Palix Technologies announced this week the start of a beta program for ANDSolver, their GPU-enabled CFD solver Palix Technologies has introduced a new Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) product called ANDSolver that has been designed from the ground up to use Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for fast and efficient aerodynamic analysis. Although developing and running applications […]
Archives for March 2010
NVIDIA Announces GPU Tech Conference 2010
March 25, 2010 by
NVIDIA announced details today on this year’s GPU Technology Conference [GTC 2010]. Last year, insideHPC was on hand to report live on all the sights, sounds and juicy news directly from San Jose. This year, the conference will take place from September 20-23 at the San Jose Convention Center. Last year’s GPU Technology Conference was […]
Cray's big deals with the Australian intelligence community
March 25, 2010 by
Recently the Australian government’s Department of Defence (that’s the Australian spelling) took the somewhat unusual step of announcing the installation of a new supercomputer from Cray. Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science [pictured right signing the system] has commissioned a new supercomputer for the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD). “The new supercomputer delivered […]
TotalView revs parallel development tools
March 25, 2010 by
Rogue Wave (remember, they acquired TotalView and we broke the news here) announced this week that TotalView Technologies has revved key tools in their parallel development arsenal TotalView Technologies, a Rogue Wave Software company and provider of interactive analysis and debugging tools for serial and parallel codes, today announced the simultaneous release of TotalView® 8.8, […]
New IBM exascale innovation center
March 25, 2010 by
IBM has added another to the crop of HPC and exascale innovation and research centers popping up around the world, many in Europe (where they are getting ready to spend a bunch of money on very high end infrastructure through PRACE) Today, in the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Juelich and IBM sign the contract […]
Job for an HPC/C++ whiz
March 25, 2010 by
You might remember that we discontinued the job here a while back due to lack of interest, and the ensuing lack of a cry of woe from, well, anyone confirmed that was a fine idea. Still, I got a pointer to this job today over email, and thought I’d include a link in case any […]
Eadline on Snell on insideHPC
March 25, 2010 by
Doug Eadline over at Linux Magazine picked up a copy of Addison Snell’s Newport HPCC slides and shares some interesting thoughts on them in his latest post there The good The good news is, according to InterSect360, the worst is over. Overall, according to Addison HPC took a 20% hit in 2009 going from $19.0 […]
CS enrollments up again this year
March 25, 2010 by
The excellent CRA Policy Blog posted the headline results for the most recent Taulbee Report on computing degree trends, and the news is good both enrollments and the number of new majors in CS are up for the second straight year The number of new students majoring in computer science increased 8.5 percent over last […]
AMD 6100 specs and prices leaked
March 25, 2010 by
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register writes this morning that AMD’s next generation silicon was outed a little earlier than the chip company had planned by a reseller Ohio computer components reseller Provantage accidentally let slip pricing information for the forthcoming “Magny-Cours” eight- and 12-core Opteron 6100 series of processors for two- and four-socket boxes. […]
Spain Commits 100 Million Euros to New Machine
March 24, 2010 by
Spain’s Science Minister, today, confirmed that the country will spend upwards of 100 million Euros on a new supercomputing project. The new machine, destined for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, will begin its life 2012. Spain will be the third country which will begin to work with Prace, the National Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS). Germany (Jülich) will […]
