http://www.linuxhpc.org Linux High Performance Computing, HPC and Clusters Portal en-us http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/07/01/6096588 Following the recent release of the 31st edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers (TOP500.org), Cluster Resources announced that of the 2.4 million processors on the new Top500 list, more than 23 percent are on Moab-licensed systems, reflecting a 30 percent increase over the previous list, released in November 2007. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/07/01/7524913 Scalable Informatics celebrates 6 years in business with a 6% sale on hardware products purchased in July 2008. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/07/01/4921107 Terra Soft Solutions of Loveland, Colorado and Argo Graphics of Tokyo, Japan today announce a collaborative effort to bring enterprise level support to Linux for Power architecture systems in Japan, with immediate support for the IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz based QS22 blade and the IBM Cell SDK. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/07/01/3616234 Many HPC applications scale poorly when migrating to multicore systems, often running far below expected performance. Finding the cause of the problem is often a lot harder than fixing it. This technical white paper by Professor Erik Hagersten shows how developers can now directly identify and eliminate many of the multicore performance bottlenecks in application code without requiring a deep understanding of the system’s processor, cache and memory sub-system. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/30/7416561 iTWire: A hybrid supercomputer built by IBM for the UD Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration more than doubles the speed of Blue Gene, previously the world's fastest. And it does so with the aid of the processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/26/3844564 AMAX launches one of the world’s 200 fastest supercomputers. This supercomputer represents a new generation of high-performance computing (HPC) platform that is based on the energy efficient Intel quad core Xeon processing technology, providing customers with highly available, scalable, and low power consumption HPC architecture. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/25/9979830 Europe’s Top Scientists to Use TotalView Debugger to Streamline Application Development on High-Performance Computing Platforms http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/23/1008933 Roadrunner, the world’s First Petaflop HPC System, Meets High-Scalability Workload-Management Needs with Cluster Resources’ Moab Workload Manager. http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/23/8550711 Call for Presentations/Participation
Event: Bioinformatics to Systems Biology 2008
Date: July 14, 2008, 15:00-17:00 GMT http://www.linuxhpc.org/stories.php?story=08/06/19/0146548 This week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, LSI introduced a new flagship storage system specifically designed for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The next-generation Engenio 7900 HPC storage system delivers the highest levels of data availability and very high performance across mixed HPC workloads resulting in maximum computational efficiency. To learn more about the system, LinuxHPC.org interviewed Steve Hochberg, senior director, HPC segment, LSI Corporation .