Archives for June 2014

Allinea Enables Debugging at Scale for Bull Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming

In this video, Xavier Vigouroux from the Bull Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming describes how Allinea tools enable debugging at scale.

Video: Panel Discussion on Exascale Computing

In this video from the 2014 HPC Advisory Council Europe Conference, Gilad Shainer from HPCAC moderates a panel discussion on exascale computing.

GPU Systems Win 8th Straight Student Cluster Competition

For the eighth time running, an NVIDIA GPU accelerator-based system powered the winning team in a major international student cluster competition. “Besides powering the overall winning system, NVIDIA GPUs led the University of Edinburgh to achieve a record score on HPC industry standard Linpack performance benchmark. The team’s Tesla K40 GPU-powered system reached 10.14 teraflops —the first time any student cluster team has hit this mark within the competition’s three-kilowatt power budget.”

Bull to Resell ClusterStor, Touts Major Design win at DKRZ

Today Bull announced that the company has entered a worldwide reseller partner agreement allowing Bull to resell Xyratex ClusterStor solutions.

ISC’15 Will Move to a New City in Germany

The ISC’15 conference will be held July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany.

This Week in HPC: ISC’14 Wrap-up with Trends, Topics, Winners, and Losers

In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research wrap up the ISC’14 conference with a look at the trends, topics, winners, and losers.

Managing a Hadoop Cluster

Hadoop configuration and management is very different than that of HPC clusters. Develop a method to easily deploy, start, stop, and manage a Hadoop cluster to avoid costly delays and configuration headaches. Hadoop clusters have more “moving software parts” than HPC clusters; any Hadoop installation should fit into an existing cluster provisioning and monitoring environment and not require administrators to build Hadoop systems from scratch. Learn about managing a Hadoop cluster from the insideHPC article series on Successful HPC Clusters.

For the TOP500, the Milky Way Continues to Shine

China now has nearly as many top-ranking supercomputers as Britain, France and Germany combined, and its Tianhe-2 leads the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers — for the third consecutive time.

Interview: Mellanox Announces World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch

In this video from ISC’14, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox provides a technology update. This week the company announced the World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch as well as the HPC-X Scalable Software Toolkit.

Student Team EPCC Sets Record with help from Boston & CoolIT

Today Boston Limited and CoolIT Systems sent out congratulations to the student team from EPCC at The University of Edinburgh for their 1st place ranking for the Highest LINPACK in the history of the ISC’14 Student Cluster Challenge.