PRACE Council Chair Catherine Rivière spoke on Sustainability & Business Models at the recent International Conference on Research Infrastructures.
Archives for April 2014
Workshops and Exhibitors Published for TERATEC 2014
April 28, 2014 by
The TERATEC 2014 Forum has published a listing of workshops and exhibitors for their upcoming meeting for Simulation and High Performance Computing. The event takes places July 1 – 2 at Ecole Polytechnique in France.
ISC’14 Announces Speakers for Exhibitors Innovation Forum
April 28, 2014 by
ISC’14 has announced the speaker lineup for their first-ever Exhibitors Innovation Forum.
Slidecast: Power Systems — Open Innovation to Put Data to Work
April 28, 2014 by
“According to Big Blue, the new scale-out Power servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment and are built from the ground up to harness Big Data with the new IBM Power8 processor. During the launch event, IBM unveiled a rack full of 2U Power8 servers with up to 100 Terabytes of in-memory analytics capacity.”
OFA to Streamline Verbs Interface
April 28, 2014 by
“OpenFabrics Alliance members are working to streamline and make the verbs interface more efficient. Since this is an open source effort this will take some time, but the consensus is that there is too much overhead both in the depth of the call stack and in the size of associated data structures for verbs to scale well in the exascale era.”
Lustre File System Talk from the OpenFabrics Workshop
April 27, 2014 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics International Developer Workshop 2014, Doug Oucharek from Intel presents: Lustre File System.
JICS to Collaborate with WARP Mechanics on Next-Gen Object Storage
April 26, 2014 by
This week the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at ORNL announced a partnership with WARP Mechanics to study next generation object storage technologies for use in HPC environments. In this video from LUG 2014, Josh Judd from Warp Mechanics presents: Practical Applications of Lustre/ZFS Hybrid Systems.”
This Week in HPC: Altera Gives FPGAs a Floating Point Makeover and IBM Previews Power8 Portfolio
April 25, 2014 by
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research look at Altera’s FPGA floating-point makeover. After the break, they discuss IBM’s new POWER8 servers.
OpenPOWER to Deliver Innovation through Collaboration
April 25, 2014 by
“With the marriage of POWER8 and NVIDIA GPUs connected via NVLink, these systems are going to be simply unbeatable when it comes to handling some of the most demanding computing tasks for enterprises and popular consumer Web services. One example: harvesting insights in real time from massive amounts of medical data. Also, IBM is working to accelerate a range of its enterprise data analytics applications with GPUs, allowing customers to take advantage of these high-performance POWER-GPU systems.”
Video: From Google Glass to the SGI UV Supercomputer
April 25, 2014 by
In this video, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI demonstrates the company’s “extreme scale-out” server, the SGI UV, which currently scales to 256 Intel Xeon sockets and 64 TB of memory. Because the system runs on a single system image of Linux, researchers can easily access the system through mobile devices such as tablets and even the Google Glass.
