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June 11, 2009

The Week in Review

by John E. West, for HPCwire

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Here is a collection of highlights, selected totally subjectively, from this week's HPC news stream as reported at insideHPC.com and HPCwire.

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House committee passes national climate service bill

Switzerland's national HPC strategy

Yahoo! adds three overseas research institutes to Cirrus cloud project

Yahoo! releases the version of Hadoop it uses

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QLogic starts shipping quad data rate IB switches

Research points the way to new, dense, billion year memory

Japan works on clustering SX-9s over a wide area

TACC builds TeraGrid's largest data store

IBM's System S headed for real-time monitoring electromagnetic weather

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MIT offers multicore programming short-course

ORNL's Jaguar Poised to Get Speedy Upgrade

According to Frank Munger's blog, Oak Ridge National Lab's Jaguar supercomputer is poised to get a serious upgrade. The XT5 supercomputer, currently ranked second on the Top500 list, will upgrade its core processors to the latest AMD 6-core Istanbul from its current quad core powerplant. Jeff Nichols, ORNL's interim associate lab director for scientific computing, said the new silicon are expected to arrive later this summer and bump performance to "well over 2 petaflops."

"The big question is how much science are we going to get out of it, and that is the ultimate driver -- to get the most science that we can for the Department of Energy's Office of Science," Nichols said.

The upgrade comes at the hands of a recent influx of stimulus funds. The 200 cabinet Jaguar system will share the funds with its 88 cabinet cousin, Kraken. The smaller, 600 teraflop, machine is expected to get roughly a 70 percent performance bump.

Biggest Sun Super in Europe Goes Online

There has been a lot of news on this. I want to mention it briefly, but you can read more at the link below, and a video interview with Thomas Lippert, the director of the Jülich Supercomputer Center here.

The latest Sun supercomputing deployment in Europe, deemed JuRoPA2, officially went online last Friday. Forschungszentrum Julich of Germany is the proud owner of the new 2,208 node cluster. The Sun Blade X6275 nodes are supported by the Sun Constellation System and communicate via six newly developed "Project M9" InfiniBand switches. The new switches are 648 ports each at quad data rate. Also included in the new installation is 500TB of scratch goodness supported by a Lustre file system.

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