ISC’11 is gearing up for another great event this year in Hamburg, Germany June 19-23, 2011. Now the organizers have issued a Call for Tutorials. Specifically, they are seeking half-day or full-day tutorials with broad applicability. The following topics are of specific interest to ISC: Parallelization for Heterogeneous Architectures including GPUs Hybrid Programming Parallel Applications/Parallel-I/O […]
Archives for January 2011
Is Spectra Tape’s Last Great Hope?
January 28, 2011 by
Is the tape business turning around in 2011 as predicted by storage pundity, Henry Newman? Well, so far, so good for Spectra Logic, who announced this week that their revenues grew more than 60 percent year over year. In fact, George Crump, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland writes that the company is being rewarded for […]
Whitepaper: Visualization From the Skinny Guys at Big Supercomputer Centers
January 28, 2011 by
A new whitepaper Visualization at Supercomputing Centers: The Tale of Little Big Iron and the Three Skinny Guys from Wes Bethel and company from LBNL looks at the importance of visualization in big supercomputing centers and how viz specialists, the “Skinny Guys,” give scientists the power to see. The main focus of this article is […]
OpenMP Conference Issues Call for Papers
January 27, 2011 by
The 7th International Workshop on OpenMP has issued their call for papers. All topics related to OpenMP are of interest, including OpenMP applications in any domain, OpenMP performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness tools, and proposed OpenMP extensions. Proposals are due by Jan 31, 2011 and the IWOMP conference will take place in […]
Diversity in Computing: Tapia Conference Registration Opens
January 27, 2011 by
Registration is now open for the 10th annual Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference to be held April 3-5, 2011 in San Francisco. Created as a supportive networking environment for underrepresented groups in computing and information technology, the Tapia conference celebrates and attracts students and professionals from diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in computing. Be […]
Supercomputing the Semantic Web
January 27, 2011 by
The Semantic Web is a group of methods to allow machines to understand the meaning – or “semantics” – of information on the Internet. And while high performance computing has largely moved on to massively parallel clusters, there are still problems like the semantic web that just don’t map well onto distributed architectures. As described […]
Microsoft's New TC Labs to Provide Early Access to HPC Code
January 27, 2011 by
Many of today’s HPC codes were developed out in the open with the help of the developer community. This week made a significant move towards a more open model with the launch of TC Labs for developers on their MSDN network. TC Labs provides developers with the opportunity to learn about TC technologies, get early […]
Intel Launches Visual Computing Lab, First Academic Science and Technology Center
January 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxGS3rykew This week Intel launched the ISTC Visual Computing lab, the first of several Intel Science and Technology Centers that will fund significant academic research in areas important to the company’s long term future. I’m especially excited about the prospect of investing with significantly large research grants in the leading U.S. universities. Through the ISTC […]
President Obama: ORNL Nuclear Research an 'Apollo Project' example
January 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFsGa_bb21o In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama cited work being performed at ORNL as an example of cutting edge research aimed at solving the energy challenge. If they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we’ll fund the Apollo […]
CHPC Brings World-Class HPC to Southern Hemisphere
January 26, 2011 by
A new EE Publishers feature story by Hans van de Groenendaal showcases CHPC, the Centre for High Performance Computing and their vision make South Africa a premier destination for high-end computing in the southern hemisphere. Housed at the CSIR in Cape Town, the CHPC’s SUN Constellation system is the fastest supercomputer in Africa and amongst the […]
