Podcast: A Look Back at the Year in HPC; A Look Ahead to 2012

Dec 27, 2011 | Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.
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Researchers Develop Optical Device for On-Chip Communication

Dec 22, 2011 | Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.
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Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2011

Dec 22, 2011 | The supercomputing biz seems to have shaken off most of the after-effects of the global recession, with scads of new deployments large and small around the world. China, in particular, continued its big push into HPC, notching its first home-grown super. And Japan ushered in the era of 10-petaflop supercomputing this year with its world-beating K Computer. But, as always, not all the HPC news was rosy. Here are the top hits and misses for the year.
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Chinese Astronomical Observatory Selects Bright Cluster Manager

Dec 22, 2011 | Bright Computing today announced that Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) has selected Bright Cluster Manager for its high performance computing (HPC) cluster.
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Los Alamos, EMC Ink Deal to Develop New HPC Technology

Dec 21, 2011 | Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced the signing of a new Umbrella CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with EMC Corporation.
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T-Platforms to Build 10-Petaflop Supercomputer for Moscow State University

Dec 21, 2011 | T-Platforms will design a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops (10^15 floating point operations per second) for M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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CAPS to Add Compiler Support for Intel MIC

Dec 21, 2011 | CAPS will add a new back-end to its HMPP directive-based compiler that will allow developers to unleash the performance of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. First
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Researcher Uses OSC Resources to Refine Turbine Simulation Software

Dec 21, 2011 | Jen-Ping Chen, Ph.D., an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The Ohio State University, is working to improve the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that engineers use to simulate and evaluate the operation of turbomachinery.
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Arctur-I Supercomputer Reconfigured for Large-Memory Simulations

Dec 21, 2011 | The Arctur-I supercomputer has been reconfigured to support simulations require a lot of RAM.
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Scientists Develop Biologically Inspired Computer Model for Object Recognition

Dec 20, 2011 | A team of scientists at describes how, after measuring human performance of object recognition, they created a computer model to also attempt to pick out the shapes.
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Thinking Forward: A Conversation with Wolfram Research Co-Founder Theo Gray

Dec 20, 2011 | Besides his day job as Director of User Interface Technology at Wolfram Research, Theodore (Theo) Gray is also an award-winning science writer, a role he uses to communicate his boundless enthusiasm for science, technology, the arts, and how they interact. Recently he founded Touch Press, an electronic book publishing company that Gray hopes will further that cause. In this wide-ranging interview, Gray talks about his new Touch Press venture, Wolfram|Alpha, science education, software, cloud computing, and HPC.
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Boston India Showcases Latest CPU/GPU Solutions for HPC

Dec 20, 2011 | Boston IT Solutions will be showcasing their latest range of GPU and CPU based solutions optimised for the high performance computing arena at HiPC 2011 .
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Data Repository for UT Researchers to be Deployed

Dec 20, 2011 | The University of Texas at Austin is working with The University of Texas at Arlington to deploy a data repository in January to increase connectivity, computing capacity and collaboration among all 15 institutions in The University of Texas System.
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SGI Loses CEO to Enterprise Content Management Firm

Dec 19, 2011 | Mark Barrenechea leaves company for Canadian ECM software maker OpenText
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Bielefeld University to Deploy New Supercomputer for High-Energy Physics

Dec 19, 2011 | Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics is getting a new high-performance computer to learn about the properties of matter as it existed in the early universe immediately after the Big Bang.
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IBM to Deliver 96-Teraflop Supercomputer to Slovak Academy of Science

Dec 19, 2011 | IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Slovak Academy of Science has chosen IBM technology to launch an important high-performance computing project in Slovakia.
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New Saudi Arabian Supercomputing Facility to Use Allinea Debugging Tools

Dec 19, 2011 | Tools from Allinea Software will play a key role in the development of software at a new supercomputing facility at the aeronautical engineering department, King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia.
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Optical Internetworking Forum to Host Next Generation Interconnect Workshop

Dec 19, 2011 | The Optical Internetworking Forum (OI) is hosting a workshop focusing on electrical and optical interconnects that will be needed for the next generation communication and computing systems.
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ANSYS Scored Highly by Investor's Business Daily

