httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH_YU6qsCOM In this video, John West — Director, DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program presents: Global HPC — What is Missing? Recorded March 26, 2012 at the National HPCC Conference in Newport, RI.
Archives for March 2012
Wall St. Journal: China HPC Programs not so Super
March 26, 2012 by
Bob Davis from the Wall St. Journal writes that China’s much-vaunted supercomputer program is mired in local politics that has stymied innovation. One of China’s greatest weaknesses is in software development, a potentially crippling problem because the usefulness of the machines depends on the quality of the software applications. Less than 10% of supercomputing funding goes […]
Video: Accelerating HPC with Intel Many-Core Technologies
March 26, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO6yLunfdjA In this video, Intel’s Herbert Cornelius presents: Many-Core Technologies: Towards general purpose, high-performance/throughput and energy-efficient IA/x86 computing. Download the slides (PDF). Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop on March 14, 2012.
DDN Brings Economical HPC-Class Storage to Big Data Market
March 26, 2012 by
Today DDN announced the Big Data appliances based on their SFA10K storage platform. According to the company, the new appliances will enable organizations worldwide to start small and grow their Big Data infrastructure incrementally while harnessing the award-winning performance of DDN’s SFA technology. The ‘Big’ in ‘Big Data’ is a relative term, like the ‘High’ in ‘High […]
Job of the Week: Scientific Web Services Developer at Harvard Medical School
March 26, 2012 by
Harvard Medical School is seeking a Scientific Web Services Developer in our HPC Job of the Week. The SBGrid Consortium at Harvard Medical School (www.sbgrid.org) has an immediate opening for an enthusiastic scientific web services developer. The role involves developing, updating and maintaining high-throughput structural biology workflows in an academic environment. Existing, published SBGrid web […]
Video: HPC for Chess
March 25, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpZtkS1JV0 Our Video Sunday feature continues with this presentation by Chessmaster Vincent Diepeveen, creator of Diep and Fide-Master. Diepeveen provides a detailed history of chess-playing machines, from The Turk automaton in 1770 to Deep Blue. Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop on March 15, 2012. Download the slides (PDF).
Merrick6 FPGA Does HPC at 110 Watts
March 25, 2012 by
Enterpoint in the U.K. has announced their latest FPGA solution for HPC. With a desgin based around six Xilinx SpartanTM-6 FPGA processor cells, the Merrick6 offers a high performance, low power, processing solution all in a 2/3 size PCIe card format. The unique combination of FPGA and DDR3 resource in the Merrick6 processing cell allows […]
Video: HPC & Cloud – Exploit the Full Potential of your Cluster with IBM & Platform
March 25, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHukYy7kGcE In this video, Terry Fischer of IBM Platform Computing presents: HPC & Cloud – How you can Exploit the Full Potential of your Cluster to Solve the Challenges of Tomorrow. Download the slides (PDF). Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop on March 14, 2012.
TACC Supercomputers Map Tree of Life
March 24, 2012 by
While the Tree of Life film bares the rare distinction of being the only movie to put me to sleep three times in one sitting, the study of evolution through Phylogenetics is a very lively topic these days thanks to the power of HPC. Researchers are using now TACC supercomputers to develop and test smarter, […]
Video: US and China Supercomputers Speeding Innovation
March 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuimSJr6LZo This video takes a look at how national labs in China and the US are using supercomputers to develop new products faster and solve complex challenges. Speakers include Kathy Yelick from LBNL and Sumit Gupta from Nvidia.ka We hope this video dispels some of the mystery around these systems,” said Ken Bron from Nvidia. […]
