Each year, SCinet supports the SC conference series with a leading-edge network. In order to foster and highlight developments in network research. Now, for the first time, the SC11 SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS) will a support a 10 Gbps, multi-vendor OpenFlow network testbed “OpenFlow allows the creation of software-defined network policy. The ability to “program the network” […]
Archives for March 2011
Video: Scaling to the Exascale – Efficient Usage of Your Supercomputer Resources
March 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn3DPp_qEsQ In this video, Gilad Shainer presents Scaling to the Exascale — Efficient Usage of Your Supercomputer Resources. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.
Evaluating Multi-Core Processors for HPC
March 28, 2011 by
Doug Eadline writes in the SICORP blog about how to easily test multi-core performance using open source HPC benchmarks: “When I test processors, I tend to use HPC tests. I do not use HPL (High Performance Linpack) because it can require a lot of tuning to get a good number. I prefer to use standard GNU compilers […]
Video: Futures of MPI
March 28, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_1iTyAb6M In this video, Sayantan Sur from OSU presents Futures of MPI. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Part 2 of this presentation is also available. Workshops slides are here.
Video: Simulation of Hurricane Katrina
March 27, 2011 by
[HTML1] Our Video Sunday feature continues with a new visualization created by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA that shows the dramatic evolution of hurricane Katrina. “The video is a 36-hour time-lapse that shows the hurricane unfold in unprecedented detail, as it gathers momentum over the Bahamas. In the beginning, warm water evaporates from the ocean and […]
Video: Hands-On InfiniBand Clustering Contest
March 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlpw914bEB8 It just doesn’t get much geekier than this. In this video, four attendees from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano go head to head in an InfiniBand Clustering Hands-On Competition. Congratulations to the winner: Lukasz Flis from ACK Cyfronet AGH in Krakow, Poland!
Video: HPC in Seismic Data Processing: Promises and Challenges
March 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCdx-AIl-8 In this video, Richa Rastogi from C-DAC presents High performance computing in seismic data processing. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Workshops slides are here.
Webinar: Power Architecture Celebrates 20th Anniversary
March 26, 2011 by
While x86 dominates the HPC market in a big way, the IBM Power architecture continues to be a notable exception. This year Power will mark its 20th anniversary and Power.org is celebrating with a Free Webinar on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM CDT. “With the new Power7 microprocessor, IBM designed a new supercomputer […]
Flex Bits: HPC News with Snark for March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011 by
It’s been an amazing week for me here in Lugano, Switzerland covering the HPC Advisory Council Workshop event. It’s also been a big week for HPC News odds and ends: Jobs! Firms hiring techies include: Elti Solutions, KAUST, Linkedin, Linux Journal, OptionsMarketTraders, PGI, and the gamers at The Witness. Petascale Internships! NCSA is seeking applicants for undergraduate Petascale […]
Sponsored Post: Datacenter Technologies Academy in London, May 19, 2011
March 24, 2011 by
SNIA Europe is pleased to bring you the Datacenter Technologies Academy in London, the 2011 edition of our highly successful series of events. Our 2011 program focuses on important Datacenter Technologies such as Cloud Computing and Services; Virtual Servers, Storage and Desktops; Contemporary Data Protection; Converged Ethernet and FCoE; Solid State Storage; Data Deduplication and of course […]
