In this video, Intel CTO Justin Rattner presents Connecting to the Future at the company’s 2012 IDF Developer Forum event in San Francisco.
Archives for December 2012
Sandia’s XPRESS OS Project to Pave the Way to Exascale
December 24, 2012 by
Over at ExtremeTech, Joel Hruska writes that Sandia National Laboratories have launched a new program to speed development of an exascale-capable operating system. The eXacale Programming Environment and System Software (XPRESS) project will receive $2.3 million per year for the next three years from the Department of Energy. The project’s director, Ron Brightwell, notes that […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Reviews the SC12 Student Cluster Competition
December 23, 2012 by
In this wrap-up review of SC12, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the Student Cluster Competition, covering the teams, results, and a discussion of how the competition has evolved over the years and where it should go in the future. Download the MP3 * Download the video * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed
Intel Cuts Deal for China to Build 100 Petaflop Supercomputer in 18 Months
December 23, 2012 by
Over at VR-Zone, Theo Valich writes that China has plans to build a 100 Petaflop supercomputer in the next 18 months with approximately 100,000 Ivy Bridge-EP based Xeon E5 cpus and 100,000 Xeon Phi coprocessors. But considering that the budget for the system is only $100 million, it looks like Intel bought the deal for […]
Alma Supercomputer Installs at the Top of the Andes
December 22, 2012 by
One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world has now been fully installed and tested at its remote, high altitude site in the Andes of northern Chile. The machine will be used to power the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most elaborate ground-based telescope in history. The correlator is housed in the ALMA […]
Video: Interview with Thomas Zacharia
December 22, 2012 by
In this video episode of Anything is Possible, Former ORNL Chief Research Officer Thomas Zacharia discusses his background and how he came to lead a team of researchers with the world’s fastest supercomputer in Tennessee. Dr. Zacharia currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Qatar Foundation, where he contributes to […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Chink in TOP500 Armor
December 21, 2012 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team quits griping about the horrible WiFi at SC12 and moves on to a truly big issue: Are LINPACK and HPCC benchmarks useful? Should they be constantly re-evaluated? And shouldn’t you really test machines on the kinds of workloads they’re designed to run? The catalyst for this discussion […]
AWS Adds New EC2 Instance For Data-Intensive Applications
December 21, 2012 by
Over at TechCrunch, Alex Williams writes that Amazon Web Services has added a new storage instance for data intensive applications. Designed for applications that require high storage depth and I/O performance, the High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances includes 120 GiB of RAM, 16 virtual cores (providing 35 ECU of compute performance), and 48 […]
Dan Reed on Little’s Law in the Age of Exascale
December 21, 2012 by
Dan Reed from the University of Iowa writes that the design of an Exascale systems needs to take into account Little’s Law, a simple, yet subtle forumula that that relates performance (throughput), delay (response time) and number of interacting units (customers). Little’s Law also says there is no free lunch. Optimizing for high system utilization […]
NPR Podcast: Why “Big Data” Should be the Word of the Year
December 21, 2012 by
Over at National Public Radio, Geoffrey Nunberg from the University of California at Berkeley writes that Big Data should be the Word of the Year. I don’t know if the phrase Big Data itself will be around 20 years from now, when we’ll probably be measuring information in humongobytes. People will be amused to recall […]
