Jeff Squyres has a post to get your Friday morning off right in which he issues a challenge for someone in the community with a little free time to extend Open MPI…into your pocket We’ve actually idly chatted about such things in the Open MPI community for a while. It would be tremendously fun to […]
Archives for August 2010
SGI Delivers to Stanford Solar Variability Project
August 26, 2010 by
SGI announced today that the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Solar Observatories Group at Stanford University has lined up a full range of SGI gear for their Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) group’s research in solar variability. The SDO strives to understand the characteristics of the Sun’s interior and the components of its magnetic activity to help […]
University of Arkansas Receives $1.7 million for HPC Improvements
August 26, 2010 by
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville announced that it has received a $1.7million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve the facility that houses the supercomputers for the college. The funds will be used to purchase air conditioners for the supercomputers and equipment that ensures that electricity can run around the clock, since many […]
PNNL Names New Molecular EMSL Science Lead
August 26, 2010 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Bill Shelton has been named the associated director for the Molecular Science Computing at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Shelton was a distinguished senior research staff member and a group leader with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computer Science & Mathematics […]
NICS To Add 300 Teraflops
August 25, 2010 by
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) managed by the University of Tennessee has announced that it will add an additional 300 teraflops of computing capability to the NSF’s Teragrid. With twin awards totaling $3.4 million, NICS will add 200 million additional service units per year to the allocations pool, bringing their total to over […]
Marshall University Receives Grant for Internet2
August 25, 2010 by
Marshall University has announced that it is one of the recipients of a new NSF grant headed to West Virginia. The West Virginia’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) received a $1,176,470 grant is aimed at enhancing the cyberinfrastructure across the state. As a part of the announcement from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller and […]
Last nail pounded in as OpenSolaris board resigns
August 25, 2010 by
Simon Phipps posted on Monday that the OpenSolaris Governing Board has, as expected, resigned in response to lack of attention and leaked emails coming out of Oracle From Simon’s post Motion concerning dissolution of the OGB Whereas Oracle has continued to ignore requests to appoint a liaison to work with the OGB concerning the future […]
FAA uses HPC to make sure planes stay in the air
August 25, 2010 by
The staff and resources at TACC were recently part of an effort to add HPC-enabled calculations to the FAA’s operational safety workflow. Here is the outline of the full story which can be found on TACC’s website (complete with cool pics) …if a crack is detected in an aircraft structure, does the problem affect only […]
DataRush posts 2 TB per hour on MalStone B
August 25, 2010 by
I thought this might be of interest to at least some of you — Pervasive Software announced last week that their flagship DataRush product posted a rate of 2 TB/hr on MalStone B (a stylized benchmark for data intensive computing, Robert Grossman describes it here) using a 32-core Intel Xeon 7550 server. MalStone B10 has […]
Private cloud starter kit from Platform
August 25, 2010 by
Yesterday Platform Computing announced the launch of the Platform ISF Starter Pack, “an out-of-the-box, end-to-end software product and services offering for companies to quickly set up a private cloud.” Platform ISF was introduced in 2009; the Starter Pack is aimed at letting small groups get their feet wet without investing in a substantial deployment. For […]
