In this video, Nvidia’s Ian Buck describes the company’s Pascal GPU technology. Slated for delivery in 2016, Pascal includes NVLink, a point-to-point interconnect enables fast data exchange between GPUs and CPUs as well. After that he gives us a sneak peek at the Jetson TK1 development platform.
Archives for March 2014
Video: GTC Keynote – Using GPUs at Pixar
March 26, 2014 by
Today’s GTC keynote features Pixar’s Dirk Van Gelder and Danny Nahmias. While you may not think of Pixar in terms of HPC, the company is an undisputed leader in computing graphics. In fact, the first Academy Award ever given to a computer generated movie was Pixar’s Luxo Jr. in 1986.
Nvidia Develops NVLink Interconnect for Next-Gen “Pascal” GPUs
March 25, 2014 by
Today at GTC 2014, Nvidia announced new technologies that will ship with their next-generation “Pascal” GPUs. First up is a new interconnect called NVLink, a point-to-point interconnect that offers advantages over PCI-E.
Video: Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang GTC 2014 Keynote
March 25, 2014 by
insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes all week from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Today’s keynote is from Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang and we anticipate some exciting announcements.
Video: Tuning and Measuring Performance on Lustre
March 25, 2014 by
In this video from the Rice Oil & Gas Workshop, John Fragalla from Xyratex presents: Tuning and Measuring Performance on Lustre. As an HPC Principal Architect, John Fragalla brings global expertise to Xyratex. He is a leader on many strategic and complex customer engagements worldwide, and provides technical advisement on future product development and direction within Xyratex and the industry to design storage solutions that meets customer requirements.
Interview: Steve Simms Re-elected as Community Representative Director for OpenSFS
March 24, 2014 by
“A key mission for OpenSFS to accomplish is to keep attendees up to date on where Lustre is at. In addition to the technical talks identifying Lustre’s current capabilities, departing community representative director, Tommy Minyard, will deliver an OpenSFS commissioned report from an independent organization examining the current state of Lustre.”
GTC Keynotes to Livestream This Week on insideHPC
March 24, 2014 by
We are pleased to announce that insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes this week from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. You can look forward to the latest on GPU-powered science and state-of-the-art visualization.
ARCHER is now the UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
March 24, 2014 by
The £43 million ARCHER supercomputer will provide high-performance computing for research and industry in the UK.
Microway Rolls out Octoputer Servers with up to 8 GPUs
March 24, 2014 by
Today Microway announced a new line of servers designed for GPU and storage density. As part of the announcement, the company’s new OctoPuter GPU servers pack 34 TFLOPS of computing power when paired with up to up to eight NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerators. NVIDIA GPU accelerators offer the fastest parallel processing power available, but […]
New Eurotech G-Station Deskside HPC system
March 24, 2014 by
Today Eurotech announced their new G-Station, a liquid-cooled departmental HPC system.
