On a bit of a vacation, I’m reporting today from that noted international hotbed of HPC activity known as Wautoma, Wisconsin. I tell you this because apparently AT&T has never heard of it. Here’s the HPC News with Snark for Aug. 26, 2011: Big Blue Builds Big, Big Data. IBM is building a 120 Petabyte […]
Archives for August 2011
Video: CPusage Sells Your CPU Cycles to Science
August 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WaepTTANew The Next Web brings us this video on CPusage, a Portland Startup that turns your excess CPU cycles into a public grid for scientific research. The processing power of the idle computers (downloaded in one click for users) creates CPUsage’s Cirrus Grid which delivers a scalable and high powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service for high throughput and […]
Video: An Overview of Hot Interconnects 2011
August 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd84UQ8Z5lo In this video, Rich Brueckner of insideHPC interviews IBM’s Fabrizio Petrini, chair of the Hot Interconnects Symposium 2011. The event wraps up Friday, August 26 with a set of tutorial sessions.
IBM's BlueGene/Q Super Chip Grows 18th Core
August 26, 2011 by
IBM’s BlueGene/Q super chip grows 18th core By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Hot Chips The mystery surrounding the number of cores in the 64-bit Power processor that will be at the heart of the 20 petaflops “Sequoia” BlueGene/Q supercomputer has been finally cleared up. Back at the SC10 supercomputing conference in November […]
Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!
August 25, 2011 by
Do you think you know Parallel Programming? Think again. IBM’s David Unger is planning a thought-provoking talk entitled Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed about the Future at the upcoming Splash conference, October 22, in Portland. In the end of the first decade of the new century, chips such as […]
China Steps Up in Race to Exascale Computing
August 25, 2011 by
Jack Clark of ZDNet reports that China has plans to build an Exascale supercomputer by 2020. China is preparing to work on a supercomputer with a capacity of 100 petaflops by 2015 and try to produce the first exascale computer in 2020,” said Hu Qinqfeng, deputy chief designer of China’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, quoted in […]
Ian Foster to Keynote ISC Cloud'11
August 25, 2011 by
The ISC Cloud’11 conference has announced that Ian Foster’s keynote will be entitled: We’re Smarter than we Think: Accelerating Discovery by Outsourcing the Mundane Abstract Whitehead observed that “civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” I propose that commercial cloud computing can allow us to […]
Video: Conference Kickoff – Hot Interconnects 2011
August 24, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXptmDiEus4 In this video, conference chair Fabrizio Petrini kicks off the Hot Interconnects 2011 symposium in Santa Clara. We’re happy to see insideHPC get a mention, and we are looking forward to posting presentation videos from Intel’s professional camera crew in the coming days. This video is just a summary of the opening talk, but […]
Job of the Week: Sr. Hardware Architect at Penguin Computing
August 24, 2011 by
Penguin Computing is seeking a Senior Hardware Architect in our Job of the Week. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Sr. Hardware Architect will round out our R&D Team. Lead/coordinate Company initiatives from a hardware technology perspective, driving our ideas from inception to evaluation and prototype, communicating the results and strategy to internal teams. […]
Video: Run Applications Faster with Amazon Elasticache
August 24, 2011 by
Video: Turbocharge your apps with Amazon Elasticache In this video, Amazon demonstrates ElastiCache, a new web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching system, instead of […]
