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.
Archives for April 2015
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.
Intel Launches First IPCC Parallel Computing Center in China
April 28, 2015 by
At the recent Intel Developers Forum, the company announced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Supercomputing Department will be the first Intel Parallel Computing Center in China. The new Intel PCC will work to modernize software code for molecular dynamics models.
WestGrid Boosts Canadian Research Data
April 28, 2015 by
Network upgrades are enabling more data-intensive science in Canada, reports WestGrid, one of four regional organizations working in partnership with Compute Canada. In the past year, the regional organization has transferred more than 5 PB of research data across Cybera and CANARIE’s advanced networks in the past year, representing a 22% increase in network traffic from 2013-14.
SKA & AWS Seeking Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud
April 28, 2015 by
Today the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organization announced that it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use cloud computing to explore ever-increasing amounts of astronomy data. To kick things off, they just issued a Call for Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud, a grant program to accelerate the development of innovative tools and techniques for processing, storing and analyzing the global astronomy community’s vast amounts of astronomic data.
Supercomputing Tidal Models with the STORM Project at LSU
April 28, 2015 by
The Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology recently received a large grant from the National Science Foundation to begin updating the coastal modeling system known as Advanced Circulation, or ADCIRC. The project, known as STORM, began in October of 2014 and work on the program will continue for four more years.
Video: Understanding Hadoop Performance on Lustre
April 27, 2015 by
“In this talk, Seagate presents details on its efforts and achievements around improving Hadoop performance on Lustre including a summary on why and how HDFS and Lustre are different and how those differences affect Hadoop performance on Lustre compared to HDFS, Hadoop ecosystem benchmarks and best practices on HDFS and Lustre, Seagate’s open-source efforts to enhance performance of Lustre within “diskless” compute nodes involving core Hadoop source code modification (and the unexpected results), and general takeaways ways on running Hadoop on Lustre more rapidly.”
Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches
April 27, 2015 by
Today Penguin Computing announced the Arctica 4804ip switch and a collaboration with Cumulus Networks.
