John Barr looks into his crystal ball to see what is in store for HPC in the course of this year
Open-E has announced its latest version of Open-E Data Storage Software (DSS) V7
Silicon Mechanics has announced that it now offers the NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerator, the worlds fastest accelerator, as part of its GPU Solutions product line
LSI has announced its Axxia multicore family of network communication processors and accelerators now include big endian BE8 mode support for the latest version of Wind River Linux
LSI has announced a collaboration with EMC, Mellanox and Supermicro to offer a high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance for VMware Horizon View deployments
PGI, a suite of high-performance parallelising compilers and development tools, now features support for the latest version of the OpenACC programming standard on accelerator platforms
Boxx Technologies, a provider of high-performance workstations and rendering systems, has announced three new products
Supermicro is shipping new single, dual and quad socket G34 motherboards and server solutions with the latest AMD Opteron 6300 series processors
IBM has announced the sixth generation of its enterprise X-Architecture for System x and PureSystems servers
ArrayFire has announced the release of ArrayFire v2.0
As not only the HPC industry but the larger computing ecosystem tries to overcome the slowdown and eventual end of transistor scaling described by Moore’s Law, scientists and researchers are implementing programmes that will define the technologies and new materials needed to supplement, or repla
Architectural specialisation is one option to continue to improve performance beyond the limits imposed by the slow down in Moore’s Law.
As the complexity of both HPC hardware and the challenges that scientists are trying to solve using HPC systems increases, ensuring a system is utilised efficiently is necessary to deliver a computing service with value for money and a high research output.
With data rates increasing and more complex challenges arising in life sciences, Panasas’ Jim Donovan and Dale Brantly discuss the benefits of using HPC for these workloads
