Some years ago, labeling products as Green was a sure way to get ink for your hardware offerings. Thanks to Moore’s law, the doubling of transistors every 18 months means that pretty much everyone’s new box does more computing per watt than their old box. Now Swiss import CloudSigma is attempting to take Cloud Computing […]
Archives for February 2011
Whitepaper: Experiences with the Hadoop File System
February 21, 2011 by
[HTML1] In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned after the UNIX file system, faithfulness to standards was sacrificed in favor of improved application performance. Abstract—The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is designed […]
Video: Optimized Tools for Parallel Development
February 20, 2011 by
[HTML1] As reported here recently, research has shown that optimized parallel programming tools are essential for wider adoption of HPC in the small and medium business space known as the “Missing Middle.” Our Video Sunday feature continues with this spot from SC10, where Intel’s Clay Breshears and Werner Krotz-Vogel discuss Intel Cluster Studio 2011, a […]
Video: Computers Kill Hollywood… or Liberate It?
February 20, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR62qh-XNkA When Watson beat the Jeopardy champions this week, our business columnist Thomas Thurston started pondering what roles computer will take over next. The result was this video. I’m thinking that Letterman is safe for now.
Video: President Obama on Winning the Future at Intel
February 19, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Muco-mnC3g On Friday I awoke to the sound of helicopters flying low over my home in Portland. Things really get shaken up around here when the President comes to town. In this video, President Obama addresses on the importance of education to this nation’s global competitiveness: Companies like Intel are proving that we can compete […]
SC11 Issues Call for Papers
February 19, 2011 by
SC11 has issued its Call for Papers. Abstracts are due: Friday, April 1, 2011. The Technical Papers Program is the lead component for presenting the most timely and highest quality work to the high performance computing, networking, storage and data analysis community. The Technical Papers Committee rigorously reviews all submissions using technical leadership, timeliness, and […]
Q&A: DDN's Jeff Denworth on Big Investments in Lustre
February 18, 2011 by
Ed. Note: In the wake of this week’s announcements, DDN has posted an interesting FAQ on Lustre. DDN was in the news this week with the announcement that former HP fellow Jean Luc Chatelain had joined their executive team. Now the company has announced that they are staffing up Lustre engineering in a big way […]
HPCC Conference Celebrates 25 Years
February 18, 2011 by
Mike Bernhardt from The Exascale Report has written a document commemorating the 25th anniversary of the HPCC Conference, which will take place March 29-31, 2011 in Newport, RI. For 25 years, HPCC has gathered the best and the brightest in high performance computing. And since the beginning, it has been organized by John Miguel, who retired […]
Flex Bits: HPC News with Snark for Friday, Feb. 18
February 18, 2011 by
We don’t get to everything we want to cover at insideHPC. Here are the Flex News Bits for the week of Friday, Feb. 18: European Supers. This week RWTH Aachen University ordered a 300 TFLOP Bull supercomputer and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre signed up for a multi-streaming Cray XMT. SGI in USA Today. After announcing record […]
Obama Budget Proposal Includes Exascale
February 18, 2011 by
Patrick Thibodeau writes that, for the first time, the 2012 budget proposal explicitly references “exascale.” If approved, the DOE will get $126 million for exascale development. The DOE budget had budgeted just over $24 million in 2011, but this was in context of “extreme scale” computing. The DOE has not yet said how exascale funding will […]
