International Science and Grid This Week [online publication] recently posted an interview they had with John Shalf of NERSC. John is the Team Lead for the Advanced Technologies Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center [NERSC]. The interview focused on what has become quite a heated debate within HPC as of late: programming […]
Archives for June 2010
CAPS and Pathscale to create a new standard for hybrid programming [UPDATED]
June 24, 2010 by
The good thing about standards is if you don’t like one you can always just pick another. French programming tools company CAPS Entreprise and compiler maker PathScale made a joint announcement this week about their intention to push CAPS’ GPU programming approach as an open standard PathScale Inc., an industry leader in delivering high performance […]
IBM BlueGene/P Beats Bulgarian Chess Students
June 23, 2010 by
Doesn’t this sounds familiar? In the latest test of game playing skill from IBM Deep Computing, an IBM BlueGene/P machine was pitted against a series of brave young chess students from Bulgaria. The three students on the Bulgarian student team took on 8,192 of BlueGene/P goodness in a best of three series of rapid chess. […]
Tokyo Tech Tsubame 2.0 Hardware Specs
June 23, 2010 by
The Tokyo Institute of Technology announced that their Tsubame 2.0 machine will begin operation this fall. Tsubame 2.0 is built to hit the 2.4 petaflop level using mixed technologies from Intel, HP, NVIDIA and contracting from NEC. This is quite a departure from the Tsubame 1.0 design, built with gear from Sun. According to TheRegister, […]
DARPA announces Omnipresent HPC program
June 23, 2010 by
On June 21 DARPA released its latest high end computing BAA, the Omnipresent High Performance Computing program. According to the BAA, this call is designed to build hardware that will be needed by the systems activities undertaken as part of DARPA’s UHPC program. From related coverage of the announcement Topics of interest in the OHPC […]
Deep space telescope peers back in time, HPC needed to make sense of it all
June 23, 2010 by
Earlier this month Jonathan Sievers, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, presented early data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope during HPCS2010 The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is one of the largest telescopes of its kind, and the flood of data from this instrument in Chile in one day is the equivalent of a decade of […]
What does HPC stand for?
June 23, 2010 by
Hopping Pickle Chopper? In my never-ending quest to bring you HPC news from the darkest corners of the Internet, I regularly do Google searches for those three letters. Most of the time the results are at least related to HPC, if not of interest to you. But over the years I’ve had fun noticing what […]
Review: Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing
June 23, 2010 by
I just finished reading Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, one of the most recent volumes to join SIAM’s Software, Environments, and Tools series of scientific computing books. The text is organized around the themes and problems presented at the Eleventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. Although that conference was held in 2004, the editors and contributors took care in the creation of this book, and it remains timely today.
The clear, jargon-free writing style makes for an easy read, and the references alone make exploring this text well worth your time. If you are just starting graduate studies in HPC and want to get a broad overview of the many facets of research in our field, then this book is an outstanding starting place. And if you are a seasoned practitioner, I think you’ll find the text provides a valuable point of view on a broad range of topics, with references that should keep you busy well into many sleepless summer nights.
Link and Run for 06/22/10
June 22, 2010 by
PBS Works 10.4 Increases Accuracy and Predictability for HPC Capacity Planning and Forecasting The new version of PBS Professional®, the foundation for PBS Works, offers customers a next-generation backfill scheduling system with the ability to accurately predict job start times. PBS Analytics™ 10.4 introduces a new standalone resource utilization data analysis and visualization module, License […]
Cray Honored in Washington's Top 100 Best Companies to Work For
June 22, 2010 by
Cray announced today that they were recently recognized by Seattle Business Mag’s annual list of Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. The list is based on a survey of over 10,000 employees in the state of Washington based on criteria that ranked leadership, communications and training. Cray’s inclusion as a Best Company to Work […]
