LSU announced details today of their participation in the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing Program. A research group consisting of LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology [CCT] received two awards associated with UHPC. LSU Department of Computer Science Arnaud & Edwards Professor Thomas Sterling and his research group at the CCT, where Sterling has a […]
Archives for August 2010
AMD Appoints New Server CTO
August 24, 2010 by
AMD today announced that it has named a new Chief Technology Officer to its Server group. Donald Newell will take the post of vice president and CTO in the group. Newell was previously as a senior principal engineer leading the System-on-Chip [SoC] and datacenter networking architecture groups at AMD rival, Intel Labs. As CTO, Newell […]
Bielefeld University Physics Department Goes with ScaleMP
August 24, 2010 by
ScaleMP announced today that the Molecular Magnetism Research Group [MMRG] at Bielefeld University Department of Physics has selected their vSMP Foundation suite. The goal of the buy for Bielefeld was to reduce capital expenditures and improve computational performance in their research. Since our research requires a large amount of memory and a stable compute environment, […]
Michael L. Norman Named Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
August 23, 2010 by
The San Diego Supercomputer Center [SDSC] officially announced that they have named Michael L Norman as the new director of the center. Norman, a distinguished professor of physics at UC San Diego and a globally recognized computational astrophysicist, had been SDSC’s interim director since July 2009 and chief scientific officer of the supercomputer center since […]
EM Photonics and University of Delaware Collaborate on Air Force Project
August 23, 2010 by
EM Photonics and the University of Delaware Computer Science Department have been selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research [AFOSR] to develop libraries for modeling and simulation in a multi-GPU environment. Multiple Air Force research disciplines are targeted with the project, including electromagnetic modeling, computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and radiation transport. The […]
NVIDIA Names GATech CUDA Center of Excellence
August 23, 2010 by
NVIDIA announced today that they have officially named Georgia Institute of Technology a CUDA Center of Excellence. Jeff Vetter, joint professor of the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Group Leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as principal investigator for the center. Georgia Tech has a long history of education and research that […]
Purdue Throttles Power Based on Heat Loads
August 23, 2010 by
According to an article in CampusTechnology online, Purdue University IT staff have developed methodologies in order to control the operational performance of machines based on the current data center heat load. Over the course of a sweltering summer, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue experienced several planned and unplanned outages. As a result, […]
Microsoft parallel runtime expected to go commercial next year
August 23, 2010 by
ZDNet wrote last week about a new HPC offering that Microsoft is evidently planning on moving from research to commercial product in the coming months. The platform is called “Dryad” Dryad is an ongoing Microsoft Research project dedicated to developing ways to write parallel and distributed programs that can scale from small clusters to large […]
HPC Advisory Council adds centers of excellence
August 23, 2010 by
I missed this when it happened last week, but the HPC Advisory Council announced that it is forming regional Centers of Excellence around the world in an effort to extend its reach and build a more cohesive community “One of the HPC Advisory Council’s main activities is community and education outreach, in particular, through enhancing […]
SDSC fields 100 TFLOPS Appro super
August 23, 2010 by
SDSC announced late last week that they have been awarded $2.8M to deploy a new 10,368-core super from Appro. SDSC has focused in recent years on systems that enable data intensive computing, with a particular emphasis on flash memory systems. In November last year SDSC announced that Appro would be providing its next $20M super […]
