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Archives for May 2012
Interview: IBM’s David Ungar on End-to-End Non-Determinism
May 22, 2012 by
In this interview, cloud consultant Miha Ahronovitz discusses parallel programming with Dr. David Ungar from IBM Research. Ungar is author of the popular article Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong! Miha Ahronovitz: In parallel distributed computing, using a product like Grid Engine we got different results if the round robin […]
Bull Enters €28 Million Joint Venture to Mainstream HPC
May 22, 2012 by
Bull has announced a €28 million joint venture with a French investment company, aimed at accelerating the widespread adoption of high-performance computing (HPC). The new joint company will focus on delivering secured HPC services, as a Cloud computing service provider. The other investor, CDC (Caisse des Dépots), is a public group serving France’s general interest […]
Podcast: Spectra to Deliver 380 Petabytes of Tape Storage to Blue Waters
May 22, 2012 by
In this podcast, Michelle Butler from NCSA and Molly Rector from Spectra Logic discuss the massive tape storage system that is being deployed for the 10 Petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer. As announced this week, the Blue Waters system will be one of the world’s largest active file repositories stored on tape media and will scale […]
Podcast: DDN WOS Software on OCP Storage Hardware to Enable Hyperscale Storage Clouds
May 22, 2012 by
In this podcast, Jeff Denworth from DDN provides details on the company’s recent announcement that their Web Object Scaler (WOS) will support Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation with the Open Compute Project. Historically, there has not been an industry movement around standardizing and driving the adoption of mass-market hyperscale hardware technology,” said […]
Video: GPUs Accelerate Risk Analysis for Financial Services
May 21, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pup6yVdJOcU In this video, Pierre Spatz from Murex and Alastair Houston from Nvidia discuss how GPUs are being successfully used to run financial risk analysis at higher speeds and for less cost. Recorded at GTC 2012 in San Jose.
July HPC User Forums in London and Stuttgart
May 21, 2012 by
At insideHPC, we are pleased to announce that we will co-sponsor two HPC User Forum meetings in Europe in July. The first meeting is at Imperial College London on July 5-6 and the second meeting is at the HLRS/University of Stuttgart on July 9-10. Registration is free and refreshments will be served. The HPC User […]
Kepler K10 Single-Precision GPU Speeds Oil & Gas
May 21, 2012 by
Nvidia has announced the launch of an accelerator designed to meet what it describes as the two most difficult challenges in high-performance computing. The Tesla K10 is aimed at seismic data processing in oil and gas exploration, as well as signal and image processing in the defence industry. The company claims it is based on […]
Slidecast: Allinea Software – Meeting the Quest to Run Applications Faster
May 21, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmL9gCboLQ In this slidecast, Patrick Wohlschlegel from Allinea Software describes the company’s advanced parallel debugging capabilities. Our mission is to make it easier for software developers and scientists to make their software scale up to take full advantage of current and emerging parallel computer systems. We do this by developing innovative tools that ensure correctness […]
Load Testing with the Cloud – This Week on inside* Publications
May 20, 2012 by
GPUs were all the rage this week, but there was also a lot more going on in the news. In case you missed them, here are some recent highlights our inside* publications: Video: 30x Faster Regular Expressions on a GPU. David Lehavi from HP Labs presents a regular expression (regex) engine on a GPU, and the results can […]
