httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqcoRUM-tcI In this video, Jim Ang from Sandia National Laboratories describes Arthur, an experimental Intel MIC system based on Appro’s Xtreme-X supercomputer architecture. The Xtreme-X was initially deployed at Sandia in November 2011, and the supercomputer boasts 42 nodes based on the Mellanox QDR IB interconnect platform and configured in a multi-rack scale. The project […]
Archives for July 2012
Nairobi iHub Installing First Super in East Africa
July 29, 2012 by
Rebecca Wanjiku at Computerworld Kenya writes that tech incubator iHub Nairobi is set to become home to the second supercomputer in Africa, targeting mobile developers, gamers, universities and research institutions. With mobile devices coming in multiple cores, it is important for developers to be exposed to higher performance computing; we are hoping to debut at […]
Video: Building an HPC Cloud at DuPont – Architecture & Best Practices
July 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8kitKw5w7w In this video, Dr. Hai Zhu from DuPont reviews the requirements, challenges and architectural decisions made in the implementation of a cloud computing platform at DuPont. DuPont is building a dynamic, multi-disciplined R&D computing platform using a hybrid private cloud-cluster infrastructure model to meet client requirements for a highly dynamic, diverse environment. In part […]
How AWS is Delivering Just-When-You-Need-It HPC
July 28, 2012 by
David Linthicum from InfoWorld writes that new AWS High I/O Quadruple Extra Large instance in Elastic Cloud Compute is good news for enterprises that need short-term access to HPC capabilities. The new instance provides 2TB of local SSD-backed storage with 60.5GB of RAM running on eight virtual cores. For HPC, Linthicum contends that this development […]
Infographic: Sequoia – The Fastest Supercomputer on the Planet
July 27, 2012 by
Clipped from: hpc4energy.org (share this clip) The HPC 4 Energy Blog brings us this infographic on #1 ranked Sequoia supercomputer. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia supercomputer, an IBM BlueGene/Q system, was ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer on June 18, 2012. Sequoia boasts 16.32 petaflops using 1,572,864 cores, but how fast can it complete calculations? […]
Bo Ewald Takes the Helm at LiquidCool Solutions
July 27, 2012 by
Former SGI CEO Bo Ewald has taken over as CEO of LiquidCool Solutions, formerly known as HardCore Computer. In what is being described as a reboot of the company, Ewald will transition the company from being a direct manufacturer of high-end, liquid-cooled desktop computers and servers. Instead, the company will focus on selling its liquid […]
TACC Researchers Developing “Drop Dead Simple” AGAVE API for Scientists
July 27, 2012 by
It’s no secret that many researchers today find themselves devoting a lot of their effort into writing code when they’d rather be doing science. In an effort to change that, staff at the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed the AGAVE API, a new tool to make scientific computing on the web more functional and […]
On the Road to ARM Supercomputing, Mont-Blanc Project Releases First Newsletter
July 27, 2012 by
Clipped from: www.montblanc-project.eu (share this clip) The European Mont-Blanc project has released their first newsletter. Launched in October 2011, the three-year project aims to leverage commodity ARM processors for high performance computing. Energy efficiency is already a primary concern for the design of any computer system and it is unanimously recognized that future Exascale systems […]
Murchison Adds Astronomical Cluster
July 26, 2012 by
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Hard on the heels of yesterday’s win for Cray at The Pawsey Centre, the Murchison widefield array in Western Australia is pulling in some new iron in the form of a high-powered Linux cluster from IBM. As previously noted in The Register, modern radioastronomy poses a […]
MSC Software Taps Nvidia GPUs To Accelerate FEA
July 26, 2012 by
MSC Software has just released a GPU-accelerated version of the Marc 2012 Finite Element Analysis application, which speeds up a range of engineering simulations. By accelerating complex manufacturing and design simulations by two to six times, GPU acceleration enables engineers to develop more realistic models faster development cycles. GPU-accelerated Marc 2012 enables engineers to run […]
