AMD Fellow Tim Fisher writes about new details on the company’s pending Bulldozer architecture that will be revealed at this week at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco. To quickly review, the centerpiece of the “Bulldozer” module is its two tightly-linked processor cores (Figure 1). These cores share several high-bandwidth resources […]
Archives for February 2011
Portland Group Adds Support for CUDA in PGI 2011 Development Tools
February 23, 2011 by
This week the Portland Group released PGI 2011, a line of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. PGI 2011 is the first general release to include full support for the PGI Accelerator programming model 1.2 specification on x64 processor-based systems incorporating NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. In addition, the new […]
Video: Underground Datacenter in Helsinki
February 23, 2011 by
[HTML1] In this video, CNN looks at an underground datacenter built by Helsingen Energia and ISP Academica in Helsinki. Located 30 meters below a historic church, the 2 megawatt facility is cooled by sea water and its waste heat is used to heat residential buildings. Eco-efficient computer halls could really save significant amounts of primary […]
Vendors Step Up: Lustre Users Have Options
February 23, 2011 by
Dave Raffo from the Storage Soup blog writes that support alternatives are available for Lustre users. Since late last year, Xyratex acquired ClusterStor for its Lustre expertise, start-up Whamcloud started aggressively hiring Lustre developers and partnering with hardware vendors on support deals, and Cray, DataDirect Networks (DDN), Lawrencey Livermore and Oak Ridge National labs launched OpenSFS.org. DDN last […]
Announcing the iPod Winner from insideHPC Reader Survey
February 22, 2011 by
A few weeks ago, insideHPC conducted a reader survey. We’ll be sharing the results soon, but today we are pleased to announce that Aaron Hicks from New Zealand was the lucky participant who won our drawing for an iPod touch. Aaron is a cluster administrator for Landcare Research NZ ltd, and is involved in the […]
Interview: Newly Acquired Isilon to Forge Ahead with HPC
February 22, 2011 by
EMC Corporation acquired Isilon in November for $2.25 billion. Unlike EMC, Isilon is a major fixture in the HPC industry. The deal closed December 22, 2010 and the supercomputing community may be wondering if Isilon will continue to be an HPC leader. In this special guest column, Paul Owen of Owen Media catches up with […]
Webcast: Case Studies in Asynchronous, Message-Driven Shared-Memory Programming, Feb. 24
February 22, 2011 by
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center in Illinois will live stream a presentation on Case Studies in Asynchronous, Message-Driven Shared-Memory Programming on February 24, 2011 at 2:00pm Central time. Abstract: In order to exploit the parallelism inherent in tree-based shared memory computations, one must contend with several confounding factors. First, a programming model must provide […]
LUG 2011 Publishes Lustre Meeting Agenda
February 22, 2011 by
The LUG 2011 conference has posted their agenda with presentations from a wide range of Lustre users and vendors from the community. The event, which runs April 12-14, will take place in Orlando, Florida. This 2 1/2 day event is the primary venue for discussions and seminars on open source parallel file system technologies with […]
Three Laws of iRobotics
February 21, 2011 by
As a boy, reading Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics was my first exposure to the idea of computer programming. Now, in light of Apple’s new Draconian subscription policies, monologist Mike Daisey points us to this post from Isaiah’s Weblog: Apple’s Three Laws of Developers A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple […]
Whitepaper: Building Watson – The DeepQA Project
February 21, 2011 by
In this whitepaper originally published in AI Magazine, IBM researchers describe the systems-level approach used in Watson’s DeepQA architecture and how it applies to research in the broader field of Artificial Intelligence. IBM Research undertook a challenge to build a computer system that could compete at the human champion level in real time on the […]
