A quickie from Intel today In support of President Obama’s U.S. Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative, Intel committed more than $200 million over the next 10 years to train teachers in math, science and technology education. As part of its STEM investment, led by Former Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, Intel will help prepare […]
Archives for November 2009
GPU Computing Collaboration Network launched
November 24, 2009 by
Last week (during SC09) the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced the GPU Computing Collaboration Network to foster collaboration among users of GPUs Members of this network will communicate with each other within and across communities using an interactive website — gpucomputing.net. This network will serve a broad array of […]
Brown deploys new 14 TFLOPS IBM system
November 24, 2009 by
Late last week Brown University and IBM announced a new super at Brown’s Center for Computation and Visualization Examples of the wide areas of research that will take advantage of the increased computing horsepower include advances in genomics that could lead to drugs for treating specific diseases such as cancer; investigation of the mechanics of […]
No future development for IBM's PowerXCell
November 24, 2009 by
Michael Feldman over at HPCwire has dug up an article at Heise Online that claims that IBM’s PowerXCell processor is at the end of the road According to Heise, IBM VP of Deep Computing David Turek confirmed that there will be no successor to the PowerXCell 8i, the high performance Cell variant IBM developed for […]
AF building out its PS3 cluster with another 2200 consoles
November 24, 2009 by
InformationWeek reported late last week that the Air Force is set to buy another 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3’s for its existing cluster The PlayStation 3s will be used at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate in Rome, N.Y., where they will be added to an existing cluster of 336 PlayStation 3s being used to […]
Your next big super in Iceland?
November 21, 2009 by
CIO.com has an article on the search for the best places to put really large datacenters. Not the best places in the US — the best places anywhere. The CEO of Verne Global, a wholesale data-center hosting company, has searched the world for places that offer cheap power, easy cooling and reliable communications. While energy […]
AMD starts spending Intel's money to improve business ops
November 21, 2009 by
AMD announced this week that it will offer up to $1B to holders of Senior Debt from the company due in 2012, in large part with Intel money AMD intends to finance the purchase of the notes tendered in the tender offer with the net proceeds from the closing of AMD’s private offering of $500,000,000 […]
ScienceWorksForUS launch: follow ARRA money
November 21, 2009 by
Melissa Norr over at the outstanding Computing Research Policy Blog has a post on a recently launched initiative to highlight ways in which ARRA money is supporting science ScienceWorksForUS, a joint effort by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and The Science Coalition (TSC), launched today on […]
StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival "Black Holes" [UPDATED with pics]
November 20, 2009 by
As both an astrophysicist and director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Mike Norman understands two common perspectives on archiving massive scientific datasets. During a live demonstration at the SC09 conference of streaming data simulating cosmic structures of the early universe, Norman said that some center directors view their data archives as “black holes,” where a wealth of data accumulates and needs to be protected.
CULA 1.1 released, SC09 giveaway for insideHPC readers success
November 20, 2009 by
Liana at EM Photonics emailed me to let me know that the promo they did for insideHPC readers exceeded our expectations. By the time that day 2 started the fifth copy was in the hands of some eager code monkey hoping to accelerate his or her app with CULA’s GPU-accelerated LAPACK routines. She also let […]
