IBM has donated a million-dollar supercomputer to Union College. Students will be able to research a myriad of problems with the HPC cluster, which consists of 88 servers and more than 1,000 processors. John E. Kelly III, a member of the Union class of 1976 and IBM’s senior vice president and director of research said […]
Archives for May 2011
INL Fission Supercomputer is Simulating Nuclear Fuel
May 23, 2011 by
World Nuclear News is reporting that the new Fission supercomputer at Idaho National Labs is six times more powerful than its predecessor, Icestorm. The Appro Xtreme-X supercomputer consists of 14 racks with a total of 12,512 cores based on AMD Opteron processors and has a peak speed of 91 teraflops. An INL team is already […]
Whitepaper: From CUDA to OpenCL: Towards a Performance-portable Solution for Multi-platform GPU Programming
May 22, 2011 by
This whitepaper evaluate OpenCL as a programming tool for developing performance-portable applications for GPGPUs. While the Khronos group developed OpenCL with programming portability in mind, performance is not necessarily portable. OpenCL has required performance-impacting initializations that do not exist in other languages such as CUDA. Understanding these implications allows us to provide a single library […]
Video: Seven Meals from Chaos
May 22, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGO_qovfF0M Since we survived the Rapture Day, our Video Sunday feature continues with a reading of my apocalyptic short story called Seven Meals from Chaos. Actually, this story does a have a tie-in to HPC. It’s based on a dream I had on a return flight from ISC in Dresden some five years ago. If you know your […]
Call for Papers: Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing
May 21, 2011 by
The 24th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing has issued its Call for Papers: The LCPC workshop is a forum for sharing cutting-edge research on all aspects of parallel languages, compilers and related topics including runtime systems and tools. The scope of the workshop spans foundational results and practical experience, and all […]
Early Bird Registration for ISC'11 Ends May 20
May 20, 2011 by
The ISC early bird registration will close by the end of today, so be sure to register to save 25 percent off the price of admission. ISC’11 is looking to be another record year, with 22 percent more attendees registered compared with the same time last year. The International Supercomputing Conference will take place in Hamburg from […]
insideHPC Launches Job Board – Free Listings for .GOV and .EDU HPC Jobs
May 20, 2011 by
Clipped from: insidehpc.jobamatic.com (share this clip) In partnership with SimplyHired, insideHPC is very pleased to announce our new Job Board. Simply Hired is a vertical search engine company based in Silicon Valley, and we’re building the largest online database of jobs on the planet. Our goal is to make finding your next job a […]
Video: DEISA – HPC Infrastructure: Lessons Learned & Recommendations
May 20, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZIYzdwkOU In this video, Wolfgang Gentzsch presents DEISA – HPC Infrastructure: Lessons Learned & Recommendations. Recorded at the National HPCC Conference 2011 in Newport.
Nvidia Snaps Out Snappier Tesla GPU Coprocessors
May 19, 2011 by
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author GPU chipmaker Nvidia knows that it has to do more to grow its Tesla biz than slap some passive heat sinks on a fanless GPU card and talk up its CUDA parallel-programming tools. It has to keep delivering price/performance improvements, as well. And that’s exactly what it’s […]
Video: GPU-Powered Supercomputing – The Next Wave of HPC
May 19, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Hj8lizv1c In this video, HP’s Marc Hamilton presents GPU-Powered Supercomputing – The Next Wave of HPC. Recorded at the National HPCC Conference 2011 in Newport.
