Found at CXOtoday.com NEC will bring jointly-developed technologies to market in future supercomputers based on the Intel Xeon processor. NEC’s expertise in this field, coupled with the Intel Xeon processor’s accelerating vector capabilities such as Advanced Vector eXtentions (AVX), will allow for higher performance supercomputers, satisfying customer demand for Intel architecture based products, the company […]
Archives for November 2009
The Gore talk at SC09
November 20, 2009 by
I was at former Vice President Al Gore’s keynote talk on Thursday at SC09. I had great seats; four or five rows back and off to the left. Fun fact: this was the second time he’s been at the show — evidently he attended as a senator in the early years of the conference. I […]
Penguin puts GPUs in on demand offering
November 18, 2009 by
Penguin Computing announced this week that it’s added GPU goodness to its Penguin On Demand host computing service (announced back in August) Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing solutions, today announced that Tesla GPU compute nodes are available in its Penguin on Demand (POD) system. Tesla equipped PODs will now provide a pay-as-you-go environment […]
Justin Rattner's keynote
November 18, 2009 by
In case you weren’t able to attend Justin Rattner’s keynote on the 3D Internet, you might want to read my interview with him before the show, and then Timothy Prickett Morgan’s coverage at El Reg. It was a stimulating talk The projections that Rattner cited showed HPC sales growing at a compound annual growth rate […]
Time lapse of assembly of world's tenth largest super
November 18, 2009 by
Sun’s Marc Hamilton has posted a video showing a time lapse of the build out of Red Sky, the Sun system at Sandia that currently holds the #10 spot. Today, Red Sky, Sandia’s Sun Constellation Supercomputer was announced as the 10th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, with a sustained performance of 429.9 TFlops. In […]
Sabalcore goes with ScalableInformatics for storage
November 18, 2009 by
Sabalcore, the company formerly known as Prince, er, Tsunamic Technologies, has announced that they are partnering with Scalable Informatics for their storage subsystem. Sabalcore Computing Inc. has selected Scalable Informatics as their primary storage vendor to provide high performance storage capabilities to Sabalcore customers. “We chose Scalable Informatics because of their depth of experience, excellent […]
Georgia Tech to develop sustainable power consumption
November 18, 2009 by
And it uses recycled HPC. Georgia Tech announced this week during SC that they’re starting a new green power initiative To help understand and reduce power consumption, the Georgia Institute of Technology has launched Green IT. The effort considers power consumption across the entire “energy stack,” ranging from the power consumed by modern multi-core platforms, […]
University of Minnesota Announces New HP Cluster
November 18, 2009 by
The University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Computational Research [MSI] announced today that they have purchased a new HPC platform based on HP ProLiant blade servers. More specifically, 1,083 BL280 G6-flavored nodes housing 8,664 cores is now crunching away on the data center floor. The new system, called “Itasca”, delivers 97 TFlops of peak performance […]
Mitrionics Unveils Mitrion-C Compiler for Implicitly Parallel
November 18, 2009 by
Mitrionics announced details and early performance numbers this week from a recent research project they performed internally. The proof-of-concept compiler project was spearheaded by their chief scientist, Stefan Möhl, with a goal of providing a portable implementation of their Mitrion-C language that would run on many architectures. The initial target architectures were FPGAs [from their […]
Doug Eadline Unveils Desktop Supercomputer
November 18, 2009 by
Doug Eadline, this week, unveiled his long awaited Limulus desktop supercomputer. Wait, a person unveiled a desktop supercomputer? Doug has been diligently working away in his basement on a design for a functional desktop supercomputer that uses commodity parts running Linux. Limulus [Linux Multicore Unified Supercomputer] is the result of all his hard work and […]
