The RapidIO.org organization will exhibit several low latency, energy efficient multiprocessor systems at the upcoming ISC’14 conference
Podcast: Fabric Integration is Coming to Intel True Scale
May 23, 2014 by
“With Fabric Integration, you pick up five value vectors. One is an in increase in performance; so the closer you can drive the fabric to the CPU, the more things you can do to increase the overall performance of both the CPU, and the fabric together. Number two, you pick up density. Because now you’re not taking up any board space or PCIe slots and things like that. Number three, you pick up also the options for improved value, in terms of price per performance. Number four, you reduce power. And number five, by getting rid of things like the PCIe bus, you reduce componentry – which again reduces power – as well as improves reliability.”
IBM Research Discovers New Polymers with Computational Chemistry
May 21, 2014 by
Scientists from IBM Research have successfully created a new class of polymer materials using computational chemistry.
HPC Cluster Building Blocks
May 20, 2014 by
The basic HPC cluster consists of at least one management/login node connected to a network of many worker nodes. Depending on the size of the cluster, there may be multiple management nodes used to run cluster-wide services, such as monitoring, workflow, and storage services. This insideHPC article series looks at the Five Essential Strategies for Managing HPC Clusters.
Thomas Sterling Presents: HPC in Phase Change for Exascale Computing
May 19, 2014 by
“Exascale computing will demand innovations greater than was required for Petaflops six years ago in terms of computer architecture, parallel programming models, and system software. It will require a break from the past through a new execution model.”
Intel’s True Scale Fabric Gains Momentum; Forty Percent Growth from Last Year
May 16, 2014 by
“We really need to re-look at what the requirements are that will lead us all the way up to being able to support Exascale deployments. One of these absolute requirements is CPU fabric integration, because the performance that’s needed, the density, the power, are all areas that have to be vastly improved to support deployments of exascale.”
New Paper: Cluster-Level Tuning of a Shallow Water Equation Solver on the Intel MIC Architecture
May 15, 2014 by
Colfax Research has published a new white paper entitled “Cluster-Level Tuning of a Shallow Water Equation Solver on the Intel MIC Architecture.” Written by Andrey Vladimirov, the paper demonstrates the optimization of the execution environment of a hybrid OpenMP+MPI computational fluid dynamics code (shallow water equation solver) on a cluster enabled with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
Video: Paul Grun Wraps up the OpenFabrics Workshop
May 14, 2014 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics International Developer Workshop 2014, OFA Vice-Chair Paul Grun wraps up the conference with a summary of talks and a look at the way forward for OpenFabrics.
Video: Exploring Improvements to Verbs
May 9, 2014 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics International Developer Workshop 2014, Tom Statura from Intel presents: Exploring Improvements to Verbs.
Petaflop Radio Astronomy Signal Processing and the CASPER Collaboration
May 7, 2014 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics International Developer Workshop 2014, SETI@home co-founder Dan Werthimer presents: Petaflop Radio Astronomy Signal Processing and the CASPER Collaboration. As a bellwether for exascale, radio astronomy projects like CASPER and the SKA telescope are pushing the limits of high performance computing.