Dec 19, 2011 | ANSYS, a developer of engineering simulation software, is one of only six technology businesses worldwide to receive the highest possible score in a new list of stock ratings published by Investor's Business Daily.
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Altair Engineering Opens Datacenter for HyperWorks On-Demand Offering

Dec 19, 2011 | New center in Troy, Mich., will manage large-scale high-performance computing jobs for customers
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Architecting HPC Data Storage Solutions

Dec 19, 2011 | Innovation has been the cornerstone of success in our heritage in the data storage industry for the last twenty-five years.   About two years ago, Xyratex initiated an investigation into additional market opportunities for enterprise class data storage solutions.  Our research yielded interesting data points that aligned with the strengths of Xyratex.  We discovered that not only was the High Performance Computing (HPC) a high growth area for storage, it also represented a dynamic market opportunity with a substantial need for better data storage design. We also learned that the way data storage was being implemented at many of these sites was unduly complicated in terms of initial installation, performance optimization and ongoing management.
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Podcast: GPU Technology in the Far East; HPC 360 in the Midwest; SGI CEO Heads North

Dec 16, 2011 | Addison and Michael discuss the GTC Asia and HPC 360 events and offer their perspectives on the resignation of SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea
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Cray XMT Supercomputer Installed at Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing

Dec 15, 2011 | Noblis, a leading science, technology, and strategy organization, announced that a next-generation Cray XMT supercomputer has been delivered to the Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing (CAHPC) in Danville, Va.
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BGI Speeds Genome Analysis with GPUs

Dec 15, 2011 | The data deluge in the life sciences is no where more acute than at Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI, which probably sequences more DNA than any other organization in the world. To turn that data into something meaningful for genomic researchers, the institute has begun to employ GPU-accelerated HPC to greatly reduce processing times. In doing so, BGI was able to increase computational throughput by an order of magnitude or more.
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Mark J. Barrenechea Resigns as CEO of SGI

Dec 15, 2011 | SGI's Board of Directors today announced that Mark J. Barrenechea has tendered his resignation as president, chief executive officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2012.
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J.P. Morgan Deploys Maxeler Dataflow Supercomputer for Fixed Income Trading

Dec 15, 2011 | Maxeler Technologies announced that it has gone live with a supercomputer solution for fixed income trading operations at J.P. Morgan.
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MSC Software Releases GPU-Accelerated Version of Nastran

Dec 14, 2011 | MSC Software Corporation has launched a GPU-accelerated version of the MSC Nastran 2012, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) application, which is used in a wide range of engineering simulation tasks.
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PGI to Release CUDA-x86 Compiler in January

Dec 14, 2011 | The Portland Group announced that a performance-optimized PGI CUDA C/C++ compiler for multicore x86 platforms (CUDA-x86) will ship with its PGI 2012 release due out in January 2012.
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Netlist Claims Its Memory Technology Outperforms LRDIMM on New Intel-Based Servers

Dec 14, 2011 | Netlist, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of high-performance memory subsystems, today announced results of side-by-side testing of its HyperCloud modules versus LRDIMM.
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Texas A&M University Selects Bright Computing for HPC Cluster

Dec 14, 2011 | Bright Computing today announced that the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University has selected Bright Cluster Manager to manage its AMD Opteron-based HPC Cluster.
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NVIDIA Opens Up CUDA Compiler

Dec 13, 2011 | GPU maker NVIDIA is going to make its CUDA compiler runtime source code, and internal representation format public, opening up the technology for different programming languages and processor architectures. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the kick-off of the GPU Technology Conference Asia in Beijing, China.
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Emerging Companies Ride Wave of GPU Computing

Dec 15, 2011 | This week at GTC Asia in Beijing, NVIDIA highlighted a number of young companies making use of GPU computing during its Emerging Companies Summit. The companies selected fit into a range of HPC, cloud and mobile markets that are meeting an ever-expanding array of verticals, both in traditional high performance computing arenas and in broader consumer contexts.
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Researchers Set Record for Network Data Transfer at SC11

