Nicholas Dube from HP presented this talk at the Adaptive Computing booth at SC13. “The ESIF data center is designed to achieve an annualized average power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.06 or better. Going beyond traditional PUE measurements, the NREL HPC Data Center is using warm-water liquid cooling for its high-power computer components, then capturing and reusing that waste heat as the primary heat source in the ESIF offices and laboratory space.”
Archives for February 2014
Interview: ScaleMP Launches vSMP Foundation Version 5.5
February 26, 2014 by
“For environments where large memory systems are critical – bio informatics, legacy databases i.e. Big Data, we have focused on a lot of performance enhancements. We strive to make large memory systems as fast as possible. It is interesting to note that in some cases, our VMs are faster than physical machines. We do this by prefetching and caching data based on our understanding of memory placement and access patterns.”
ISC’14 in Leipzig Responds to Feedback, Upgrades Air-Conditioning and WIFI
February 26, 2014 by
The good folks from ISC heard you and they have upgraded the air conditioning and networking at the convention center for ISC’14.
Leadership Computing for Combustion Apps on INCITE and PRACE Systems
February 26, 2014 by
“The INCITE and PRACE programs give access to increasing resources allowing these technologies to be applied to industrial scale systems. From past and ongoing research examples performed at CERFACS, this presentation highlights the scientific breakthroughs allowed by HPC on exascale machines for reacting flows for gas turbines and explosions in buildings.”
Ghent University Speeds Genome Analysis with TimeLogic
February 26, 2014 by
Using FPGA-based accelerators, TimeLogic’s DeCypher systems greatly increase the speed of sequence comparison.
IBTA Releases Updated Integrators’ List
February 26, 2014 by
This week the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the availability of its October 2013 Combined Cable and Device Integrators’ List.
For Financial Services, it’s HPC to the Rescue
February 25, 2014 by
“Today, most financial services organizations try to solve all of their big data challenges using either grid or cluster technologies. One popular approach involves the use of Hadoop running on commodity x86-based clusters. At Cray we’re taking a different approach, leveraging our supercomputing technologies to improve I/O performance, disk utilization and efficiency.”
Slidecast: How Big Workflow Delivers Business Intelligence
February 25, 2014 by
In this slidecast, Rob Clyde from Adaptive Computing describes Big Workflow — the convergence of Cloud, Big Data, and HPC in enterprise computing. “The explosion of big data, coupled with the collisions of HPC and cloud, is driving the evolution of big data analytics,” said Rob Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing. “A Big Workflow approach to big data not only delivers business intelligence more rapidly, accurately and cost effectively, but also provides a distinct competitive advantage.”
RONNIEE Express: A Dramatic Shift in Network Architecture
February 25, 2014 by
In this slidecast, Emilio Billi from A3 Cube presents an overview of the company’s new RONNIEE Express network architecture. “The RONNIEE Express platform elevates PCI Express from a simple interconnect to a new ‘brain inspired’ intelligent network fabric, leveraging the ubiquity and standardization of PCIe while solving its inherent performance bottleneck.”
Clustered Systems Leads with Innovative Cooling
February 24, 2014 by
In this video, Bob Lipp from Clustered Systems describes the company’s innovative cooling technology for high-density blade systems. “We integrate components, systems and software from leading suppliers with our patented two phase cooling infrastructure to deliver the greenest high performance compute systems. These whisper quiet systems drive down infrastructure and operational costs.”
