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May 23, 2013 |
The first prototypes of advanced tools designed to help improve the efficiency and sustainability of data centres have been released by the European Commission funded CoolEmAll project. Interested parties are now being invited to help test and refine the tools ahead of release in 2014.
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May 23, 2013 |
Students, staff and researchers at college campuses throughout the nation, and participating institutions through regional, national and global research and education partner networks will benefit from a faster and more secure connection, thanks to a new peering arrangement between Microsoft Corp. and Internet2, the nation’s premier research and education network.
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May 23, 2013 |
Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and Chicago have uncovered an important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the Sun.
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May 23, 2013 |
Enthought, Inc. today announced that the company has been awarded a $1M Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to expand the capabilities of Python and NumPy for high-performance distributed computing.
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May 23, 2013 |
Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing, today announced that Supermicro SuperServer platforms integrate NVIDIA GRID K1 and K2 boards for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) support in the enterprise.
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May 23, 2013 |
ARM announced that LG Electronics has licensed the next generation of ARM Cortex-A50 series of central processing unit (CPU) solutions and the next generation of ARM Mali graphics processing units (GPUs).
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May 23, 2013 |
ProximusDA GmbH, a company based in Munich, Germany, today announced its joint efforts with STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, to develop the next generation of software virtual prototypes.
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May 23, 2013 |
A Sandia National Laboratories-supported workshop in Albuquerque called NICE, for Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements workshop, discussed ways to use the brain’s superior ability to send electrical signals along massively parallel channels, with multiple intersections at downstream nodes, to handle rapidly changing, high-volume information.
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May 22, 2013 |
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced it will host two training classes at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab.
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May 22, 2013 |
Imperas Software Ltd (www.Imperas.com), a pioneer of advanced embedded software development systems using virtual platforms, today announced the release of its 2nd generation virtual platform development and multicore software design kit product offerings.
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May 22, 2013 |
World renowned experts in cyber security, robotics, brain science, and energy efficiency will be among the keynote speakers at a major international conference hosted by the University of Ulster next month.
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May 22, 2013 |
With the German economy set to remain weak amidst the prevailing Eurozone crisis, enterprises’ information and communication technology (ICT) spending in the country is likely to witness only moderate growth in 2013, according to ICT analysis firm Kable.
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May 22, 2013 |
Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the solid-state, storage and networking arenas, announced that it has added NAS to the company’s skyHawk series of solid-state storage systems.
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May 22, 2013 |
NetApp today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 ended April 26, 2013. Total revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013 were $1.717 billion.
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May 21, 2013 |
IEEE Cluster 2013 conference organizers today announced that two pioneering computer scientists are the featured speakers at this year's event, September 23-27 at the Hilton Hotel in Indianapolis.
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May 21, 2013 |
IBM today announced that Cyber Network, a Swiss managed services provider (MSP) based in Geneva, has chosen IBM Flex Systems and storage to upgrade its IT infrastructure and grow its cloud business.
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May 21, 2013 |
Helping developers jumpstart their product designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today introduced its OMAP5432 processor-based evaluation module (EVM) for high-performance industrial applications.
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May 21, 2013 |
TwinStrata, an innovator in cloud-integrated storage solutions, today announced CloudArray Disaster Recovery as a Service (CloudArray DRaaS), a new component of TwinStrata's flagship CloudArray offering that delivers seamless disaster recovery (DR) for VMware users on-demand without requiring continuous investment in secondary infrastructure or sites.
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May 21, 2013 |
Weidlinger Associates, Inc., the developer of PZFlex, the popular 3D virtual-prototyping and wave-propagation analysis software, and CliQr Technologies, the leader in cloud application management software, announced the launch of PZFlexCloud on CliQr's CloudCenter platform.
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May 21, 2013 |
Led by STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, Places2Be ("Pilot Lines for Advanced CMOS Enhanced by SOI in 2x nodes, Built in Europe") aims to support the deployment of a FD-SOI pilot line at 28nm and the subsequent node, as well as a dual source that will enable volume manufacturing in Europe.
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May 20, 2013 |
On May 23rd, Cray and VBRX will host an event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil focusing on upstream applications in the Oil and Gas industry to address the growing demands of high-performance computing in this sector.
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May 20, 2013 |
Dell is launching the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) through an ecosystem of partners. Acting as a single-source supplier, Dell will offer customers a choice of vendors and technology, freedom from lock-in to a single platform or pricing model and a central point of solution integration and control.
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May 20, 2013 |
Mentor Graphics Corp. and Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp. today announced they are collaborating to integrate the Mentor Calibre 3DSTACK product into Tezzaron’s 3D-IC offerings.
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May 20, 2013 |
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its industry and performance-leading InfiniBand solutions were selected by Dutch cloud service provider, Cloud Provider.
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May 20, 2013 |
Xyratex Ltd, a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced that Satish Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, will present at the Barclays Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference.
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In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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May 23, 2013 |
he study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.