Today Spectra Logic announced that NCSA has increased the capacity of the Spectra tape libraries that support the Blue Waters project, which is one of the world’s largest, most powerful supercomputers. The NCSA expanded its tape active archive capacity with the recent addition of 20 petabytes, and cited Spectra’s high performance, ease of use, affordability, scalability and excellent support received during the organizations’ two-year partnership.
Kramer Becomes Research Professor, Brings Closer Ties to NCSA
September 7, 2014 by
The University of Illinois announced that William Kramer will take on additional duties as a research professor this year. Since 2008, he has been with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the University of Illinois campus, where he is the director and principal investigator of the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer project.
Cobham Goes Parallel with Electromagentic Design
September 1, 2014 by
Opera’s space charge solver (also known as SCALA) uses code that is specifically optimized for the shared-memory architecture of multi-core processors.
Torsten Hoefler on How the SC13 Best Paper Came Together
December 11, 2013 by
“In this work, we develop scalable bufferless protocols that implement the MPI-3.0 specification. Our protocols support scaling to millions of cores with negligible memory consumption while providing highest performance and minimal overheads.”
