IBM Roadrunner Takes the Gold in the Petaflop Race
Petaflop. Sure it’s just a number, but it’s a big number. On June 10, IBM announced that its Roadrunner supercomputer reached a record-breaking one petaflop — a quadrillion floating point operations...
View ArticleSupercomputing’s Spring Fling
I’ll be heading out to Dresden, Germany, in a couple of days to attend the annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and immerse myself in all things petascale. The conference takes place...
View ArticleConference Chair Spotlights ISC’08
Every June, many of the world’s leading experts in high-performance computing convene in Germany to discuss the latest advances in supercomputing and to get a glimpse of what the future holds. Now in...
View ArticleNVIDIA Unveils Teraflop GPU Computing
NVIDIA has announced two new Tesla-branded GPU computing products at ISC’08, continuing the company’s efforts to move into the HPC market. The new products are based on NVIDIA’s next generation...
View ArticleClearSpeed Puts the Pedal to the Metal
UK-based ClearSpeed has launched its second-generation floating point accelerator lineup based on its new CSX700 “Callanish” ASIC. Like their GPGPU counterparts from NVIDIA and AMD, the ClearSpeed...
View ArticleAMD Paces the Field with New GPGPU Offering
On Monday AMD announced the FireStream 9250, the company’s latest general purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), and the successor to the FireStream 9170 product announced last year. Like the NVIDIA...
View ArticleRun-Up to Petaflops
There is no other way to characterize this time in high performance computing: 2008 will be remembered as “the year” — the year that one petaflops was achieved in Linpack performance. It is a milestone...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Big Day
On Wednesday Microsoft announced something big in a little number. NCSA put one of its systems, the 9,000+ core Abe system, on the latest TOP500 list at number 23. The system performed at 68.5 TFLOPS...
View ArticleTies That Bind: Organizing Large-Scale HPC in the European Union
The combined economic resources of the 27 member states of the European Union make it the largest economy in the world. No stranger to the world of HPC, and convinced of the power of technology to...
View ArticleLSI Intros HPC Storage System
This week at ISC in Dresden, Germany, storage vendor LSI is demonstrating the Engenio 7900, a storage product that they feel puts HPC centers right where they need to be: offering users a highly...
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