Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and promote RoCE awareness.
Archives for June 2015
Dell Ups its HPC Game with New PowerEdge C-Series
June 23, 2015 by
Today Dell announced the PowerEdge C6320 server for HPC and Big Data. With twice the performance of its predecessor on the LINPACK benchmark, the PowerEdge C6320 delivers extreme performance with four compute nodes in a compact, 2U chassis.
Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
June 22, 2015 by
In this video, Mellanox launches their new 100G end-to-end Ethernet solutions in New York City.
Interview: How Univa Short Jobs Brings Low Latency to Financial Services
June 22, 2015 by
With the launch of Univa Small Jobs add-on for Univa Grid Engine, the company, the company offers “the world’s most efficient processing and lowest latency available for important tasks like real-time trading, transactions, and other critical applications.” To learn more, we caught up with Univa President & CEO Gary Tyreman.
Video: Introduction to XSEDE 2.0 and Beyond
June 22, 2015 by
This presentation will briefly review XSEDE, its past mission and accomplishments, and give insight into the direction and vision for the second round of XSEDE.
D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier
June 22, 2015 by
“Temperature, noise, and precision all play a profound role in how well quantum processors solve problems. Beyond scaling up the technology by doubling the number of qubits, we also achieved key technology advances prioritized around their impact on performance.”
Interview: Trends in HPC & Cloud in Financial Services
June 22, 2015 by
While not every industry is making the move to the Cloud at quite the same rate, the high performance side of the Financial Services industry seems to be ahead of the curve. This year, the ISC 2015 conference will feature a session on HPC & Cloud Computing in Financial Services. To learn more about the latest trends in this area, we caught up with Prof. Juho Kanniainen from Tampere University of Technology and Tuomas Eerola from Techila Technologies.
RCE Podcast Looks at the Fasterdata Knowledge Database
June 21, 2015 by
“Fasterdata provides proven, operationally sound methods for troubleshooting and solving performance issues. Our engineers have identified a common set of issues that hinder performance and we would like to share our experiences and findings in this knowledge base.”
Ed Seidel Presents: Supercomputing in an Era of Big Data and Big Collaboration
June 20, 2015 by
“Supercomputing has reached a level of maturity and capability where many areas of science and engineering are not only advancing rapidly due to computing power, they cannot progress without it. I will illustrate examples from NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer, and from major data-intensive projects including the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, and give thoughts on what will be needed going forward.”
Job of the Week: Senior HPC Grid Engineer at Citigroup
June 20, 2015 by
Citigroup in Irving, Texas is seeking a Senior HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week.
