Thanks to recent core density increases, falling cluster costs and recent acquisitions, Dell is poised to capitalize on a larger stake in high performance computing. In my mind, HPC has somewhat split into two major groups. The smaller of the two include the leadership class computing folks constantly pushing the technical envelope with innovative software […]
Archives for September 2009
GigaSpaces and MPI Europe partner on financial messaging overseas
September 25, 2009 by
I have from time to time done stories on low latency messaging systems in the financial services industry because the technology is often related to our technologies. And every once in a while I get an email out of the blue asking for an update, which I usually don’t have. So, today I point to […]
Acceleware Names New Director
September 25, 2009 by
Acceleware, yesterday, has named a new director of the company. Mr. Jens Horstmann of Santa Clara, CA will take on the post for the company. Multi-core processing and GPU computing are technologies revolutionizing the future of high performance computing,” said Jens Horstmann. “Entire industries are being transformed. Given its history as a pioneer in this […]
Ohio Universities Add Computational Science Minor
September 25, 2009 by
Ohio University and Miami [of Ohio] University have been added to an education program tied to the Ohio Supercomputing Center. The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science said the two respective universities have signed on to offer students a minor in computational science. The new discipline entails applying computing to scientific and engineering problems. OSC […]
ORNL Lands Third Big Super at the Hands of NOAA
September 25, 2009 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host a third extreme scale supercomputing platform in the coming months. This time, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] will provide the funding. The new effort is part of a $215 million climate research agreement between ORNL and NOAA. By this time next year, ORNL will officially host three […]
NextComputing Showcasing CUDA-enabled Platforms at NVIDIA Tech Conference
September 24, 2009 by
NextComputing will demonstrate its various NVIDIA CUDA-enabled computing platform at this year’s NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference in San Jose, CA. NextComputing’s NextDimension systems over workstation class computing in a package that is the size of a standard briefcase. CUDA developers can take advantage of one or more NVIDIA Quadro GPUs in their platforms. NextComputing’s portable […]
Dassault Systemes Releases 3DVIA Mobile in Time for NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference
September 24, 2009 by
Dassault Systemes, yesterday, announced the release of their latest 3DVIA application. 3DVIA Mobile runs on iPhone and iPod touch devices in order to enable users to search, share and interact with the growing library of high quality 3D models on 3DVIA.com. The new application gives 3DVIA members unique access to rich 3D content usually reserved […]
Atipa Installs Clusters at Atomic Labs [UDPATED]
September 24, 2009 by
Atipa Technologies, yesterday, announced several new installs at two Department of Energy locations. The new machines each have a peak performance in excess of 17.54 TFLOPS. Successful completion of the Atipa Candor Clusters using Intel Xeon 5500 processors requires careful planning and dedicated project leaders to meet performance criteria,” said Mike Zheng, President of Atipa. […]
SGI User Group coming to San Antonio
September 24, 2009 by
Just over the email transom today from reader Davin Chan (VP of the SGIUG), a pointer to news of the 7th annual SGI User Group Conference coming up in San Antonio, TX from Oct 21-23. From Davin’s email SGI’s chief engineers will be at the conference to give technical presentations including on UV, containerized data […]
11th Russian Top50 shows little growth in HPC
September 24, 2009 by
The 11th list of the Top50 most powerful supercomputing systems in Russia has been released. The list itself is in Russian (I presume; it’s at least in a language I can’t read that looks Russian), but Russian HPC manufacturer T-Platforms has issued their customary release which gives us a view into what’s happened in the […]
