| News digest December 2005 |
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| Sandia to move to 50 Tflop/s as part of Red Storm contract |
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Under the "Red Storm" contract, Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia), part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), will expand its Cray-built supercomputer to peak performance of more than 50 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) from its current 40-Tflop/s capacity in 2006.
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| Cluster File Systems Inc. releases Lustre version 1.4.5 |
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Cluster File Systems Inc. (CFS), specialized in high-performance parallel file systems, has released the latest update to the open source Lustre file system. Lustre version 1.4.5.
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| Burton Smith moves to Microsoft |
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Cray Chief Scientist Burton Smith will leave the company to assume a new role at Microsoft Corporation. Burton Smith was designer of the MTA parallel machine of Tera. Although the development of this machine was not a commercial success, Tera did acquire Cray from SGI in 2000. Tera was renamed to Cray. Before founding Tera, Burton Smith was involved in the company Denelcor, where he did design the first multithreaded machine: the HEP. The idea of multithreading is now common in several computer architectures.
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| Dolphin Interconnect Solutions partners with Scalable Systems for SCI Rocks Roll for high performance computing |
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Singapore-based Scalable Systems Pte Ltd and Dolphin Interconnect Solutions have made available the SCI Roll for Dolphin's high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect products based on the Scalable Coherent Interface for open source Rocks and Scalable Rocks cluster operating system.
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| Virginia Tech to showcase supercomputing over new national network |
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Virginia Tech will present advances in supercomputing and networking at the Supercomputing 2005 (SC|05) Conference in Seattle November 12-18 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. In particular, the university will partner its Apple-based supercomputer, System X, with other supercomputers to respond to a challenge involving high performance computing (HPC) storage capability.
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| US Department of Defense achieves supercomputing performance milestone with Linux Networx system |
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A 2048-processor cluster system Linux Networx delivered last year to theUS Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP) has been optimized and achieved performance of 10.65 Tflop/s. The system is the most powerful supercomputer at the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC) and it ranks as the 24th fastest supercomputer in the world according to the Top500 list.
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| Cray Inc. appoints HPC veteran Jan Silverman Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development |
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Cray has hired high performance computing (HPC) industry veteran Jan Silverman as senior vice president, corporate strategy and business development. Before joining Cray, Silverman held senior management and R&D positions at SGI, Hewlett-Packard, Apollo Computer and Lockheed Martin.
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| Liquid Computing Interconnect Driven Server featuring AMD processors alters the science of technical computing |
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LiquidIQ will feature the AMD Opteron processor. LiquidIQ delivers a set of managed computing and communications resources that can be configured with software commands into one or several cluster configurations, shared memory or cache coherent server regions. Combining the AMD Opteron processor, the world's leading x86 CPU, with Liquid Computing's superior Interconnect Driven Server architecture has created a computing system that can exceed the performance and scalability levels of legacy machines and standard commodity clusters.
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| Bull NovaScale server sets a new record under TPC/H benchmark |
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the Bull NovaScale 5160 server has improved its industry record in terms of price/performance with $25.48 per QphH (Query per Hour) under the TPC-H Business Intelligence benchmark, running Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The results show a performance of 17,059.8 QphH@1,000 GB.
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| Pittsburgh Supercomouting Center at SC|05: Networking, TeraGrid, Biomed, Big Ben |
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At SC|05 in Seattle, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking and storage, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will highlight scientific results achieved on Big Ben, its 10-teraflop Cray XT3. PSC's networking group will demonstrate innovative new technologies they have developed. PSC's biomedical group, the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, will show a number of important life-science applications, and researchers will demonstrate PSC software that allows remote interactive control of simulations on Big Ben live from the show floor via the TeraGrid backbone.
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| Cray to base next-generation supercomputers on AMD Opteron processor platform |
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AMD and Cray Inc. have signed an agreement that extends their successful relationship through the end of the decade. Cray will continue to use AMD Opteron processors for the microprocessor-based supercomputer products Cray develops during this period. In addition, the two firms will actively collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) programme.
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| US Department of Defense to use Voltaire Grid Backbone solutions in HP supercomputer for weapons systems design |
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) will use Voltaire's InfiniBand-based Grid backbone switching solutions as part of a powerful HP clustered supercomputer for advanced weapons system design research. The system will be installed this month at the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
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| Highlight during SC|05 in Seattle: Fraunhofer visualization software on an IBM Cell cluster prototype |
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One highlight of the International Conference on High Performance Computing SC|05 in Seattle will be the visualization software PV-4D of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM. The software has been installed on a prototype of an IBM cell blade cluster and will be presented to a large public for the first time. A successful test run was performed during the Fraunhofer Annual Meeting in Magdeburg, Germany on October 19 this year.