Dec 14, 2011 | Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology.
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BGI Employs NVIDIA GPUs to Crunch Genomics Data

Dec 13, 2011 | NVIDIA announced that BGI, the world's largest genomics institute, has slashed the time to analyze batches of DNA sequencing data from nearly four days to just six hours using a NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based server farm.
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NVIDIA Releases CUDA Compiler Source Code

Dec 13, 2011 | NVIDIA will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support CUDA applications on alternative processor architectures.
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Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Installs GPU Cluster

Dec 13, 2011 | The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) has installed a new graphics processing unit (GPU) system that it hopes will enable researchers to take advantage of this new technology for innovation and improved performance for research.
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Ten Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on GPUs

Dec 13, 2011 | The performance potential of GPU computing has produced significant excitement in the HPC community. However, as was the case with the advent of parallel computing decades ago, the nascent technology does not equally benefit all applications -- or even all components of a single application. Alas, modest speedups from GPU acceleration are rarely publication-worthy, a fact that occasionally leads GPU zealots to adopt scientifically dubious techniques to artificially inflate the performance benefit of GPU computing to more impressive levels.
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Energy Firm Using Red Hat Storage to for Weather Prediction Data

Dec 13, 2011 | Red Hat, Inc. announced that Pattern Energy Group LP, a wind energy and transmission company, is using Red Hat Storage, formerly Gluster, technology to manage business-critical weather prediction data.
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HPC Advisory Council, Swiss Supercomputing Centre to Host HPC Conference

Dec 13, 2011 | The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012.
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NVIDIA Kicks Off GPU Technology Conference Asia on Wednesday

Dec 13, 2011 | NVIDIA kicks of GTC Asia on Dec 14, the next major event in its international series of GPU Technology Conference (GTC) events focused on the latest advances and research in science, academic and commercial fields enabled by GPU computing
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Survey Counts Cost of European Research Computing Services

Dec 12, 2011 | A major survey to understand the cost of European academic computing services was launched today.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces Israel Supercomputing Conference 2012

Dec 12, 2011 | The HPC Advisory Council will host the HPC Advisory Council Israel Supercomputing Conference 2012 at the Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel on February 7, 2012.
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QLogic InfiniBand Powers Top LLNL Cluster

Dec 12, 2011 | QLogic announced that its 12000 Series switches and 7300 Series adapters have helped propel a cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to the number 15 position on the recently-announced list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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Mitrionics Teams with Russian FPGA-Card Manufacturer Rosta

Dec 12, 2011 | Mitrionics AB, developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor, the Mitrion-C programming language and the Mitrion Software Development Kit for FPGA-based reconfigurable computing, today announced a new partnership with the leading Russian FPGA-card manufacturer Rosta.
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Arm Yourselves for Exascale, Part 2

Dec 12, 2011 | In Part 1 of this two-part series, I advocated that we should explore the use of ARM-architecture processors in high performance computing for three reasons: its innovation, its ubiquity in the marketplace, and its ability to be customized. In Part 2, I look at some of the challenges of the architecture as well as several missing pieces of the ecosystem.
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Microsoft Bing Maps takes the fast route to image processing efficiency with Dell solutions

Dec 12, 2011 | Bing® Maps requires tremendous compute resources to produce detailed geo-spatial images. By installing Dell™ Modular Data Centers, the Bing Maps team is on the road to dramatically reducing operating costs.“From a power consumption perspective, Dell comes in at 180 kW of power per container, which lowers our power consumption by 80 percent and delivers roughly five times the amount of compute density. That obviously lowers the electric bill,” explains Brad Clark, group program manager.
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Podcast: Supercomputing Welcomes Flash Gordon; Possible Q4 Slump in HPC

Dec 09, 2011 | Addison and Michael discuss the launch of Gordon, SDSC's new data-intensive supercomputer. Also, Addison offers some guidance on why HPC revenue might take a hit in Q4.
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French Atomic Energy Authority Releases NFS Server with HPC Features

Dec 09, 2011 | The Military Applications Department of the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA/DAM) has developed a generic NFS server running in User Space and named “NFS-Ganesha”.
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IBM Contributes Massive Chemical Database to NIH

