Archives for October 2009

Last week for voting in the HPC Community Leadership Award

A quick reminder that this is the last week for voting in insideHPC’s HPC Community Leadership Award. Full details are here, but the skinny is that we are soliciting your votes for the individual and the organization who have done the most to lead our community in the past year. The response has been tremendous […]

Cray to Redeem $164k in Convertible Notes

Cray announced today that it has given notice of redemption to the holders of the 3.0 percent convertible senior subordinated notes due 2024.  The redemption date has been set for December 1, 2009.  The redemption price is 100 percent of the outstanding principal amount of notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, […]

UCAR’s Community Climate System Model and Research

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research was created in the late 1950s by faculty from 14 leading universities to support and nourish the atmospheric sciences. In partnership with the NSF they established NCAR to address pressing scientific and societal needs involving the atmosphere and its interactions with the oceans, land, and Sun.

As part of its activities, UCAR developed and maintains the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), a global computational climate model. The CCSM runs on all of the major supercomputing systems, and is used by scientists around the world to tackle some of the largest climate questions facing our society today.

In the second of our four-part series on HPC in climate modeling, Linda Barney looks at UCAR’s Community Climate System Model and the impact that it is having on climate research around the world.

Tilera 100 Core x86 Architecture

TGDaily posted a rare interview late last night with a silicon start-up company running under the industry radar.  Tilera has released, via a 40nm process, what they call their TILE line of x86 processors.  Plot thickens, you can get up to 100 cores in a single socket.  The Tile-Gx, as its called, only clocks in […]

IBM Pulls in Mellanox 10GbE Cards

Mellanox today announced that its ConnectX EN 10GbE adapter cards will be available directly from IBM.  IBM will include the ConnectX EN cards as an option on Cluster 1350 and iDataPlex systems. Mellanox is pleased to provide its leading ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions through IBM, to enable IT managers with the most efficient, […]

Sandia funds DICE for data transport research

Last week Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Program announced a new $3.3M contract with the DOE through Sandia to fund testing and evaluation of technologies that will help manage the distribution of large datasets among distributed HPC centers “This funding helps us continue to solve the data transport problems associated with high performance computing […]

SGI set to announce earnings for Q1 2010

If you’ve got money in SGI, or you are just interested in how the new team is doing with the turnaround, you’ll want to tune in to SGI earnings call, scheduled for the first week in November SGI today announced it will report financial results for the Company’s first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended September […]

A look at concurrency and parallelism support in MS Visual Studio beta 2

Dr. Dobb’s has a review today that takes a look at the progress MS is making supporting developers struggling to add effective support for concurrency in their apps If you want to translate multicore power into application performance, you have to make sure your concurrent software threads are running on hardware threads taking advantage of […]

2009 Fernbach winners

And let’s go ahead and round out the week’s award news with the announcement of the winners of this year’s Sidney Fernbach awards Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello, developers of the Car Parrinello Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) approach, are joint recipients of the 2009 Sidney Fernbach Award. The pair laid the foundation for a modern approach […]

Kenichi Miura to receive 2009 Seymour Cray Award

The IEEE Computer Society has announced the winner of this year’s Seymour Cray Award, to be presented during SC09 in Portland Kenichi Miura, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics, is the 2009 winner of the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Miura, a professor in NII’s Information Systems Architecture Science […]