|
HPC
SITE SPONSORS
|
| NEWS |
| Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit |
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists have created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality ...continue |
|
| Blue Skies Thinking for Cloud Security |
| As cloud computing moves data and services from local systems to remote centers, the question of security for organizations must be addressed. A research paper published in the International Journal of Services and Standards suggests that a cloud-free security model is the best way forward and will circumvent the fact that cloud service providers are not yet meeting regulations and legal standards ...continue |
|
| Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers |
| Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, you should get back the same result. Unfortunately, that is far from the case with many of today's machines. Beneath their smooth exteriors, modern computers behave in wildly unpredictable ways ...continue |
|
| Back to the Future: Google's Lam on Emerging Technologies to Power Cloud Computing |
| A recent presentation by Network Architect Cedric Lam of Google examined technologies that will emerge in the next three to four years to power warehouse-scale computing data centers, upon which companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and many more are increasingly relying ...continue |
|
| Turing Award Goes to Creator of First Modern Personal Computer |
| Association for Computing Machinery has named Charles P. Thacker the winner of the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the prototype for networked personal computers. Thacker also was cited for his contributions to the Ethernet local area network, as well as the first multiprocessor workstation, and the prototype for today’s most used tablet PC ...continue |
|
| Greener Memory from Random Motion: Heat helps in low-power data storage |
| Random thermal fluctuations in magnetic memory can be harnessed to reduce the energy required to store information, according to an experiment reported in the current issue of Physical Review Letters. The development could lead to computer memory that operates at significantly lower power than conventional devices ...continue |
| More HPC News |
| ARTICLES |
| Cloud Computing: Pie in the sky? |
Infrastructure offers potentially big changes
Rob Farber
As expected with any computational platform — especially one utilized for high performance and scientific computing — performance limitations within the platform define which computational problems will run well on that platform. So, the question becomes, “Is cloud computing a useful computational platform for the computational problems you and your institution need to address?” ...continue |
|
| Ensuring Value in HPC Procurements |
A few benchmarking tips from HECToR
Chris Armstrong
Will the investments your research organization makes in high performance computing resources really pay off ...continue |
|
| Hybrid-core Computing Punching through the power performance wall |
Squeezing more out of the same number of transistors is the name of the game
Tony M. Brewer
The last decade has seen continuous improvements in cost-per-unit of performance of commodity processors, leading to their near-universal adoption by the high performance computing (HPC) community ...continue |
|
| Scientific Process Automation Improves Data Interaction |
Terence Critchlow
Workflow infrastructure automates time-intensive manual processes
Common requirements form the foundation and templates on which to build a scientific workflow infrastructure ...continue |
|
| Pumping Up Power Efficiency |
Claire Gould
Lean, green systems and high-performance “smart” processors provide an energy edge
What do you do when the “need for speed” collides with demands for reduced operating budgets and lower environmental impact? ...continue |
|
| Opening Minds: The Greatest Architectural Challenge |
Rob Farber
Several computer architectural trends provide significant performance benefits
The annual supercomputing conference, now in its 22nd consecutive year, always puts the newest, most novel, and best of the latest generation computer technology on display. As the show approaches, I find it to be a good time to reflect upon trends in the current generation ...continue |
| More HPC Articles |
| MULTIMEDIA AND EVENTS |
| Virtually All You Need |
Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
Virtualization is a hot buzzword in the computing industry today. What does it mean? What are the benefits? What technologies are available? How might it apply in a high performance computing world? "Virtually All You Need: Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization," the latest in Scientific Computing's educational Webcast series, will discuss attaining real value from server virtualization both today and tomorrow. Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization ...continue |
|
| Crossing the Chasm |
High performance computing goes mainstream
Jennifer A. Miller, Managing Editor
High performance computing is becoming a transitional area for productivity workers engaged in the engineering disciplines, research, analysis, design, rendering and animation, as well as ancillary work activities. Applications that used to be performed on Microsoft Windows or Linux desktops, where large-scale computing was once cost prohibitive, can now be migrated to cost-effective compute clusters for improved, scalable application performance. ...continue |
|
| Performance, Pricing and Reliability: Selecting and configuring scalable CAE computing solutions |
Selecting and configuring scalable CAE computing solutions
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
The past year has seen dramatic introductions of faster multi-core high performance computing solutions, as well as new choices of operating environments and cluster switches. However, the average computer-aided engineering user is challenged to sift through these choices and to select a computing solution that achieves a fast, reliable and affordable job throughout. For example, which multi-core microprocessor architecture is the fastest? Can customers get the performance ...continue |
|
| Emerging HPC Trends |
High performance computing joins the mainstream
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
The door on the high performance computing world is opening to new and exciting solutions. Once restricted to high-level researchers and academia, HPC is rapidly moving toward more mainstream applications. Recently, an expert panel came together to explore the significant shift that is occurring in the state of the industry, take a close look at recent trends, and provide insight into changes that are occurring in today’s user experience ...continue |
|
| Are Scale-up Linux Systems Ready to Meet HPC Demands? |
Examining the present and future of platforms built around industry-standard chips
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
Many analysts and IT managers agree that the continued growth of Linux signals the beginning of the end of proprietary hardware and software as the solution for high-end computing. Recently, a panel of experts came together for a live Webcast entitled Scale-up Linux Goes Mainstream. The panelists examined how large scaled-up Linux systems that are built around industry-standard computer chips are now readily available and becoming ...continue |
| More HPC Multimedia |
| PRODUCTS |
| Unified Computing System |
| The Unified Computing System was designed to improve IT responsiveness to rapidly changing business demands. This next-generation data center platform accelerates the delivery of new services simply, reliably and securely through end-to-end provisioning and migration support ...continue |
|
| SFP+ |
| SFP+ copper cable assemblies are a cost-effective and lower-power alternative to optical cables for short reach links in high-speed interconnect applications such as high performance computing, enterprise networking, and network storage markets ...continue |
|
| IMSL Fortran V6.0 |
| Absoft Corporation and Visual Numerics have announced the availability of Visual Numerics' latest IMSL Fortran V6.0 numerical libraries, which include features designed to improve performance and scalability of numerically intensive applications running on multi-core SMP and MPICH cluster systems ...continue |
|
| Itanium 9300 Processor |
| Intel’s Itanium 9300 Processor offers scalable, resilient mission-critical computing with more than double the performance of the previous Itanium processor ...continue |
|
| StorNext 4.0 |
| Quantum Corp’s StorNext data management software enriches data sharing and management in high-performance, high data growth environments. It provides enhanced high-speed data sharing and management capabilities, ideal for media and entertainment, life sciences and other high-performance computing environments ...continue |
|
| FOXC Beta |
| The OpenCL compiler for x86 architecture allows software developers to take advantage of multi-core x86 CPUs to develop OpenCL-based software. The source-to-source compiler uses OpenCL code as the input source while the output source file is an optimized, readable C code ...continue |
| More HPC Products |
|
|