Researchers in the USA and in Europe have been offered access to some of the world’s most sophisticated supercomputers, as result of three initiatives announced this month.
Archives for December 2013
HPC Wales Powers New International Renewable Research Project
December 18, 2013 by
HPC Wales is contributing to an international research project seeking to expand the lifetime of batteries powered by renewable energy.
Moving Lustre Forward: Status & Roadmap
December 18, 2013 by
In this video from the DDN User Meeting at SC13, Brent Gorda from the Intel High Performance Data Division presents: Moving Lustre Forward: Status & Roadmap.
Slidecast: Introducing the Terascala Intelligent Storage Bridge
December 17, 2013 by
“HPC workflows are most efficient when researchers have the data they need, when the need it. The Intelligent Storage Bridge acts like an air traffic controller, automatically moving large data sets on and of scratch using the maximum available network, compute, and storage resources.”
CyrusOne Builds Record HPC Colocation Capacity in Houston
December 17, 2013 by
Colocation provider CyrusOne announced today that it now offers 31 megawatts of critical power load at its Houston West data center campus in what the company believes is the largest concentration of HPC and high-density data center space available anywhere.
Pending Legislation to Foster Exascale
December 17, 2013 by
Congress is directing the Energy Department to take the next decade to develop Exascale computing, according to language in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House last week, with a Senate vote expected this week.
New XSEDE Tools to Aid Campus Cluster Administrators
December 17, 2013 by
This week XSEDE announced a new set of software resources designed to ease tasks for campus system administrators.
Managing Genomics Data with DDN at the Sanger Institute
December 17, 2013 by
“We have to explore emerging technologies that could play a significant role in our future architecture,” said Tim Cutts. “We need solutions that give us a much better way to provide storage to our expanding user community with good access controls through iRODS.”
Stanford HPC Conference Looks to Exascale Feb 3-5, 2014
December 16, 2013 by
Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that their Stanford High-Performance Computing Conference and Exascale Workshop will take place on February 3-5, 2014. The conference will focus on HPC usage models and benefits, the future of supercomputing, latest technology developments, best practices and advanced HPC topics.
Dell Teams with Mellanox for 10/40GbE Networking
December 16, 2013 by
Today Mellanox announced that its dual port ConnectX-3 10/40GbE Network Interface Cards are now fully compatible with qualified Dell PowerEdge servers.
