Allinea Software reports that the company is opening up new possibilities for application developers and scientists at the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). Allinea software development tools will be deployed across SNIC’s six major facilities for computational science in a wide variety of fields. With so many users and systems, it was important to […]
Archives for September 2012
Podcast: Radio Free HPC on the Exascalar Benchmark
September 25, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3999I0UDyu0 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the Exascalar measure/benchmark and what it’s telling us. Exascalar combines Top500 and Green500 data in order to see if the industry is on track to hit the goal of an exascale system that consumes less than 20MW of juice by 2020. Like usual, the conversation takes […]
Rogue Wave Adds Threadspotter Support for Cray XE Supercomputers
September 25, 2012 by
Rogue Wave Software has announced that their latest ThreadSpotter 2012.1 release with support for Cray XE supercomputers. Scientists and engineers expressed to Rogue Wave their need to employ ThreadSpotter to optimize the performance of parallel applications on the Cray XE platform. As Cray Supercomputers are strategic platforms for our customers, we are happy to quickly […]
Video: The Missing Mathematics of Extreme Scale Simulation
September 24, 2012 by
httpv://youtu.be/I0sDdV8Npok In this video from the SPEEDUP Workshop at ETH Zurich, David Keyes from KAUST presents: The Missing Mathematics of Extreme Scale Simulation. As Dean at the Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering Division of KAUST, Keyes works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, across the […]
Study: GPU Computing to Enable Safer CT Scans
September 24, 2012 by
A new $2.6 Million study shows that GPUs can enable effective, inexpensive supercomputing to hospitals for safer CT scans. With this new study, we hope to bring massively parallel computing power—currently available only to national laboratories and major research universities such as Rensselaer—to busy and resource-limited hospitals,” said Xie George Xu, professor in the Department […]
Slidecast: OCF enCORE is HPC on Demand
September 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIJ81TnIy8 In this slidecast, Jerry Dixon from OCF describes the company’s new enCORE HPC-On-Demand service. OCF’s enCORE service provides a highly scalable compute facility that can be accessed on a pay-as-you-go basis via the Internet. No concerns over data centre space, power, cooling, or in recruiting and retaining the skills to implement and maintain your […]
NCAR Testing 1.5 Petaflop Yellowstone Super for Deployment
September 24, 2012 by
The Durango Herald reports that final testing is being done on NCAR’s Yellowstone supercomputer on the outskirts of Cheyenne that will be used for climate modeling and other Earth sciences. At a cost of $30 Million, the IBM machine will be used to model air movement inside hurricanes and tornadoes and examine how weather and […]
Podcast: When Big Data Goes Bad – This Week on Radio Free HPC
September 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4OD92Pz34 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Big Data and analytics. More specifically, the guys talk about a couple of examples of when over-reliance on analytics leads to bad outcomes. The first deals with some high school kids who were allegedly found to be cheating by a plagiarism software program and […]
Solaris Reunion and ZFS Day Coming to San Francisco Oct. 1-2
September 23, 2012 by
The good folks at illumos and Joyent will sponsor the 2nd Annual Solaris Family Reunion on Monday, Oct 1st at 7:00 pm in San Francisco. The illumos project is the open source fork of Sun’s OpenSolaris. Launched in 2010, the project enjoys financial and technical support from several key companies which rely on the illumos […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Xeon Phi
September 22, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_23LSFLQhU In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team talk about Intel’s introduction of their new Xeon Phi co-processor at ISC12, and what customers will need to do to take advantage of it. Henry Newman says something profound. We touch on the merits of an all pastry diet and the state of programming today. Rich […]
