By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Three weeks ago, Oracle co-founder and chief executive officer, Larry Ellison, gave us all a preview of the upcoming Sparc T series processor roadmap as part of the rollout of the Sparc SuperCluster, an Exadata-style parallel database machine based on the current Sparc T3 processors. […]
Archives for December 2010
Blog Post Looks at Managing High Performance GPU Clusters
December 23, 2010 by
HP’s vice president of HPC Marc Hamilton blogs on the importance of monitoring and managing GPUs in a cluster to ensure optimal system performance. HP has updated its has updated its Cluster Management Utility (CMU) just for that purpose. Twitter follower HPCGuru recently asked what could be monitored besides GPU temperature. Two of the more […]
Convergence in Computer Science and Biology to Fuel Healthcare Revolution
December 23, 2010 by
Researchers attending the recent Microsoft Research-University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI) believe it’s time to take a more active role in developing the computer systems and tools needed to further transform the healthcare industry. “It appears that systems medicine will transform medicine over the next 5 to 20 years from its […]
New eBook: Getting Started in HPC Development
December 23, 2010 by
In this eBook, James Leigh looks at developing efficient multi-threaded applications without using synchronized blocks. The actor model (which is native to some programming languages such as Scala) is a pattern for concurrent computation that enables applications to take full advantage of multicore and multiprocessor computing. In the second chapter, John McHugh and Sanjay Goil […]
Thesis Paper: Scientific Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures
December 23, 2010 by
The GPGPU blog brings us this PhD Thesis from André R. Brodtkorb entitled, “Scientific Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures” from the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Abstract: The CPU has traditionally been the computational work horse in scientific computing, but we have seen a tremendous increase in the use of accelerators, such […]
PCAST Report: Supercomputing "Arms Race" May be the Wrong Path Forward
December 22, 2010 by
According to this story by Steve Lohr at the New York Times, a blue-ribbon advisory group report made to the White House last week said that research funding might be better deployed elsewhere than towards an international speed race based on a machine’s performance on a particular number-calculating benchmark such as LINPACK. In presenting the report […]
Storage Density to Reach 50 TB Per Square Inch
December 22, 2010 by
David Szabados over at Seagate writes that data storage densities could reach amazing levels in the near future: The need for continued storage is clear, and the pathway to advancing the technology also continues to look strong ahead. While HAMR and BPM continue development for eventual release a few years away, further down the road, […]
Podcast: DecisionHPC Provides Business Analytics for Your Cluster
December 22, 2010 by
In this podcast, I interview Deepak Khosala, President of X-ISS (eXcellence in IS Solutions, Inc.). The company’s HPC solutions range from complete outsourced system management to DecisionHPC, a web-based monitoring & analytics software package. Many users of HPC systems are interested in maximizing system productivity and ensuring business goals are aligned with system usage. DecisionHPC […]
COMPETES Act Passes Congress: Good News for HPC
December 22, 2010 by
This week the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation to create jobs and maintain America’s economic leadership by increasing investment in science education, advanced research, and manufacturing innovation. It is expected that the President will sign the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act into law. Recent months have brought further confirmation that America is at risk of losing […]
New Course: Programming for RDMA Using OFA Software
December 22, 2010 by
The OpenFabrics Alliance is offering a new course to help you take full advantage of RDMA to improve your data center’s performance and cost effectiveness. Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a powerful programming paradigm finding widespread adoption in many large systems – from high performance computing to enterprise data centers. This two-day course provides […]
