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Crisis in HPC: Will America be Left Behind?

In a rousing editorial, Nvidia’s Andy Keane cites China’s recent advancements in the TOP500 as evidence that United State’s technology leadership, and hence our standard of living, are at risk. To sustain and extend our lead in High Performance Computing, we don't have to revive the decades-old debate about industrial policy and the government picking winners [...]

CUDA in the Cloud

Are GPUs going to become a common utility? NVIDIA’s Steve Wildstrom blogs that CUDA is coming to the Cloud: For the most part, cloud service focus on plain-vanilla Linux or Windows servers. Since they are generally run as headless servers accessed only through a remote desktop, they featured little if anything in the way of GPU capabilities. [...]

AWE Halves Power, Quadruples Performance with Bull Westmere Super

The UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has acquired a new 145 Teraflop supercomputer from Bull. The “Blackthorn” system, one of the first large clusters in the world using the new six-core Westmere processors from Intel, is being praised for it’s Green credentials: Blackthorn has a power consumption, under load, of 380KW which easily beats the 500KW [...]

HPC for Financial Markets Show Beats the Street Sept. 20

If you are in the New York area September 20, be sure to visit the 2010 High Performance Computing for Financial Markets conference at the Roosevelt Hotel. Formerly known as High Performance on Wall Street, this one-day conference has always been one of my favorite events with great talks and wall-to-wall attendees. Registration is now open [...]

Jonathan Schwartz does Internet Healthcare Startup

Ok, this isn’t really HPC news, but bear with me. This morning former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced his new startup at PictureOfHealth.com. The headline there has me scratching my head: Most places on Earth, the internet is more accessible than electricity, clean water, or basic sanitation. The company will reportedly be called Informed Biometry, so I’m [...]

Force10 Nabs ExaScale Moniker, Cites Power Efficiency

Exascale computing may be far in our future, but the branding folks at Force10 Networks have it for you on a label today. Announced back in March, 2009, the Force10 ExaScale E-Series of core routers and switches boasts impressive performance specifications, now spiced with leading power efficiency: Data center power and cooling costs are forecasted to rise [...]

Timing Right for New Blog on Government Clouds

There are a number of great sources out there for news on Cloud Computing, and I particularly like what Nicole Hemsoth is doing over at HPC in the Cloud. So when I read about a new blog on Government Clouds I immediately pedalled over to check it out. CloudGovTalk editor Tim Harder of EMC states his [...]

SDSC to Host Data-Intensive Discovery Conference

As part of it’s preparations to deploy the data-intensive Gordon supercomputer in mid-2011, SDSC will host the Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery conference on October 26-28, 2010 at the UC San Diego campus. We believe this conference will greatly benefit those doing research in data-intensive fields,â€� said Michael Norman, interim director of SDSC. “Gordon, and future systems [...]

Video: Preview of SC10 with Sandia's Barry Hess

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LttLpzoVrQY In this video, SC10 General Chair Barry Hess gives us preview of the world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, coming up this November in New Orleans. To see more videos like this, subscribe to the new SC10 YouTube channel.   Related posts:An exclusive first look at SC10 with general chair Barry HessLaunching a New Product at SC10? Get [...]

China's Petaflop Super Comes Up to Speed

As reported in the People’s Daily, China’s first petaflop (peak) supercomputer, Tianhe-1, is now fully installed and is running user applications 24×7. With 71,680 cores, Tianhe-1 (meaning River in Sky) is ranked at Number 7 on the TOP500 and is installed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin. Each node of Tianhe-1 consists of [...]

Ultimo importe : 10/09/2010 : 18:55