Today Nvidia announced that researchers using Tesla GPUs have achieved a major breakthrough in the battle to fight the spread of the HIV virus. Featured on the cover of the latest issue of Nature, a new paper details how researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medical […]
Archives for May 2013
Japan's National Astronomical Observatory Deploys 500 Teraflop Cray XC30
May 29, 2013 by
Today Cray announced that the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has put one of the world’s fastest supercomputers solely dedicated to astronomy into production. The new Cray XC30 supercomputer runs complex simulations — experiments that they hope will one day answer longstanding questions, such as the formation of galaxies and the origin of the […]
Penguin Computing Rolls Out P3 Partner Program
May 29, 2013 by
Today Penguin Computing announced its new Partner Program P3 with two types of partners, VAR/Resellers and Alliance/Technology. According to the company, the P3 program puts the customer first and central, ensuring that all customers receive the same level of support and equal access to resources. Typically the business model of established tier one vendors results […]
Bright Computing Bundles Rogue Wave’s TotalView at No Additional Cost
May 29, 2013 by
Today Rogue Wave Software announced that Bright Computing will bundle the company’s TotalView advanced debugger with its Bright Cluster Manager. In what is described as a move to help increase productivity and shorten development lifecycles, Bright Computing’s new and existing customers will now have free access to a scalable, multi-core debugger, with both reverse and […]
Exascale Discussion Gets Serious in Nation’s Capital
May 29, 2013 by
The Exascale Report staff will provide exclusive, in-depth coverage of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy’s May 22nd hearing on the topic of exascale computing.
Discussing the ORNL Titan Supercomputer with ORNL’s Jack Wells
May 29, 2013 by
“Computational science and engineering in general and the mission of leadership computing, in particular, is very important for U.S. technology leadership. The impact is both very broad and deep. It is difficult to imagine that a country can have leadership in science and engineering, and, as a result, define the leading edge in innovative technologies without being truly excellent in computational science. This importance has been realized in many ways, from the Department of Energy’s national leadership in computational science and engineering, to the broad bi-partisan support for supercomputing in federal R&D budgets, to the growing utilization of supercomputing by industry. Titan, specifically, is a major step on the road to maintain expected growth rates in performance while “changing the game” with respect to energy efficiency for supercomputers based on commodity hardware components.”
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Holographic Storage
May 28, 2013 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at pending holographic storage technology. Henry Newman’s head is still spinning from the technology previews he saw at the recent IEEE Mass Data Storage Conference. Could this be a game-changer for the tape industry and archiving data? What are the specs, limitations, and most […]
Understanding the Human Condition with Big Data and HPC
May 28, 2013 by
In this guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Georgia Institute of Technology’s David A. Bader discusses his upcoming ISC’13 session, Better Understanding Brains, Genomes & Life Using HPC Systems. Supercomputing at ISC has traditionally focused on problems in areas such as the simulation space for physical phenomena. Manufacturing, weather simulations and molecular dynamics have all […]
Video: India's Supercomputing Vision – Key Technical Challenges
May 28, 2013 by
In this video, Dr. GV Ramaraju presents: India’s Supercomputing Vision – Key Technical Challenges. Ramaraju describes what is expected from research and academic institutes and vendors to provide the direction and thrust to build the necessary computing systems ecosystem.
U.S. Sending Two Veteran Teams to ISC'13 Klusterkampf
May 28, 2013 by
Over at the Student Cluster Competition Blog, Dan Olds writes that the U.S. is pinning its hopes on the Buffaloes and Boilermakers to win the day at the ISC’13 Klusterkampf. Olds believes that this will be the fiercest yet, with nine university teams from five continents are building, testing, and optimizing their own multi-node HPC […]
