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- Supercomputing Cluster Boosts Boeing's Delta IV Rockets
- In 2001, a team of engineers at Boeing Space and Communications in Huntington Beach, California, acquired a new AMD Athlon MP- based Linux Supercomputing cluster from Linux Networx to perform aerodynamic analyses for a new family of rockets, named Delta IV. The Linux Networx Supersystem is used to perform computational...
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- Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer
- Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputerEcologically appropriateWhile I doubt roadrunners coexist with jaguars in nature, at least it could be a better race than roadrunner vs. coyote, minus the explosives.If these systems were to run Vista ....they would be obsolete before completing the boot up sequence.What are they used forWow,...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Italian Supercomputing Center Reaches New User Communities With Windows-Based HPC
- CASPUR provides High-Performance Computing HPC services to academic, government, and research communities throughout Italy. Current users run UNIX and Linux applications to solve scientific problems. CASPUR is now expanding its HPC offerings by deploying a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. It expects to significantly increase its user base and to...
- Case studies 2008-08-28
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
- Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the companies announced Tuesday. The group will build a computing network comprised of six data centers on three continents in order to create a large-scale...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- IBM wins supercomputing bakeoff; Playstation chips rule; Intel dominates HPC
- Supercomputers are like muscle cars for IT: Few of us have one, but boy they are fun to look at. IBM on Tuesday touted that its supercomputer built for the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Lab is the most powerful system in the world. It...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Leading Supercomputing Center in Italy Eases Use, Improves Access With New Cluster
- CINECA wanted to make supercomputing resources available to more researchers from private industry sectors, but many were unfamiliar with its Linux-based tools and interfaces. To improve access to high-performance computing, CINECA decided to become an early adopter of Windows HPC Server 2008. Researchers will be able to connect to the...
- Case studies 2008-06-12
- Intel Multi-Core Performance Helps Solve Large-Scale Science and Business Problems
- Created in 1986 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA is one of the five original centers of the National Science Foundation NSF Supercomputer Centers Program. NCSA wanted to develop a large High-Performance Computing HPC cluster that can offer the processing performance and...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Unixfication II
- Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Supercomputer Center Adds Windows HPC Server to 1,200-Node Cluster Options
- To meet the new and expanding needs of its academic and industrial users, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA at the University of Illinois must support the platforms with which those users are familiar, which means offering more than just Linux-based High-Performance Computing HPC resources. NCSA achieved that goal...
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- From Shrek to jet engines, supercomputers prove their mettle
- Each year the US Department of Energy entertains proposals for INCITE, a program aimed at advancing the state of the art in US industry. The winners get free computer time on DOE supercomputers. Two of the winners this year, Dreamworks Animation and Pratt & Whitney, gave presentations at SC07 about...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Open source and the copycat charge
- Proprietary vendors still accuse open source of just copying their innovations in order to drive down value for innovators. In some ways they have a point. VMWare will not get the monopoly rents it feels it deserves on virtualization because it has many open source competitors. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- SC07 Day 1: Supercomputers and... Pikachu?
- Sunday dawned bright and cold for Day One of the SuperComputing 2007 conference. During a short bus ride to the convention center I found myself wedged in the last seat next to Pikachu. It turns out Pikachu is a college student competing in a performance challenge...
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Intel launches new HPC/Cluster development tools
- Ahead of next week's supercomputing convention in Reno Nevada, Intel has launched a new set of tools to simplify cluster development for Linux and Windows optimized for Intel and AMD processors. Key features are: Intel MKL adds an out-of-core solver, and includes cluster support (ScaLAPACK & DM-FFTs)...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputerConsumerisation=toys not computing"On StorageMojo I've often addressed the consumerization of IT. The PS3 represents the consumerization of supercomputing. That will benefit us all."I'd change the last sentance to "That COULD benefit us all."But will it? Reading through a few channel 9 blogs a couple of days...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet &...
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Supercomputing Costco-style In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Today you can build a more powerful machine for less than $2,500 in an 11" x 12" x 17" box. That works out to less than $100 per gigaflop as of January, 2007 ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
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