Intel has taken the wraps off Knights Landing, its next-generation, 72-core Xeon Phi supercomputing chip.
Archives for November 2013
Irish Supercomputer List Debuts
November 27, 2013 by
The first-ever Irish Supercomputer List was released today with a mission to promote, advocate and advance HPC on the island. I
Demo: Allinea Performance Reports for Comparative Debugging
November 27, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Mark O’Connor from Allinea Software describes how the company’s new Performance Report Tools provides a scalable and effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs, without needing to instrument or recompile.
HPCAC Looks Ahead to Stanford Workshop and ISC’14 Student Cluster Competition
November 27, 2013 by
In this video, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council reviews the organization’s past year of community building efforts. He also discloses plans for the third annual ISC’14 Student Cluster Competition, which takes place in Leipzig in June 2014.
Interview: Universe has Some Surprises in Store, Says Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter
November 26, 2013 by
In this special feature, John Kirkley sits down with Dr. Saul Perlmutter. A Nobel prize winning astrophysicist, Dr. Perlmutter’s talk at SC13 focused on how integrating big data — and careful analysis — led to the discovery of the acceleration of the universe’s expansion.
Sponsored Post: Asetek Innovates with Hot Water Cooling System
November 26, 2013 by
Asetek is the world’s leading supplier of liquid cooling systems for computers with over 1.5 million cooling systems shipped for workstations, desktop PCs and servers. Leveraging their proven technologies, the Asetek RackCDU™ Direct-to-Chip hot water cooling system delivers energy savings of up to 80% and server rack density increases of up to 2.5x-5x times compared to air-cooled data centers, with rapid ROI and low TCO.
CoolIT Collaborates on Liquid Cooling Research
November 26, 2013 by
A collaboration between CoolIT Systems, Canada, and the Schools of Computing and Mechanical Engineering at University of Leeds has been set up to analyze the influence of proximity liquid cooling on cloud-based workload algorithms.
Video: CEA Pushes the Limits of HPC with Allinea at SC13
November 26, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Guillaume Colin de Verdière from CEA in France describes the mission of the organization and how working closely with Allinea enables them to push the limits of HPC technology.
Video: Thomas Sterling Accepts the HPC Vanguard Award
November 26, 2013 by
In this video from SC13, Thomas Sterling from Indiana University accepts the first inaugural HPC Vanguard Award.
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Does the SC13 Wrapup Show
November 25, 2013 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses what was hot and trending at the SC13 conference in Denver. Big Data was everywhere on the exhibit floor, but the coming requirements of Exascale spurred a number of low-power supercomputing demonstrations that look to be the wave of the future.
