SGI, a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Cyclone, the world’s first large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications.
Until now, cloud solutions have been primarily focused on running important business applications like CRM, ERP, email and other database programs. Cyclone capitalizes on over 20 [...]

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If you build a supercomputer out of Atom chips, will someone buy it? That remains to be seen, but it’s a compelling enough idea to score $9.3m from the US Department of Energy.
You can click here to read about SeaMicro, a small company that picked up the dough to develop an Atom-based supercomputer.
The story describes [...]

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The PADTAD 2010 workshop is a two-day event at ISSTA 2010, focusing on techniques and systems that aid in the testing, analysis, and debugging of multi-threaded, parallel and distributed applications and systems. The workshop has a practical and applied emphasis on systems that have been implemented in (at least) prototype form, but also welcomes submissions [...]

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CAPS, a leading global provider of compiler technologies and engineering services for parallel hybrid
computing, has announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will use CAPS’ HMPP
compiler to leverage the computing power of a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based hybrid cluster.
As a world leader in high-performance computing (HPC), ORNL is preparing the future of next-
generation petascale computing [...]

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by Michael Feldman, editor of HPCwire
It was a tough year for HPC vendors — well, any vendor actually. But in 2009, we also witnessed the acceleration of GPU computing, an increased acceptance of cloud computing for HPC, and the beginning of the post-quad-core era. There were also a number of other interesting developments in [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
There was plenty of action in the HPC arena this year: the leap forward in GPU computing, the spread of cloud computing into the HPC realm, and the continuing multicore juggernaut, to name a few. But what really dominated the news from week to week in 2009 was the effect [...]

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by Andrew Jones, Vice-President of HPC Business at Numerical Algorithms Group
As we turn the decade into the 2020s, we take a nostalgic look back at the last ten years of supercomputing. It’s amazing to think how much has changed in that time. Many of our older readers will recall how things were before the official [...]

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NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing operations. More recently, the well-known [...]

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Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Loongson Technology Co., Ltd. (Loongson) (funded by the Institute of Computing Technologies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) achieved first-pass silicon success on its 65-nanometer, multicore, high-performance Loongson-3 CPU design using Synopsys’ CustomSim(TM) circuit simulator. The CustomSim [...]

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As of December 4th (yesterday), the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute part.
The Larrabee project itself has not been canceled however, and Intel is still hard at work developing their first entirely in-house discrete GPU. The [...]

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The Sun HPC Consortium Portland was held in conjunction with SC09 in Portland, Oregon. The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.
SHPCC’s mission is to provide the high performance computing community with [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
The 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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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 include six different tasks, common to [...]

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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 popularity, computation power, and energy efficiency of [...]

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By Patrick Thibodeau
There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world’s most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.
Supercomputers allow researchers to create [...]

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Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation today have agreed to jointly develop High Performance Computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the boundaries of supercomputing performance. NEC will bring these technologies to market in future supercomputers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor. NEC’s expertise in this field coupled with the Intel Xeon processor’s outstanding performance and [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Platform Computing has taken the beta off its Infrastructure Sharing Facility, a way of greasing the adoption of Windows HPC Server 2008 among the supercomputing folk.
Having seen a zillion different operating systems and architectures over the past three decades, these HPC techies like the portability and commonality of Linux across the remaining [...]

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Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited today announced that it has formed a relationship with Microsoft to address the growing High Performance Computing (HPC) and parallel computing segment. Wipro will enable HPC customers to migrate to Windows HPC Server 2008 and parallelism on the Windows platform by offering services for application [...]

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Supercomputing (SC) conferences is one of the premier events that attracts researchers, scientists, computing center staff members, IT and data center management, application developers, computer manufacturing personnel, program managers, journalists and congressional staffers from industry, academia, and national labs all over the world. Established 21 years ago, the SC conference continues to grow steadily in [...]

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Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company today announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute nodes managed by Platform LSF and Platform [...]

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