Did you miss the live webinar, Talking to your CFO about HPC ? That’s ok! You can listen to the recording here or check out our event preview interview with X-ISS CEO Deepak Khosla. Our lucky winner of the $100 AMEX card was webinar attendee Dr. J. Fredin. Congratulations! As a follow-up to the event, X-ISS has published a […]
Archives for January 2013
ETI to Develop 2012 X-Stack Self-Aware Software Framework
January 24, 2013 by
The Department of Energy has selected two teams with University of Delaware connections to receive funding under a supercomputing program called 2012 X-Stack: Programming Challenges, Runtime Systems and Tools. Guang Gao, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is part of an Intel-led team selected to address extreme-scale computing issues in scalability, programmability, portability, resilience, […]
UI Labs to Promote Research, Startups, and Supercomputing
January 24, 2013 by
Over at the Chicago Sun-Times, Sandra Guy writes that the University of Illinois is pursuing plans to create a research, development and supercomputing center in Chicago where tech startups, manufacturers and big corporations can solve problems in energy, transportation, advanced manufacturing, food production and healthcare technology. A research “hub” would be set up for 250 […]
Mellanox Financials show Record Growth in 2012
January 23, 2013 by
Yet another HPC company announced record results this week with news that Mellanox Technologies did over $500 million revenue in 2012. And while we don’t focus much on financials here at insideHPC, I think it is worth noting that the company achieved 93.2 percent annual year-over-year revenue growth. We are proud of our results for […]
Acer HPC Systems to include Bright Cluster Manager
January 23, 2013 by
Today Bright Computing announced an agreement with Acer to offer Bright Cluster Manager with Acer’s AW2000 F2 family of HPC solutions. Acer customers will be able to provision, schedule, monitor and manage their clusters with Bright’s intuitive GUI or powerful Cluster Management Shell, making it much easier to deploy and manage powerful clusters. Acer’s AW2000 […]
Live Chat with Jack Dongarra on The Future of Supercomputers: Jan. 24
January 23, 2013 by
Science Live is hosting a live chat entitled The Future of Supercomputers on Thursday, January 24 at 4:00 PM EST. Panelists include Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, Horst Simon from LBNL, and Robert Service from Science Magazine. Over the past few decades, supercomputers have grown steadily faster and more powerful. Today’s top machine […]
Job of the Week: Senior Systems Engineer at Scalable Informatics
January 23, 2013 by
Scalable Informatics is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week. We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to be an individual contributor responsible for consultative pre-sales and post-sales support activities for customers. The pre-sales role will include both customer-facing, and customer-remote operations, including but not limited to overall architecture, planning […]
Video: Virtualized Infiniband based on SR-IOV – Enabling HPC in the Cloud
January 23, 2013 by
In this video from the Mellanox booth at SC12, Hoot Thompson from NASA Center for Climate Simulation presents: Virtualized Infiniband based on SR-IOV – Enabling HPC in the Cloud. So what is SR-IOV? The short answer is that SR-IOV is a specification that allows a PCIe device to appear to be multiple separate physical PCIe devices. The […]
Interview: GPU-Accelerated Life Sciences at Beckman Coulter
January 23, 2013 by
Over at the Nvidia Developer Zone, Calisa Cole interviews Bob Zigon of Beckman Coulter, a company that develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify and automate complex biomedical testing. Zigon is working on a working on a prototype of a new CUDA-based application that will calculate the molar mass, gross shape and size distribution of […]
ScaleMP Announces Record Revenues
January 22, 2013 by
It’s looking like 2012 was a great year for many HPC companies. Today ScaleMP announced record sales in 2012, surpassing the combined revenue of 2010 and 2011. 2012 was a banner year for ScaleMP. Our product and services revenue grew significantly compared to 2011 and we saw acceptance in all geographies,” said Shai Fultheim, founder […]
