httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9o3U6phUxQ In this video, Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee talks about the SC10 Awards Program.
Archives for September 2010
Nvidia CEO: The World Competition is Creation of Knowledge, Not Wealth
September 28, 2010 by
I managed to sneak in a question towards the end of the press conference at the GPU Conference last week, and I have to admit that I wasn’t prepared for what Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang had to say in response. insideHPC: This question is for Andy Keane. Andy, in your recent opinion piece for the […]
Video: Windows HPC R2 Release Opens New Doors for Technical Computing
September 28, 2010 by
In this video from the recent HPC Financial Markets show, Bill Hilf, General Manager, Microsoft Technical Computing presents on “Pushing through the Inflection Point with Technical Computing.” Microsoft used the Wall Street event to launch Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, and Bill devotes most of his talk to that product starting about 23 minutes in. […]
Platform Computing Teams Up For Massive Time Savings Calculating Risk
September 28, 2010 by
Platform Computing and Sophis have teamed up to offer a new integrated solution for financial service customers to distribute their computationally-intensive calculations such as P&L and sensitivities calculations, instrument pricing, risk simulations and value at risk (VaR). To prove the value of the distributed computing solution, Sophis and Platform ran a benchmark that was representative […]
Los Alamos to Install Two SGI Altix XE Clusters
September 27, 2010 by
SGI today announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory has purchased two large SGI Altix XE 1300 clusters for their Climate, Ocean, and Sea Ice Modeling Project. The Altix XE clusters will each have approximately 50 teraflops of peak performance and 14 terabytes of memory with over 4,500 processor cores. The first cluster is already being […]
Breakthrough Heralds The Quantum Internet
September 27, 2010 by
Quantum Computing may be years away, but researchers at the University of Melbourne have just taken us one step closer. While previous quantum computing experiments have depended on exotic technologies, the Aussies were able to read the “spin” of an individual electron in silicon using a single electron reader. This spin is basically the way […]
Tesla GPUs Come to IBM BladeCenter
September 27, 2010 by
I think the most significant announcement at this year’s GPU Technology Conference was the one that didn’t get a press release. You have to forgive IBM, as they had a lot of Deep Things going on, I guess, but this is a big deal; Tesla M2070 GPUs are coming to BladeCenter. A Fermi blade offering […]
Research Paper: Protein Substructure Searching with GPUs
September 27, 2010 by
GPGPU.org points us to this research paper from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Researchers Alex D. Stivala, Peter J. Stuckey, and Anthony I. Wirth first developed “an improved heuristic for tableau-based protein structure and substructure searching using simulated annealing,” and then went on to create a parallel implementation for GPUs. The GPU implementation achieves […]
Video: Nvidia's Journey from Gaming Graphics to HPC
September 26, 2010 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwdGy2rWgq4 In this video, Sun alum Barton George interviews Geoff Ballew of Nvidia to learn how this graphics company made the move from gaming to HPC. In his current gig as Cloud Computing Evangelist at Dell, Barton is a good guy to get to know. While he blogs about technology, he seems to go out of […]
Wall St. Wants Your Parallel Programming Skills
September 25, 2010 by
Lucas Mearian over at Computerworld writes that parallel programming skills are in high demand on Wall Street. In high-performance computing, there is a major sea change that’s been happening… and it’s getting more dramatic,” said Jeffrey Birnbaum, chief technology architect at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. “With the sea change that’s coming — parallel computing, multicore […]
