IDC has released its Top 10 HPC Market Predictions for 2013. The big takeaways? While the outlook is good for business, the industry goal of reaching Exascale by 2018 looks to be slipping by at least two years. 1. The Worldwide HPC Market Will Leave the Global Economic Recession Behind and Will Be in a […]
Archives for March 2013
Video: From Extreme Scale Computing to Big Data
March 29, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI presents: From Extreme Scale Computing to Big Data. The internet, sensors and high performance computing are some of the top Big Data producers. Recently, there has been increased focus on extracting more value out of these generated data. Analysis of […]
A New Era in Genome Sequencing
March 29, 2013 by
In the midst of all the ballyhoo surrounding Big Data and how it’s going to “transform how we live, work, and think” (a borrowing from the subtitle of the excellent book Big Data by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier), it’s encouraging to hear about applications that are actually living up to all the hype. Case […]
Univa Grid Engine Steps Up to Intel Xeon Phi with Version 8.1.4
March 28, 2013 by
Today Univa released the latest version of Univa Grid Engine. With cross-platform support, Release 8.1.4. of Univa Grid Engine includes a number of customer-driven enhancements: Improved Load collection tool for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors Extended memory usage metrics for Multi-Threaded applications Scheduler performance enhancements ensuring maximum number of jobs running in the cluster while improving […]
Scientific Discovery Through HPC Simulations of High Energy Density Physics Experiments
March 28, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Don Lamb from the University of Chicago presents: Scientific Discovery Through HPC Simulations of High Energy Density Physics Experiments. The availability of multi-petaflop computers and the advent of high-power laser systems have created new opportunities to explore the properties of matter at high temperatures, densities, and […]
Video: 10 Petaflop Mira Supercomputer Installation
March 28, 2013 by
In this time-lapse video, the Mira supercomputer is assembled at Argonne National Laboratory. With an amazing 1048 nodes per rack, the 10 Petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q system was reportedly brought up and running production codes in record time.
You and Your Cellphone: Doing Your Part for Big Data
March 28, 2013 by
That cellphone in your pocket or purse is generating data that, for better or worse, can be used for a variety of applications – everything from urban planning to tracking your whereabouts. Larry Hardesty, writing in a release issued by the MIT News Office, comments that today’s sensor-studded cellphones can be used for a variety […]
More Noble Truths About Exascale
March 27, 2013 by
Over at The Exascale Report, Mike Bernhardt and Doug Black continue their series of features on the Noble Truths of Exascale. And while they aren’t very encouraging, we’ll just cut to the chase here and list them: The U.S. is unsure about Exascale Private industry alone can’t get us there. The discussion of the computation […]
Video: Challenging Large-Data Problems at NASA
March 27, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 National HPCC Conference, Dr. Tsengdar Lee from NASA presents: Challenging Large-Data Problems at NASA. NASA’s observations from Earth-orbiting satellites and outputs from computational climate models have contributed to one of the most data-intensive scientific disciplines today. The Earth system science tries to analyze the data, turns the data into […]
HPC People on the Move: More Exodus at Tabor Communications
March 27, 2013 by
Hello. It’s me again–Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to track HPC People on the Move. The personnel landscape in HPC continues to ebb and flow out there. And in a small community like this, the company names on the badges may change, but faces remain the same. Here are the most recent […]