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| International Supercomputer Conference 2006 to present programme highlights |
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After celebrating the 20th Anniversary at ISC2005 in Heidelberg with a new record-number of participants, next year's ISC2006 will take place at the modern and renowned International Congress Center of Dresden. Hasso Plattner, SAP Co-founder, former SAP Co-CEO, SAP visionary and current chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board will deliver the Conference Keynote Address in the Opening Session on June 28, 2006.
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| File system performance record for Sandia National Laboratories |
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Sandia National Laboratories, DataDirect Networks, Cluster File Systems Inc. and Voltaire combined solutions to deliver 15 Gigabytes per second to Sandia's high performance RoSE Visualization Cluster. The RoSE clusters are designed to visualize, analyse and manage output from two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Red Storm and Thunderbird. These supercomputers enable simulations with extraordinary precision and fidelity, and the size of the output is enormous. Each output can be tens of terabytes in size.
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| HP introduces versatile UNIX blade solution to lower the cost of enterprise computing |
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HP has introduced its first UNIX blade technology to bring the cost-efficiency and versatility of blades to UNIX customers. Adding mission-critical capabilities to the HP BladeSystem platform, the new HP Integrity BL60p blade server supports the HP-UX 11i operating system and the Intel Itanium 2 processor.
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| Quadrics selects Fujitsu 10 Gigabit Ethernet single-chip switch for Interconnect designs |
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Quadrics, specialized in high-performance interconnect technology, will use the Fujitsu 10 Gigabit Ethernet single-chip switch, the MB87Q3140, in its high-performance interconnect switching products. Quadrics, which supplies advanced products for very high-performance supercomputers and massively parallel systems, will develop interconnects using the Fujitsu MB87Q3140, the company's industry-leading 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
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| IBM unleashes POWER5 based supercomputer |
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IBM offered participants of SC05 a closer glimpse of the next generation p5-575 supercomputer with a pre-release version of the upgraded high-density POWER5+ processor-based server system. The new POWER5+ p5-575 uses the same ultra-thin cluster building-block package.
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| CCLRC joins LiquidIQ beta programme |
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The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) will participate in the LiquidIQ beta programme. The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils is one of Europe's largest multi-disciplinary research organisations supporting scientists and engineers across the UK and world-wide with a wide array of high performance computing infrastructure. In an effort to push the boundaries of scientific research, it has elected to conduct detailed beta testing of Liquid Computing's Interconnect Driven Server, LiquidIQ.
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| High-performance computers become interactive |
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A M.I.T.-born start-up called Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) has unveiled a new class of technical computing software that, in effect, transforms powerful parallel supercomputers into easy-to-use, interactive desktop tools for rapidly solving large scientific and engineering problems.
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| Record database at the German Climate Computing Centre’s World Data Centre for Climate |
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The World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC) and the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg run the largest database in the world under the free Linux operating system. This is confirmed in the international ranking list of the world's largest databases published by the Winter Corporation in September. The WDCC database at the DKRZ has an inconceivable volume of almost 220 terabytes and is about double the size of the database of a well know search engine.
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| IBM unveils new dual-core X3 servers and takes nr. 1 spot in intel-based customer satisfaction survey |
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IBM is upgrading its X3 Architecture-based family of servers with the introduction of new, dual-core systems based on the dual-core Intel Xeon processor 7000 sequence, formerly code named "Paxville MP". X3 Architecture-based servers are designed to support multiple generations of dual-core technology from a power, thermal and chipset standpoint.
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| SGI launches new flagship Altix 4000 platform |
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Silicon Graphics has unveiled a complete redesign of its flagship Altix line with the SGI Altix 4000 platform. Capable of tailoring hardware to application needs, Altix 4000 is aimed to serve as the foundation of the future of high-performance computing.
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| Platform Computing enhances configuration and management for HP cluster platforms |
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Platform Rocks Standard Edition (SE) will be available as a cluster management solution for the HP Cluster Platform 3000. Platform Rocks SE is a commercially supported and enhanced implementation of the open source cluster management toolkit, NPACI Rocks. Platform Rocks SE provides customers a standardized tool to simplify management and make it easy and cost-effective for users to rapidly deploy, configure and monitor their cluster environment.
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| Cray XT3 supercomputer users can now automate workload management tasks with Altair's PBS Professional |
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The Altair PBS Professional workload management solution is now generally available for the Cray XT3 massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer. PBS Professional has been fully integrated with the Cray XT3 software, allowing high-performance computing (HPC) users to intelligently manage their workloads across thousands of processors. PBS Professional, a workload management solution, is supported for all Cray supercomputers, and is marketed and supported by Cray and Cray resellers around the world.
