In this video from the 2013 GPU Technology Conference, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group demos how OpenACC enables programmers to generate a single binary that runs on Nvidia GPUs and AMD Firepro accelerators.
Archives for March 2013
Total Goes Petascale with SGI ICE X Supercomputer
March 26, 2013 by
This week SGI announced that Total has selected the SGI ICE X technology for its new 2.3 Petaflop Pangea supercomputer. In what is described as the largest commercial HPC system in the world, Pangea will give Total’s in-house engineers and geologists an extremely powerful tool to enable the application of analytical and numerical models that […]
Video: Amazing DigiCortex Engine Maps the Brain with GPUs
March 26, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 GPU Technology Conference, Ivan Dimkovic and Ana Balevic describe the ground-breaking DigiCortex Engine. Recently ported to CUDA, the application has seen huge speedups with GPU computing. DigiCortexis my hobby project implementing large-scale simulation and visualization of biologically realistic cortical neurons, synaptic receptor kinetic, axonal action potential propagation delays as […]
ACM Athena Lecturer Katherine Yelick to Present at SC13
March 25, 2013 by
This week SC13 announced that Katherine Yelick of LBNL will address the conference as the 2013-2014 Athena Lecturer. The award honors outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. The Athena Lecturer award is a leading award in the computing community, and is a well-deserved honor that recognizes Dr. Yelick’s rich legacy […]
Video: Overview of AMD in HPC
March 25, 2013 by
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Roberto Dognini presents an Overview of AMD in HPC. Download the Slides (PDF).
insideHPC Technical Computing Survey – Participate and Get Valuable Data and Prize Drawing
March 25, 2013 by
At insideHPC, we want to know how we can do better to serve our readers. To gain a better understanding of the trends, issues and usage of High Performance Computing across disciplines, we have teamed up with Univa for a new Reader Survey. Please take a minute with this survey to tell us more […]
Interview: EXTOLL to Demo Ultra-Low-Latency Interconnect at ISC’13
March 25, 2013 by
It has been a while since the folks from the EXTOLL project in Germany announced their venture to develop an ultra-low latency interconnect technology for supercomputing. With ISC’13 coming up, I caught up with R. Mondrian Nuessle from Extoll to discuss their plans for the technology and their exhibit at ISC. insideHPC: What is the […]
DDN – Big Data Evolution
March 25, 2013 by
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, James Coomer from DDN presents: Big Data Evolution. DDN has developed a Hadoop solution that is all about time to value: It simplifies rollout so that enterprises can get up and running more quickly, provides typical DDN performance to accelerate data processing, and reduces the […]
Will the DOE and DOD be DOA at SC13?
March 25, 2013 by
Over at The Exascale Report, Doug Black writes that SC13 will not be same conference we’ve come to know without the folks from the DOD and DOE. The technical presentations and demonstrations depicting the work and accomplishments of the DOD and DOE researchers, typically seen at the SC conferences, were sorely missed at SC12. What […]
Video: Hands-on Training: Know Your Cluster Bottlenecks and Maximize Performance
March 24, 2013 by
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Dan Waxman from Mellanox provides a hands-on training for InfiniBand entitled: Hands-on Training: Know Your Cluster Bottlenecks and Maximize Performance. Depending on the application of the user’s system, it may be necessary to modify the default configuration of the network adapters and the system/chipset configuration. […]
