In this video from Fox News, researchers describe the power and capabilities of Gordon, the flash-based supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Video: Sunway Bluelight Super Based on Chinese Processors Starts Operation
January 22, 2012 by
Our Video Sunday feature continues with this story announcing that the Chinese Sunway Bluelight supercomputer is now fully operational after a three month trial run in Jinan. Sunway BlueLight is the first supercomputer built entirely of components engineered and built in China.
Bright Cluster Manager Powers Astrophysics at UNIVAP
January 18, 2012 by
Today Bright Computing announced that Instituto de Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento — Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (IP&D-UNIVAP) is running Bright Cluster Manager on its new hybrid HPC cluster. Used by UNIVAP’s Astrophysics department to simulate the dynamics of colliding galaxies and cosmological structure formation, the cluster was installed, configured and tested in less than five […]
Cyprus Unveils Largest Super in Eastern Mediterranean
January 13, 2012 by
This week the largest supercomputer in the Eastern Mediterranean was unveiled at the Cyprus Institute’s Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC). The IBM system is a hybrid CPU/GPU cluster currently holding 1,392 processors in 116 nodes. The HPC facility “will enable cutting-edge research” the University of Cyprus’ rector Constantinos Christofides said, adding that times […]
Video: The Multipurpose KillDevil Cluster
January 1, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5u90aXo7VM Our Video Sunday feature continues with this SC11 presentation by Dr. Mark Reed from the Scientific Engagement Group for Research Computing at University of North Carolina. The KillDevil cluster is a Linux-based computing system available to researchers across the campus. With more than 8000 computing cores across 706 servers and a large scratch disk […]
Chinese Sunway Bluelight Super is DEC Alpha, One Decade Removed
December 27, 2011 by
Nebojsa Novakovic has posted some interesting details on the Chinese-built processor used in the Sunway Bluelight supercomputer, which ranked number 14 on the recent TOP500 list. The rumors seem to be correct; the CPU is based on the DEC Alpha processor. SW3 aka SW1600 is a 16-core, 64-bit RISC processor, with each core looking a […]
Meet Gordon, the 320-terabyte Flash Drive
December 27, 2011 by
Tom Pfingsten writes that the $20 Million Gordon supercomputer at SDSC is the biggest flash memory-based system anywhere. Center spokesman Jan Zverina said Thursday that Gordon is particularly suited for applications such as analyzing traffic patterns and making sense of huge quantities of economic data. “It’s not only fast, but it can really mine through massive, […]
HokieSpeed Super to become a War Horse for Researchers
December 21, 2011 by
Steven Mackay writes that Virginia Tech’s new “HokieSpeed” supercomputer will be a veritable “War Horse” for researchers working on diverse science. You may remember how Virginia Tech crashed the supercomputing arena in 2003 with System X, a novel Apple server cluster powered by the company’s G5 processors. Ranked at number 96 on the TOP500 and […]
QLogic Powers World’s Fastest Sandy Bridge Cluster at LLNL
December 13, 2011 by
This week QLogic announced that its InfiniBand technologies are powering the world’s fastest cluster powered by Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” Xeon E5 processors. Ranked at #15 on the TOP500, the “Zin” supercomputer at LLNL comprises 46,208 cores in 2916 nodes, producing up to 837 megaflops per watt. The ever more powerful computing systems Lawrence Livermore requires […]
Gordon Flash-Based Super is the Fastest #48 on the Planet
December 10, 2011 by
Marty Graham from Wired Magazine has posted a profile of SDSC’s Gordon, the world’s first flash-based supercomputer. Gordon uses 300 terabytes of flash, spanning 1,024 high-performance Intel 710 series drives, and the system includes new software designed to aggregate resources from multiple physical server nodes into “super-nodes,” so users have immediate access to data, rather […]
