In this video from TechCrunch Disrupt 2015, Subbu Rama from Bitfusion describes how the company delivers powerful hardware acceleration technologies to boost application performance.
Archives for May 2015
Kraken Project Gets Kicker to Darter Supercomputer
May 28, 2015 by
Today the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) announced a $3 million award from the NSF to continue to provide advanced computing resources for researchers in science and engineering across the country through July 2016.
Registration Opens for ISC Cloud & Big Data
May 28, 2015 by
Today ISC Events announced that registration is now open for the inaugural ISC Cloud & Big Data conference. The event will take place Sept. 28-30 in Frankfurt, Germany.
N-Body Methods Optimization
May 28, 2015 by
“N-Body problems compare the interaction of N-bodies against N-bodies, which results in calculations of the order of N2. As this can be computationally very expensive, but a well understood process, techniques and optimizations can be performed on application code using compiler directives and easy to understand techniques.”
Slidecast: SRC Saturn 1 Server Taps FPGAs on HP Moonshot Platform
May 28, 2015 by
In this slidecast, David Eaton and Mark Tellez from SRC Computer describe the company’s new Saturn 1 server, a dynamically reconfigurable modular system for hyperscale data centers and Web operations.
Tsinghua University Wins ASC15 Student Cluster Challenge
May 27, 2015 by
Today the 2015 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC15) announced the winners of what they’re calling “the largest supercomputer contest in the world.” In total, 16 teams battled it out in the final round of the event, which took place last week at Taiyuan University of Technology in China.
New 3D Seismic Viewer from Fraunhofer
May 27, 2015 by
Today Fraunhofer announced XtreemView, a new scalable 3D viewer for seismic data.
Video: Porting Physics Apps to Titan with OpenACC
May 27, 2015 by
In this video, Aaron Vose from Cray presents: Porting Computational Physics Applications to the Titan Supercomputer with OpenACC and OpenMP.
Pawsey Supercomputer Center Receives $21.6M Funding
May 27, 2015 by
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Center announced $21.6 million of funding from the Australian government. The operational funding, which runs until 2020-21, allows the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to continue providing world-class resources and expertise in supercomputing, data and visualization and recognizes the WA Government’s significant commitment to cementing the State’s place as a scientific computing hub.
Video: L-CSC Cluster Tops Green500 with AMD Firepro
May 27, 2015 by
In this video, researchers describes the Lattice-CSC cluster in Darmstadt, Germany. Currently the most energy-efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list, the Lattice-CSC is powered by 640 AMD FirePro S9150 GPUs to achieve 5.27 GFLOPS/Watt.
