The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a $30 million contract to Cray for the delivery of a Cray XC30 supercomputer and a Cray Sonexion storage system to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as part of the ARCHER project. The follow-on to the High-End Computing Terascale Resource (HECToR) project, ARCHER […]
Archives for July 2013
Should the U.S. National Labs be Reinvented for the Exascale Era?
July 25, 2013 by
A recent report from a nonpartisan working group has presented a well articulated argument for the reinvention of the U.S. National Labs so they can effectively deal with the challenges of the upcoming exascale and zettascale decades.
The working group consists of The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, The Center for American Progress, and The Heritage Foundation.
The Exascale Report recently reported on the daunting challenges facing the new Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz. Many in the HPC community hope he will establish a strong leadership position for DOE. There is deep-rooted concern throughout the community as the nation’s National Lab researchers and scientists watch the U.S. position of global technology leader give way to Chinese ingenuity, determination, and overwhelming technology research and development budgets.
From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley to the Great Wall of China
July 25, 2013 by
“We’ve faced technology transitions and what some have called paradigm shifts before – and did those with rather impressive results. The big difference this time around is the leadership and their attitude(s), or lack thereof, toward stepping on toes and fighting for a longer-term U.S. exascale initiative with funding that will keep the U.S. competitive.”
Seeking Stories: HPC People on the Move
July 25, 2013 by
It’s me again–Dr. Lewey Anton. I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. We have caught wind of some big moves going down in this market, but we suspect there’s a bunch we haven’t heard about yet. Have you moved or know […]
Building the Argo OS for Exascale
July 25, 2013 by
While Exascale computing may be years away, Pete Beckman from Argonne and a team of researchers are already looking at what the operating system might look like. At the recent Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers event in Oregon, Beckman described the Argo OS project and how it might handle an Exascale architecture with large […]
Improving Supercomputer Resiliency with Containment Domains
July 25, 2013 by
As we approach Exascale levels of computing over the next decade, the ever-increasing numbers of components in supercomputers means that something somewhere is going to break at any time. To tackle this resiliency problem, Matan Eriz from the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues are collaborating with Cray to develop a new approach […]
Cray Embraces New Markets
July 25, 2013 by
Over at the Seattle Star, Skip Ferderber writes that Cray has stayed relevant through the years by continuing to reinvent itself. The rising star on Cray’s horizon may well be the California-based YarcData subsidiary, which produces the Urika graph analytics computer system that is being used to tackle Medicare fraud. The computer has a breakthrough […]
New Supercomputers at the Army Research Laboratory’s DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
July 25, 2013 by
The Army Research Laboratory has deployed two new IBM iDataPlex supercomputing systems at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The new systems extend the ARL DSRC’s aggregate computational capability to just over one PetaFLOPS in support of DoD research, development, test and evaluation programs. Pershing supercomputer 420 Teraflop, 20,160 2.6 GHz Intel Sandy Bridge compute cores, […]
OCF Offers XFlow CFD in the Cloud
July 24, 2013 by
OCF has announced that engineers in the UK can now access XFlow Computational Fluid Dynamics software as an online HPC service, powered by an 8,000-core server cluster. Live since early July, the service has shown almost linear speed increases up to 1000 cores, and is already being used by an international car manufacturer. To complement […]
Adapteva Ships Parallella Cards to Kickstarter Backers
July 24, 2013 by
This week Adapteva delivered the first Parallella computers ordered through its highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Powered by the company’s 16- and 64-core Epiphany multicore processors, Parallella is designed to bring parallel computing to a new generation of programmers in a low-cost, credit card-sized package. The Kickstarter community took a chance that we could deliver an […]