Dec 09, 2011 | IBM is contributing a massive database of chemical data extracted from millions of patents and scientific literature to the National Institutes of Health.
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ACM Names Indiana University's Geoffrey Fox 2011 Fellow

Dec 09, 2011 | The Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Indiana University Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Fox for his exceptional contributions to computing by naming him a 2011 Fellow.
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Revisiting Supercomputer Architectures

Dec 08, 2011 | Additional performance increases for supercomputers are being confounded by three walls: the power wall, the memory wall and the datacenter wall (the "wall wall"). To overcome these hurdles, the market is currently looking to a combination of four strategies: parallel applications development, adding accelerators to standard commodity compute nodes, developing new purpose-built systems, and waiting for a technology breakthrough.
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RENCI and Duke to Build Experimental Network

Dec 08, 2011 | RENCI at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University in partnership with IBM will lead a new project to build a nationwide test bed for networking and networked cloud computing.
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China Flexes High-Tech Muscles

Dec 08, 2011 | Nation is accelerating innnovation and investment to become supercomputing powerhouse.
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SKIF Aurora SUSU Supercomputer is Most Energy-Efficient HPC System in Russia

Dec 08, 2011 | The SKIF Aurora SUSU supercomputer built by the Russian developer and vendor RSC Group became the most energy efficient Russian HPC system according to a latest edition of Green500 list.
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ANSYS Launches Version 14.0 of Engineering Simulation Technology Suite

Dec 08, 2011 | ANSYS has launched the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite, ANSYS 14.0.
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Association for Computing Machinery Names 2011 ACM Fellows

Dec 08, 2011 | ACM has recognized 46 of its members for their contributions to computing that have provided fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generated multiple technology advances in industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and education.
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AccelerEyes Releases Jacket 2.0

Dec 08, 2011 | AccelerEyes announces the release of Jacket version 2.0, adding GPU computing capabilities for use with MATLAB..
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University of Bordeaux Installs Dell HPC Cluster

Dec 07, 2011 | ClusterVision, has announced the formal opening of "Avakus", the new University of Bordeaux HPC Cluster, a 38.8 Tflops supercomputer is installed at the Université Bordeaux 1 Sciences et Technologies IT facility in Talence, France.
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NVIDIA Eyes Post-CUDA Era of GPU Computing

Dec 07, 2011 | Lost in the flotilla of vendor news at the Supercomputing Conference (SC11) in Seattle last month was the announcement of a new directives-based parallel programming standard for accelerators. Called OpenACC, the open standard is intended to bring GPU computing into the realm of the average programmer, while making the resulting code portable across other accelerators and even multicore CPUs.
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TACC Expands Datacenter for Stampede Supercomputer

Dec 07, 2011 | The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced that it is expanding the center's current high-performance computing (HPC) data center to house the new Stampede supercomputer,
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RAID Inc. Announces Study on How HPC Clusters, Big Data Can Benefit From Parallel File Systems

Dec 07, 2011 | Dr. Ercan Kamber, CTO of RAID Inc., releases his research on how HPC clusters and big data can benefit from parallel file systems and the differences in storage architecture between Lustre and GPFS.
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NASA Team Demos Data Superhighway of the Future

Dec 07, 2011 | At SC11 last month, a team of Goddard network engineers demonstrated how the Internet will be used in the future to conduct research involving extraordinarily large transfers of data.
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NVIDIA Announces Initial Results of Directives-Based GPU Computing Program

Dec 07, 2011 | NVIDIA announced results from the first wave of the new "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." program, which promotes that programmers can, within a month, at least double their speed in running applications by using The Portland Group (PGI) directives-based compiler and NVIDIA GPUs.
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TACC Generates Insights from Data-Driven Science

Dec 07, 2011 | Research centers like the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) now dedicate expert staff and systems to explore data-driven science with the goal of finding needles of insight in digital haystacks.
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ORNL Supercomputer Reveals Nature of Drug Detoxification Enzymes

Dec 07, 2011 | Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are giving scientists unprecedented access to a key class of proteins involved in drug detoxification.
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HPC Integrators Intros 'One Rack Service Pack' for Small Clusters

