HPC Wire: Systems

Apple Datacenter Blooms Green Energy

Robert Gelber — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:14:21 EDT

Company looks to renewable energy to power its computing infrastructure.

Winners of Watson Academic Case Competition Announced

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:02:07 EDT

The University of Rochester's Simon School of Business and IBM announced the winners of the Watson academic case competition. The contest was held to find new uses for IBM's Watson technology.

Podcast: NVIDIA's Kepler Debuts in HPC; Intel Adds to Chip Count

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:56:12 EDT

NVIDIA pushes Kepler into HPC and beyond. And Intel adds three new families of Xeon chips.

University of Southampton Builds UK's Largest Academic Supercomputer

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:37:27 EDT

The University of Southampton has used funds provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to build the largest university owned supercomputer in the UK. The system, named Iridis3 has roughly 12,000 Intel Westmere cores.

OpenACC Starts to Gather Developer Mindshare

Michael Feldman — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:15:03 EDT

PGI, Cray, and CAPS enterprise are moving quickly to get their new OpenACC-supported compilers into the hands of GPGPU developers. At NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference this week, there was plenty of discussion around the new HPC accelerator framework, and all three OpenACC compiler makers, as well as NVIDIA, were talking up the technology.

Dell Donated Cluster to Support Clinical Trial for Pediatric Cancer

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:16:04 EDT

The Translational Genomics Research Institute will be running a medicinal trial for pediatric cancer. The institute points to a Dell donated cluster as producing the computational performance required for the trial.

Nvidia Announces Availability of Tesla K10 GPU

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:04 EDT

Nvidia has announced the availability of their K10 Kepler-based GPU. The GPU can deliver 4.58 teraflops of single-precision floating point.

GE Announces Graphics Board Based on Nvidia VPX Platform

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:15 EDT

GE has announced the GRA112 3U VPX graphics board. The device contains a 384-core Kepler GPU.

DOE INCITE Program to Allocate Titan, Mira Compute Resources

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:19:42 EDT

The department of Energy's INCITE program will be allocating compute resources for the Titan and Mira supercomputers. The two systems combined possess a performance of 30 petaflops.

NVIDIA Unveils Virtualized GPU with Kepler-Based Board

Michael Feldman — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:32:26 EDT

GPU maker conjures up visualization technology for virtual desktops.

SGI Adds Kepler GPU-Accelerated Servers to Rackable Line

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:28:15 EDT

SGI announced the availability of a complete, managed GPU solution of its SGI Rackable servers with the new high-performance NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Computing Accelerator.

AMAX Intros HPC Servers with New Kepler GPUs

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:19:14 EDT

AMAX announced the next generation of AMAX ClusterMax SuperG GPU cluster solutions and ServMax GPU server platforms optimized for the latest NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Accelerator.

Nvidia Introduces GPU Virtualization Platform

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:55 EDT

Nvidia has announced the VGX platform. The offering is set to enable IT departments the ability to provision a virtualized desktop with the performance of a physical PC or workstation with a GPU.

Dell Adds Quad-Socket Xeon Server to Lineup

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:15:48 EDT

Dell has announced the PowerEdge R820. The 2RU Server runs on 4 Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors.

NVIDIA Launches Kepler Into HPC

Michael Feldman — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:01:07 EDT

NVIDIA has introduced its first Kepler-generation GPU product for high performance computing, and revealed some of the inner working of the new architecture. The announcement took place at the kickoff of the company's GPU Technology Conference taking place this week in San Jose, California.

Penguin Computing Adds New Sandy Bridge Chips to Servers

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:54:55 EDT

Penguin Computing is offering servers with the newly released Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors. The Relion 2804E is a 2RU chassis, supporting four E5-4600 chips.

BOXX Workstations Featuring NVIDIA Maximus Demo at GPU Technology Conference

John Kirkley — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:53:34 EDT

NVIDIA Maximus technology enables engineers, designers, and other creative professionals to complete simulation or rendering plus visualization simultaneously on the same workstation.

Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Powered by New Intel Processors

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:42:58 EDT

Appro has announced that the Appro Xtreme-X supercomputer is powered by Intel's new Xeon processors. The system is running four-socket nodes with Xeon E5-4600 chips.

AMAX Releases Systems based on Intel E3 Family

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:33:33 EDT

AMAX has announced a new system based on Intel's new E3 processor family. The chips have been manufactured with a 22nm process.

IBM Augments x86 Offerings

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:26:57 EDT

IBM has announced new x86 hardware. The company has added a blade server and a rack system to their lineup.