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Chip Shot: Intel’s Stephen Wheat: HPC “Person to Watch”

January 25th, 2011 | No Comments

HPCWire, the most recognized news site covering high performance computing (HPC), has selected Dr. Stephen Wheat, senior director, Intel High Performance Computing Platform, as one of their “People to Watch in 2011.” This list features an elite selection of industry thought leaders who will impact the advancement of HPC technology and the HPC community at large. With more than 30 years experience in HPC, Stephen has worked on the deployment of some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, including several Top10 and Top500 systems.

Microsoft Makes HPC Moves at Supercomputing 2010

November 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft made a series of High Performance Computing moves at the Supercomputing 2010 show, including exposing a critical medical research tool, NCBI BLAST, to the Windows Azure cloud platform. – Microsoft made a series of high performance computing (HPC) announcements at the Supercomputing 2010 conference, including implementing an innovative medical search tool available on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform.
At Supercomputing 2010, which ran Nov. 13-19, Microsoft announced the re…

Adaptive Computing Upgrades Moab for HPC Space

November 19th, 2010 | No Comments

The latest version of Adaptive Computings Moab management solution supports the drive in HPC for more cores, more nodes, and greater use of GPUs. – Adaptive Computing is upgrading its Moab management software to address the rapidly growing number of computing nodes and processor cores and the increasing use of such accelerators as graphics chips in the high-performance computing space.
Adaptive Computing is rolling out Moab 6.0 and its compani…

Appro Unveils HPC Offerings for Financials Services, Oil and Gas Industries

October 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Appro is rolling out new Intel-powered high-performance computing offerings aimed at the financial services and oil and gas industries. – Appro is expanding its supercomputing hardware portfolio with offerings
targeting the high-frequency trading space and oil and gas market.
Appro on Oct. 12 unveiled the dual-socket HF1 server, which
includes overclocked Intel Xeon 5600 quot;Westmere quot; processors and a
liquid-cooling system …

SGI Ships New HPC Storage for Mixed-Use Systems

September 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 features dense, industrial-strength data storage and mixed I/O options, with 8G-bit Fibre Channel and 40G-bit InfiniBand. – High-performance computer maker SGI on Sept.
22 introduced its newest storage system, SGI
InfiniteStorage 16000, intended for high-octane environments that deal with
mixed workloads.

Most often, HPC (high-performance computing)
systems that handle computation for projects such as genome rende…

Microsoft Releases Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

September 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft released its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 earlier this week, a high-performance computing server designed for powerful analysis and massive data-crunching. – Microsoft released its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 earlier
this week. The HPC (high-performance computing) server is designed to help
businesses, government and academia leverage capabilities for powerful
analysis.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is interoperable with other
Microsoft technologies suc…

Intel Pushes Workstation Clusters for HPC Needs of ‘Missing Middle’

September 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Intel officials say their cube clustered computing concept could help businesses gain access to HPC-levels of compute power. – SAN FRANCISCO Intel is running an internal pilot program to show that workstations can be clustered together to give businesses and institutions access of HPC levels of compute power that normally they would not have.
The idea is to give what is becoming known as the Â“missing middleÂ” those business…

Dell Targets Cloud, HPC with New Hardware

September 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Dell is unveiling a host of new hardware designed to bring HPC and cloud computing capabilities to a wider range of customers. Included is the AMD-based PowerEdge C6105. – Speaking at the Supercomputing conference in Austin, Texas, in 2008,
Dell CEO Michael Dell told the audience that his company was committed
to growing its presence in the HPC space.
Dell on Sept. 9 made its latest step into the space
with a host of new hardware offerings, including the PowerEdge…

Intel Channels ‘Larrabee’ for HPC Processor Architecture

June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

At the ISC 2010 show, Intel officials introduced "Knights Corner," a processing architecture aimed at the parallel computing applications inherent in the HPC field. Knights Corner incorporates what Intel officials have learned through the Â“LarrabeeÂ” GPU project, as well as previous many-cores processor initiatives. – Intel engineers are taking what they learned with the now-shelved
Â“LarrabeeÂ” graphics chip project and with their multicore single-chip
cloud computing strategy to create a co-processor architecture aimed at
the high-performance computing market.
At the International Supercomputing 2010 show May…

Microsoft, Novell Report HPC Pickup

June 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft and Novell report an increase in the number of companies seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which lets businesses deploy workload management across both Windows HPC Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Those companies hail from a number of economic sectors, including finance and health care, suggesting that business spending on high-level IT infrastructure projects in general could be on the rise after a long period of stagnation. Microsoft has previously announced its intention of make HPC a more mainstream proposition. – Microsoft and Novell have reported an increase in the number of companies
seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which
deploys workload management across both Windows HPC
Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and allows IT managers to balance
server workloads by r…

Intel Clarifies Graphics Plans, Hints at HPC Project

May 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Intel spokesperson Bill Kircos says the chip giant will not release a discrete graphics chip any time soon, putting an end to the project code-named Larrabee. However, Kircos says Intel will continue enhancing the graphics capabilities of its CPUs, and Intel officials at the International Supercomputing show will outline a high-performance computing effort created from the work with Larrabee and many-core processors. – Intel will continue with its efforts to enhance the graphics capabilities of
its CPUs, but the chip maker will not release a quot;Larrabee quot;-like
discrete graphics processor any time soon.
In a Technology@Intel
blog post May 25, Intel spokesperson Bill Kircos said the company will
increase…

