Archives for September 2010

This week David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing issued a warning that China and other nations are closing the supercomputing gap. You have sovereign nations making material investments of a tremendous magnitude to basically eat our lunch, eat our collective lunch,” Turek said. “Within a year, there will be more TOP500 systems in […]

This slidecast from Intel’s Tom Stachura provides a nice overview of network requirements for doing HPC in the Cloud. At IDF 2010 in SF, we had the opportunity to demonstrate a nice use case for HPC in the Cloud – when you have tapped out your local cluster resources, provision your excess work to the […]

On Thursday, MSC announced that Talgo, a Spanish manufacturer of high-speed rail components, is using the company’s software solutions to design railway material and equipment. Using MSC Adams, a popular multibody dynamics and motion analysis package, Talgo relies on simulation to validate train suspensions to fulfill certification standards. Talgo’s flagship product is a high speed passive tilting […]

NCSA has been awarded a three-year, NSF grant of $1.4 million to develop an open-source “Workbench for HPC Applications.” The goal is to provide a powerful, yet usable development environment that will improve the way experts develop, debug, optimize, and run their science and engineering applications on big supers. The team plans to build on […]

The good folks over at the Texas Advanced Computing Center debuted Longhorn back in January, 2010. And if you were like me, you may have wondered what the thing was really for since they have the formidable TACC Ranger system down the hall. Longhorn, the “largest hardware-accelerated interactive visualization cluster in the world” is about […]