Archives for May 2011

A Light Bulb Moment – Key Factors to Smart Grid Adoption

May 24, 2011 by

In this special guest feature, IBM’s Ron Ambrosio describes how the company is enabling Smart Grids that prevent power outages and enable conservation as the world’s power needs continue to grow.

IDC predicts that the volume of internet data is expected to reach 35,000 exabytes by 2020. Collecting, analyzing and using this data can be complex, time consuming and costly. Yet despite these hurdles, many organizations are investing in data analytics to better understand their clients and make more informed business decisions. For the energy and utilities industry – evaluating and leveraging data has never been so instrumental.

Filed Under: Cloud HPC, News

HPC Job of the Week: Technical Writer at Penguin

May 24, 2011 by

Our HPC Job of the Week comes from our friends at Penguin Computing: Technical Writer at Penguin Create technical documents in the form of User Guides, Hardware Manuals, Technical Specification Sheets, Hardware Installation Guides, Training documents. Create/edit/revise Marketing product sheets, case studies, and whitepapers For more great openings in High Performance Computing, check out our new […]

Filed Under: Jobs

Forge Super to Fire Up GPUs at NCSA

May 24, 2011 by

A new 153-teraflop supercomputer called Forge is being deployed at NCSA. The GPU-powered system is expected to enter production by July 1. Forge will combine 18 Dell PowerEdge C6145s that contain 36 nodes of dual-socket/eight-core AMD processors, with M2070 NVIDIA Fermi GPU units housed in Dell’s C410x PCI expansion enclosures; there are eight Fermi units […]

Filed Under: CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, HPC Hardware, New Installations, News

So You Want To Get To Exascale? Sure, follow me. I’ll Show You Where It’s At.

May 23, 2011 by

If the U.S. is serious about having exascale-level computation available by the end of this decade, its current model of disjointed, incremental funding of multiple, small research projects is just not going to be sufficient.

From conferences to workshops, I’m sure many of you have heard this same response – and some of you may even be repeating this mantra:

“Will we reach exascale by 2018? Sure we can do it. We’re the U.S.A. We always rise to the challenge!”

Filed Under: Exascale, HPC Hardware, The Exascale Report

Community Opinion: Does the U.S. Need an Exascale Reality Check?

May 23, 2011 by

Many people believe that the current levels of U.S. investment and commitment to exascale research fall far short of what is necessary to get the country to exascale-class systems by the end of this decade.

Yet, thousands of very smart HPC community participants have accepted the position, reinforced by hundreds of presentations, that the nation will achieve exascale by 2018.

While other countries look at unified approaches to this daunting technology journey, the U.S. appears to be in jeopardy of losing momentum without a solid, coordinated plan to bring the necessary resources together in support of a national exascale initiative.

Filed Under: Exascale, HPC Hardware, The Exascale Report

PSC Accelerates Machine-learning Algorithm with CUDA

May 23, 2011 by

Researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and HP Labs have achieved unprecedented speedup of 10X on a key machine-learning algorithm. A branch of artificial intelligence, machine learning enables computers to process and learn from vast amounts of empirical data through algorithms that can recognize complex patterns and make intelligent decisions based on them. For many […]

Filed Under: CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, HPC Hardware, HPC Software, News

Barrenechea Named 2011 Best Large Technology Company CEO

May 23, 2011 by

SGI CEO Mark J. Barrenechea has been named 2011 Best Large Technology Company CEO by the San Francisco Business Times. The profiles of our Tech & Innovation awardees show incredible resilience and rebirth, as in the story of how Rackable Systems CEO Mark J. Barrenechea dug storied super-computing firm Silicon Graphics Inc. out of the […]

Filed Under: Business of HPC

Announcing inside-STARTUPs: Our New Sister-Publication

May 23, 2011 by

Clipped from: inside-startups.com (share this clip)   I’m pleased to announce the launch of our new sister-publication: inside-STARTUPs.com. And that’s right, there is a hyphen in the URL between inside and startups. Let’s Get it Started! Last year at the GTC conference, we noticed that a lot of interesting startup companies were out there that […]

Filed Under: Business of HPC, News

Video: Leveraging Hybrid-Core Architecture in Removing Applications to Storage Bottlenecks – pNFS and Beyond

May 23, 2011 by

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO-FklOj7S0 In this video, BlueArc CTO Shmuel Shottan presents: Leveraging Hybrid-Core Architecture in Romoving Applications to Storage Bottlenecks – pNFS and Beyond. Recorded at the National HPCC Conference 2011 in Newport. A unique NAS offload Engine Architecture has been key to leading NFS performance for most of the previous decade. As HPC applications obviously require […]

Filed Under: Events, HPC Hardware, News, Storage, Videos

Newman: Ignore Tape Migration at Your Own Peril

May 23, 2011 by

Instrumental CEO Henry Newman writes that tape migration is something you ignore at your own peril. He says that while migration used to be pretty straightforward, there are many reasons why this is no longer the case. For the most part, I rely on what a former mentor referred to as EJ (engineering judgment). I […]

Filed Under: HPC Hardware, News, Storage
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