In this video from ISC’13, Ian Lintault from nCore HPC describes the company’s innovative BrownDwarf supercomputer technology. Using a combination of ARM and DSP processors and embedded telco technology, the BrownDwarf is tailor-made for green HPC. The BrownDwarf Y-Class system is an incredibly important milestone in HPC system development,” said Ian Lintault, managing director of […]
Archives for June 2013
Europe Getting its HPC Act Together
June 26, 2013 by
At ISC’13, Tom Wilkie heard some European success stories in research using high-performance computing and learned of ambitious plans for a European HPC industry. But he also heard some criticisms too – are there dark clouds on Europe’s HPC horizon? In a neat bit of symmetry, European cooperation bracketed this year’s International Supercomputing Conference and […]
Micron Looks Ahead to Hybrid Memory Cube at ISC'13
June 26, 2013 by
In this video from ISC’13, Dean Klein from Micron describes the advantages of the company’s pending Hybrid Memory Cube technology and current SSD offerings for the HPC market. You can check out more of our exclusive coverage from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.
Student Cluster Teams Break Records at ISC'13
June 26, 2013 by
At the 2013 International Student Cluster Challenge (ISC’13), the team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, won the Best Linpack award and set a new record with 8.455 Tflops. The team from the Centre for High Performance Computing of South Africa won the Overall Best award, and the team from Tsinghua University […]
Video: James Coomer Keynotes DDN User Group at ISC'13
June 26, 2013 by
In this video from the DDN User Group at ISC’13, James Coomer from DataDirect Networks presents: Massively-Scalable Platforms and Solutions Engineered for the Big Data and Cloud Era. Check out more from the International Supercomputing Conference at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.
Stephen Hawking’s Consortium to Speed COSMOS Super with Allinea Tools
June 25, 2013 by
Allinea Software has entered into collaboration with the COSMOS consortium, Europe’s leading group of cosmology investigators brought together by Stephen Hawking. The consortium plans to use Allinea DDT and Allinea MAP to port and tune code for COSMOS_IX, one of the world’s largest shared-memory supercomputers and the world’s first symmetric multiprocessing system to be boosted […]
Video: New Updates to Intel Xeon Phi
June 25, 2013 by
In this video from ISC’13, Stephen Chenoweth from Intel describes the latest additions to the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor family. You can watch Intel’s product announcement right here on insideHPC and check out more from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery.
ISC’13 Wraps with Record Attendance and Resolve for 2014
June 25, 2013 by
ISC’13 concluded its 28th meeting last week drawing 2,423 attendees as well as 153 leading HPC vendors and research organizations from around the world to the Leipzig Congress Center. Having 2,423 attendees at a new location was very gratifying,” said ISC Executive Director Martin Meuer. “It would have been even more rewarding if we […]
Transtec Powers Cloud HPC and Remote Visualization at ISC'13
June 25, 2013 by
In this video from ISC’13, Dr. Oliver Tennert from Transtec describes how the company’s HPC Cloud Services and Remote Visualization solutions are empowering customers with flexibility for their computing workloads. We have a lot of customers from the scientific as well as financial or telecommunications areas, where analyzing huge amounts of data in the shortest […]
Looking at the Timeline for 100 Petaflops
June 25, 2013 by
Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan looks at when we might see a 100 Petaflop machine on the TOP500 list. Berkeley Lab is aiming for 100 petaflops with its NERSC-8 box, which three years ago was tentatively scheduled for 2017 or so with a strong possibility of an earlier delivery. In the latest NERSC […]
