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• CSIRO to launch hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 439
  CSIRO to harness GPUs and CPUs for a supercomputer with the performance of an all-CPU cluster twice its size.
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• Bull Debuts Mobull Container for HPC

  
  Data Center Knowledge — Authority: 615
  The Moobull container (left) is a new modular offering for high performance computing from Bull, featuring its water-cooled Cool Cabinet Door. There’s a new entry in the market for data center containers from Bull, the French IT conglomerate. The Mobull container is designed to house up to 1,620 servers and ...
  4 hours ago

• SC09 Wrap: Aurora, Gore, Fusion i/o, Green 500

  
  Data Center Knowledge — Authority: 615
  A look at the Aurora supercomputer from Eurotech, which uses liquid cooling and SSD memory. There was lots of news last week from the SC09 conference in Portland. Here’s a roundup of some items that we didn’t get a chance to cover last week: Eurotech , which previously focused on wearable computers and ...
  7 hours ago

• Lustre-Powered Hyperion Project is Readers Choice

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  Last week the Lustre-Powered Hyperion Project received a coveted HPC Wire Readers Choice Award. The NNSAs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory teamed with Sun and nine other vendors to build and support a large-scale Linux cluster test bed to explore high performance computing technologies. Full Story
  8 hours ago

• Video: Time-lapse of Sun Powered Red Sky Installation

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  Red Sky, Sandias Sun Constellation Supercomputer is now the 10th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list , with a sustained performance of 429.9 TFlops. As the fastest Nehalem-based system on the planet, Red Sky uses Suns new 5600 Cooling Door System to achieve new levels of energy efficiency for a system of ...
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• Al Gore entertains the supercomputer troops

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  The Register has posted a review of Al Gores SC09 keynote: "Gore wandered all over the place in discussing sustainability and the climate issues - you can watch An Inconvenient Truth and get more data than he gave out today. But he kept returning to the theme that it is up to the supercomputing scientists of the ...
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• Sun News -- The Week in Review

  
  Student Views and Reviews — Authority: 115
  Catch up on Sun news this week in the short podcast below!  Among the highlights are the new Sun HPC products and technologies announced this week, as well as Suns role in the Health Sciences South Carolina Integrated Platform for research and AT&Ts new "Synaptic Compute as a Service."
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• Video: SC09 windfall for Portland

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim makes a quick appearance in this video story from SC09. SC10 will be in New Orleans, so check out their new site. Full Story
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• The state of the supercomputer superpower - Linux

  
  451 CAOS Theory — Authority: 557
  There’s a new Top500 Supercomputers list out, and it still looks good for Linux. As we’ve seen in the past, Linux has maintained its fast-risen dominance of the list in the latest round, now claiming a role in all of the top 10 systems and more than 90% of the world’s 500 fastest, most powerful ...
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• Fast and Fierce: 5 Awesome Supercomputers

  
  Data Center Knowledge — Authority: 615
  The twice-a-year list of the Top 500 supercomputers documents the most powerful systems on the planet. Many of these supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. Here’s a look at the top 5 supercomputers , their specs, and some cool photos .
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• You Put Your HPC Cluster in a...WHAT??

  
  The Navel of Narcissus — Authority: 113
  Judging from a quick look at the survey results from this weekends Sun HPC Consortium meeting in Portland, Oregon, Marc Parizeau s talk was a favorite with both customers and Sun employees. Marc is Deputy Director of CLUMEQ and a professor at Université Laval in Québec City. His talk, Colossus: A cool HPC ...
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• Upgrading A Supercomputer

  
  Data Center Knowledge — Authority: 615
  What’s it like to perform a processor upgrade on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers? In this video, Al Linger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the ...
  4 days ago

• Nuke labs show the future of hybrid computing

  
  MulticoreInfo.com — Authority: 147
  By Timothy Prickett MorganThe Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.There is a growing consensus - but by no means ...
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• New Blueprint: Sun Business Ready HPC for Altair RADIOSS

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  This Sun BluePrints article provides an overview of running RADIOSS in a high-performance clustered environment on Sun systems. Sample performance data and suggestions for designing and configuring optimal solutions for a variety of workload sizes are presented. Download blueprint
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• Climate Modeling: How much computing required to run a Century Experiment?

  
  The Navel of Narcissus — Authority: 113
  Henry Tufo from NCAR and CU-Boulder spoke this weekend at the Sun HPC Consortium meeting here in Portland, OR. As part of his talk, More than a Big Machine: Why We Need Multiple Breakthroughs to Tackle Cloud Resolving Climate [ PDF ], he estimated the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) needed to ...
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• Jacket GBENCH for GPU Benchmarking: A Suite of Tests for CPU vs GPU Comparisons

  
  MulticoreInfo.com — Authority: 147
  AccelerEyes is pleased to announce the release of the HPC industry’s first GPU performance benchmark: Jacket GBENCH. GBENCH allows users to gauge the GPU performance of their computer relative to equivalent benchmarks obtained from a variety f other computers, including the CPU of the same computer. Benchmarks ...
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• JacketHPC for GPU Clusters: MATLAB-driven GPU-based Supercomputers

  
  MulticoreInfo.com — Authority: 147
  AccelerEyes today unveiled a new version of its Jacket software platform designed for multiple GPU systems. The new version of Jacket offers huge productivity gains to the hundreds of thousands of MATLAB® users worldwide who need to solve computationally intensive problems and desire to leverage the growing ...
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• Unix to Windows API dictionary

  
  VolkerW's WebLog — Authority: 113
  Wen-ming on my team worked with folks from InteropSystems on a porting dictionary to help ease the pain porting source code from Unix to Windows. They took the most frequently used Unix calls and provided a piece of sample code demonstrating the equivalent function on Windows (if it exists). Please go to ...
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• Sun HPC Recent Developments

  
  System News for Sun Users - The Blog — Authority: 137
  New HPC Solutions, Benchmarks, Customers and Positioning on Top500 List The latest Top500 list published in November shows three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs were Sun Constellation Systems. Sun also doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments ...
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• Sun Shows Off Worlds Fastest Storage at SC09

  
  Sun HPC Watercooler — Authority: 130
  This week at SC09 , Sun announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems. In addition, Sun is announcing new HPC customers, world-record performance and Top 500 List results that demonstrate ...
  5 days ago

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