IBM Puts Nvidia Tesla GPU in iDataPlex HPC Server

May 18th, 2010 | No Comments

IBM is putting Nvidia’s Tesla 20-series GPUs in the newest version of its iDataPlex HPC server, a success for Nvidia’s strategy of increasing the use of GPUs in mainstream computing. Smaller vendors like SGI, Appro and SuperMicro already use GPUs in their servers, but IBM now becomes the largest of the OEMs to do so. – Nvidia’s efforts to push graphics chip technology into mainstream computing received
a significant boost May 18 when IBM
announced that the newest version of its iDataPlex server will run on both
traditional computing chips and GPUs from Nvidia.
The announcement marks the first time a top-tier s…

SGI Unveils New Altix ICE 8400 HPC Server Blades

May 6th, 2010 | No Comments

SGI is bringing the newest processors from Intel and AMD to its Altix ICE HPC blade servers. The Altix ICE 8400 also features an improved InfiniBand I/O architecture. Three Altix ICE 8400 servers are run on Intel Xeon 5600 chips. The other two are powered by AMDs Opteron 6100 processors.
– SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade
servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro
Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability.
SGIs Altix ICE 8400,
announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance
computing) space, can scale as h…

Intel Elevates Its Mainstream x86 Processors into HPC Space

March 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of its data center group, told a standing-room-only press conference that the new quad-core, six-core and eight-core Xeon 7500 chips represent the most significant leap in performance, scalability and reliability ever seen from Intel, and he wasn’t kidding.
– SAN FRANCISCO When
it launched its new Xeon 7500 Nehalem EX server processors here at the swanky Bentley
Reserve Conference
Center March 30, Intel indicated
that it is going both upstream and mainstream at the same time.

Upsteam as in moving its mainline x86 processor into waters yet unchart…

SGI Offers Cyclone Cloud Computing for HPC

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

SGI is bringing its high-end technical computing capabilities to the cloud with its new Cyclone environment, which runs on its Intel-based Altix systems. Businesses can either run their own application in the cloud environment or access the technical applications hosted on the systems. SGI says Cyclone complements the traditional and modular data center products it already offers.
– SGI is taking its technical computing expertise to the cloud.
SGI is rolling out Cyclone, its cloud computing
environment for the HPC (high-performance computing) market, which
officials called an extension of what the company has been offering in
traditional and modular data center settings.
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Chip Shot: New HPC Optimized Intel Processor Planned

November 16th, 2009 | No Comments

At Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., Intel unveiled a future High Performance Computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed “Nehalem-EX.” The six-core chip will run at higher frequencies than eight-core versions of the Nehalem-EX processors and will offer advantages on some HPC workloads. Customers will benefit from greater memory bandwidth and capacity and will be able to build single computers or “nodes” with up to 256 such chips. More details can be found at Intel’s online Press Room.

Cray, Dell, Microsoft Team Up on HPC Workstation, Cluster

November 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Cray and Dell are partnering on a new integrated workstation and compute cluster aimed at such customers as SMB R D groups and enterprises new to HPC. The Cray CX1-iWS systems offer an integrated high-end workstation and a compute cluster, all powered by Intel Â“Nehalem EPÂ” processors and running only Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows HPC Server 2008. The systems will only be sold through Dell.
– Cray and Dell are teaming up to bring high-end computing capabilities to workstation users.
The two companies on Nov. 12 announced the Cray CX1-iWS system,
which offers a workstation running Microsofts Windows 7 operating
system integrated with an HPC (high-performance computing) cluster
running…

HP, Nvidia Team Up in HPC Project

October 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

HP and Nvidia are key technology providers in a project that will use the combined strengths of CPUs and GPUs in an experimental HPC system. The project, which aims to create two innovative HPC systems, is being overseen by a Georgia Tech researcher. The initial system, which will be deployed in 2010, will use hundreds of Intel-based HP products and Nvidias new CUDA architecture, code-named Â“Fermi.Â”
– Hewlett-Packard and Nvidia are providing key technologies to a
project aimed at designing an experimental high-performance computing
system.
The two technology vendors are part of a project being overseen by
the Georgia Institute of Technology, which announced Oct. 21 that it
had received a fiv…

Nvidia Working with Microsoft on GPU Computing for HPC

September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Nvidia and Microsoft engineers are working together to promote Nvidias Tesla GPUs in HPC environments that use Microsofts Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. The move is part of a push by Nvidia to expand the reach of its Tesla GPUs into mainstream computing. Others, including AMD, are making similar efforts.
– Nvidia is working with Microsoft to expand the reach of its graphics
processing technologies into high-performance computing space.
Nvidia officials announced Sept. 28 that their engineers are
collaborating with their Microsoft counterparts to tout the use of
their Tesla GPUs in HPC environments…

Eight Ways Nvidia, AMD and Other GPUs Boost HPC

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Graphic processing units are finding a greater mainstream computing role, thanks in large part to the efforts of Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices in promoting the technology for general-purpose computing. GPUs from these vendors and others are cropping up in coprocessing roles in workstations from the likes of Dell and Hewlett-Packard, as well as HPC (high-performance computing) offerings from vendors such as Appro and Verari Systems. The benefits of GPUs, from their ability to run such tasks as video applications to the fact that they can hold significantly more processing cores than CPUs, dovetail with the increased demand from consumers and businesses for better performance around such diverse workloads as video, gaming and math-intensive applications. Officials with AMD, which bought ATI for $5.4 billion in 2006, announced in May that they were merging their processor and graphics businesses. Intel also is increasing the graphics capabilities of its processor technologies. AMD gained ground on market leader Nvidia in the second quarter, thanks to its Radeon graphics cards, which were released in 2008.By Jeffrey Burt
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