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Archives for September 2011
Job of the Week: System Administrator Principal Leader at CSC Supporting NASA
September 26, 2011 by
In our Job of the Week, CSC is seeking a CSC is seeking System Administrator Principal Leader to work on a team supporting the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division: In this position, you will coordinate with client management to formulate highly complex technical solutions. Provide technical leadership to internal and external personnel on highly complex system […]
Report: IBM Sought to Delay Blue Waters by One Year Before Canceling Contract
September 25, 2011 by
Paul Wood from the Central Illinois News-Gazette reports that trouble began to surface in the NCSA Blue Waters deal as far back as December 2010. More than three dozen changes, most suggested by IBM, would have delayed the Blue Waters project by a year, the University of Illinois argued in documents obtained by The News-Gazette. […]
Video: Intel HPC Briefing at IDF 2011
September 25, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7q5UdDRR8w In this video, Intel’s John Hengeveld presents: Accelerating the Pace of Discovery. His talk is followed by UC Berkeley’s David Patterson presenting: Big Data, HPC, and Cancer. These talks were recorded at IDF 2011 in San Francisco. Download the PDF. A separate video shows the entire session (just the speakers, no slides) including a […]
Intel Speeds Fortran, Language More Popular Than Ever
September 24, 2011 by
Our most popular story this week was about Why Fortran Still Matters. Now, Intel’s James Reinders writes that not only is Fortran still relevant, it will be a big part of Exascale computing: As far as we can tell, there are more Fortran programmers today than ever. Fortran is almost certainly a smaller % of […]
Video: SC11 Coming Attractions – insideHPC Takes on Watson
September 24, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXWuP8Eu1c In this video, Rich Brueckner tries to match wits with Watson at ISC’11 with a little help from IBM’s Martin Hiegl. This week, IBM announced that attendees at SC11 will have the opportunity to play a game of Jeopardy against the Watson computing system. Watson will be featured in a kiosk located on the […]
Livermore's Trish Damkroger Elected General Chair of SC14 in the Big Easy
September 23, 2011 by
The SC conference series has announced that Trish Damkroger has been elected the SC14 General Chair. SC14 will be located in New Orleans, LA, and will be the second time the SC Conference has been hosted by NOLA. Trish has been an active participant in SC, and is currently the SC11 exhibits chair and a […]
TACC's Stampede a "Home Run" for Intel's MIC
September 23, 2011 by
Joe Curley writes that the the Intel’s future MIC architecture has won its first home run with yesterday’s announcement that TACC will build a 10 Petaflop Dell supercomputer accellerated by Knights Corner. We believe the decision to build “Stampede” based on Intel Xeon processors E5 family and Intel MIC architecture based “Knights Corner” is a […]
Video: Bill Kramer on Why do Supercomputing?
September 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjbdspdsxw In this video, Bill Kramer, SC11 Technical Program co-Chair answers the question: Why Supercomputing? The Technical Program is the major component of SC11, with the persistent conference goal that all selected work is regarded in the highest esteem. The conference Technical Program is highly competitive, with historic acceptance rates for technical papers between 20-25%. […]
Podcast: CERN Chooses Coverity to Root Out Bugs in LHC Software
September 23, 2011 by
In this podcast, Axel Naumann describes how CERN used Coverity testing software to root out problems in its massive Root codebase used to analyze results from the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is all about Big Data, generating over 15 Petabytes of information per year. CERN has been even more successful in its quest to […]
