Tag: Germany
The 46th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list is hot off the presses and while there’s not much to break the monotony at the peak, this is in many ways a pivotal edition of the list in that it makes it hard to dismiss two trends in particular: China’s ascendance and flattening growth trajectories. But before we Read more…
Gearing up for ISC’13, contributor Miha Ahronovitz examines where HPC has been and where it’s headed. In this in-depth interview, Drs. Hans Meuer and Horst Gietl recount the origins of the TOP500 list and wax prophetic on the future of supercomputing, including the peril and promise of parallel programming as well as the long-term shift away from compute centrism.
Cray inks $39 million contract with North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN).
Three of Europe’s top ten supercomputers are in Germany, including the number one and number two systems.
The Weekly Top Five features the five biggest HPC stories of the week, condensed for your reading pleasure. This week, we cover the Cray/Sandia partership to found a knowledge institute; RenderStream’s FireStream-based workstations and servers; NVIDIA’s latest CUDA centers; Reservoir Labs and Intel’s extreme scale ambitions; and Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s new hybrid cluster.
The Weekly Top Five features the five biggest HPC stories of the week, condensed for your reading pleasure. This week, we cover TACC’s agreement with Intel to develop the company’s MIC processor line; SGI’s Japanese gigs; the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart’s new Cray systems; the mapping of red blood cells in the brain; and the creation of better fusion models using the Jaguar supercomputer.
The remarkable success of the first international ISC Cloud’10 Conference held last October in Frankfurt, Germany, has motivated ISC Events to continue this series and organize a similar cloud computing conference this year, with an even more profound focus on the use of clouds for High Performance Computing (HPC).
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LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe 2016
October 4 - October 6Berlin Germany -
SC16
November 13 - November 17Salt Lake City UT United States -
ISC 2017
June 18, 2017 - June 22, 2017Frankfurt Hessen Germany