httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ERnlpX-84 In this video, Data Direct Network’s VP of HPC Sales John Josephakis kicks off its User Group Meeting at ISC in Hamburg on June 20. 2011. More videos from the meeting are posted here.
Archives for June 2011
Big Compute Reviews New Whitepaper on Data-Intensive HPC
June 27, 2011 by
The Big Compute blog reviews a new SGI whitepaper on data-intensive computing by Steve Conway of IDC: “IDC claims that data-intensive workloads are going to become par for the HPC course in coming years, making up a more sizable portion of the overall high performance computing market. Conway notes that “in addition, while many big […]
Open MPI Powers 8 Petaflop K Super
June 27, 2011 by
Cisco’s Jeff Squyres writes that the new K supercomputer in Japan used OpenMPI to achieve 93 percent efficiency on 8 petaflop runs: “Several extensions have been made because of low latency communication for point-to-point, reduction of memory consumption, and multiple network interface with specified one not trunking, etc. Some of these can be contributed to […]
Video: Cloud Guru Panel Session from Structure 2011
June 26, 2011 by
Watch live streaming video from gigaomstructure at livestream.com Our Video Sunday feature continues with this Cloud Guru panel discussion from the recent Structure Conference in San Francisco. Jonathan Heiliger of Facebook moderates. Speakers: Sid Anand – Software Architect, Netflix Claus Moldt – Global CIO and SVP Service Delivery, salesforce.com Jacob Rosenberg – Architect, Comcast Kevin […]
RSC Showcases Liquid-cooled HPC Platform for Intel Processors
June 26, 2011 by
This week at ISC, Russian HPC vendor RSC demonstrated a new HPC platform with liquid cooling for all heat-emitting electronic components. This is RSC’s second generation of energy-efficient supercomputing infrastructure designs, enabling use of wide range of the motherboards initially designed for traditional forced air-flow cooling. The novel RSC solution supports widely available server motherboards […]
Guest Feature: A Look Back at ISC'11 by John Hengeveld
June 25, 2011 by
In this special guest feature, Intel’s John Hengeveld follows up on his recent preview of ISC’11 with some reflections on one of the biggest weeks in HPC. Well, ISC is over. I renewed some friendships, made some new friends, and even found a really good tapas restaurant. For me, ISC was fascinating. The industry, much […]
Whitepaper: Accelerated Sparse Triangular Linear Systems
June 24, 2011 by
A new whitepaper looks at Accelerated Sparse Triangular Linear Systems: “Fresh from NVIDIA Numeric Libraries Team, a white paper illustrating the use the CUSPARSE and CUBLAS libraries to achieve a 2x speed up of incomplete-LU and Cholesky preconditioned interative methods. Focusing on the Bi-Conjugate Gradient, Stabilized and Conjugate Gradient iterative methods that can be used to solve […]
At #1 on TOP500, Where Does Sparc Go from Here?
June 23, 2011 by
The surprise appearance of the Japanese K supercomputer at the #1 spot on the TOP500 this week may have you wondering where the Sparc architecture is going. While the machine was built by Fujitsu, Oracle has posted a Sparc Roadmap that goes all the way to 2015. In related news, Oracle has been struggling with […]
Slide Deck: Highlights of the 37th TOP500 List
June 23, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.slideshare.net (share this clip) Slides highlighting the 37th TOP500 list are now posted at slideshare. The presentation was given this week by Erich Strohmaier, LBNL.
NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Among World's Fastest
June 23, 2011 by
Pleiades, NASA’s largest supercomputer, is now seventh on the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., Pleiads supports more than 1,000 active users around the country who are advancing our knowledge about […]
