Today Cray’s YarcData division announced a major upgrade to its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics. With the uRiKA Fall 2012 Release, the company is adding substantial new standards-based capabilities to boost functionality and performance on complex graph analytics inquiries. Big Data graph-analytics are increasingly used to reveal unknown, unexpected or hidden relationships in […]
Archives for October 2012
New Paper: GPU Programming in MATLAB
October 23, 2012 by
Jill Reese and Sarah Zaranek of MathWorks have published a paper on GPU Programming in MATLAB. Engineers and scientists are successfully employing GPU technology, originally intended for accelerating graphics rendering, to accelerate their discipline-specific calculations. With minimal effort and without extensive knowledge of GPUs, you can now use the promising power of GPUs with MATLAB. […]
SGI Delivers 15 Teraflop Cluster to Air Liquide
October 23, 2012 by
This week SGI announced it has been chosen by Air Liquide to provide a 15 Teraflop HPC solution. As a long-standing SGI client, Air Liquide is installing the third upgrade of the SGI ICE blade server initially installed in 2008. High Performance Computing requirements are steadily increasing in our sector and are allowing for accelerated […]
PRACE Report: The Scientific Case for HPC in Europe 2012 – 2020
October 22, 2012 by
The PRACE organization has published a new report entitled, The Scientific Case for HPC in Europe 2012 – 2020. Industry has a dual role in high-end computing: firstly, supplying systems, technologies and software services for HPC; and secondly, using HPC to innovate in products, processes and services. Both are important in making Europe more competitive. […]
IBM Has 125 TB Tape in the Works
October 22, 2012 by
Over at The Register, Chris Mellor writes that IBM is developing an LTO-6 tape cartridge technology with an amazing 125 Terabytes of storage capacity. There is a prospect here of the LTFS file:folder tape interface combining with a 100TB or more tape cartridges to provide a highly attractive and dense storage medium for businesses needing […]
A Look at Power & Cooling at Google
October 22, 2012 by
Amazon’s James Hamilton takes a look the newly released photos of a Google datacenter and shares what they tell us about the company’s approach to power & cooling. One of the key advantages of water cooling is that water is a cheaper to move fluid than air for a given thermal capacity. In the Google, […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Melts Amazon’s Glacier
October 22, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY5sa7TKX7Y In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at Glacier, Amazon’s cloud archive and backup offering. Amazon is pitching Glacier as a solution for customers who don’t need frequent access to their data and can handle retrieval times of several hours. The big enticements are low, low cost — as little […]
Best Practices: Automated Testing for Research Software
October 21, 2012 by
C. Titus Brown from Michigan State University writes that most research scientists need to think more critically about their code, and should adopt at least some of the basic coding hygiene used by virtually every modern practicing programmer. As outllined in his co-authored paper, Best Practices for Scientific Computing, that means you should use version […]
Video: Southampton Engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
October 21, 2012 by
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this look at how Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton built a $4000 supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego components. As soon as we were able to source sufficient Raspberry Pi computers we wanted to see if it was possible to link them together into a […]
IBM’s Meyerson: 7 to 9 nm Chips is Low as You can Go
October 20, 2012 by
Over at The Register, Dan Olds writes that integrated circuits can’t continue to shrink forever. So where’s the end of the line? According to Bernie: 7 to 9 nanometers. When the features on a chip get to this minute size, you start to see quantum mechanics effects that are “very nasty” that impairs the performance […]
