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It’s Official: China Once Again Leads the TOP500
The June 2013 TOP500 was released today at ISC’13 with an all-new Chinese supercomputer leading the list with 33.86 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. Tianhe-2, or Milky Way-2, will be deployed at the...
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Excitement at ISC13: Getting to the MilkyWay 2
In this special guest feature, Intel’s John Hengeveld describes the effort that went into building the fastest supercomputer on Earth. Milky Way 2 is amazing.. and whats more amazing is… you can build...
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Podcast: Radio Free HPC Interviews Jack Dongarra on the New TOP500
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the June 2013 TOP500 list with Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee. How did the Chinese manage to trump the world once again with the #1...
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Adaptive Computing to Manage HPC Workloads at Baden-Württemberg
This week at ISC’13, Adaptive Computing announced that the Baden-Württemberg High Performance Computing Competence Centers (bwHPC) will use the company’s Moab software to manage supercomputing...
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Altair Chosen for JAIST Research Center in Japan
Altair’s workload management product, PBS Professional, has been selected to manage workload for the Cray XC30 supercomputer recently put into production by the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and...
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Video: Driving Industrial Innovation on the Road to Exascale
In this video from ISC’13, Raj Hazra from Intel presents: Driving Industrial Innovation on the Road to Exascale. Join Intel for a look at the state of the HPC industry from two perspectives. First,...
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InfiniBand Rocks the TOP500 with 16 Petascale Supercomputers
The latest TOP500 once again shows that InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for the world’s most powerful supercomputers, powering 80 percent of clustered systems and a record 16 Petascale systems...
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New Portland HPC Startup is ARMed and Dangerous
In a 2009 interview with insideHPC, data scientist Thomas Thurston talked about research he had done predicting ARM CPUs were on a path to disrupt X86 in HPC. This was the first time most of us had...
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French Forecast is Looking Good for Bull
The first Bullx supercomputers ordered by the French weather forecasting agency have now been installed at Météo-France’s site in Toulouse and will be available for production this year. Bull says the...
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FDR InfiniBand Gains Momentum on the TOP500
In this video from ISC’13, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes the rapid adoption of FDR InfiniBand on the TOP500 supercomputer list. Read the Full Story or check out more of our exclusive coverage...
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Looking at the Timeline for 100 Petaflops
Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan looks at when we might see a 100 Petaflop machine on the TOP500 list. Berkeley Lab is aiming for 100 petaflops with its NERSC-8 box, which three years ago...
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Europe Getting its HPC Act Together
At ISC’13, Tom Wilkie heard some European success stories in research using high-performance computing and learned of ambitious plans for a European HPC industry. But he also heard some criticisms too...
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ECMWF to Boost European Weather Forecasting with New Cray System
Today Cray announced the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has selected a Cray XC30 supercomputer and Cray Sonexion storage for their next operational facility. The new Cray...
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Video: Brent Gorda on the State of the Lustre Community at ISC’13
In this video from ISC’13, Brent Gorda from the Intel High Performance Data Division describes the growth of the Lustre Community as well as the company’s recent launch of the Intel Enterprise Edition...
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Video: The Missing Middle — How Can HPC Help Industry?
In this video from ISC’13, Horst Simon from LBNL hosts a chat session on The Missing Middle — How Can HPC Help Industry? Panelists: Jysoo Lee, KISTI Karin Lukaszewicz, MAGMA Cynthia McIntyre, Council...
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Video: IDC Presentation from ISC’13 on HPC Market Trends
In this video from the IDC Breakfast Briefing at ISC’13, Earl Joseph presents: HPC Market Trends. View the slides or check out more talks from the show at our ISC’13 Video Gallery. Related posts:IDC’s...
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Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Milky Way Supercomputer
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Milky Way (Tianhe-2) supercomputer from China that now owns the top slot on the TOP500 list. They kick around the hardware and explore the...
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How Much Faster Can China go?
From Leipzig’s legendary literary watering hole, Auerbachs Keller, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World ponders China’s place in supercomputing. Last month, China doubled the speed of the world’s...
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IDC’s Perspective on Big Data Outside of HPC
In this video from the IDC Breakfast Briefing at ISC’13, Steve Conway presents: IDC’s Perspective on Big Data Outside of HPC. View the slides or check out more talks from the show at our ISC’13 Video...
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Replacing Linpack? Jack Dongarra Announces New Supercomputing Benchmark
The way supercomputer power is measured is about to change. Since 1993, the much-celebrated bi-annual TOP500 list is compiled using Jack Dongarra’s benchmark system, called Linpack. It is the most...
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