httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMNyqYLh78 In this video, EPFL’s Martin Odersky discusses the reasons why he created the Scala general purpose programming language. Scala is designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more productive. Recorded at OSCON […]
Archives for July 2011
Video: Bull Showcases Tera100 at ISC'11- The Fastest Supercomputer in Europe
July 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma0OTOjeb1U In this video, Bull’s Pascale Bernier-Bruna showcases the company’s HPC systems that make up the Tera100 system at CEA–Europe’s fastest supercomputer. Recorded at the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg.
Video: NCSA's John Towns on the XSEDE project
July 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzNJ8WLH5_s In this video, John Towns, principal investigator for the National Science Foundation’s new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment project, talks about the vision for XSEDE and how it will build on the TeraGrid.
insideHPC Expands Staff to Meet Rapid Growth
July 26, 2011 by
Today insideHPC, a leading news and information portal covering the global ecosystem of high performance computing, announced the addition of several new staff members to keep up with the publication’s impressive widespread growth among both readers and advertisers.
Joining the company will be Ralph Wells as Associate Editor, William Wallace as Associate Publisher, and Amie Scheckla as an Account Executive.
At insideHPC, we’ve experienced a lot of growth in the past year,” said company President Rich Brueckner. “We launched our sister publication, inside-Startups, just two months ago and It quickly became clear to me that we needed to expand our staff to better serve our readers. Together, Amie, Ralph, and William bring a tremendous amount of talent and enthusiasm to the insideHPC team.”
Interview: Cray's Bet on Resilient HPC Pays Off
July 26, 2011 by
In this interview with Primeur Magazine, Cray’s VP of Products Barry Bolding discusses how the company has enjoyed growth over the past year as a result of meeting its reliability goals with the Cray XE6: Last year when we talked here at ISC in Hamburg we introduced the Cray XE6. One thing I would like […]
Video: PBS Professional Looks Out 20 Years on Scalability
July 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuFmfChtbOE In this video, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interviews Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works at Altair Engineering. The company recently celebrated the 20th anniversay of PBS Professional, Altair’s EAL3+ security certified, commercial-grade HPC workload management solution. Recorded at the ISC’11 Conference in Hamburg.
HPC News with Snark for July 25, 2011
July 25, 2011 by
At insideHPC, we have some exciting announcements in the works for this week as we gear up for our coverage of the OSCON open source conference. In the meantime, here is the HPC News with Snark for Monday, July 25, 2011. Latency Detective. With a big world map straight out of that Strange Brew movie, the […]
Mellanox Promotion Offers Early Access to 10/40GbE Gear
July 25, 2011 by
Today Mellanox announced a beta lab bundle promotion for its 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet end-to-end connectivity solutions. Colfax Direct is offering the bundles through September 30 to enable customers to economically evaluate high bandwidth, low-latency end-to-end Mellanox Ethernet solutions. Mellanox’s SwitchX and ConnectX solutions give IT managers flexibility in how they deploy higher bandwidth […]
Computerworld: Russians Stepping up in HPC
July 25, 2011 by
Patrick Thibodeau over at Computerworld writes that Russia is stepping up on the world stage of HPC thanks to T-Platforms and a Russian president who sees high-performance computing as critical to the nation’s future. Russian President DMItry Medvedev is very interested in duplicating the U.S. achievements in high-technology, and last year traveled to Silicon Valley, […]
HP Showcases High Performance Computing at ISC'11
July 25, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yITN08smgE In this video, HP’s Ed Turkel showcases the company’s HPC solutions on display at the International Supercomputing Conference 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
