httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7zEfFVgxOk In this video, Spectra Logic’s Molly Rector presents: Big Data, Cloud & Archive Storage: Trends and Opportunities. Recorded at the 2011 Spectra Press Day in Boulder.
Archives for October 2011
Video: Archaeologists Leveraging HPC to Preserve the Past
October 27, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkJ0fWLzQ6g In this video, Adam Rabinowitz and his team work with supercomputer experts at TACC to develop high-tech, digital solutions to preserve ancient sites. Today, archaeologists are more likely to take hundreds of digital photos, notate the information in a spreadsheet on a laptop, and record careful geographically referenced information that only a computer can […]
NAG's Andrew Jones Pens the SC11 Diary
October 27, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.hpcnotes.com (share this clip) Andrew Jones from NAG and HPC Notes is writing a series of journal entries on his preparations for SC11. There is so much to participate in at SC11 that there is sometimes a sense of responsibility to choose wisely and make the best of it all; but also it […]
HPC Advisory Council Posts Revealing Slides from China Workshop 2011
October 26, 2011 by
The HPC Advisory Council just wrapped up its China Workshop 2011 in Jinan and have now posted links to most of the presentations. Most of the slides are available in English as well as Chinese. Some of the materials are fascinating, including a talk by Dr. HUO Zhigang from NCIC: Building a 100PFlops system – […]
The Portland Group Adds Support for AMD’s “Bulldozer” Architecture
October 26, 2011 by
Today the Portland Group announced that PGI compilers now support Advanced Vector Instructions (AVX) for both AMD and Intel x64 CPUs. With its manycore architecture, the newly launched Bulldozer “Interlagos” processors are rapidly getting traction in the HPC space and this move will keep PGI in lock-step with users seeking to maximize application performance. PGI […]
Video: State of the Tape Market 2011
October 26, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10e6rUFc9v0 In this video, Spectra Logic’s Molly Rector presents: State of the Tape Market. Recorded at the 2011 Spectra Logic Press & Analyst Event in Boulder.
Fujitsu Poised to Take K Computer to International HPC Market
October 26, 2011 by
Bloomberg BusinessWeek is reporting that Fujitsu hopes to nab $2.6 billion worth of supercomputer orders from the Japanese government in the next five years, but it’s not stopping there. The company is close to releasing its K supercomputer to an international market hungry for it’s extreme bandwidth and computational efficiency. Fujitsu is preparing the K […]
Nvidia's Tegra to Push into Server Land
October 26, 2011 by
Agam Shah writes that Nvidia is looking beyond graphics processors and plans to push future Tegra chips into servers. They have some interesting parallel processing technology that works out for them, and they have ARM, which makes sense for them to pair to go after that class of applications,” said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at […]
IDC SC11 Breakfast Briefing, Nov. 16 in Seattle
October 26, 2011 by
Clipped from: www.idc.com (share this clip) IDC will host it’s annual SC11 Breakfast Briefing on Wednesday, November 16 (7:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.) at the Seattle Hilton. This is a great chance to get caught up on IDC’s latest HPC revenue numbers, market forecasts, emerging HPC markets, European parallel software study findings, dynamics of […]
3D Tape Backup Biz Taps Mr. StorageTek
October 26, 2011 by
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author The guy who guided StorageTek when it developed and shipped its StreamLine tape library, who persevered through Sun’s ownership of StorageTek, and then wound up in Oracle, which depends on StreamLine to this day for tape credibility, has finally taken a hike. He’s joined SpectraLogic. Privately owned Spectra, with […]
