The inaugural ISC Cloud & Big Data conference has announced its Call for Research Papers. The event takes place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany. The organizers are looking forward to welcoming international attendees – IT professionals, consultants and managers from organizations seeking information about the latest cloud and big data developments. Researchers in these two […]
Archives for February 2015
Performance Challenges Using OpenACC to Port O&G Apps
February 26, 2015 by
“John Levesque is the Director of the Cray’s Supercomputer Center of Excellence based at Oakridge National Laboratory. He is responsible for the group performing application porting and optimization for break-through science projects. Levesque has been in High Performance computing for 40 years. Recently Levesque was promoted to Cray’s Chief Technology Office, heading the companies efforts in application performance.”
Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters
February 25, 2015 by
Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand adapters.
DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI
February 25, 2015 by
Today DDN announced that the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is using the company’s GRIScaler storage solutions to perform rapid, accurate Ebola outbreak modeling for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
NERSC Honors HPC Achievement Award Winners
February 25, 2015 by
This week NERSC announced the winners of its third annual HPC Achievement Awards. The awards recognize NERSC users who have demonstrated an innovative use of HPC resources to solve a scientific problem or whose work has had an exceptional impact on scientific understanding or society.
Penguin Computing Launches Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop
February 25, 2015 by
Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop, adding greater capability to the company’s existing Scyld ClusterWare high performance computing cluster management solution.
Video: Assisting User’s Transition to Titan’s Accelerated Architecture
February 25, 2015 by
In this video from the University of Houston CACDS HPC Workshop, Fernanda Foertter from ORNL presents: Leveraging Leadership Computing Facilities: Assisting User’s Transition to Titan’s Accelerated Architecture.
Three GPU Hackathons Going Global with OpenACC
February 24, 2015 by
NCSA, ORNL, and CSCS will host a series of GPU Hackathons in 2015.
CoolIT Systems Cites Growing Demand for Liquid Cooling
February 24, 2015 by
Today CoolIT Systems announced 2014 financials and growing demand for the company’s Direct Contact Liquid Cooling technologies.
Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt
February 24, 2015 by
Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing of steel designs.
