Russian supercomputer vendor T-Platforms today announced a joint venture with the Computing Architecture Group, headed by Prof. Ulrich Brüning at the University of Heidelberg, to develop and bring to market a next generation interconnect technology for highly scalable HPC clusters. The joint venture will focus on the productization of the Computing Architecture Group’s EXTOLL (Extreme […]
Archives for October 2010
Amazon Announces AWS Free Usage Tier
October 25, 2010 by
Getting into the Cloud just got a whole lot cheaper. Amazon Web Services is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year, while also leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store, […]
NexCAVE Aids Research at UCSD
October 25, 2010 by
NexCAVE interactive visualization system aids University research KAUST and UCSD established have developed a 21-panel virtual reality system called NexCAVE, a scalable, interactive 3-D visualization environment made of HDTV micro-polarized JVC LCD flat-screens forming an arch-shaped section of a sphere. Projectors are inherently hard to align and keep aligned in these kinds of CAVE environments, […]
Video: SC30 – The Movie Trailer
October 24, 2010 by
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this trailer for a short story that I published for the SC10 conference in New Orleans. Update: The story, The Three Magi of Katrina starts on page 22 of the insideHPC Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC10 New Orleans. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbaDkFsIMI I used the new iMovie software to make this […]
Red Sky Super Showcases Strength of Sun HPC Designs
October 23, 2010 by
Sun Microsystems may be gone, but their large-scale HPC installations continue to impress users with their scaling and efficiency. Drew Robb writes about the Red Sky supercomputers at Sandia National Labs. A good metric for data center efficiency is Power Usage Efficiency (PUE). You divide the amount of power entering a data center by the […]
SC10 Desktop Wallpaper for Download
October 23, 2010 by
Someone smarter than me suggested that I create some SC10 desktop wallpaper. I hope you enjoy them. Download Zip file.
Andy Bechtolsheim Aims for Zero Latency at Arista
October 22, 2010 by
The Register covers Andy Bechtolsheim’s keynote in London this week at the IP Expo. The Sun co-founder, now Chief Developer and Chairman at Arista Networks, said that the company is now in a race to eliminate latency in it’s switch devices. Bechtolsheim is a speeds-and-feeds guy, and wants humungous numbers when talking about bandwidth and […]
Report: Increased HPC Investment Will Lead Europe to Industrial Leadership
October 22, 2010 by
IDC has published a new report for the European Commission that recommends an unprecidented supercomputing strategy for Europe. To help Europe advance to achieve worldwide scientific and industrial leadership, the report recommends that the EC step up investments in HPC resources between now and the year 2020. Looking ahead to what will be needed for […]
China's National Processor Could Bring MIPS Back to the TOP500
October 22, 2010 by
China is hard at work on a “national processor” that could enable the Asian country to build a homegrown supercomputer to rank near the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest machines. Details of the chip were presented by lead architect Weiwu Hu at the recent Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. Hu, […]
Cray Beagle Super to Power Biomed Research at University of Chicago
October 22, 2010 by
Cray is starting to get traction with their “Project Baker” XE6 systems. This week, the University of Chicago Computation Institute and the National Institutes of Health announced the introduction of Beagle, a 150 teraflop Cray XE6 supercomputer that will support computation, simulation and data analysis for the biomedical research community. Housed at Argonne National Laboratory, […]
