Over at the ISC Blog, Thomas Lippert from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre writes that the DEEP project is about to demonstrate that the pitfalls of Amdahl’s law can be avoided in specific situations. The applications adapted to DEEP are selected in order to investigate and demonstrate the usefulness of the combination of hardware, system software […]
Archives for May 2013
New Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors to have Xeon CPUs On Board
May 24, 2013 by
Over at Tom’s Hardware, Niels Broekhuijsen writes that new information has surfaced regarding Intel’s upcoming Xeon Phi coprocessors. Intel’s product database has been updated, and it now shows five new Xeon Phi co-processors. These five are followups of the original Xeon 5110P, SE10P, and SE10X models. Two lighter Xeon Phi 3100 parts have shown up: […]
Slidecast: Debunking the Myths of SSL VPN Security
May 24, 2013 by
In this slidecast, Rainer Enders from NCP Engineering presents: Debunking the Myths of SSL VPN Security. The NCP Secure Enterprise Solution provides a set of software products that enable complete policy freedom, unlimited scaling, multiple VPN-system setup and control, and total end-to-end security. Practically speaking, one administrator is able to handle 10,000+ secure remote users […]
University College London Simplifies Storage Management for Researchers with DDN
May 23, 2013 by
Today DataDirect Networks announced that University College London has selected DDN technolgy to provide up to 3,000 researchers with a safe and resilient storage solution for sharing, reusing and preserving project-based research data. In an effort to better support researchers, UCL sought to remove the burden of storing and preserving research data from individual users. […]
DOE Funds Enthought to Develop Python HPC Framework
May 23, 2013 by
Today Enthought announced that the company has been awarded a $1M Small Business Innovation and Research grant by the United States Department of Energy to expand the capabilities of Python and NumPy for high-performance distributed computing. The open-source Python HPC framework being developed under this Phase II SBIR will help address the growing need to […]
Video: HPC Directions at Nvidia
May 23, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Cyril Zeller from Nvidia presents: HPC Directions at Nvidia. Download the slides (PDF) or check out the HPC User Forum Video Gallery.
Nagoya University to Scale to 3.66 Petaflops with Fujitsu
May 23, 2013 by
Fujitsu has received an order from Nagoya University’s Information Technology Center for a high-performance supercomputer for academic research. The system will have a hybrid configuration, composed of a Fujitsu supercomputer PrimeHPC FX10 and an HPC cluster comprised of Fujitsu Server PrimeRGY CX400. At deployment, it will have a theoretical peak performance of 561.4 teraflops, and […]
Video: House Hearing on the Exascale Challenge
May 22, 2013 by
In this video, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Energy holds a May 22 hearing to examine HPC research and development challenges and opportunities, specifically as they relate to exascale computing. Testifying before the Subcommittee were Dr. Roscoe Giles, Chairman of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee; Dr. Rick Stevens, Associate […]
Podcast: Is the D-Wave Machine Really a Quantum Computer?
May 22, 2013 by
In this NPR Podcast, Geoff Brumfiel takes a look at D-Wave quantum computer. Some skeptics are saying that the machine does not really work with the quantum effects that D-Wave claims it does. It’s not exactly science, what they’re doing,” says Christopher Monroe, a physicist with the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. […]
OpenFabrics Alliance to Host RDMA Training Courses in New Hampshire
May 22, 2013 by
Today the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) announced it will host two training classes at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab. The two-day courses, instructed by Dr. Robert D. Russell and Rupert Dance, will provide attendees with hands-on training for managing InfiniBand Fabric in addition to coding applications directly to the VERBS API using OpenFabrics Enterprise […]
