In this podcast from NPR’s Science Friday program, Horst Simon from LBNL and Rick Stevens from ANL discuss the recent news that the Chinese have once again built the world’s fastest supercomputer. China’s “Tianhe-2” (Milky Way 2) supercomputer took first place in one recent speed test, clocking in at 30 quadrillion calculations per second—about twice […]
Archives for June 2013
How Virtualization is Key to Unlocking Cloud HPC
June 21, 2013 by
In this video from ISC’13, Josh Simons from VMware discusses why the high performance computing community is starting to leverage virtualization technologies for Cloud HPC. Virtualization should not be viewed simply as a tax one pays to move into a cloud environment, but rather as an approach that can enable new capabilities that are either […]
New Super Maxed Out on First Day of Operations
June 21, 2013 by
Over at The Register, Richard Chirgwin writes that users of the new 1.2 Petaflop Raijin machine at NCI in Australia were able to max out the machine on the first day of production operation. According to NCI, half of that consumption was down to one job from Associate Professor Evatt Hawkes, who had a code […]
Video: Optimizing Remote Visualization Workloads
June 21, 2013 by
In this video from ISC’13, Michael Jackson from Adaptive Computing presents: Optimizing Remote Visualization Workloads. Ever wanted to it manipulate a 3D simulation in real time remotely? What if you could do so with others manipulating those same pixels from other locations? Sound like science fiction? Combined technologies from Adaptive Computing and NICE Software are […]
Russian Tornado Whips Up the Power
June 21, 2013 by
RSC Group, the Russian HPC company, has announced that its Tornado supercomputing architecture with liquid cooling has reached 200+ Tflops per rack with an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. RSC Tornado architecture supports now the newest Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, 7120X. This new generation of Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors is designed and optimised to provide the […]
Video: RDMA Accelerated Big Data Applications
June 21, 2013 by
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council European Conference 2013, Eyal Gutkind from Mellanox presents: RDMA Accelerated Big Data Applications. Download the slides (PDF) and check out more videos at the HPC Advisory Council European Conference Video Gallery.
Nvidia Launches CUDA Support for ARM Server Chips
June 21, 2013 by
This week Nvidia announced that version 5.5 of CUDA will support the ARM chip architecture. This was welcome news at ISC’13, where a number of talks and exhibits were touting ARM-based computing. Since developers started using CUDA in 2006, successive generations of better, exponentially faster CUDA GPUs have dramatically boosted the performance of applications on […]
Student Cluster Invictus – Team South Africa Wins the Day at ISC'13
June 20, 2013 by
We are pleased to announce that Team South Africa won the ISC’13 Student Cluster Challenge this week. A hearty congratulations goes out to these young folks, as this was their first international cluster competition. I had a chance to talk to Happy Sithole from South Africa’s CHPC just now, and he said that all the […]
InfiniBand Rocks the TOP500 with 16 Petascale Supercomputers
June 20, 2013 by
The latest TOP500 once again shows that InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for the world’s most powerful supercomputers, powering 80 percent of clustered systems and a record 16 Petascale systems on the list. The increase in InfiniBand-connected Petascale systems demonstrates that InfiniBand provides the highest performance for clustered computing,” said Jim Ryan, co-chair of […]
rCUDA: A Ready-to-use Remote GPU Virtualization Framework
June 20, 2013 by
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council European Conference 2013, Rafael Mayo Gual from the Universitat Jaume presents: rCUDA – A Ready-to-use Remote GPU Virtualization Framework. Download the slides (PDF) and check out more videos at the HPC Advisory Council European Conference Video Gallery.
