In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discuss recent news that IBM is handing off the company’s chip fabs to Global Foundries. After the break, they look at the new Petaflop Apollo 8000 supercomputer coming to Cyfronet in Poland.
Archives for October 2014
This Week in HPC: IBM Hands Off Fabs to Global Foundries and Poland Gets its First Petaflop Super
October 25, 2014 by
SURF Light-path Data Networks and HPC Cloud in Medical Research
October 25, 2014 by
“SURF allows you to set up a light path: a direct, secure, and fast connection between 2 points, for example between a researcher in the Netherlands and a telescope in China. This offers unique, worldwide possibilities, for example for more efficient research, for sharing facilities or large datasets, or for creating backups.”
Job of the Week: Senior Java Software Development Engineer at ScaleOut Software
October 25, 2014 by
ScaleOut Software is seeking a Senior Java Software Development Engineer in our Job of the Week.
Slidecast: MPI-3 Is Here – Optimize and Perform with Intel MPI Tools
October 24, 2014 by
In this video, Gergana Slavova from Intel looks at how Intel MPI Tools can speed your codes on HPC Clusters.
Radio Free HPC Previews the StartupHPC Meetup at SC14
October 24, 2014 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the StartupHPC Meetup at SC14. “Does your Startup have ties to High Performance Computing? SC14 will be in New Orleans this year, and we are holding our first meetup on Nov 17th in New Orleans. Please come, meet like minded people, listen to industry notables, and kick off StartupHPC as a support community.”
Optimizing the HPCG Benchmark on GPUs
October 24, 2014 by
“Over at the Parallel for All Blog, Everett Phillips and Massimiliano Fatica write that GPUs offer good acceleration on the new HPCG benchmark that has been designed to augment Linpack as a measure of performance for the TOP500. Their GPU porting strategy focused on parallelizing the Symmetric Gauss-Seidel smoother (SYMGS), which accounts for approximately two thirds of the benchmark flops.”
Silicon Mechanics Sponsors Massachusetts Green Team
October 24, 2014 by
Today Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announced that that the company is sponsoring the Massachusetts Green Team in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC14.
Simulations show why Bacteria Cheat and Cooperate
October 23, 2014 by
More robust treatments for antibiotic-resistant bacteria could result from research at the University of Zurich that simulated interactions among bacterial colonies, using an SGI supercomputer there. The research investigated the cooperation between colonies of bacteria, and could have other applications, including the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis. Dr Akos Dobay, a post-doctoral researcher for the Institute […]
Bill Gropp to Teach Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale Systems
October 23, 2014 by
NCSA’s Blue Waters project will offer of an online graduate course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale Systems in spring 2015.
How to Maintain HPC Storage Performance at Scale
October 23, 2014 by
In scale-out NAS, HPC storage performance can be driven by several factors including elimination of file processing bottlenecks, parallel data paths and more. Learn how to maintain storage performance as you scale.
