Team applications are now being accepted for the SC14 Student Cluster Competition. “The energy and dedication that the student teams bring to the Student Cluster Competition is inspiring, especially as they work around the clock to overcome obstacles and get their systems up and running,” said Student Cluster Competition Chair Dustin Leverman of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “Though they are competing all out against one another, the teams also share a camaraderie as they race to the end.”
Archives for February 2014
PRACE Allocates Millions of Core Hours in 44 Awards
February 24, 2014 by
The European PRACE initiative has allocated 44 awards totaling millions of hours of supercomputing time in their 8th Regular Call for Proposals.
Radio Free HPC on The Exascale Report Acquisition
February 24, 2014 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent acquisition of The Exascale Report by insideHPC. “Exascale-level computing remains a daunting challenge that is still years away, and Rich is excited to take it on as an editorial focus. The good news is that he’ll be moving the publication away from its subscription model to make it free for all to read.”
Video: Intel’s Genevieve Bell Keynotes SC13
February 23, 2014 by
“Bell’s fascinating talk on the intersection of big data and society began in 11th century England with the Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror, and brought the audience forward through ten centuries to the big data opportunities — and challenges — we face as a society today.”
Porting Hadoop to HPC
February 23, 2014 by
Ralph H. Castain from Intel presented this talk at the Adaptive Computing booth at SC13. “The solution allows customers to leverage both their HPC and big data investments in a single platform, as opposed to operating them in siloed environments. The convergence between big data and HPC environments will only grow stronger as organizations demand data processing models capable of extracting the results required to make data-driven decisions.”
Beagle Supercomputer is a Genome Smasher
February 23, 2014 by
The Beagle Supercomputer at the University of Chicago can analyze 240 whole genomes in two days.
Harvard Supercomputer Highjacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
February 22, 2014 by
An unidentified user managed to commandeer Harvard’s Odyssey supercomputer last week for the purpose of mining Dogecoin, an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency.
South Africa Looks to Exascale
February 22, 2014 by
Someday in the future, will we look back at South Africa as the birthplace of Exascale? With the bloom of HPC activity going on there in preparation the SKA telescope, don’t be surprised if it happens.
This Week in HPC: Intel Goes Big Memory and Lucera Brings High Frequency Trading to the Cloud
February 21, 2014 by
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman from Intersect360 Research and Rich Brueckner from insideHPC discuss Intel’s new Xeon E7 V2 processors designed for in-memory analytics. Following that, they take a look a the secret sauce behind Lucera’s new cloud for High Frequency Trading.
Job of the Week: Supercomputer Systems Engineer at OSC
February 21, 2014 by
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking a Supercomputer Systems Engineer in our Job of the Week.
