Today the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) announced a $20 Million investment to add new areas of focus—such as advanced manufacturing and cybersecurity—to its research projects.
Archives for April 2015
Hornet and SuperMUC to Provide 247 Million Core Hours for Scientific Research
April 29, 2015 by
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) reports that the 10th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals resulted in GCS supporting 14 outstanding scientific research projects from eight European countries. A total of 246.93 million core hours of computing time were awarded on GCS supercomputers, including Hornet at HLRS and SuperMUC at LRZ.
Video: Intelligent Cache Hinting in Lustre
April 29, 2015 by
“Data caching can provide increased performance when using a mix of high and low performance storage, but traditional replacement algorithms like LRU may evict important data in multi-tenant environments, or in situations where the cache is “cold”. By tagging and prioritizing data within the storage system, we can create a more intelligent mechanism that avoids many of the problems inherent to traditional caching. Methods for prioritizing data and passing this information through the filesystem will be discussed, as well as a performance analysis of small file IO in Lustre with cache hinting, and possible future enhancements.”
Optalysys Develops Prototype Optical Processing System
April 29, 2015 by
Today Optalysys announced that the company has successfully developed a demonstrable prototype that can process mathematical functions optically in a scaleable, lensless design. According to the company, Optalysys optical processing systems will “turbo-charge” existing computers by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption.
DataFest Competition Brings Big Data to College Students
April 29, 2015 by
Students from more than 20 prestigious colleges and universities recently tried their hand at “Big Data” analysis at seven different campuses around the country during DataFest, an annual month-long data-analytics competitive event sponsored by the American Statistics Association.
NASA Triples Discover Supercomputer Capacity for Earth Science
April 29, 2015 by
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is boosting supercomputer capacity to over 3 Petaflops to meet the exploding demands of NASA’s Earth science modeling efforts.
Memorial Service for William C. Blake Set for May 30
April 29, 2015 by
A memorial service for William C. Blake will be held on May 30, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 645 Main St. in Melrose, Massachusetts.
Penguin Computing Goes Bright Box with Pica8’s Network OS
April 28, 2015 by
Today Penguin Computing announced that the company will offer the PicOS operating system as an option on the company’s Arctica “bright box” top-of-rack switches.
Interview with Dr. David Rohr on AMD FirePro for High Energy Physics
April 28, 2015 by
Dr. David Rohr from the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) describes how he is using AMD FirePro to accelerate high energy physics.
Struggling to Adopt Advanced Analytics? Think the Power of Small Data
April 28, 2015 by
In this special guest feature, Lauren Tucker of Cooler Heads Intelligence provides her assessment for why companies seem to be struggling to adopt advanced analytics and offers her 3 misconceptions fueled by the big data hype.
