Earl Joseph and the crew from IDC have issued a call for nominations for the first annual HPC Innovation Excellence Award Program. Designed to increase HPC adoption through the publication of ROI success stories, the program will recognize HPC users and their vendors for major achievements in industry, government and academia. While there are multiple […]
Archives for January 2011
Taiwan to Build 170 Teraflop Super
January 26, 2011 by
While mainland China may have garnered the number one spot on the TOP500, don’t count out Taiwan in the supercomputer race. This week the Taiwanese announced the development of a 170 Teraflop supercomputer to be deployed at the National Center for High Performance Computing. The cluster will comprise 25,600 computing cores. We’re always doing this […]
The Zero Power Proposition of Reversible Computing
January 26, 2011 by
The road to Exascale will likely require processor power efficiency to increase by 1000x. To get there, researchers at the University of South Florida are exploring a revolutionary approach called reversible computing based on the original research by Charles H. Bennett of IBM. In a reversible computing model, the computational process is time-invertible. In other words, if a reversible computation […]
New Syracuse Super to Study Gravitational Waves
January 25, 2011 by
The NSF has awarded Syracuse University $791,000 to build a supercomputer to help power the search for gravitational waves from distant objects in the universe. As a computing resource for the for scientists involved with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the 2,500 CPU-core cluster will utilize 388 Tbytes of storage connected via gigabit Ethernet. LIGO […]
NCSA 25th Anniversary Slideshow Looks Back with Seeds of the Future
January 25, 2011 by
NCSA posted a slideshow of computing milestones to commemorate the center’s 25th anniversary. For 25 years, NCSA has been a leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. Building on this history of leadership, NCSA and its partners are at work on the […]
Kurzweil: Watson Victory Matters
January 25, 2011 by
“Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.” — Anonymous Ray Kurzweil writes that Watson’s victory in a preliminary round of Jeopardy matters: If you watch Watson’s performance, it appears to be at least as good as the best Jeopardy! players at understanding the nature […]
InfiniBand Charts Course to Exascale
January 24, 2011 by
In this story that originally appeared in The Exascale Report, Lloyd Dickman takes a closer look at how InfiniBand is advancing on the road to Exascale. The next order of magnitude increase in system performance from 10 PetaFLOPS to 100 PetaFLOPS will require additional evolution of the InfiniBand standards to permit hundreds of thousands of […]
DEISA PRACE Symposium in Helsinki April 13-14, 2011
January 24, 2011 by
The DEISA PRACE Symposium will take place from April 13 to 14 in Helsinki, Finland. Hosted by CSC, the symposium will cover advancements in Petaflop computing in Europe and beyond. Speakers include Thom Dunning, UIUC, Director of NCSA, Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission, Anita Lehikoinen, Director of the Division for Higher […]
Register Webcast: Supercomputer Performance Leaps off the Charts
January 24, 2011 by
By Dan Olds, Gabriel Consulting • Get more from this author In our first HPC channel webcast of 2011, we talk to Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC to take the measure of current HPC performance and talk about the factors that got us to this point. Some interesting data in the slides, including performance metrics of […]
Video: Advanced Visualization Lab Recreates the Universe
January 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aiL8iWhQjc Our Video Sunday feature continues with this computer simulation depicting violent galaxy formation in the universe’s formative years. The longer film is available via NASA’s JWST page. A tip of the hat goes to Clay Dillow, who highlighted this piece as part of his excellent PopSci story on the NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab.
