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HPC & AI Wall StreetHere is a collection of highlights from this week’s news stream as reported by HPCwire.
SGI Announces Cyclone Cloud Computing for Technical Applications
NTU Opens High Performance Computing Center
Absoft, Visual Numerics Announce Latest IMSL Fortran Numerical Libraries
PCs Around the World Unite To Map the Milky Way
Survey Reveals More Than 80% of IT Execs Plan for Private Clouds
SSI Forum Partners with the High Performance Computer Standardization Committee of China
Coventry University Implements ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation Software
Criterion HPS Introduces High Performance Solutions Platform
Intel Itanium 9300 Processor Raises Bar for Mission-Critical Computing
IBM Unveils New POWER7 Systems To Manage Increasingly Data-Intensive Services
Univa Cloud Management Products Support Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
NVIDIA Names University of Maryland a CUDA Center of Excellence
IBM Scientists Demo World’s Fastest Graphene Transistor
The Green Grid Debuts New Tools For Datacenter Efficiency
Blue Gene Super Bolsters Life Sciences Research
In Melbourne, Australia, scientists from the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne and the IBM Research Computational Biology Center have come together to study human disease with a little help from IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer.
From the announcement:
The collaboratory — where IBM Researchers co-locate with a university, government, or commercial partner and share skills, assets, and resources to achieve a common research goal — will enable collaboration between the 10,000 world-class life sciences and medical researchers in the Melbourne area, and IBM’s computational biology experts, who are renowned for applying high performance computing to biological discoveries.
The collaboration aims to achieve significant improvements in human health through a better understanding of the biology of disease in addition to advances in medical diagnostics, and more effective medications. Projects range from Medical Imaging and Neuroscience, Clinical Genomics, Structural Biology, and Integrated Systems Biology. The collaboratory will be located on the campus of the University of Melbourne and will will be fully operational in 2010.
A video introduction to the IBM Research Computational Biology Center is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2bB_2g_Uc. The six-minute-long, high-quality production highlights the ground-breaking work being done with the help of supercomputers and the importance of a collaborative approach.
This is the sixth IBM collaboratory and the first one located in Australia. The others are located in Dublin, Ireland; Shenyang, China; Shanghai, China; Taipei, Taiwan and Hyderbad, India.
Cray’s Scaled-Down Systems Scale Up Business
Business is good for Cray. The company has added customers in Japan, Europe and the United States through sales of its midrange systems, the Cray XT5m and XT6m. Those recently-announced systems are generating new business for Cray in academic, weather, life sciences, and government research and development sectors.
According to Barry Bolding, Cray’s vice president of scalable systems,
The Cray XT5m and Cray XT6m systems are industry leaders in terms of compute density and energy efficiency for x86 systems, and our customers — both new and existing — are finding that price and performance efficiency are compelling fits for their needs.
Recent customer wins include the Tokyo-based research organization, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, which will be installing a Cray XT6m to pursue statistical and mathematical data analysis. In Europe, the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany selected the Cray XT6m to support scientific work in chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering.
The Cray XT6m, announced during SC09, is upgradeable from a Cray XT5m. Cray introduced the midrange systems as scaled down versions of the high-end Cray XT architecture to appeal to more users at a lower price point.
