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Parallel NFS Is the Future Standard to Manage Petabyte Level Growth
November 19, 2009
IT professionals are constantly being challenged to manage exponential growth that has reached petabyte levels. As pressures increase on IT to deliver even-higher levels of productivity and efficiency, a new generation file system standard will be required to maximize utilization of powerful server and cluster resources while minimizing management overhead. Read more…
Jaguar Scales TOP500
November 19, 2009
AMD's John Fruehe and ORNL's Buddy Bland talk about the significance of Jaguar capturing the top spot in the supercomputing world and what that means for the most demanding science applications. Read more…
Mitrionics Looks Beyond FPGAs
November 18, 2009
Mitrionics has begun work on an experimental compiler that aims to make parallel programming architecture-agnostic. We asked Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics' chief science officer and co-founder, what's behind the new technology and what prompted the decision to expand beyond their FPGA roots. Read more…
Tokyo Tech Aims for 3 Petaflop Super in 2010
November 18, 2009
Buying Teslas by the bushel. Read more…
Intel CTO Tells HPC Crowd to Get a Second Life
November 17, 2009
The opening address of the Supercomputing Conference had a surreal quality to it in more ways than one. Between talking avatars, physics-simulated sound, and a Larrabee demo running HPC-type codes, it was hard to separate reality from fantasy. Read more…
Cray Supers Grab Gold, Bronze in TOP500
November 17, 2009
Jaguar leaves Roadrunner in the dust. Read more…
DataDirect Networks Builds on Storage Fusion Architecture
November 16, 2009
HPC storage vendor DataDirect Networks will soon offer integrated clustered file system support in its Storage Fusion Architecture product line. The idea is to drastically reduce the amount of storage switches and file system servers, and thus the cost and complexity of supercomputer-sized file storage. Read more…
SGI Colors New Shared Memory Machines Ultraviolet
November 16, 2009
After what may be the longest development cycle ever for a supercomputer, SGI has unveiled the first commercial implementation of its Ultraviolet architecture. The company first announced "Project Ultraviolet" at SC03. Now six years later, it has launched Altix UV, the company's first scale-up HPC system based on x86 technology. Read more…
Déjà Vu All Over Again
November 16, 2009
Never short on opinions, especially when it comes to high performance computing, Convey Computer Co-Founder Steve Wallach talked to HPCwire about the future of HPC and how lessons from the past can point the way for the future. Read more…
OpenFabrics Alliance Weaves Its Story at SC09
November 15, 2009
We have developed something of a tradition at HPCwire in the weeks leading up to each year's SC conference; we interview the chairman of the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA). Jim Ryan of Intel has been the OFA's chair all these years, and our annual interview with Jim was as interesting as ever. Read more…
NVIDIA Unleashes Fermi GPU for HPC
November 15, 2009
NVIDIA has announced the first Fermi GPU products here at the Supercomputing Conference (SC09) in Portland, Oregon, where thousands of attendees will get a chance to see the company's next-generation chip in action. The GPUs will first touch down in NVIDIA's new Tesla 20-series products aimed at HPC workstations and servers. Read more…
A Conversation with SC09 General Chair Wilf Pinfold
November 6, 2009
SC09 General Chair Wilf Pinfold shares his thoughts on organizing the world's largest Supercomputing event, examines this year's big conference themes and gives his take on the state of the industry and how that reflects on the conference. Read more…
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