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Jun 13, 2013 |
AMD today announced that the Gene Center of the University of Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University, or LMU) has accelerated its research capabilities using AMD's SeaMicro servers to gain a computational edge for its groundbreaking discoveries.
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Jun 13, 2013 |
The Vulcan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now available for collaborative work with industry and research universities to advance science and accelerate the technological innovation at the heart of U.S. economic competitiveness.
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Jun 13, 2013 |
Acceleware Ltd. a leading developer of high performance computing applications, announced the release of AxRTM 6.0 at the 75th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) conference.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will deploy its next prototype system, advancing the roadmap towards the successful introduction of ARM processors in High Performance Computing. In July, BSC will install the first hybrid accelerator cluster composed of ARM Cortex-A9, NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU and Mellanox QDR InfiniBand.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
RENCI announced this week the release of E-iRODS 3.0, the first open source release of E-iRODS software to be managed and overseen by the iRODS Consortium, an alliance of organizations working together to fund and guide the continued development of the iRODS/E-iRODS platform.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Cycle Computing, the leader in utility high performance computing (HPC) software, announced today that CEO Jason Stowe will speak at Cloud Slam ‘13.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) today announces the availability of its latest mathematical and statistical library, the NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi, ahead of their attendance, next week, at Europe’s largest supercomputing event, ISC13.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
NAG is delighted to reveal that not only are these customers coming back for more (to date, all customers have renewed rather than let their contract expire, with a number of customers asking for expansions), but some customers have come to regard NAG HPC Expertise as one of the key assets that make up their competitive advantage in the provision and use of HPC compared to their competitors.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world's most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it now offers the Intel SSD Data Center S3500 Series, a high-performance 6 Gb/s SATA SSD with enterprise features, including fast and consistent performance, stress-free data protection, and a broad range of capacities. The DC S3500 is also ideal for big data (Apache Hadoop), virtualization, email, web server, CDN, and cache accelerator applications.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Bright Computing, the leading, vendor-independent provider of management solutions for clusters and clouds, announced today general availability of Bright Cluster Manager 6.1.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and private cloud workload management software, today announced it has launched the Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack for high performance computing Cluster Platforms.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, IBM announced new initiatives to further support and speed up the adoption of the Linux operating system across the enterprise.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
Rogue Wave Software, the largest independent provider of cross-platform software development tools and embedded components for the next generation of HPC applications, announced the release of its leading parallel debugger, TotalView 8.12. This version of TotalView offers official support for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, Cray XC30 series supercomputers, and Apple OS X Lion and Mountain Lion platforms. The release of TotalView 8.12 is part of Rogue Wave’s commitment to improve developer productivity on advanced architectures.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Scalable Informatics, Inc. (Scalable), a leading provider of high performance, tightly-coupled storage and compute solutions for a wide range of data, I/O, and process-intensive applications, today announced STAC reports KDB130528 and KDB130529, describing record-setting results for their siFlash and JackRabbit storage systems.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Netlist, Inc., a leading provider of high performance and hybrid (DRAM to Flash) memory solutions for the cloud computing and storage markets, announced today that Chris Lopes, co-founder of Netlist, will present at IBM's Edge2013 Conference in Las Vegas, NV on June 11 - 13, 2013.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, has introduced Panasas DataRunner, high performance file transfer software, designed to overcome the data movement challenges found in today’s distributed scale-out storage environments.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
CoolIT Systems Inc., a supplier of direct contact liquid cooling (DCLC) solutions for high-performance desktops, enterprise servers and datacenters has been selected to present a session titled "Building Liquid Cooling Technology Standards" at the International Supercomputing Show.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Calxeda, a leader in the low power server market, today unveiled its partnership with Inktank, the company delivering the Ceph Distributed Storage System. The companies are working together to optimize Ceph’s performance and stability on the Calxeda server architecture in order to provide the market with a transformative storage platform.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
A team of six Chemnitz students will battle it out with eight other teams in the "Student Cluster Challenge" at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in mid June 2013 to extract the maximum possible performance from a homemade supercomputer. The team will receive technical support in their efforts from Chemnitz supercomputer manufacturer MEGWARE.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Ingram Micro Inc. is pleased to announce its exclusive Artizen portfolio of custom-built, high performance computing solutions are enabling U.S. channel partners to more easily and cost effectively address the market's growing demand for greater computing power.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS), the premier participant-supported, vendor-neutral, non-profit organization supporting and coordinating the High Performance Computing (HPC) open source file system community, is helping promote Intel's June 12th San Francisco Lustre event titled "Moving Lustre Forward." Intel will be announcing their new Lustre product, Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
E.T. International, Inc. (ETI), a provider of system software solutions and performance acceleration services for Extreme and Exascale announces that Dr. William Harrod, the Division Director for the US Department of Energy/Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research, and Dr. Jean Gonnard, Computer Simulation and IT Project Director of the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) will be joined by a panel of members of selected US DOE X-Stack program teams in a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session “Achieving Exascale through Innovations in Runtime System Software” in session 14 on Wednesday, June 19 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM in Hall 4 at ISC ’13 in Leipzig, Germany.
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Jun 11, 2013 |
Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of DRAM and flash storage solutions, is pleased to announce its attendance and exhibition at International SuperComputing Conference (ISC) 2013 in Leipzig, Germany on June 16-20.
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During a conversation this week with Cray CEO, Peter Ungaro, we learned that the company has managed to extend its reach into the enterprise HPC market quite dramatically--at least in supercomputing business terms. With steady growth into these markets, however, the focus on hardware versus the software side of certain problems for such users is....
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Jun 19, 2013 |
Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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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.
Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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