Archives for 2009

Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments

Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2010 has announced their call for papers There is an ongoing set of unsolved large-scale problems, requiring novel, large-scale, distributed applications that need to use advanced distributed cyberinfrastructure. This workshop focuses on the complex issues, such as adapting to heterogeneity and being dynamic in space and time, […]

PRACE calls for applications

I got this yesterday by email and wanted to pass it along PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC Petascale systems. PRACE partners have installed six systems of different architectures that are now available for assessment. The first call […]

Federal Trade Commission brings action against Intel

This is all over the place, so I won’t spend much time on it. There is an HPC angle this time, though, so I think its worth touching on. Yesterday the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Intel that charges Intel with abusing its market position to stifle competition. In its complaint, […]

Biodynamic agriculture concept applied to datacenters

Reader Joe Williams was inspired by episode 5 of the Green HPC podcast series and got to thinking about how the concept of biodynamic agriculture might be applied to datacenters To me this totally has an analog in datacenters, server farms (pun intended) and machine rooms. To paraphrase the above wikipedia quote: An electrodynamic datacenter […]

Japan's on again off again super back on

The AP is reporting today that Japan’s next generation big super, which was recently canned, is back on again Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii and other key Cabinet members agreed Wednesday to allow the science ministry as a special case to earmark up to around 23 billion yen in the fiscal 2010 budget to support projects […]

LSI gets PCI-e 3.0-compliant ROC samples out to OEMs

LSI announced today that they are getting a head start on PCI Express 3.0 compliant hardware LSI today announced it is sampling the LSISAS2208 dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) IC to OEM customers. The high-performance LSITM SAS ROC is intended to support the forthcoming PCI Express 3.0 specification, currently under development within the PCI-SIG, and […]

Oracle set to make concessions to lubricate Sun deal approval in EU

The New York Times reported earlier this week that there is some movement on the Oracle/Sun deal. You’ll recall that the acquisition has been held up in the EU at least partially over concerns that Oracle couldn’t be trusted to do the right thing with MySQL (the “M” in the Internet’s LAMP stack). Evidently Oracle […]

U of Antwerp GPU-based desktop super packs in 12 TFLOPS

NetworkWorld.com ran a story yesterday about a new personal high performance computer built by the University of Antwerp. The computer gets its power from GPUs, and it a refinement of an earlier design that had 4 dual-GPUs in it By comparison, the Fastra II has a total of 13 graphical processing units (six NVIDIA GTX295 […]

Acumem Threadspotter 2010 adds tuning suggestions features

Acumem announced this week that it has revved its ThreadSpotter product to in suggestions on tweaks that will improve performance ThreadSpotter 2010 brings new analysis capabilities in the form of suggestions of ways to improve performance by reducing cache pollution. Applications often fill the caches with data that is never reused before being evicted, and […]

SGI announces it is first in line at the Verari buffet

SGI announced this week that, if you are worried about your Verari gear getting bricked, they can help “In an effort to provide Verari customers confidence in their business continuity and an ability to map their technology futures, SGI is now adding Verari Systems to our multi-vendor service offerings for both Customer Service and Professional […]