If you’ve been wondering what the story is on the future of Oracle Grid Engine (formerly Sun Grid Engine) then you’re not alone. Our page hit counts go through the roof whenever we write about it. In this interview, Moe Fardoost, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, and Daniel Templeton, Principal Product Manager for OGE, give us a […]
Archives for September 2010
Video: T-Platforms TB2-TL GPU Blade is Green to the Max
September 23, 2010 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T23MOwUisUs In this video, T-Platforms’ Alexey Nechuyatov shows us the new TB2-TL blade system. Announced at the 2010 GPU Technology Conference, the TBL-T2 has attracted a lot of attention at the show with its industry-leading performance per watt.
Interview: Mark Seager of LLNL on Whamcloud and the Future of Lustre
September 22, 2010 by
When Oracle took over Sun Microsystems in February, the future of the open-source Lustre file system came into question for many users in the HPC community. Enter Whamcloud, a startup founded by Brent Gorda that plans to take Lustre to the next level of scalability. I caught up with Mark Seager, Livermore’s principal investigator for […]
Deep Computing Virtual Convention Today
September 22, 2010 by
With all the trade shows going on this week, you folks at home might be feeling a little left out. No worries; today IBM launched a virtual tradeshow event for their Deep Computing platform and you can experience the whole thing on your web browser. The virtual conference kicks off this morning with an 8:00 […]
Whamcloud Announces First National Lab Customer
September 22, 2010 by
For those of you interested in the current and future status of the Lustre file system, you’re probably keeping a keen eye on the new Whamcloud startup. Well, today they announced their first national laboratory customer. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has contracted Whamcloud to assist them in furthering the development of the Lustre Monitoring Tool. […]
Day 1: GPU Technology Conference
September 22, 2010 by
The GPU Technology Conference started up Tuesday with a rousing keynote by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. The room was largely filled with developers, and Huang’s message that MATLAB, Ansys, and Amber HPC applications are all now running on the Tesla GPU platform was well received. With demos that spanned from to real-time rendering to automotive design […]
Video: SC10 Technology Thrusts Overview
September 22, 2010 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAbJD-rhH2E In this video, the Ricky Kendall from Oak Ridge provides an overview of the three main Technology Thrust Areas of SC10: Climate Modeling, Heterogeneous Computing, and Data-intensive Computing.
SC10 Keynote to Focus on Disruptive Technology
September 21, 2010 by
SC10 has announced that it’s opening keynote speaker will be Clayton M. Christensen, an authority on disruptive innovation and professor at the Harvard Business School. It goes without saying that Clayton Christensen is recognized as a world-class scholar in international business scenes,” said Satoshi Matsuoka, a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology Global Scientific Information and […]
T-Platforms Rolls Out World's Highest-Density GPU Blade System
September 21, 2010 by
Today Russian HPC vendor T-Platforms unveiled what it calls the world’s highest-density blade system. As the first blade rack to include the new NVIDIA X2070 GPU, the T-Platforms TB2-TL uses innovative packaging to deliver 105 Teraflops of double-precision peak performance in a single rack. The system is set to start shipping next quarter, and while the possibility of […]
Rocky Mountain Super Center Welcomes New Board Member
September 20, 2010 by
The Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center announced a new member to their Board of Directors. Susan L. Baldwin, Executive Director of Compute Canada, was named to the board. Susan is an excellent addition to the RMSC Board because she shares our vision of bringing High Performance Computing technology to small- and medium-sized businesses,” said Earl J. […]