Dec 07, 2011 | HPC Integrators is introducing the One Rack Service Pack that packages together essential HPC system monitoring and management services designed for cluster computing systems of under 150 nodes.
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Cornell Receives IDC Innovation Award for MATLAB-Powered Research

Dec 07, 2011 | The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) received an HPC Innovation Excellence Award from the International Data Corporation (IDC) during SC11,
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Flash Forward: SDSC Launches Data-Intensive Supercomputer

Dec 06, 2011 | Gordon, the largest flash memory-based computer on the planet, was officially launched at a ceremony that took place on Monday at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Two years in the making, and backed by a $20 million Track 2 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Gordon represents the first really big purpose-built supercomputer for data-intensive applications.
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Avetec DICE Program Delivers Report on eXludus Multicore Manager

Dec 06, 2011 | Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program recently conducted an in-depth investigation of the eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager technology.
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Texas Memory Systems Intros RamSan-720

Dec 06, 2011 | Texas Memory Systems has introduced its new RamSan-720 system, offering 12 TB of flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth, and no single point of failure.
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HPC Center in Poland Acquires GPU Cluster from SGI

Dec 06, 2011 | The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) has purchased a 224-teraflop SGI high performance computing solution.
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Boeing Deploys Bright Cluster Manager on HPC Clusters

Dec 06, 2011 | Bright Computing announced that Boeing has acquired a site license for Bright Cluster Manager.
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Phoenix to License Unused Network Capacity from National LambdaRail

Dec 06, 2011 | National LambdaRail (NLR), the leading research and education high performance communications network in the United States, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the city of Phoenix to license its unused, excess fiber optic capacity.
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Living Earth Simulator: The Ultimate HPC Big Data Application

Dec 05, 2011 | Supercomputing technology to predict the future of the planet? Not quite.
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IBM Researchers Demo Advancements in Graphene, Racetrack Memory and Carbon Nanotube Computing

Dec 05, 2011 | Today at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM scientists unveiled several exploratory research breakthroughs that could lead to major advancements in delivering dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips.
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SeaMicro Receives 'Rising Star' Award for Low-Power Server Technology

Dec 05, 2011 | SeaMicro, today announced that it has received the Rising Star Award in the Platts Global Energy Awards.
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Selecting the Most Effective InfiniBand Topology for Technical Computing

Dec 05, 2011 | Selecting an appropriate InfiniBand topology requires careful consideration of applications, algorithms, and data sets, along with likely needs for scalability into the future.  The SGI ICE system was purposely designed for InfiniBand networking, and together with the high core density of AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors the platform is capable of achieving industry-leading density and scalability for a broad range of technical computing applications.
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Podcast: IBM Adds New Dimension to Computer Memory; Supercomputing for Home Heating

Dec 02, 2011 | IBM's 3D chipmaking technology to debut in memory devices. Also, a novel use for servers: data furnaces.
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Volex Cable in Interoperability Demo at SC11

Dec 02, 2011 | Volex plc provided quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP) cable assemblies to support the live demonstration organised by Orange Silicon Valley, the InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance at the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle last month.
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Royal Society Publishes E-Science Theme Issue

Dec 02, 2011 | Royal Society Publishing has recently published e-Science: novel research, new science and enduring impact, compiled and edited by David W Walker, Malcolm P Atkinson, John M Brooke and Paul Watson.
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UK Invests £158 Million in High-Tech Infrastructure

Dec 01, 2011 | UK scientists and businesses will have access to the most sophisticated technology keeping them at the cutting edge of research and development, as details of the Government’s multi-million pound e-infrastructure investment were announced today by David Willetts.
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Genomics Drowning in Data

Dec 01, 2011 | The New York Times | The data deluge of sequenced DNA is overwhelming scientists who want to make sense of all of it.
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HPC Going Embedded

Dec 01, 2011 | EE Times | High performance is not just for supercomputing.
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Researchers Tout Co-Design Approach for Ultra-Efficient Supercomputing

Dec 01, 2011 | To build next-generation supercomputers, researchers are looking to the world of consumer electronics like microwave ovens, cameras and cellphones, where everything from chips to batteries to software is optimized to the device's application.
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First XSEDE Conference Set for July in Chicago

