Data Vortex, introduced its first commercially available HPC system, the DV206, consisting of 32 commodity dual processor servers.
Archives for November 2014
Data Vortex Technologies Introduces Scalable Fine-Grained Gather-Scatter Parallel Computer at SC14
November 25, 2014 by
STEM and HPC Innovators Foster HPC Entrepreneurship at SC14
November 24, 2014 by
At SC14 last week, the first community effort focused on STEM and HPC Entrepreneurship was launched at a conference that brought together prospective entrepreneurs with some of the industry’s most celebrated experts and practitioners.
Henry Newman on Why Tape is Dead
November 24, 2014 by
In this video from the Nov. 17 Seagate User Group at SC14, Henry Newman from Instrumental presents: Tape vs. Disk 2015-2020. Transcript: So, I’m the last speaker between you and the opening gala event so I will talk quickly. Ken heard about a study we did for a government agency looking at long term archival issues […]
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Why HPC Matters
November 24, 2014 by
In this video from SC14, SGI CTO Dr. Eng Lim Goh discusses why HPC Matters with Rich Brueckner from insideHPC. They then move on to the topic of Exascale and how SGI plans to get there.
SC14 Awards Ceremony Celebrates the Stars of the HPC Community
November 23, 2014 by
This week SC14 hosted an awards session to celebrate the contributions of researchers, from those just starting their careers to those whose contributions have made lasting impacts.
Mellanox Speeds InfiniBand at SC14
November 23, 2014 by
In this video from SC14, Gilad Shainer summarizes the latest InfiniBand technology advancements from Mellanox.
Bright Cluster Manager Wrangles New NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU
November 22, 2014 by
This week at SC14, Bright Computing announced support for the new NVIDIA Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerator.
Mark Your Calendars: Here are the SC Conference Cities Through 2020
November 22, 2014 by
According to statements made at the SC15 booth selection meeting, the SC conference will go hit a number of surprising cities from 2015 through 2020.
Sci-Fi Original: Angels of Silence
November 21, 2014 by
In the southern regions of Mexico, there’s a little town called Oaxaca that did a grand experiment in law enforcement. Faced with the silent output of hundreds of security cameras in public spaces, they hired deaf officers to read lips and look for clues for solving and preventing crime. And it worked. These amazing people have found thieves, murderers, buried bodies, and they’ve even saved precious human life from horrible kidnappings. The deaf officers are called the Angels of Silence. Their story is true, something so remarkable in my eyes that it inspired the fictional tale you are about to read. There’s even a little HPC in there for you.
VMware Makes Progress on Virtualizing HPC
November 21, 2014 by
In this video, Matt Herreras and Josh Simons discuss recent developments in virtualization technologies for HPC. Please pay attention, folks. This stuff is going to change how we, as a community, get supercomputing done and it is happening now.
