Alzheimer’s is a progressive and fatal disease that is the number one cause of dementia in the United States, accounting for between 50 and 80% of dementia cases. In 2006 26.6 million people had the disease worldwide, and today it is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States. There is no cure […]
Archives for April 2010
NCBI BLAST performance comparison: Intel vs. AMD
April 22, 2010 by
Joe Landman and the fine folks at Scalable Informatics have just published a new whitepaper [PDF] comparing the performance of the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s BLAST application on Magny Cours, Istanbul, and Nehalem. According to the Wikipedia In bioinformatics, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence […]
Panasas Names New President and CEO
April 21, 2010 by
Panasas announced that they have named a new President and CEO. Faye Pairman was announced as the gal for the job. Hot on the heels of a year with 25% growth of revenue [2009], Pairman will lead the company into a new era. Faye has a proven track record of driving strong growth strategies and […]
Cray Wins Big Deal in Brazil
April 21, 2010 by
Cray announced today that they have officially landed a serious contract with Foundation for Space Technology, Applications and Science (FUNCATE) in Brazil. These are the folks in Brazil responsible for the procurement of high performance computing gear in Brazil. More specifically, the machine will land at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The new […]
InsideTrack: NVIDIA Fermi Performance with CULA
April 21, 2010 by
Hot off the presses this morning are some real benchmarks on the latest NVIDIA Fermi gear. We’ve all heard the technical news from the latest in silicon goodies from NVIDIA, but not a whole lot with real workloads. We were tipped off this morning on a ‘hot off the presses’ blog post from the nice […]
JGI Migrates Sequencing Workloads to NERSC
April 20, 2010 by
According to an article at GenomeWeb, the Joint Genome Institute announced on April 12 that their massive upcoming increase of raw sequence data has prompted a decision to consolidate their high performance computing platforms into the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center [NERSC]. The agreement will include the transfer of six Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory […]
EStar Awards for Argonne on Cooling Technology
April 20, 2010 by
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has announced an Environmental Sustainability award [EStar] for Argonne National Laboratory’s BlueGene/P supercomputing platform. EStar awards highlight environmental sustainability projects and programs that reduce environmental impacts, enhance site operations, reduce costs and demonstrate excellence in pollution prevention and sustainable environmental stewardship. Many people contributed to this success,” said […]
Digging in to Oracle's Lustre strategy: less is less
April 20, 2010 by
I’ve just been through the Lustre strategy presentation that Peter Bojanic briefed last week (previously linked here), and had a great conversation with one of my more knowledgeable friends on what look like changes in the Lustre strategy as the product moves from Sun to Oracle. I’d say the strategy is to lock up future […]
Microsoft test drives switchless optical cluster interconnect
April 20, 2010 by
Lightfleet Corporation announced today that they’ve placed an alpha version of their optical interconnect technology at Microsoft Research. Lightfleet’s Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect (DBOI) system uses broadcast light to reinvent the way computing nodes are connected in next generation data centers. Lightfleet’s DBOI technology creates a switchless optical fabric that enables all nodes to communicate […]
Lustre 2.0 beta 1 is out
April 20, 2010 by
The first beta release of Lustre 2.0 was sent into the wild last week; you can read the short announcement at the Lustre 2.0 milestone status page. The focus of the first Beta release (Beta-1) of 2.0 was to continue improve stability of Lustre while landing fixes to HEAD and completing additional bug fixes. 116 […]
