Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC

Nov 12, 2009 | If you thought Windows 7 was just for mere mortals, think again. Microsoft's latest OS is about to show up in Cray's newest CX1 deskside supercomputer that puts a Windows workstation and a Windows HPC Server cluster into a single box.
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The Week in Review

Nov 12, 2009 | Ohio Supercomputer Center and Nimbis Services partner to provide e-commerce service; and Purdue announces fin-shaped transistor that could lead to smaller, faster computer processors. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Spectra Logic Goes After HPC Elite with New Tape Library

Nov 10, 2009 | Spectra Logic has unveiled its new top-of-the-line T-Finity tape library. The product is aimed at high-end HPC installations and other application areas that require the ultimate in storage capacity and sophistication.
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A Conversation with SC09 General Chair Wilf Pinfold

Nov 06, 2009 | SC09 General Chair Wilf Pinfold shares his thoughts on organizing the world's largest Supercomputing event, examines this year's big conference themes and gives his take on the state of the industry and how that reflects on the conference.
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Platform Launches Private and Hybrid Cloud Management Products for HPC

Nov 05, 2009 | Platform Computing is continuing to evolve its cloud business. This week the company announced a private cloud product as well as a new "cloud bursting" feature, both based on its ISF management technology.
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The Week in Review

Nov 05, 2009 | SDSC receives $20 million from NSF to create flash-based supercomputer; and NCSA provides GPU primer. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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ScaleMP Adds Cloud and Switchless Cluster Offerings

Nov 04, 2009 | ScaleMP has added two new virtual SMP products to its lineup: a dynamic cloud provisioning offering and a new switchless entry-level product for four-node clusters. Both are based on the company's vSMP Foundation technology, a software solution that turns x86 clusters into virtual SMP machines.
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3Leaf Launches Virtual SMP Platform

Nov 03, 2009 | Startup 3Leaf Systems has launched its first product offering, the Dynamic Data Center Server (DDC-Server). It is a combination of silicon and software that pools server CPU and memory into dynamically-sized virtual servers. Essentially it aggregates hardware resources so that a cluster farm can be turned into one or more SMP systems.
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Cloud Computing Vendors for HPC

Nov 03, 2009 | The number of cloud offerings for HPC users seems to be growing by the day. In this article, we attempt to aggregate all the current vendors with products that address the cloud delivery model for high performance computing applications.
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Timesharing 2.0

Nov 03, 2009 | Is cloud computing today's hot technology that promises to lower TCO, reduce energy costs, and enable dynamic, agile datacenters -- or is it just the latest hype? That is, will cloud computing really happen and will it deliver on its promises? And what does it mean for high performance computing?
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How Three Global Organizations Are Harnessing the Power of GPU Computing

Nov 03, 2009 | Companies, laboratories and research institutions around the world are turning to GPU computing to augment or even replace their CPU clusters.
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Cloud Computing Opportunities in HPC

Nov 02, 2009 | High-end, public cloud computing offerings represent a convergence of grid and Internet technologies, potentially enabling workable new business models. Smaller, private clouds are a technical evolution that expands the ease of use and deployment of grids in more organizations.
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Grid Computing Done Right

Nov 02, 2009 | Writing and implementing high performance computing applications is all about efficiency, parallelism, scalability, cache optimizations and making best use of whatever resources are available -- be they multicore processors or application accelerators, such as FPGAs or GPUs. HPC applications have been developed for, and successfully run on, grids for many years now.
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Cloud for Academia?

Nov 02, 2009 | Grid computing was born in academia and was originally designed to support scientific and research computing. In contrast, cloud computing has a business background and is designed to enable the delivery of scalable Web applications. The BEinGRID project has looked into how Grid is appropriate for business use, but what about looking at whether the cloud is useful for academia?
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Grids or Clouds for HPC?

Nov 02, 2009 | Time and again, people ask questions like "Will HPC move to the cloud?" or "Now that cloud computing is accepted, are grids dead?" or even "Should I now build my grid in the cloud?" Despite all the promising developments in the grid and cloud computing space, and the avalanche of publications and talks on this subject, many people still seem to be confused and hesitant to take the next step.
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ADIOS Ignites Combustion Simulations

Oct 29, 2009 | A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Tech, and Rutgers University developed the ADaptable I/O file System (ADIOS), an I/O middleware package that has shown great promise with leading fusion and astrophysics codes. Recently, ADIOS made its mark in the field of combustion.
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Compilers and More: A Computing Larrabee

Oct 29, 2009 | Larrabee looks an awful lot like an x86 cluster node; anyone who has experience building HPC clusters has pretty good intuition about the design tradeoffs that make for a balanced and effective system. So it can be interesting to explore the Larrabee architecture, to look at the design choices Intel made, and what alternatives they might have considered or might consider in the future.
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The Week in Review

Oct 29, 2009 | Computer science students at LSU get a new cluster; and Tilera achieves the 100-core mark with its latest processor family. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Will Roadrunner Be the Cell's Last Hurrah?

Oct 27, 2009 | The Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Lab employed a hybrid Cell-Opteron architecture to be the first system to reach the petaflop milestone. But with the meteoric rise of more powerful general-purpose GPUs, the prospects for more Cell-based supercomputing may be dimming.
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The Week in Review

Oct 22, 2009 | IDC studies cloud computing cost effectiveness; and BBC reports on using crystals as a supercomputing storage medium. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Limiting Latencies in the Cloud

Oct 22, 2009 | Interconnect latencies have been generally recognized as a limiting factor for high-performance computing applications in and among cloud centers, but a variety of protocol innovations have appeared in the marketplace to clear this hurdle.
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NVIDIA Pitches GPU Computing in the Cloud

Oct 21, 2009 | At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, NVIDIA announced a GPU-powered 3D Web platform. Called the NVIDIA RealityServer, it consists of Tesla GPUs, rendering software and a Web service environment, all integrated into a platform designed to deliver photorealistic image streams via a cloud computing model.
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The Week in Review

Oct 15, 2009 | Processor speeds predicted to top out in 75 years; and Carnegie Mellon University creates low-power cluster with help from Intel Labs. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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DOE Labs to Build Science Clouds

Oct 13, 2009 | Like many organizations that rely on industrial-strength datacenters, the US Department of Energy (DOE) would like to know if cloud computing can make its life easier. To answer that question, the DOE is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud technology.
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The Week in Review

Oct 08, 2009 | UT's Kraken breaks petascale barrier for academia; and Cyprus Institute partners with University of Illinois. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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