Voltaire announced today that they have been working with the folks at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in order to deliver a 40Gbps Infiniband solution on the upcoming TSUBAME 2.0 machine. The 2.4 Petaflop machine will have more than 1,400 compute nodes incorporating the Voltaire QDR HCAs and 12 Grid Director 4700 switches. TSUBAME 2.0 […]
Archives for June 2010
Mellanox InfiniBand Message Rate Performance
June 28, 2010 by
Mellanox today released some new benchmark data with respect to their MPI performance on node-to-node communication. The hardware used in the test was Mellanox’s ConnectX-2 adapters and IS5000 switches. According to the release, they achieved nearly 90 million messages per second. Delivering the highest node-to-node MPI message rate coupled with complete transport offload and MPI […]
Oracle Announces New HPC Cluster Servers
June 28, 2010 by
…but HPC is not what you think it is. Oracle today announced a series of new additions to its Sun x86 blade servers with integrated network fabrics. True to Larry Ellison’s words, the new machines are focused on the high-end server market. However, given the technical aspects highlighted in the release, it seems the target […]
Cray meets $12M HPCS milestone
June 28, 2010 by
It was news when Cray didn’t make an HPCS milestone (although as I pointed out was potentially a good thing for the company), so symmetry insists that it is news when they make one. Last week the company filed an update with the SEC that they’ve completed their next milestone on the DARPA project On […]
Cray's Baker pops out of the oven as company "re-learns" how to make great systems
June 28, 2010 by
It’s been nearly a month since Cray took the code name away from Baker and announced its official designation — the XE6 — and made it an “official” product.
Cray has hundreds of millions of dollars tied up in orders for this system, and it isn’t even scheduled to ship until Q4 of this year, when the final silicon for its new interconnect switch will be complete. Many of those orders are $40+ million dollar deals, with substantial penalties for late delivery. Previous iterations of the XT line have mostly been refinements to earlier designs, but Baker is a significant change of technology with a lot of new system software to go with the updated silicon.
Just before launch I talked with Barry Bolding, Cray’s veep for scalable systems (the high-end stuff, contrasted with the lower-end CX line), to get a feel from him about where the product is headed and what it means for the company’s bottom line.
The Rich Report: InfiniBand Rocks the TOP500
June 28, 2010 by
On my recent trip to ISC10 in Hamburg this month, the real buzz centered around the industry reaching sustained Exaflops in the next decade or so. And while this milestone is daunting enough in terms of processing, it struck me that the challenges of getting that many cores connected with low latency is going to […]
Making big iron with the help of big iron
June 28, 2010 by
NCSA has posted another video briefing from its annual Private Sector Program Annual Meeting, this time about what Caterpillar does with HPC At the recent NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting, Keven Hofstetter described how Caterpillar uses high-performance computing to enhance product development and outlined a vision for extremely accurate, integrated simulation. You can watch […]
Link and Run for 06/25/2010
June 25, 2010 by
Do Processors Really Matter Anymore? But now that processors have gotten so powerful and the ability to pool them has been simplified, is it time to start wondering whether the old ways of placing value on new equipment are no longer valid? Science at Scale: SciDAC Astrophysics Code Scales to Over 200K Processors MAESTRO, a […]
What to read this week
June 25, 2010 by
Wondering what to read at insideHPC? Some of the most popular posts this week are: Early results from DOE cloud experiment: MPI applications are slower Book review: Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing Clustercorp Updates CUDA and Absoft Rolls Tilera and Quanta announce cloud server platform Universities tout their Top500 number If you aren’t subscribed to […]
AMD Launches FireStream 9370 and 9350 for HPC
June 24, 2010 by
AMD announced the launch of two new FireStream cards. The new cards are based on the RV870 chipset, which was previously used in the HD5870 card. he Two acrds are named 9370 and 9350. The 9370 comes with a massive 4GB GDDR5 memory and uses one PCI-e x16 slot while consuming 225W of power. The […]
