French Supercomputer vendor Bull has signed a €15 Million deal with Dresden University of Technology for a petaflop supercomputer using innovative liquid cooling. The Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) technology developed by Bull is implemented in the new bullx supercomputer. With DLC, the HPC blades can be cooled with warm water, by evacuating the heat generated […]
Archives for December 2012
Bull to Deliver Petaflop Liquid-cooled Super to Dresden University of Technology
December 27, 2012 by
Titan Super to Enable Improved Reactors
December 27, 2012 by
Over at Scientific American, Nidhi Subbaraman writes that the new Titan supercomputer at ORNL can zip through simulations of a nuclear reaction in a fraction of the time it used to take. Titan comfortably clears 20 petaflops, which means it can process 20,000 trillion calculations each second. Part of that speed comes from the way […]
New Technical Report: Energy Rooflines
December 27, 2012 by
Over at Georgia Tech’s HPC Garage, Rich Vuduc writes that a new technical report presents a thought-experiment on the question of whether engineering an algorithm to optimize time differs from doing so with respect to energy Joules. Our goal is to explain—in simple, analytic terms accessible to algorithm designers and performance tuners—how the time, energy, […]
HPEC’13 Issues Call for Papers
December 27, 2012 by
The 2013 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference has issued its Call for Papers. Now in its seventeenth year, the HPEC charter is to become the premier conference in the world on the confluence of HPC and Embedded Computing. Submissions are due May 17, 2013. Check out our Featured Events page for more great HPC […]
IBM Replaces LoadLeveler with Platform LSF on x86 Clusters
December 26, 2012 by
Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes that is mothballing its own LoadLeveler workload manager for x86 clusters in favor of Platform LSF, which the company acquired a little more than a year ago. In other HPC software news, IBM has announced that it is going to put all of its weight behind the […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
December 26, 2012 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team is still talking about the recently concluded SC12 conference in Salt Lake City. The conversation starts with a short review of Thanksgiving dinner (including disgusting eating noises added in at no additional charge) before moving on to more weighty topics such as Intel’s formal introduction of their Xeon Phi coprocessor, including […]
Agenda Published for Stanford HPC Conference Feb. 7-8
December 26, 2012 by
The HPC Advisory Council has posted the agenda for the Stanford High-Performance Computing Conference. The two-day event will take place in Palo Alto on February 7-8, 2013. Topics include: Scaling CFD and UQ codes on Sequoia Programming Models and their Designs for Exascale Systems Charm++: HPC with migratable objects Accelerating Big Data with Hadoop and […]
Video: Unwanted Encanto Super to be Split Between Three New Mexico Universities
December 26, 2012 by
In this video, KRQE reports that the controversial Encanto supercomputer may be split up among New Mexico’s three research universities. Purchased in 2008 for $11 Million, the supercomputer did not bring new business to the state as promised and racked up a stack of unpayed bills. The host datacenter for the system is owned by […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Team Exchanges High Performance Gifts
December 25, 2012 by
In Part 1 of this special Holiday podcast, Dan and Henry discuss the perfect Christmas gift for Rich Brueckner, who is a bit of an Apple enthusiast. Download the MP3 * Download the video * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed In Part 2 of this special Holiday podcast, Rich and Dan discuss the perfect Christmas gift for Henry Newman, a […]
IBM Tape Stores Big Data from SuperMUC
December 24, 2012 by
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has implemented an innovative IBM tape storage system to provide up to 16.5 petabytes of scientific data archiving and backup for the center’s SuperMUC supercomputer. Built with an innovative hot water cooling system, the SuperMUC combines 155,000 general purpose core processors with 320 terabytes of main memory to help scientists […]