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| DataDirect Networks selivers world's fastest storage solution |
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DataDirect Networks has released the a fast Fibre Channel-4 (FC-4) RAID storage controller. DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A 9500) has demonstrated 3+ Gigabytes per second whether reading or writing data.
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| Rave Computing rounds out Nallatech's Channel Partner Programme for 2005 |
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Nallatech, a supplier of FPGA high-performance computing solutions, has added Rave Computer Association Inc. as the most recent member of its Channel Partner Programme for 2005.
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| Second phase of supercomputer cooling tests using SprayCool technology begins at PNNL's data centre |
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ISR, the maker of SprayCool, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have begun the second phase of head-to-head cooling tests designed to evaluate the effectiveness of SprayCool technology versus chilled-air systems.
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| Next generation Linux Supersystems deliver optimum application performance |
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Linux Networx has made available the LS Series. The LS Series makes Linux supercomputing available to a broader range of users thanks to a combination of optimized performance and reduced Total Cost of Ownership. LS Series Supersystems are delivered ready for Performance on Power-up.
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| Paradigm chooses Dell-powered supercomputing cluster for rapid seismic data analysis |
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Paradigm has invested in an efficient high-performance computing cluster of 280 Dell PowerEdge servers. As a global provider of petroleum geoscience technologies to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, Paradigm will use Dell's highly scalable, standards-based computing cluster - comprised of Dell PowerEdge 1850 servers with dual-core Intel Xeon processors - to help reduce seismic processing job completion time and increase job capacity; which is critical to rapidly identifying, modelling and analysing oil and gas reservoirs around the world.
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| Calit2 at UC San Diego selects SGI visualization and storage technology |
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The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), purchased visualization and storage technology from Silicon Graphics for the new Richard C. Atkinson Hall. T
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| IBM sets new industry leading disk and storage virtualization performance benchmarks |
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IBM has submitted performance benchmark results to the Storage Performance Council (SPC) for two of its storage solutions. IBM established a new world record in I/O throughput (IOPS, input-read/output-write requests per second) based on the SPC-1 result submitted for the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The SVC produced 155,519.47 SPC-1 IOPS, which is the fastest SPC-1 result for storage virtualization technology as well as all other storage technologies. The IBM TotalStorage DS8300 produced I/O throughput of 101,101.68 SPC-1 IOPS, which is the fastest SPC-1 result for disk-based enterprise storage.
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| Wyse and Sun Microsystems collaborate to deliver end-to-end, integrated thin computing solutions |
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Wyse Technology, specialized in thin computing, and Sun Microsystems have signed a strategic alliance to deliver end-to-end thin computing solutions. Sun and Wyse will jointly market solutions based on Wyse thin clients and Sun Secure Global Desktop Software (Sun SGDS). The combination of these two market leaders offers enterprise customers broad-scale access to industry leading thin computing solutions, comprising thin clients, server and software infrastructure and services.
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| SC|05 Birds of a Feather session on Compiler Component Reuse and IRs |
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At SC|05 a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session on Compiler Component Reuse and IRs will be held over lunch at noon, Wednesday, November 16, 2005. This BOF will discuss the use of IILs to allow academic researchers to reuse both industry-developed, open source and academically developed compiler components; models for development of the ILLs, interfaces, to the ILL and tools to manipulate and examine programs represented in the ILL; models for academic-industry sharing via ILLs; and alternative models to achieve the goal of compiler component reuse.
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| SC|05 announces HPC Analytics Challenge Finalists |
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HPC Analytics, SC|05's newest initiative, has announced six finalists for its challenge that honours top technical and commercial applications developed from leading-edge, advanced analytics techniques to solve complex, real-world problems. The HPC Analytics Challenge is a unique opportunity for researchers, engineers, and analysts to showcase innovative techniques in rigorous data analysis and high-end visualization to develop and demonstrate applications showcasing powerful analytics techniques for solving complex, real-world problems. Finalists of the HPC Analytics Challenge will convene at SC|05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis on November 12-18.
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| NEC Solutions America to showcase leading high performance computing technologies at Supercomputing 2005 |
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NEC Solutions America will showcase its complete suite of high performance computing (HPC) and supercomputer technologies at Supercomputing 2005.
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| HP ships storage management software that further integrates recently acquired AppIQ technology |
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HP is shipping the next generation of its storage management software for heterogeneous IT environments. HP Storage Essentials 5.0 further incorporates the technology of AppIQ, which HP officially acquired on October 24. Storage Essentials is a key part of the company's strategy to seamlessly unify server and storage management while also integrating HP's management software offerings.
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