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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by Robert J. Safranek and Michelle J. Moravan
In early generation Intel systems traffic was broadcast across the shared, bi-directional “Front Side” Bus. With many sources driving the bus, electrical constraints made improving Intel FSB performance a challenge. Techniques included increasing the bus clock frequency and transferring requests at two and four times the bus clock [...]

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By Timothy Prickett Morgan
ScaleMP, a maker of virtualization and aggregation software that allows a cluster of x64 servers to look like a big, bad, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) shared-memory system to operating systems and selected classes of applications, is going downstream to target SMBs and upstream to chase cloud infrastructure providers.
While ScaleMP wants to make a [...]

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HPC Wire publishes a special supplement on using Cloud Computing model in HPC paradigm.
“Despite the pervasiveness of cloud computing in the broader IT industry, the challenges of using this model for high performance computing are unique to the HPC paradigm. In an effort to help demystify and illuminate this important subject, HPCwire offers this [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
With all the recent hoopla about GPGPU acceleration in high performance computing, it’s easy to forget that Roadrunner, the most powerful supercomputer in the world, is based on a different brand of accelerator. The machine at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs hooked up to 6,480 AMD [...]

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by Dennis Gannon and Dan Reed
It is not unreasonable to say that modern datacenters and modern supercomputers are like twins separated at birth. Both are massively parallel in design, and both are organized as a network of communicating computational nodes. The individual nodes of each are based on commodity microprocessors that have multiple cores, large [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
Before Bill Dally joined NVIDIA as its chief scientist earlier this year, he had already enjoyed a long and accomplished career in academia, first at Caltech, then MIT, and finally at Stanford University. Along the way, he published over 200 research papers, and authored two textbooks, and collected IEEE’s Seymour [...]

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Amazon’s new protocol should make accessing the cloud faster and more reliable. Cloud computing offers a cheap way to carry out data-intensive computing, allowing companies to effectively lease processing power from an online supplier. But uploading large amounts of data to cloud computing systems has remained costly and time-consuming.
Today, Amazon announced a new, ultrafast file [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
GPUs are becoming more like CPUs. But in the critical area of error corrected memory, graphics hardware still lags. The lack of error correction is probably the single biggest factor that makes users of GPUs for high performance computing nervous. Some HPC applications are resistant to the occasional bad data value, [...]

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