The School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University is using an HPC Wales supercomputer to model the long-term impact of site-choice for tidal power generation systems. Choosing sites for such generation plants, and their detailed design, requires a careful balance to be struck between how much energy is removed from the tidal flow and how […]
Archives for December 2011
Video: OSC – Celebrating a Quarter-Century of Research, Education, and Supercomputing
December 23, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-OLoKypL10 In this video, team members from the Ohio Supercomputing Center look back on 25 years of supercomputing excellence.
2012 Server Roadmap Forks at Power and Performance
December 23, 2011 by
Michael J. Miller writes that the 2012 server market will undergo more fragmentation with a renewed emphasis on HPC and the emergence of microservers thad draw less power. In 2012, we’re likely to see even more of these systems focus on GPU computing. Nvidia continues to push its Tesla processors into more systems and says […]
HPC News with Snark for Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011
December 22, 2011 by
The news keeps streaming in this Holiday Season, so here is the HPC News with Snark for Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Purple Mountain Goes Bright. The Purple Mountain Observatory in China has selected Bright Cluster Manager for its HPC cluster. The system is used to support PMO’s research into dark matter, dark energy, and black […]
Podcast: HPC Tools in Smarter Manufacturing
December 22, 2011 by
In this Intel Chip Chat with Allyson Klein, Jon Riley from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences discusses using advanced computer digital manufacturing (tools such as product modeling and simulation) to revitalize SMB manufacturing. Recorded at SC11 in Seattle. Download the MP3.
Video: Council on Competitiveness Celebrates 25 Years
December 22, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_tEgVvXJiY In this video, the Council on Competitiveness celebrates their 25th anniversary. The Council on Competitiveness was founded in 1986 during a time when the United States was facing its most dire economic challenges since the end of World War II. The country had slid from being the world’s largest creditor to its largest debtor, […]
HokieSpeed Super to become a War Horse for Researchers
December 21, 2011 by
Steven Mackay writes that Virginia Tech’s new “HokieSpeed” supercomputer will be a veritable “War Horse” for researchers working on diverse science. You may remember how Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a novel Apple server cluster powered by the company’s G5 processors. Ranked at number 96 on the TOP500 and […]
NCSA's Free iPhone Game for Your Favorite HPC Geek
December 21, 2011 by
If you are running late on your Holiday shopping, we’re hoping this might help. NCSA has created an iPhone/iPad game! Flops Fever was created by University of Illinois students Ari Morgan and Harry Hsiao and can be downloaded free from the Apple app store! An Android version of the game will be coming soon. Scientists […]
OSC Powers Better Turbine Simulations
December 21, 2011 by
Turbines power our world–pumps, fans, compressors,and other machines that transfer energy between a rotor and a fluid. To help make better designs, engineers must understand the physics of very complex air-flow fields produced within multiple stages of constantly rotating rotors and stators. Enter the research team at the Ohio Supercomputer Center lead by Dr. Jen-Ping […]
Slidecast: Violin Memory – Insanely Powerful
December 21, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xRhi9bUCw In this video, Jonathan Goldick from Violin Memory presents on the company’s high availability flash memory solutions for big data and HPC applications. The Violin 3200 is a redundant, modular 3U memory array that scales from 500GB to 10TB SLC NAND Flash and provides the industry’s best price/performance attributes. It is the first in […]
