http://www.hpcwire.com/rss/ Copyright 2013, Tabor Communications Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:34:49 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:34:49 -0400 Xtenit http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us HPC Wire: Featured http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-20/cray_cracks_commercial_hpc_code.html 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.... Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:19:22 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-20/cray_cracks_commercial_hpc_code.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-18/my_supercomputer_is_bigger_than_yours_.html 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... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:06:35 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-18/my_supercomputer_is_bigger_than_yours_.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-18/alternatives_emerge_as_linpack_loses_ground.html 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.... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:12:57 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-18/alternatives_emerge_as_linpack_loses_ground.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-17/intel_snaps_new_grips_to_hpc_hook.html Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj.... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:00:29 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-17/intel_snaps_new_grips_to_hpc_hook.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-17/top_500_results_reveal_global_acceleration_balance_shift.html The Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers has just been announced. Not surprisingly, since it's been reported on prior to the official announcement, the Chinese Tianhe-2 system tops the list. And that is an understatement. We talk with Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Hans Meuer and others from the.... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:00:14 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-17/top_500_results_reveal_global_acceleration_balance_shift.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-13/six_can_t_miss_sessions_for_isc_13.html Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention.... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:16:47 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-13/six_can_t_miss_sessions_for_isc_13.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-12/intel_builds_mainstream_highways_for_lustre.html Today Intel announced some new pitches to push Lustre in front of enterprise eyeballs with usability features for Lustre and a total rip and replace for the native Hadoop file system designed to appeal to the HPC-oriented Hadoop set. We talked with Brent Gorda, former CEO and founder of Whamcloud, which Intel acquired just a tick under a year ago about how.... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:43:05 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-12/intel_builds_mainstream_highways_for_lustre.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-10/the_network_as_scientific_instrument.html Greg Bell was recently tapped to head the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, better known as ESnet. In this piece, he describes how the network itself is part of the scientific process. During his Q&A with Berkley Lab's Jon Bashor, Bell notes how there are..... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:43:49 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-10/the_network_as_scientific_instrument.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-07/blacklisted_russian_supercomputing_company_speaks_of_suspicions.html A few months ago, the U.S. Department of Commerce named the Russian supercomputer company, T-Platforms, on their entity list based on vaguely worded assertions that they were involved with supplying systems designed to create weapons of mass destruction. The company has, not surprisingly, denied the allegations and gave HPCwire an exclusive interview to.... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:02:40 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-07/blacklisted_russian_supercomputing_company_speaks_of_suspicions.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-05/dell_boxes_up_hpc_for_life_sciences.html This week Dell announced a tailored offering for the genomics set with its Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences offering. Outfitted with up 32 nodes in a single rack, the company is pitching Infiniband, Lustre, Terascala and Bright Computing options at the sequencing set that they say wants to focus on science, not servers. The Intel-powered... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:48:44 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-05/dell_boxes_up_hpc_for_life_sciences.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-02/full_details_uncovered_on_chinese_top_supercomputer.html With help from a draft report from Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who also spearheads the process of verifying the top of the pack super, we are able to share the full processor, Xeon Phi coprocessor, custom interconnect, storage and memory, as well as power and cooling information. The supercomputer out of China will be... Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:00:49 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-06-02/full_details_uncovered_on_chinese_top_supercomputer.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-30/blue_waters_seals_off_with_tape.html This week the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) confirmed that its anticipated 380 petabyte High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is up and running to support the data-laden needs of Blue Waters. The collaborative efforts behind HPSS are... Thu, 30 May 2013 20:04:17 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-30/blue_waters_seals_off_with_tape.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-29/details_emerge_about_china_s_50_petaflop_chart-topper.html We have some new details that filtered in with some credible community input through the night about China's 50+ petaflop system. We have been able to confirm a number of the points of speculation and rumor, including the vendor, the exact Linpack results, the location of the system, and the fact that it is a MIC.... Wed, 29 May 2013 11:06:33 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-29/details_emerge_about_china_s_50_petaflop_chart-topper.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-28/is_china_set_to_unveil_record-shattering_supercomputer_.html When so many folks from the HPC community come at us with credible details about something as important as the next top system on the planet, it's hard to ignore. To quiet things down (and hopefully bring forth more information) we've published the consistent details about what we know from (very) credible sources.about this year's upcoming Top500 announcement. While unconfimed, we have.... Tue, 28 May 2013 17:09:05 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-28/is_china_set_to_unveil_record-shattering_supercomputer_.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-28/grid_engine_pistons_pump_past_hpc.html Since its early days, Grid Engine has enjoyed a special spot in high performance computing, especially in the realms of scientific and research computing. However, with changes in Platform Computing's operations and a new era of high performance (but not HPC) business apps, Univa's Grid Engine is almost all enterprise-based. We recently chatted with Univa CEO, Gary Tyreman and... Tue, 28 May 2013 15:56:36 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-28/grid_engine_pistons_pump_past_hpc.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-23/exascale_stands_on_nuclear_stockpiles.html In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency.... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:42 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-23/exascale_stands_on_nuclear_stockpiles.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-22/nsf_forges_further_beyond_flops.html 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.. Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:10 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-22/nsf_forges_further_beyond_flops.html Feature http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-21/cern_google_and_the_future_of_global_science_initiatives.html 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). Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:01 -0400 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-05-21/cern_google_and_the_future_of_global_science_initiatives.html Feature