httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHorNOdRs8M In this video from SC12, Solarflare CEO Russell Stern describes the company’s new “bump in the wire” ApplicationOnLoad Engine (AOE). By enabling applications to be processed on the fly right on the NIC server adapter, the company is opening up a new paradigm of computation, ransforming the way networks process data and overcoming performance […]
Archives for November 2012
Researchers Prove Concept of Storing Big Data in DNA
November 29, 2012 by
Over at Forbes, Rita Koselka writes that researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute have demonstrated the ability to store the entire Library of Congress (700 terabytes of data) in a single gram of DNA. Church and his colleagues are not the first to store binary information in DNA, but they stored a tremendous amount and were […]
Intel Cluster Studio XE Demo at SC12
November 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7THE7OYf5M In this video from SC12, Gergana Slavova demonstrates the Intel Cluster Studio XE, an integrated tool suite for HPC application development.
EASC Conference in Scotland Looks to Take on Exascale Software Challenges
November 29, 2012 by
The Exascale Applications and Software Conference (EASC2013) has issued its Call for Abstracts. The conference will take place April 9-11, 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland and is organised by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh in association with CRESTA, NAIS and Nu-FuSE projects. The aim of this conference is to bring together all of the stakeholders […]
Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side-by-side
November 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swshwYqVrPE In this video from SC12, Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s ground-breaking hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
Karalis Music Project Wins HPC Advisory Council University Award
November 29, 2012 by
This week the HPC Advisory Council announced that Antonis Karalis has received the prestigious HPC Advisory Council University Award 2012 for advanced research in the subject area of music in high-performance computing. As part of Council’s main mission of community and education outreach, the University Award program is intended to enhance students’ computing knowledge-base. The […]
French Supercomputer Vendor Bull Optimizes Apps for Intel Xeon Phi
November 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByXm299WN4 In this video from SC12, Mathieu Dubois from Bull discusses the company’s application optimization efforts on the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor.
The Green Grid Offers New Energy-saving Resources for Datacenter Managers
November 29, 2012 by
Over at The Green Grid, Director Roger Tipley writes that a major challenge for his organization is helping datacenter managers to recognize how far they should be pushing the efficiency agenda in their organizations. If your car used virtually the same amount of energy when traveling at 80 miles per hour as when it was […]
Altair PBS Pro Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors
November 29, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SmDCI2sy0Y In this video from SC12, Mary Bass from Altair describes the company’s PBS Pro system management software, now with support for the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
Netlist Demonstrates Superiority of HyperCloud Memory at SC12
November 29, 2012 by
Memory speed is often cited as a bottleneck in modern HPC systems. At SC12, Netlist demonstrated a comprehensive performance benchmark of its HyperCloud (HCDIMM) that showed a 39% greater server throughput compared to an identical system equipped with LRDIMMs. As companies today increasingly process and capitalize on big data, there’s an increasing need for more […]
