The week Numascale announced an agreement with the University of Oslo to build a prototype Big Data SMP supercomputer for large scale advanced research computation. Numascale technology enables the use of commodity servers to be aggregated into a scalable computer system that shares all processor, memory and I/O resources in a single system image. We […]
Archives for November 2011
Video: Overview of OrangeFS, Open Source Parallel File System for Big Data
November 25, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH1mcQnUGiM In this video, Clemson’s Dr. Walt Ligon provides an overview of OrangeFS, an open source file system tailor-made for Big Data. OrangeFS is an open source parallel file system developed from PVFS. OrangeFS provides good scalability for large HPC systems and can be used with emerging data intensive workloads. Perhaps more importantly, OrangeFS is […]
Video: Overview of Cray XK6 Titan Supercomputer
November 25, 2011 by
This video provides an overview of Titan, a 10-20 Petaflop upgrade to ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer that will be ready for users in 2013.
Video: Interview with Hans Meuer on ISC'12
November 24, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arLrJ1Vmm_o In this video, Hans Meuer discusses the International Supercomputing Conference ISC’12, which will take place in Hamburg on June 17-21, 2012. Hans informs us that Thomas Sterling from the University of Indiana will be the keynote speaker at the event, which is certainly something to look forward to.
Video: A Year at the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center
November 24, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyux23zjyBY It’s Thanksgiving, so I thought we’d let someone else produce the video for today while I get psyched up for the Packer game. In this video, Andrew Clapp recaps the past year at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Andrew put the montage together, but not the videos themselves. I watched a rough cut of this […]
HPC Helps Automotive Supplier Double their Business
November 23, 2011 by
Patrick Thibodeau writes that Michigan automotive supplier L&L Products attributes its 100 percent growth to an investment in high performance computing. It doubled our business,” said Reagan, adding that the firm now makes about $220 million annually and has about 900 global employees. Before the introduction of HPC, “we didn’t compete in this market,” said Reagan. […]
Video: Texas Instruments Multicore DSPs for HPC at SC11
November 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZv4HyLNkm4 In this video, Ramesh Kumar from Texas Instruments describes the company’s low-power multicore DSP processors for HPC applications. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. For more information on DSPs from Texas Instruments, check out our podcast interview with TI’s Anon Friedman.
Will Supercomputers Someday Live Only in the Cloud?
November 23, 2011 by
David Linthicum write that the new public beta of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large is Amazon AWS is not only most powerful cloud service yet, it may herald the day when supercomputers live only in the Cloud. I believe that those who vend these computing systems and sell about 20 to 30 a year will find that […]
Video: Interactively Visualizing Science at Scale at SC11
November 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRqE-y_8NY In this video, TACC’s Dr. Kelly Gaither presents: “Interactively Visualizing Science at Scale” at SC11 in Seattle. Visualization is one of the most important and commonly used methods of analyzing and interpreting digital assets. For many types of computational research, it is the only viable means of extracting information and developing understanding from data. However, […]
GPU-Powered Tsubame 2.0 Ranked as only Petaflop System on Green500
November 23, 2011 by
Let’s face it; when it comes to the TOP500, most people pay attention to the biggest systems on the list. But for the Green500, there’s a million ways to spin it. Today Nvidia announced that, for the second year in a row, the fastest system on the Green500 is powered by the company’s Tesla GPUs. […]
