Archives for June 2014

IDC Announces HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

Today IDC announced the seventh round of recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards at the ISC’14.

Slidecast: Pre-Game Show for the ISC’14 Student Cluster Challenge

In this slidecast, Dan Olds from the Student Cluster Competition Blog and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council break down the field at the ISC’14 Student Cluster Competition. So how did it all turn out? Team South Africa won the overall competition for the second straight year and Team EPCC set a record with an amazing 10.14 Teraflops on LINPACK.

Video: Announcing the Ubercloud Technical Computing Marketplace and Appstore

In this video from ISC’14, Wolfgang Gentzsch announces the new Ubercloud Technical Computing Marketplace and Appstore.

COSMOS Facility is the Latest Intel Parallel Computing Center

Today Cambridge University announced that COSMOS supercomputer facility is now an Intel Parallel Compute Center.

Adaptive Computing Nitro Fuels HP Apollo for Higher Throughput

Today Adaptive Computing announced it has combined technologies with HP to deliver greater performance and higher throughput by running Adaptive’s Nitro on HP Apollo Systems.

This Week in HPC: TOP500 Gets a Minor Makeover and Top Vendor News from ISC

In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research look at what’s new in the latest TOP500 list along with the top vendor news from ISC’14.

Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge Returns to SC14

Today Intel announced it will hold its second Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at SC14, November 17-20, 2014 in New Orleans.

OrangeFS: A Scalable, Parallel File System Whose Time Has Come

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest generation, the scale-out file system known as OrangeFS.

Korea Meteorological to Acquire Two Cray XC Supercomputers

Cray has been awarded a $54 million contract to provide the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) with two next-generation Cray XC supercomputers.

Mellanox Demonstrates World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch

Today Mellanox announced Switch-IB, the next generation of its InfiniBand switch and the first-ever switch IC capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds.