In the world of high performance computing, there are three distinct metrics in play: number crunching speed, data crunching speed, and energy efficiency. Can a computer excel at all three, or is our best recourse to try for something less than a hat trick? Read more...
Server maker SeaMicro has unveiled the SM10000-XE, a new microserver aimed squarely at the burgeoning ultra-scale datacenter market. The company is best known for pioneering the microserver space using Intel's power-sipping Atom CPUs, but in this latest offering, SeaMicro has opted for high powered, low-wattage Sandy Bridge Xeons, which expands the application horizons of microservers considerably.
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Storage maker Nimbus Data Systems has launched its newest product line, the E-Class Flash Memory System, which scales up to 500 terabytes per file system and is equipped with enterprise goodies like fault tolerance and high availability. The latest offering is designed to provide a faster, denser, and more energy-efficient alternative to high capacity disk-based systems.
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Designing an aircraft is one of the more expensive endeavors in the manufacturing business. It's no surprise that large manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus have turned to computing, and especially high performance computing, to streamline the effort. To get a sense of the current state of the art, we asked Guus Dekkers, CIO of EADS and Airbus, to shed some light on the computational challenges involved.
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Silicon Valley-based Samplify Systems has launched an application acceleration technology designed to speed up codes that sling a lot of numerical data. But rather than throwing bigger, faster hardware at the problem, the company aims to make programs speedier by optimizing the data flow between the compute cores and the outside world.
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2/2/2012 |
New mid-range XE6/XK6 supercomputer configurations replace Xeon-powered CX machines.
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2/1/2012 |
Chip maker launches new 16-core and 36-core chips.
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1/26/2012 |
Companies like Tilera and Kalray are pushing the manycore envelope.
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1/25/2012 |
NCSA chooses Globus Online as big data mover.
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1/19/2012 |
R9-million upgrade bumps Linpack performance from 25 to 61 teraflops.
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1/18/2012 |
GPU computing speeds up air traffic trajectory software by a factor of 250.
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01/17/2012 | Inphi | This paper introduces the LRDIMM, a new type of memory module for high capacity servers and high-performance computing platforms. LRDIMM is an abbreviation for Load Reduced Dual Inline Memory Module, the newest type of DIMM supporting DDR3 SDRAM main memory. The LRDIMM is fully pin compatible with existing JEDEC-standard DDR3 DIMM sockets, and supports higher system memory capacities when enabled in the system BIOS.
01/09/2012 | Matrox | Applications with image resolutions, data rates and analysis requirements that exceed the capabilities of a typical workstation computer continue to exist to this day. Moreover, developers must decide how to select and best use the processing technologies – multi-core CPU, GPU and FPGA – at their disposal. The suitability of a scalable heterogeneous computing platform for demanding applications will be examined by way of a representative scenario.
Doug Eadline, Editor of Cluster Monkey had a chance to sit down with Jim Ang, Technical Manager at Sandia National Laboratories for an interview about the “First of a Kind” Experimental Cluster, Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer ,using Intel’s Knights Ferry (KNF) Software Development Platform for the Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Just for the record, Knights Ferry is available only to select individuals including Jim Ang’s group at Sandia and represents a potential new direction in HPC.
As a multi-million and multi-year contract, the TLCC2 project was awarded to Appro as a joint procurement offered by the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) where Appro has begun delivering the Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer to 3 major national Laboratories including Sandia (SNL), Los Alamos (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL). Matt Leininger of LLNL and Appro’s VP of Advanced Technology, John Lee, discuss the TLCC2 in further detail as the project is underway.
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Podcast: Cray Revamps Mini-Super Offerings; A Peek at AMD's New Roadmap
Cray offers a new mini-supercomputer configuration based on its XE6/XK6 line, while AMD forges ahead with its CPU-GPU-APU strategy.
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Podcast: Intel Buys Into InfiniBand; What it Means for QLogic, Mellanox and HPC
Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications of Intel's plans to acquire QLogic's InfiniBand business.
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Podcast: The Shining Stars of HPC; People to Watch in 2012
Addison and Michael are joined by HPCwire publisher Jeff Hyman to talk about the publication's 2012 People to Watch list.
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones has over 15 years of experience in HPC, in supercomputer center management and as a research user in industry. He now leads the HPC Services & Consulting at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
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Addison Snell
Addison Snell is the CEO of Intersect360 Research and a veteran of the high performance computing industry. During his tenure, he has established Intersect360 Research as a premier source of market information, analysis and consulting.
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Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe has developed compilers for over 30 years in both academia and industry, and is now a senior compiler engineer at The Portland Group, Inc.
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