Over at his High-productivity Cloud Computing Blog, Dr. Theodore Omtzigt from Stillwater Supercomputing writes that two pilot projects in China demonstrate how well-architected Cloud HPC can benefit small and medium-sized businesses. The total cost of the core system was of the order of $3.6M. The On-Demand Supercomputing service offers a full dual socket server with […]
Archives for January 2013
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Success and Failure in the Tech Industry
January 26, 2013 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at success factors for technology Startups. Prompted by a recent interview with Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolshiem, the discussion centers around lessons learned from Sun’s decline and eventual acquisition by Oracle. Download the MP3 * Download the mobile video * Download 1024p Video * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed
Atipa to Build 3.4 Petaflop Super for DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab
January 26, 2013 by
The Department of Energy’s Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory has ordered up a 3.4-petaflop supercomputer from Atipa Technologies, the HPC division of Microtech Computers. The new system will replace the Chinook supercomputer which aids energy, environment and basic science missions important to DOE. The 42-rack machine will boast a total of 195,840 cores, consisting of 23,000 […]
Video: Europeans to Fund Billion-euro Human Brain Project
January 25, 2013 by
Nature Magazine reports that the European Commission has awarded up to €1 billion in research funding for the Human Brain Project led by neuroscientist Henry Markram. And while the official announcement is not expected until January 28, part of the project will be dedicated to the development of a exaflop supercomputer that will be used […]
Jeff Layton on Why Application Profiling is the Key to Survival
January 25, 2013 by
Over at HPC Admin, Dell’s Jeff Layton writes that the plethora of available processing architectures today makes it more important than ever to know your application. Two basic approaches are available to help you understand your application: profiling, which gathers summary data when an application is run, and tracing, which presents a history of events […]
GPU Technology Conference Agenda Chocked Full of Supercomputing Sessions
January 25, 2013 by
The 2013 GPU Technology Conference is out with its preliminary agenda featuring a full boat of supercomputing sessions. The event will take place March 18-21 in San Jose, CA. Supercomputing sessions include: Acceptance Testing a GPU Based Cluster (LANL) An Unlikely Symbiosis: HPC and Gaming (Nvidia) Pedraforca: a First ARM + GPU Cluster for HPC […]
Xyratex ClusterStor Wins 2013 Cloud Storage Excellence Award
January 25, 2013 by
TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine has named ClusterStor by Xyratex as a winner of its 2013 Cloud Storage Excellence Award. This award underscores the rapid adoption of our ClusterStor family of storage solutions, and the tremendous value it brings to data-intensive computing environments,” said Ken Claffey, senior vice president of the ClusterStor business at Xyratex. “The […]
Video: SGI ICE X Presentation at SC12
January 24, 2013 by
In this video from the Mellanox booth at SC12, Paul Kinyon from SGI presents on the SGI ICE X, a fifth-generation blade-based x86 cluster. According to Kinyon, the SGI Ice X was the first platform to support FDR InfiniBand at the node level, the switch level, and the fabric level.
ClusterVision Partners to Deploy Minerva Supercomputer at the University of Nottingham
January 24, 2013 by
This week ClusterVision announced that the company and its partners have completed the deployment of a new HPC system at the University of Nottingham. The 45 Teraflop “Minerva” supercomputer will be used to drive academic research in a wide range of scientific disciplines. As the prime contractor for the design, build and management of the […]
Fraunhofer Updates FhGFS Parallel File System
January 24, 2013 by
Today Fraunhofer in Germany announced a new release of the FhGFS parallel file system with major performance and HA improvements. Available as a free download, FhGFS features a distributed metadata architecture designed to provide the scalability and flexibility required to run today’s most demanding HPC applications. Many of the improvements result in a significant increase […]
