Clipped from: www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com (share this clip) One of the most exciting additions to ISC’12 this year is the Student Cluster Competition. The goal: derive the most possible application performance using less than 3000 watts. The competition will feature small teams that compete to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and […]
Archives for May 2012
Webinar: NSF Big Data Solicitation May 21
May 19, 2012 by
On May 21, The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health will host a webinar on their joint Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering solicitation. This webinar is designed to describe the goals and focus of the BIGDATA solicitation, help investigators understand its scope, and answer any questions […]
Interview: Author Rob Farber on the Secret Sauce for Programmers in the Kepler GPU
May 19, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNnIVwW824 In this video, Rob Farber discusses new features in the Nvidia Kepler GPUs that make it easier for programmers to maximize application performance. Recorded at GTC 2012 in San Jose. Farber’s book, CUDA Application Design and Development was the best-selling title at SC11 and at GTC 2012 this year. The book is designed to […]
New Whitepaper: NVIDIA’s Next-Gen CUDA Compute Architecture – Kepler GK110
May 18, 2012 by
If you still looking for more details on the new Kepler GPUs, Nvidia has stepped up with a new GK110 Architecture whitepaper for you. Comprising 7.1 billion transistors, Kepler GK110 is not only the fastest, but also the most architecturally complex microprocessor ever built. Adding many new innovative features focused on compute performance, GK110 was […]
SGI Brings Kepler K10 GPU to Rackable Servers, K20 in the Fall
May 18, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGmZBbsL6_A In this video, Bill Mannel from SGI describes the company’s GPU-powered HPC solutions. Recorded at GTC 2012 in San Jose. SGI recently announced announced the availability of a complete, managed GPU solution of its SGI Rackable servers with the new high-performance Nvidia Tesla K10 GPU Computing Accelerator. Coupled with SGI Management and Performance Suite […]
IDC Breakfast Briefing at ISC’12 on June 18
May 18, 2012 by
IDC will host its annual Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at ISC’12 on June 18 in Hamburg. You can join IDC’s Earl Joseph, Steve Conway, and Chirag Dekate as they present their expert insight and analysis on the evolving HPC market. This session will examine the drivers and inhibitors impacting the HPC Technical Server market and provide […]
GPUs Power Penguin Computing, from HPC to Cloud and on to the Enterprise
May 17, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnkBg1KFce4 In this video, Tom Coull from Penguin Computing describes the company’s GPU-powered computing solutions for HPC. Penguin On Demand has offered GPUs in the Cloud for years, and the recent Kepler GPU announcement from Nvidia is figuring prominently in Penguin’s plans. Coulll also describes Penguin Computing’s move to provide enterprise customers with the same […]
End-users Need to Design Exascale Computers
May 17, 2012 by
It’s not size that counts but what you do with your supercomputer, delegates to the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose were told on 16 May. End-user scientists and engineers need to get involved from the outset in the design of the next generation of machines – expected to be capable of delivering performance […]
GPUs Power Part-Time Scientists’ Plan for Lunar Rover Autonomy
May 17, 2012 by
Today at the GTC 2012 conference, a team calling themselves the Part-Time Scientists presented plans for their GPU-powered lunar rover entry in the Google Lunar X Prize. The autonomous navigation system of Asimov is a major technological leap. While the Russian Moon rovers Lunokhod 1 and 2 in the early 70s were fully controlled from […]
Massively Parallel Simulation Counters Antibiotic Resistance
May 17, 2012 by
A solution to the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be closer, as a result of a computer science project to investigate ways of making legacy software run efficiently on heterogeneous systems, the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference was told on 16 May. Simon McIntosh-Smith, of the University of Bristol in the UK, presented results from a […]
