Researchers are using the Anselm supercomputer in the Czech Republic to process topographical data for a new map portal.
Archives for April 2014
CSC in Finland Becomes Latest Intel Parallel Computing Center
April 25, 2014 by
Today CSC in Finland announced that the institution has become one of the newest Intel Parallel Computing Centers.
High Performance Seismic Wave Propagation with SPECFEM3D
April 25, 2014 by
“We present the SPECFEM3D wave propagation simulation package, which implements a highly efficient method for simulating seismic and acoustic waves on a highly efficient finite element method for simulating seismic and acoustic waves on large arbitrary domains.”
Boston Deploys Supermicro Memory Channel Storage for Big Data
April 24, 2014 by
Boston LTD has announced it plans to deploy application accelerating SSDs using Memory Channel Storage technology within Supermicro server and storage platforms suited Big Data applications.
Podcast: Dan Olds Reports Live from the Asia Supercomputing Challenge
April 24, 2014 by
In this podcast, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting reports live from the ASC 2014 Asia Supercomputer Challenge, where 16 teams are battling it out for cash prizes. The competition wraps up April 25 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.
DoE Awards AltaSim Funds to Develop Additive Manufacturing
April 24, 2014 by
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded AltaSim Technologies nearly $150,000 to further develop the technologies that drive additive manufacturing – adding momentum to a public-private initiative based in Ohio to boost industrial use of modeling and simulation.
Progress Report on Efficient Integration of Lustre and Hadoop/YARN
April 24, 2014 by
Using Hadoop with Lustre provides several benefits, including: Lustre is a real parallel file system, which enables temporary or intermediate data to be stored in parallel on multiple nodes reducing the load on single nodes. In addition, Lustre has its own network protocol, which is more efficient for bulk data transfer than the HTTP protocol. Additionally, because Lustre is a shared file system, each client sees the same file system image, so hardlinks can be used to avoid data transfer between nodes.
Tower International Using Altair’s Compute Manager to Streamline Compute Access
April 23, 2014 by
Today Altair announced that automotive manufacturer Tower International is using Compute Manager software to simplify and streamline access to distributed resources.
Nvidia to Offer Full CUDA Support for OpenPOWER in 4Q2014
April 23, 2014 by
“Nvidia is adding CUDA software support for GPUs with IBM POWER CPUs. IBM and Nvidia are demonstrating the first GPU accelerator framework for Java, showing an order of magnitude performance improvement on Hadoop Analytics applications compared to a CPU-only implementation.”
Jim Ryan Recaps the OpenFabrics Workshop 2014
April 23, 2014 by
Over at the OpenFabrics Blog, OFA Chairman Jim Ryan writes that the recent OpenFabrics Workshop reflected a year of work identifying and engaging with interest groups.
