The RAMCloud project is creating a new class of storage, based entirely in DRAM that is reportedly 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than existing storage systems. To get you up to speed, the Cloud Advisory Council and Stanford University are offering a webinar on how RAMCloud will enable a new class of applications that manipulate […]
Archives for October 2012
SGI to Resell PGI High-performance Compilers
October 25, 2012 by
Today The Portland Group announced that customers can now purchase PGI Fortran C, C++ compilers and development tools directly from SGI. Under the new agreement, SGI will resell PGI Fortran C and C++ compilers and development tools with SGI’s line of servers based on Intel processors and NVIDIA GPU accelerators. The process of procuring software […]
SC12 Announces Award Winners for Innovation in HPC
October 25, 2012 by
This week SC12 announced a set of HPC innovators who will be honored by the IEEE/ACM when the conference convenes next month. The winners for 2012 are as follows: Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award: Peter Kogge from the University of Notre Dame. Kogge was the developer of the space shuttle I/O processor, the world’s first […]
AWE in the U.K. Scales with Allinea DDT Debugger
October 25, 2012 by
This week Allinea announced that the U.K.’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is using the company’s DDT debugging tool to develop scientific code for their powerful Blackthorn and Willow Bull supercomputers. As the size of jobs we need to do have grown, so have our debugging needs. It was really important to move to a debugger […]
National Labs have Pulled Their Booths from SC12
October 24, 2012 by
Over at the New York Times, Laura Dattaro writes that Federal Budget limits are deeply affecting scientific conferences, including SC12. Last year, for instance, 564 people from the Energy Department attended the 2011 Supercomputing Conference to meet with private groups, speak and present new research. The department’s 12 laboratories — including Fermilab in Illinois, Brookhaven […]
Big Data Gets its Own Quarterly Journal
October 24, 2012 by
Big Data is getting its own quarterly journal with a little help from Chief Editor Edd Dumbill. Big Data, a highly innovative, open access peer-reviewed journal, provides a unique forum for world-class research exploring the challenges and opportunities in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating vast amounts of data, including data science, big data infrastructure and analytics, […]
Boston Viridis Project Shows Energy Efficiency of ARM Servers
October 24, 2012 by
Over at LowPowerServers, writes that the Boston Viridis project is demonstrating highly parallel, ultra low power computing by utilizing Calxeda EnergyCore SOCs (System on a Chip) as opposed to a traditional x86 based architecture. The Boston Viridis Project is, in essence, a self contained, highly extensible, multi-node cluster with integral high- speed interconnect and storage […]
Sequoia Super Simulates Human Heart
October 24, 2012 by
Over at Popular Science, Kathryn Doyle writes that the Sequoia supercomputer is being tasked with a simulation of the human heat that looks down to the cellular level and predicts how a heart would respond to particular drugs. Modeling programs like Cardioid approximate the heart by breaking the organ down into units: The smaller the […]
Video: Petascale Day Celebrates Computing in the Quadrillions
October 24, 2012 by
Supercomputers/Petascale Day from UI-7 News on Vimeo. In this video, the UI-7 channel from the University of Illinois looks at NCSA’s recent Petascale Day event, which commemorated the Blue Waters supercomputer on 10/15/2012. The Blue Waters project will deliver a supercomputer capable of sustained performance of 1 petaflop on a range of real-world science and […]
PRObE Center to Repurpose Supers Put Out to Pasture
October 23, 2012 by
Over at Trib Live, Debra Erdley writes that Los Alamos National Laboratory is now able to repurpose old supercomputers with the new Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment (PRObE). Financed with a $10 million NSF grant, the PRObE center will enable scientists to experiment with supercomputers. Repurposing a supercomputer is hard. Building the first computer science research […]
