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Many Cores, Large Memory, Low Latency Memory Access – Numascale Shows a New Way
September 30, 2013
Numascale offers a price breaker for shared memory systems by offering integration of a simple add-on card to commodity servers. The hardware is now deployed in system with up to more than 1700 cores and the memory addressing capability is virtually unlimited. The technology has a set of interesting advantages that will catch the interest of innovative developers. Read more…
Cray Snaps Together Shared Memory Story
September 17, 2013
In a notable move for a company known for its supercomputing hardware, Cray has turned its eye to the softer side of the stack to gather strength for a shared memory offering. While large memory system needs constitute only a small part of all HPC applications, using a software-driven approach to addressing the needs of... Read more…
PSC Tests New Shared Memory Waters
July 1, 2013
The Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center recently announced a new step in its path to discover new routes to solving memory and I/O problems for data-intensive applications. While they already have a stable of systems that take new approaches to shared memory and have looked to software-based solutions as alternatives, they have now turned to Numascale to dip their toe in the hardware-based... Read more…
SGI Supercomputer Takes Twitter’s Pulse
November 22, 2012
UV 2 system can create heat maps of tweets during hurricanes and elections. Read more…
Stephen Hawking Gets a New Supercomputer
July 23, 2012
SGI newest shared-memory machine will help uncover the secrets of the universe. Read more…
SGI Launches Second Generation UV Supercomputer
June 14, 2012
The sequel to SGI's UV supercomputer has arrived. Dubbed UV 2, the new platform doubles the number of cores and quadruples the memory that can be supported under a single system. The product, which will be officially announced next week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, represents the first major revision of SGI's original UV, which the company debuted in 2009. Read more…
Nautilus Harnessed for Humanities Research, Future Prediction
September 9, 2011
The power of the large shared memory machine, Nautilus has been captured to aid in a research endeavor that uses deep analytics to develop connections between the tone and location of news and the course of future events. We talked to the project's lead, Kalev H. Leetaru about big data analytics at the global scale--and how shared memory systems enable new possibilities for researchers. Read more…
Intel Scales Up Cores and Memory with New Westmere EX CPUs
April 6, 2011
This week Intel launched its new Westmere EX lineup, the latest Xeons aimed at large-memory, multi-socketed servers. The new chips come in 6-, 8- and 10-core flavors and will be sold under the name Xeon E7. According to Intel, these latest CPUs deliver 40 percent greater performance than the previous generation Nehalem EX processors while maintaining the same power draw. Read more…
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