High-Performance Computing

ClearSpeed Technology has released the ClearSpeed Accelerated Terascale System (CATS). This small format system, taking up just 1U in a standard server rack, delivers up to one Teraflop of performance.

Nvidia has released a new version of its C-compiler for GPU programming, Cuda 1.1. This latest version of the Cuda software suite includes support for 64-bit Windows XP.

Ecoserver from GPU-Tech is a workstation based on graphics processing units (GPUs) that is cheap, powerful and eco-friendly. Ecoserver consumes almost 10 times less energy than equivalent CPU solutions.

Tech-X has released FastDL v2.4, a software framework that enables parallel computations with IDL from ITT Visual Information Solutions. The new release improves both the performance and robustness of FastDL.

Interactive Supercomputing is to release Version 2.6 of Star-P at SC07. The software is compatible with Windows Vista, and includes hundreds of new mathematical functions with parallel file I/O.

Wolfram Research has released gridMathematica 2.2, to extend the benefits of version 6 of Mathematica for computing clusters and grids.

Unicore 6 is a software stack with extensible service-oriented architecture for grid computing. It provides seamless and secure access to resources, with simple deployment and straightforward support for adding new applications.

The CodeQuest biocomputing workstation from TimeLogic makes use of field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to provide high-performance computing for 454 data analysis, oligo mapping and comparative metagenomics.

NVidia has introduced the new Quadro Plex Visual Computing System Model S4, a graphics server featuring more graphics processing units (GPUs) in a standard 1U server form factor.