Archives for April 2013

Video: Applying New Computing Techniques to Numerical Astrophysics

In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Brant Robertson from the University of Arizona presents: Applying New Computing Techniques to Numerical Astrophysics. For more presentations, check out the HPC User Forum Video Gallery.

HPC Wales Announces Innovation Fund to Bring Supercomputing to Industry

HPC Wales has announced a new £300,000 fund, to help fund 20-25 research projects that would benefit from the power of supercomputing technology. Academics and businesses across Wales are being encouraged to apply for a new fund designed to boost collaborative research and innovation projects. Part-funded by £24 million through the Welsh Government, including support […]

Video: Network Direct v2 and WinOFED

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Fab Tillier from Microsoft presents: Network Direct v2 and WinOFED. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

Penguin Computing Unveils Large-Scale Storage Platform

Penguin Computing has revealed its new Cloud CS Storage Platform that will utilize Scality’s RING Organic Storage software. Performance, availability and scalability requirements of large scale cloud businesses cannot be met with traditional IT approaches to storage, that typically excel in one of these areas and fall short in another,” said Charles Wuischpard, CEO Penguin […]

Video: Lustre DNE – Distributed Name Space Phase 1

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Di Wang from Intel presents: DNE – Distributed Name Space Phase 1. Download the slides (PDF) or check out our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

SGI to Provide Massive Data Storage Capability for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

This week SGI announced that iVEC and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. The centre is part of the Australian Government Super Science Initiative to support the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array […]

Evolving OFS – Teaching Sharks to Swim, from the Top Down

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Paul Grun from OFA presents: Evolving OFS – Teaching Sharks to Swim, from the Top Down. This talk is a follow-on to Grun’s OFA workshop opening presentation. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

Mont Blanc Targets Scientific Applications for Energy Efficient HPC

  While many are looking at ARM-based processing as the future of energy-efficient HPC, it won’t get far without applications. Now, the Mont Blanc project has published a list of key scientific apps to be ported to the platform. The Mont Blanc project aims to assess the potential of low-power embedded components based clusters to […]

Interview: OpenFabrics Alliance Looks Ahead

In this video, Jim Ryan and Paul Grun from OFA discuss where OpenFabrics is headed in the future. Open Fabrics began as a way of providing a memory-to-memory messaging service from application to application. So, fundamentally, that’s what sets OpenFabrics apart from any other network. Typically networks are about delivering packets from one platform to […]

Gordon Bell Visits Livermore and the HPC Revolution He Helped Create

Over at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Donald B Johnston that computing pioneer Gordon Bell paid a visit to LLNL. It’s hard to understate the importance of Gordon Bell to supercomputing as we know it today. While he was known as an architect and as an entrepreneur, for me personally his great charm and greatest contribution […]