Andrew Jones from NAG in the U.K. is back with his review of the year 2012 in HPC. He picked up on four recurring themes, and not all of them are good. The exascale race stalls Petaflops become “ordinary” HPC seeks to engage a broader user community Assault on the Top500 It’s very likely that Jones […]
Archives for December 2012
Jobs of the Week: HPC, Cloud, and Storage Specialists at NCI in Australia
December 20, 2012 by
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) in Canberra, Australia is seeking HPC, Cloud, and Storage Specialists in our Jobs of the Week. NCI is Australia’s leading national provider of high-end computational and data-intensive services, with a highly respected reputation for its services, expertise and innovation. It forms an integral part of the Australia Government’s research infrastructure […]
Josh Simons – 2013 Predictions on Cloud HPC and Beyond
December 20, 2012 by
Over at the VMware CTO Office, Josh Simons has posted some eye-opening predictions for 2013 in the areas of Cloud HPC, RDMA in the Cloud, Virtual Machine Evolution, Accelerators, Interconnects, and HPC acquisitions. This coming year will herald the beginning of much broader use of public clouds for running HPC workloads. This is in part […]
Video: Overview of Warewulf Node Health Check Software
December 20, 2012 by
In this video, Michael Jennings and Jackie Scoggins from LBNL describe Warewulf Node Health Check software. TORQUE, SLURM, and other schedulers/resource managers provide for a periodic “node health check” script to be executed on each compute node to verify that the node is working properly. Nodes which are determined to be “unhealthy” can be marked […]
RCE Podcast Looks At Globus Grid Software
December 20, 2012 by
In a new RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Stuart Martin about Globus, grid software for distributed resource sharing and data transfer. The Globus Toolkit is a fundamental enabling technology for building grids that allow distributed computing power, storage resources, scientific instruments, and other tools to be shared securely across corporate, institutional, […]
Video: The Effect of HPC on Everyday Lives
December 20, 2012 by
In this video from SC12, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents: The Effect of HPC on Everyday Lives. View the Notes from this presentation (PDF).
Rob Farber on Intel Xeon Phi Programming for CUDA Developers
December 19, 2012 by
Over at Dr. Dobbs, author Rob Farber writes that both CUDA and Phi coprocessors provide high degrees of parallelism that can deliver excellent application performance. But what if your code is already on CUDA? To run on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, CUDA kernels need to be modified. At the moment, this needs to be done […]
PartSim – A Circuit Simulator in the Cloud
December 19, 2012 by
Here’s something I wish I would have had back in school. This video demonstrates how to use PartSim, a new online circuit simulator. PartSim uses a cloud-based version of ngspice, which is an open source simulator based on Berkely’s Spice3f5 Spice engine. When we started this project, our team discussed the pros and cons of […]
Andrew Jones: 2012 Prediction Scorecard Shows Much to be done in HPC Software Innovation
December 19, 2012 by
Andrew Jones from NAG in the U.K. writes that while many of his HPC predictions for 2012 came true, there is still much untapped potential in software innovation. One of the strongest outcomes of NAG’s HECToR Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Support Service (the UK national supercomputing service) is a large body of evidence that has proved that […]
Applied Computing & Engineering in the U.K. to Distribute Canadian HPC Technology from CIARA
December 19, 2012 by
Today Applied Computing & Engineering in the U.K. announced an agreement to distribute CIARA Technologies portfolio of HPC solutions, such as the NEXXUS C deskside cluster system and the KRONOS S line technical workstations. Applied Computing & Engineering is very excited about the new partnership with CIARA Technologies,” said John Baxter, Director, IT Services at […]