Dec 01, 2011 | XSEDE12, the first conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the InterContinental hotel in downtown Chicago.
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Intel Announces Cash Awards Program for Young Entrepreneurs

Dec 01, 2011 | Intel Corporation will debut Intel Innovators, a Facebook platform that encourages young entrepreneurs to share their business ideas for the chance to win up to $100,000 for the next 3 months.
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IBM to Debut 3D Chipmaking in Production of Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube

Dec 01, 2011 | IBM and Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that Micron will begin production of a new memory device built using the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon vias (TSVs).
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IBM Will Chip in on Micron's 3D Hybrid Memory Cube

Nov 30, 2011 | Micron Technology's Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) got a big boost this week when IBM announced it will be supply some critical support for the technology. HMC is a 3D integrated memory chip that Micron is touting as a revolutionary device designed to make a direct assault on the memory wall.
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Cancer Researchers Uses Platform LSF in Genomics Research

Nov 30, 2011 | Platform Computing announced that Cancer Research UK, a world leader in the study of cancer, has turned to Platform LSF to help drive forward its human genome research project at the Cambridge Research Institute (CRI).
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Supercomputer Models Construction of Mollusc Shells

Nov 30, 2011 | One of the first tasks for Warwick's new £1.3 million super computer is to use its monster megabytes to analyse the natural properties of the tiny mollusc shell.
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HPC Experts Provide Glue Between Supercomputers and Climate Science

Nov 30, 2011 | Some of the most important supercomputing models aimed at climate change research have been developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and in particular, its Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) at Princeton University. The GFDL researchers are experts in climate science, but as with many scientists, are often less adept with the vagaries of supercomputing technology. That's where HPTi comes in.
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Kyoto University Orders Cray Supercomputer

Nov 29, 2011 | Cray has been selected to provide a new supercomputer to the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University.
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Argonne's Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes Win E.O. Lawrence Award

Nov 29, 2011 | Argonne National Laboratory researchers Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes have been named winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors midcareer scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development.
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PSC, SGI Team Up on Shared-Memory Supercomputer

Nov 29, 2011 | The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) acquired an SGI UV1000 in July 2010 with help from an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Named Blacklight, this system has 32 terabytes of memory partitioned into two connected 16-terabyte shared-memory nodes, in effect, the two largest shared-memory systems in the world.
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Next Generation PCIe 4.0 Will Double Throughput

Nov 29, 2011 | PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express (PCIe) industry-standard input/output (I/O) technology, today announced the approval of 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) as the bit rate for the next generation of PCIe architecture, PCIe 4.0.
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Cray Storage Solution to be Based on Xyratex Technology

Nov 29, 2011 | Cray is using Xyratex’ innovative HPC data storage architectures as the basis for the Cray Sonexion storage system
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Tokyo Tech Awarded Gordon Bell Prize

Nov 29, 2011 | NVIDIA today announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Global Scientific Information Computing Center (GSIC) has received the Gordon Bell Prize, the supercomputing industry's highest honor, with its NVIDIA Tesla GPU-accelerated supercomputer.
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Swift Engineering Receives IDC Innovation Excellence Award

Nov 29, 2011 | Swift Engineering, Inc. was awarded International Data Corporation’s (IDC) ‘Innovation Excellence Award’ at the annual Supercomputing 2011 conference in Seattle, Washington for its continued development of next-generation virtual simulation engineering and analysis for aerospace and motorsports vehicles.
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A Computer Cluster for Those Cold Winter Nights

Nov 28, 2011 | www.usenix.org | Home heating with servers could be the ultimate in energy efficient computing.
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Green500 Shows Continuing Trend Toward Environmentally Friendly Supercomputers

Nov 28, 2011 | The latest Green500 List shows two continuing trends despite seven of the world’s Top 10 greenest supercomputers changing up from the previous June 2011 rankings: Many supercomputers are aggregating many low-power processors such as the IBM BlueGene/Q, while others are using more energy-efficient accelerators, typically from the gaming/graphics market.
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