Our Video Sunday feature continues with this story announcing that the Chinese Sunway Bluelight supercomputer is now fully operational after a three month trial run in Jinan. Sunway BlueLight is the first supercomputer built entirely of components engineered and built in China.
Archives for January 2012
ICERM Workshop Focuses on Power for Future Supers
January 21, 2012 by
Jeremy Hsu from MSNBC writes that even if we could build an Exascale computer today, powering the thing would require the output of the Hoover Dam. To discuss these challenges, researchers gathered at a workshop held by the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University recently. We’ve reached the point […]
HPC User Forum Posts Agenda for 45th Meeting in Richmond, April 16-18
January 20, 2012 by
The HPC User Forum has published its agenda for the 45th meeting coming up in Richmond, VA on April 16-18, 2012. The theme of the meeting will be Advances and Potential Disruptions in HPC with presentations on Big Data, TACC Stampede, and Data-intensive Computing. Register now. There looks to be a record number of events […]
Programming all those GPUs – Exascale Report Community Weighs in on Blue Waters, Titan
January 20, 2012 by
The Exascale Report has shared with us their Community Responds column in which readers discuss challenges of extreme scale in today’s systems. The participants are a who’s who of HPC thought leaders, so the article is well-worth a look. Question from NAG’s Andrew Jones: What should be done about the applications that won’t be able […]
Video: 6-Minute Primer on Memristors
January 20, 2012 by
In this video, R. Stanley Williams provides a quick-and-dirty guide to Memristors – the fourth fundamental circuit element. In October 2011, HP projected the commercial availability of memristor technology within 18 months, as a replacement for Flash, SSD, DRAM and SRAM.
New PNNL Olympus Super Cools off with Groundwater
January 20, 2012 by
J. Nicholas Hoover over at Information Week writes that the new Olympus supercomputer at PNNL has a a novel cooling system that uses groundwater. Most supercomputers rely on air conditioning or chilled water to cool powerful computing clusters. Olympus’ system, on the other hand, uses 65-degree groundwater. The water is fed into a closed loop […]
Magellan Study Shows Cloud is 13x More Expensive for Scientific Applications
January 19, 2012 by
Does the Cloud really save money? According to the DoE’s Magellan Report relased in December, Public cloud computing environments for scientific applications have the potential to be up to 13 times more expensive than existing DoE supercomputing centers. Read the Full Story. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTbYm5f-ByE In this video first posted here from the September 2011 HPC User Forum, […]
New Whitepaper Looks at IB vs. 10GbE for HPC Applications
January 19, 2012 by
A new whitepaper from Mellanox describes the HPC application performance advantages of InfiniBand vs. 10 Gig Ethernet. Written by Todd Wilde, Gilad Shainer, Pak Lui, and Tong Liu, the paper also makes the case that IB offers significant price/performance advantages as well. Due to the superior end to end latency, bandwidth, scalability and advanced features […]
Slidecast: Wildpackets – Network Forensics 101
January 19, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlEldJ_GV0 In this slidecast, Jay Botelho from Wildpackets describes how network forensics works and how the company’s provides enterprise-wide network monitoring and reporting. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players If your IT crowd blocks Dropbox, you can also Download the MP3 from The Google.
Microsoft Raises ‘State of the Art’ Son of NTFS
January 18, 2012 by
By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author Microsoft has unveiled a “state of the art” file system for the next 10 years that builds on NTFS. Named Resilient File System (ReFS), Microsoft’s latest baby will be delivered with Windows 8 Server and become the foundation of storage on Windows Clients. ReFS will be used with […]
