High-Performance Computing

A pre-release version of Allinea Software's Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) for the Cuda architecture is now available to selected end-user customers

Avago Technologies has introduced its AFBR-79Q4xACyyZ QSFP+ high performance integrated active optical cable (AOC) and transceiver for short range Infiniband and Ethernet applications

Super Micro Computer has introduced its TwinBlade product, the latest addition to its SuperBlade family of blade servers packing 20 dual-processor compute nodes into a 7U enclosure

The SFA10000E Open Storage Appliance is the first product from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to feature its new file-system hosting feature, enabled by its Storage Fusion Architecture

Nvidia has unveiled its Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the HPC market, based on its new generation Cuda processor architecture, codenamed Fermi

Luxtera has introduced its low-power 40G active optical cable (AOC), Blazar, which saves more than 30 per cent in energy consumption when compared to competing products, improving data centre power consumption and thermal efficiency

Platform Computing has introduced the Platform Application Centre, a new product that enables HPC end users to submit and manage various HPC applications easily via a web-based portal interface

CAPS has released a new HMPP CAL/IL code generator to accelerate applications using AMD graphics processors, broadening the companies range of supported hardware accelerators

The Portland Group has released PGI 2010, the latest release of its high-performance parallelising compilers and development tools for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows

The Cray CX1-iWS combines a powerful MS Windows 7 workstation with a fully-integrated HPC cluster running MS Windows HPC Server 2008. It will be sold via Dell