Archives for January 2010

HPC in the Intel enterprise

Sure, you knew that Intel is a big part of HPC today, but did you know that Intel is a big user of HPC? Intel has two systems on the Top500, and devotes considerable supercomputing resources to developing its bread-and-butter chip technologies. In this interview Shesha Krishnapura, Intel Senior Principal Engineer, talks about HPC inside Intel and the results it drives to the bottom line.

Get involved with National Lab Day

I picked up a pointer to the National Lab Day web site from the Computing Community Consoritum blog this week We now have an opportunity to bring hands-on, tinkering-based learning to a new level in the United States. The growing body of work supported by foundations coupled with an Administration that is highly supportive of […]

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years

Bill Bell at NCSA tweeted a note about Google’s new scholarship for first year computer scientists Dr. Anita Borg devoted her adult life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Her combination of technical expertise and fearless vision continues to […]

DoE Dishes Out Allocations

The US Department of Energy announced today that they have laid out supercomputing allocations totaling over 1.6billion hours to 69 cutting-edge projects.  The allocations come through the DoE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment [INCITE] program.  The INCITE program grants large buckets of HPC resources to groups working on the most challenging […]

Voltaire Introduces Switch with Integrated Ethernet Bridging

Voltaire today announced its latest addition to their 40Gbps switch line.  The new version includes special sauce with built-in low latency Ethernet bridging technology.  The Grid Director 4036E features 34 40Gbps [QDR] Infiniband ports and 1 or 2 10Gbps Ethernet ports.  Its designed to be a self-contained solution in 1U of rackspace. The Grid Director […]

Software Development Tools and Education at Intel

When you think about Intel the odds are pretty good that you think about chips, and that is a good place to start. But Intel has thousands of engineers and computer scientists working on software to help millions of developers get the most out of Intel’s hardware, and a large effort on education that starts in K-12 and continues on through the professional level. If you’ve followed Intel’s software efforts you’ve probably run into James Reinders, chief evangelist for software products. I talked with James about the company’s focus on helping developers get at the power in the chips that make up 80% of the Top500 today, and in the chips coming out tomorrow.

Institute of Cancer Research Buys SGI UV

SGI announced this morning that the Institute of Cancer Research [ICR] selected their Altix UV for their next computational platform.  The new scalable shared memory system will provide compute for research in biological networking, MRI imaging, mass-spectrometry, phenotyping, genetics and deep-sequencing. The Altix UV supercomputer will allow extremely large, diverse data sets to be processed […]

The Silent Personal Cluster

I can plead the 5th.  My wife yells into the garage and I don’t hear her.  Why?  I’m partially deaf.  After having spent my childhood enduring countless ear infections and my professional life on a noisy data center floor, my hearing has suffered.  Small clusters are loud.  Large clusters are deafening.  What if it didn’t […]

AccelerEyes Adds Seasoned HPC Management

AccelerEyes announced today that they have strengthened their sales, marketing and business development leadership.  So who’s new within the walls of Atlanta’s AccelerEyes?  Former Interactive Supercomputing VP of Sales David Gibson has joined the company as the new VP of sales and marketing. Gibson is an old hat around the halls of HPC sales and […]

ANL researchers developing application to study nuclear reactor cores in action

Got a pointer over the email transom today to news of a new physics application being developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The neutron transport code, called UNIC, is giving researchers their first look at a highly detailed description of a nuclear reactor core. The code could prove crucial in the development of nuclear reactors that […]