Didn’t you hear? Its abbreviation Tuesday. The Weather Research Forecast [WRF] Development Test Center [DTC] has announced the 2.0 release of the Community Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) data assimilation system. The 2.0 release adds significant capability beyond the 1.0 release, including: Assimilating tropical storm pseudo sea-level pressure observations Assimilating NOAA-19 HIRS/4 and AMSU-A brightness temperature observations […]
Archives for April 2010
EM Photonics Announces CUDA Training Courses
April 27, 2010 by
Last week they were announcing the first Fermi performance numbers. This week, they’re announcing their new CUDA Training Program. EMPhotonics, proprietors of the CUDA-accelerated linear algebra package CULA, have been developing production-quality, commercial CUDA code for some time. Recently, they started offering training courses in stealth mode to customers who were interested in developing CUDA-enabled […]
MIT team looks at CFD on multicore chips and finds less is more
April 27, 2010 by
Dr. Dobb’s is reporting this week on a research effort by a team of MIT researchers to parallelize a CFD application simulating flow in an oilfield on a single 24-core node. They observed a 22x speedup on 24 cores (for this application) by taking advantage of the fact that communication between cores on a single […]
TPC announces second performance evaluation tech conference
April 27, 2010 by
The Transaction Processing Performance Council has announced that the second Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2010) will be held this fall in Singapore, collocated with the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. Selected papers will be presented during the conference, published in conference proceedings in print and electronic formats, and […]
NASA Pleiades Pictures [plus a sneak peak at ICE 8400]
April 26, 2010 by
Ever wondered what a top-10 supercomputer platform looks like? CNET has posted a gallery of pictures from the machine floor that houses Pleiades, their latest flagship computing platform. The SGI ICE machine came online during a rocky period in SGI’s history, but did so with some great fanfare. What’s more interesting is the pictures and […]
Canadian HPC consortium cools its super in a circle
April 26, 2010 by
Now you too can put your old particle accelerator to good use ComputerWorld ran a story by Ted Samson last week on InfoWorld’s 2010 Green 15 Awards. One of the winners, CLUMEQ (Consortium Laval, Université du Québec, McGill and Eastern Quebec), is an HPC consortium in Canada. They took an interesting approach to siting their […]
COMPETES out of subcommittee, a look at HPC in the draft bill
April 26, 2010 by
House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon announced late last week that the subcommittees have finished their preliminary work and H.R.5116, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, has made it to the full committee. I’ll remind those of you that are non-US (or civics-impaired) that this is just the first step of […]
Looking forward to ISC, an interview with conference founder Hans Meuer
April 26, 2010 by
insideHPC kicks off its coverage of Europe’s largest HPC event
While the HPC community has seen its share of vendor companies that haven’t been able to demonstrate the staying power needed for survival, it’s quite the opposite story when it comes to conferences focused around this community.
The ACM/IEEE SC conference series will hold its 23rd annual meeting in New Orleans in November, the HPCC insider’s conference known as the Newport Conference has wraped up its 24th annual event in Newport, Rhode Island, and this year marks an impressive 25th anniversary for Europe’s most important HPC event, ISC’10, the International Supercomputing Conference.
insideHPC is excited to share this exclusive interview with Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Meuer, the man behind the ISC conference.
What to read at insideHPC this week
April 23, 2010 by
Wondering what to read at insideHPC? Some of the most popular posts this week are: Inside Track: Employees at new Verari head for furlough as company struggles in recovery InfiniBand Trade Association announces RDMA over Converged Ethernet Digging in to Oracle’s Lustre strategy: less is less InsideTrack: NVIDIA Fermi performance with CULA Microsoft test drives […]
And now the Verari website is off the air [UPDATED]
April 22, 2010 by
I don’t want to read too much into this, since it could be that their Apache server has just gone tits up and will be back, but following up on comments left at this site and on Twitter it is apparent that Verari’s website is indeed down. Coming as it does on the heels of […]
