The Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is seeking a Principal HPC Architect in our Job of the Week. The candidate will performs studies and develops new HPC technology architecture recommendations for the DSRC enterprise in support of DoD research programs.
Archives for February 2015
Video: HPC Transforms Students with Mentorships at SC15
February 20, 2015 by
In this video, Ken Kraft from Intel describes his experiences as a participant in SC Conference Mentor-Protege program. “The SC15 conference is broadening its mission to build a strong and diverse HPC student community at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, through professional development programs, opportunities to learn from mentors, and engagement with SC’s technical sessions.”
OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference
February 20, 2015 by
This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19.
Nearly 200 Years after Ada, Women Becoming More Visible in Scientific Computing
February 20, 2015 by
In this special guest perspective from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing is solely the preserve of nerdy men.
Video: Introduction to Bridges Supercomputer at PSC
February 19, 2015 by
Bridges is a uniquely capable supercomputer designed to help researchers facing challenges in Big Data to work more intuitively. Called Bridges, the new system will consist of tiered, large-shared-memory resources with nodes having 12TB, 3TB, and 128GB each, dedicated nodes for database, web, and data transfer, high-performance shared and distributed data storage, Hadoop acceleration, powerful new CPUs and GPUs, and a new, uniquely powerful interconnection network.
Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing
February 19, 2015 by
Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale DNA sequence searches.
Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
February 19, 2015 by
There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of data. In order to maximize the use of the highest speed storage, Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) was developed to move and store data within easy use of users, yet at the appropriate speed and price.
ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP
February 19, 2015 by
Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and developers to tackle scalability and performance in key scientific applications that run on their 2.5 Petaflop Cray XC30 system.
Video: SGI UV Finds the Needle in the Big Data Haystack
February 19, 2015 by
According to IDC, SGI has shipped approximately 8 percent of of all the Hadoop servers in production today. In fact, did you know that SGI introduced the word “Big Data” to supercomputing in 1996? Jorge Titinger, SGI President and CEO, shares SGI’s history in helping to design, develop, and deploy Hadoop clusters. (NOTE: Straw was substituted for actual hay to avoid any potential allergic reactions.)
Katie Antypas to Keynote OFA Developer’s Workshop
February 18, 2015 by
The OpenFabrics Alliance has announced the keynote talk for their Developers’ Workshop on Sunday, March 15 at 7.30 PM at the Marriott in Monterey CA.
