As reported here last week, the new Pawsey Centre in Perth, Australia plans to install a next-gen Cray Cascade supercomputer in 2014. Today, Cray announced that the contract will include Cray Sonexion storage as well as services totatalling $21 Million. The Cray Sonexion storage system brings together an integrated file system, software and storage offering […]
Archives for July 2012
Video: Interview with Kathy Yelick from LBNL
July 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSMgCEqRn5c In this video, Kathy Yelick, Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences at LBNL discusses the importance of computational science and why we need faster supercomputers.
New NASA Supercomputer Facility Set To Advance Earth Research
July 23, 2012 by
Clipped from: c3.nasa.gov (share this clip) NASA is planning a new high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) to process enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data. The science community is under increasing pressure not only to study recent and projected changes in climate that likely impact our global environment and natural resources, but […]
Hardcore Computer Changes Name to LiquidCool Solutions
July 23, 2012 by
Today HardcoreComputer changed their new corporate name to LiquidCool Solutions. The new name reflects the company’s strategic vision of integrating and licensing its cooling technologies for high-growth applications. The name LiquidCool connects the company to our heritage of pioneering total liquid submersion cooling for electronics and calls attention to our continued advancements in cooling innovations,” […]
6 Things You Might Not Know about Intel’s Acquisition of Whamcloud
July 23, 2012 by
While well-received by OpenSFS and other members of the Lustre community, Intel’s recent acquisition of Whamcloud came and went without a lot of details from the chip giant. To learn more about what this move means for HPC, I caught up with Intel’s Boyd Davis and Whamcloud’s former CEO, Brent Gorda. Six Things You Might […]
Interview: Wolfgang Gentzsch on the Changing Landscape at ISC Cloud’12
July 23, 2012 by
With ISC’12 behind us, the busy Fall season for HPC conference is coming up quickly. One of the growing events in this space is ISC Cloud’12. To learn more, I caught up with Conference Chair Wolfgang Gentzsch. InsideHPC: What will be the focus topics for ISC Cloud’12 as the conference enters its third year? Wolfgang […]
Video: A Thought Experiment on Research Strategy
July 22, 2012 by
Our Video Sunday continues with an MIT lecture by Dr. Alpheus Bingham of Innocentive. Bingham serves as a Visiting Scholar at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Oracle Closing Down the Fortress Project
July 22, 2012 by
Guy Steele from Sun/Oracle Labs writes that the Fortress programming language project is wrapping up after nearly a decade of research. After working nearly a decade on the design, development, and implementation of the Fortress programming language, the Oracle Labs Programming Language Research Group is now winding down the Fortress project. Ten years is a […]
AWS Tackles IO Performance in the Cloud
July 21, 2012 by
James Hamilton from AWS writes of a new innovation that delivers real-world IO performance in the Cloud. Yesterday an ideal EC2 instance type was announced. It’s the screamer needed by these workloads. The new EC2 High I/O Instance type is a born database machine. Whether you are running Relational or NoSQL, if the workload is […]
SuperMUC Unveiled as Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer
July 21, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzTedSh51Tw In a public ceremony this week, the Leibnitz Supercomputing Center unveiled SuperMUC the world’s first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer. As the fastest system in Europe, SuperMUC will be used to probe the frontiers of medicine, astrophysics and quantum chromodynamics and other scientific disciplines such as computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, life sciences, genome […]
