HPC
Two Texan teams tool up, ride out to enormo cluster shootout
SC12 We're gonna kick supercomputer ass and chew gum - and we're all out of gum
Swiss boffins slap together homegrown zBox4 supercomputer
Overnighter yields 54 teraflops with flashy storage
Young HPC warriors grab Big Irons, whack away at Cold War plutonium waste
SC12 Massively parallel 3-D reservoir sims just 1 of the apps in student cluster compo
Olympics is over, prepare for a COMPUTER SPORTS SMACKDOWN
SC12 If ye would have peace, prepare for cluster WAR
Appro adds water-cooling to Xtreme supercomputers
An HPC-driven hot tub for every university and city
Oak Ridge lab: Behold, I Am TITAN, hear my 20 petaflop ROAR
One giant leap for a GPU, one small step for exascale
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Mellanox etches software-defined networking onto SwitchX-2 chips
Working on OpenFlow controller for fabric manager
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
Opinion
Young HPC warriors grab Big Irons, whack away at Cold War plutonium waste
SC12 The apps for this year’s edition of the SC12 Student Cluster Competition are the typical mix of HPC workloads, chosen to represent a range of scientific disciplines and computational challenges. In order to drink deeply from the chalice of victory student teams will need to crawl inside each of the apps, find the bottlenecks, and figure out how to work around them – or make them less bottlenecky. (Note: there is no actual chalice of victory in the Student Cluster Competition. But there should be, don’t you think?)
Olympics is over, prepare for a COMPUTER SPORTS SMACKDOWN
SC12 It’s November, which can mean only one thing for computer sports enthusiasts: it’s time for another Student Cluster Competition. The seventh edition of this annual event begins in about two weeks at the SC12 conference in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. The competition pits teams of university undergrads against each other in a marathon battle to prove that they can design, build, and run the fastest (and most efficient) cluster.
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog While at IBM’s Smarter Computing Summit last week, I had the great pleasure of hearing Big Blue's Bernie Meyerson talk about limits to today’s tech, and the associated implications.
News
This supercomputing board can be yours for $99. Here's how
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Tizard super goes live in South Oz
State gets boost in computing power
Big Blue: 'New PureSystem? Madness? No, THIS IS SPARTA!'
October date set for server family launch bash
Keep your Playboy mansion, Supermicro is my nerd vice palace
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
AMD, Oracle tag-team on GPU acceleration for Java apps
OpenWorld 2012 OpenJDK meets OpenCL with Project Sumatra
Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
Hot Chips So is this the Sparc M4 on Oracle's roadmaps?
Mellanox rips covers off virt-SAN beast, claims Fibre Channel vanquish
Preparing a whuppening for VNX ass, one might think
Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet
Network traffic projected to increase tenfold by 2015
Tokyo U gets second FX10 Sparc supercomputer
The University of Tokyo has gone back to Fujitsu for a second helping of K supercomputer.
Why gov labs presenting HPC tech ≠ officials wolfing overpriced sushi
HPC blog Our buddy Rich Brueckner over at insideHPC broke some news this week when he published a story about new conference and travel spending restrictions that might radically scale back US government agency participation in HPC industry events like the upcoming SC12 conference in Salt Lake City this November.
Cray to plug Kepler GPUs into future Cascade supers
Cray's next-generation "Cascade" supercomputer is based on a future Intel "Ivy Bridge" Xeon processors, and the company has just taken $140m from Chipzilla in exchange for the intellectual property and people associated with its "Gemini" and "Aries" supercomputer interconnects. So it was no surprise that Cray talked about using Intel's Xeon Phi x86 coprocessors in the future Cascade machines, which lash tens of thousands of those future Xeons together using the Aries interconnect.
Spotlight
SC12 Massively parallel 3-D reservoir sims just 1 of the apps in student cluster compo
SC12 If ye would have peace, prepare for cluster WAR
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
HPC blog US gov travel caps: Agency bods may have to skip supercomputing shows
Webcast Can’t fix it unless you can quantify it
GTC 2012 Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism make GPUs sweat
HPC blog Why I geek out for GTC
HPC blog But what’s Cray going to do with the Intel cash?
