Today at ISC’14, Univa announced a collaboration and technical partnership with CPU 24/7, a German IT service provider with a focus on mechanical engineering focus.
Archives for June 2014
CoolIT Systems Showcases Liquid Cooling Tech at ISC’14
June 23, 2014 by
This week at ISC’14, CoolIT Systems will showcase their full spectrum of DCLC solutions, which can be configured to meet a range of performance, density and efficiency requirements.
Cray Rolls Out Tiered Lustre Storage
June 23, 2014 by
Today Cray announced the launch of a new data management and protection solution for Lustre file systems.
June TOP500 List Shows it’s Lonely at the Top
June 23, 2014 by
This is getting to sound familiar. “For the third consecutive list, Tianhe-2 remains world’s No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. The US entries from Titan and Sequoia come in at number two and three, respectively, followed by the formidable K computer in Japan coming in at number four.”
MVAPICH2 and MVAPICH2-X Projects: Latest Developments and Future Plans
June 22, 2014 by
“This talk will focus on latest developments and future plans for the MVAPICH2 and MVAPICH2-X projects. For the MVAPICH2 project, we will focus on scalable and highly-optimized designs for pt-to-pt communication (two-sided and one-sided MPI-3 RMA), collective communication (blocking and MPI-3 non-blocking), support for GPGPUs and Intel MIC, support for MPI-T interface and schemes for fault-tolerance/fault-resilience. For the MVAPICH2-X project, will focus on efficient support for hybrid MPI and PGAS (UPC and OpenSHMEM) programming model with unified runtime.”
Video: The SKA Project – The World’s Largest Streaming Data Processor
June 22, 2014 by
The Square Kilometre Array Design Studies are an international effort to investigate and develop technologies which will enable us to build an enormous radio astronomy telescope with a million square meters of collecting area.
Caching, Flash, Disk, and the Future of Storage
June 22, 2014 by
“All of this is very interesting given the latest release on the drop in revenue for flash storage of 6.6%, which means that there is not likely going to be the hundreds of billions of dollars in investment to replace disk drives.”
Nobel Lecture Series: Data, Computation and the Fate of the Universe
June 21, 2014 by
In this video from the NERSC Nobel Lecture Series: Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab presents “Data, Computation and the Fate of the Universe.” Perlmuitter won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. As part of our feature, we’ve included an insideHPC interview with Saul Perlmutter from SC13.
This Week in HPC: SanDisk acquires Fusion IO and a Look Ahead to ISC’14
June 20, 2014 by
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discuss the acquisition of Fusion-io by SanDisk. After the break, they look ahead to ISC’14.
AMD Plans to Deliver 25x Efficiency Gains by 2020
June 20, 2014 by
This week AMD announced its goal to deliver a 25x improvement in the energy efficiency of its Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) by 2020.
