Archives for February 2012

Avere Systems Speeds Moviemaking via the Cloud at Digital Domain

Today Avere Systems announced that Digital Domain Productions is using the company’s optimized NAS solutions via the Clou to access massive amounts of computer-generated imagery data. Digital Domain, known for its effects in films like Titanic, TRON: Legacy and Real Steel, uses render nodes co-located in Las Vegas, which access data stored at its locations […]

Compute Canada Steps Up with $80M HPC Funding

This week Compute Canada announced grants of nearly $80 million towards for 159 research projects across the country. As Canada’s national platform of HPC resources and partners, Compute Canada’s distributed resources represent close to 2 Petaflops of compute power. The scope and scale of today’s research investigations demand an incredible amount of computational power,” said […]

Xcelerit Bundles SDK with PEER 1’s Cloud-based Supercomputer

Since 2010, PEER 1 has offered HPC in the cloud, supplying on-demand access to machines equipped with high-end CPUs and GPUs. Today, Xcelerit announced they will offer their SDK on HPC instances from PEER 1. Our SDK makes life easy for programmers who are domain focussed and don’t want to become expert in different parallel […]

Demo: HyperWorks Compute Manager from Altair

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8mMBhLfvnE In this video, Dan Stephenson and Venkat Parameswaran from Altair demonstrated the capabilities of the HyperWorks Compute Manager. The integration of Altair’s HyperWorks simulation tools with PBS Works workload management solutions increases high-performance computing productivity, providing users with a reliable and affordable enterprise simulation platform. You can try Compute Manager today via HyperWorks On-Demand, Altair’s […]

Video: Complete Universe Simulation in 3D

Our Video Sunday feature continues with this simulation showing the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe. Computed on the NASA AMES’ supercomputer constellation, this Bolshoi simulation (based on the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model) is designed to study how dark matter halos evolved. The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of […]

Slidecast: Hardcore Computer – Relentless Performance through Liquid Submersion

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvVAQWyuPwk In this video, Chad Attlesey presents: Hardcore Computer: Relentless Performance through Liquid Submersion. The company designs and manufactures top-tier, high-performance computer systems using a patented liquid submersion cooling technology. It has been recently estimated that as much as six percent of the US power grid goes to data centers,” said Chad Attlesey, CTO and […]

Podcast: Business Opportunities from the Climate Challenge

In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Allyson Klein speaks with Jon Koomey from Stanford about his new book Cold Cash, Cool Climate. Koomey makes the case that their is profit to be made with Greener computing. Download the MP3.

This Week on inside* Publications

In case you missed them, here are some highlights our inside* publications this week: Slidecast: Objectivity Provides Real-time Relationship Analytics for Big Data. Brian Clark and Leon Guzenda from Objectivity discuss new InfiniteGraph features designed to accelerate application development. Feature: HP Hornswoggled? Will Autonomy Purchase Pay Off?. Dan Olds, our Chief Editor at inside-BigData looks at HP’s acquisition of Autonomy and […]

Hermit Fires Up as Fastest Civil Supercomputer in Europe

This week Stuttgart’s Center for High Performance Computing (HLRS) held an inauguration ceremony for Hermit, the fastest supercomputer in Germany. With over 1 Petaflop of performance, this “industrial supercomputer” will be also used for health, energy, environment and mobility research. Supercomputers like Hermit contribute to strengthening Germany’s position as a research pole. Computer simulations have […]

Podcast: Swift Engineering Moves Beyond the Wind Tunnel with Cray and Platform

In this podcast, John Winkler, Chief Aerodynamicist at Swift Engineering describes how the company is using HPC to bring Formula Nippon cars and jet planes to market. Using a Cray CX1000 supercomputer managed by Platform HPC software, the company was able to switch fully to computational fluid dynamics modeling and de-commission its wind tunnel. Prior to deploying […]