuesday in DC, followed by a 20th anniversary celebration on Wednesday at which the Chronicle of Higher Education was evidently present sniffing around for story ideas. They ended up filing this article on Wednesday, which opens as follows Supercomputers keep breaking records […]
