HPC NEWS
European Grid Initiative established
A new organisation that will support the sustainable future development of leading- edge, collaborative scientific computing has been established following the signing of legal documents in Amsterdam. The European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu) will coordinate a European-wide grid computing infrastructure on behalf of its participants (national and community specific resource providers) that will enable scientists across Europe to carry out collaborative research projects within Europe and internationally.
EGI.eu was formally created in Dutch law on 8 February 2010. The director of the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) e-Science department, Dr Neil Geddes, said: ‘Grid computing is already having an incredible impact on how scientists are carrying out research into highly complex problems. Scientists from five countries used grid-powered software to screen more than 80,000 drug-like molecules an hour for their ability to disable a crucial malaria protein. In just ten weeks, the Wisdom project
completed the equivalent of 420 years of work, producing a shortlist of just 30 promising drug leads.’
Dr Bob Jones, EGEE director, said: ‘It is great to see this distributed computing infrastructure for researchers in Europe being established, and it is a fitting culmination of the work of EGEE.’
EGI.eu will not own or operate any computers, but will co-ordinate clusters of computers in more than 50 countries through national centres called National Grid Initiatives (NGI).
Michelin uses visualisation to develop tyre range
Data is recovered from the
Michelin has developed dedicated tyre analysis software solutions using Open Inventor from VSG. These solutions need to be very interactive and the visualisation of 3D nonlinear data must be accurate to validate design solutions.
Michelin Finite Element Analysis (FEA) post-processing tools have been developed using the Open Inventor by VSG library. It provides advantages such as: the
HPC Products
Eurotech has released the DuraNAS 1000, a rugged network attached storage (NAS) solution for harsh environment applications. The DuraNAS 1000 provides reliable high capacity Network Attached Storage (NAS) to IP-based systems installed on rolling stocks as well as in all applications where a rugged device designed for harsh environments is required.
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Cray’s CX1 deskside
supercomputers are now available with the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series, which accelerate performance and save energy.
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With the addition of the new Intel Xeon processor series, the Cray CX1 now features an Intel Core microarchitecture built on the company’s latest 32nm process technology. The new microarchitecture features two more compute cores per socket (from four to six cores) while maintaining the same thermal footprint.
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SGI has announced the availability of its Cyclone service, which it claims is the world’s first large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service dedicated to technical applications. The Cyclone service initially supports
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a number of leading application partners and five technical domains, including computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, computational chemistry and materials, computational biology and ontologies.
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Boston has unveiled its latest GP ioServer range of servers that have been designed to take advantage of the latest developments in persistent and intelligent memory technologies. Designed in partnership with Supermicro and Fusion-IO, Boston GP ioServers solve the fundamental problem of
slow application performance by bridging the latency gap between high performance CPUs, GPUs and physical disk drives.
www.boston.co.uk
Microway, a supplier of high-end Linux clusters, servers, and data storage solutions, is now delivering to its WhisperStation customers an easy-to-use tool for rapidly solving scientific and engineering problems. The WhisperStation-PSC bundle integrates AccelerEyes’ Jacket GPU computing software platform with the purchase of a WhisperStation workstation.
www.microway.com
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availability of advanced modules‚ e.g. MeshViz XLM; heterogeneous platform compatibility (Unix, Linux, Windows); C++ API, and a support team and training programme.
Open Inventor technology is fully integrated in Michelin simulation software. It offers sophisticated visualisation capabilities for in-depth post- processing and exploration of nonlinear simulation results.
FEA solver result database and displayed by selecting a region of interest in the tyre, either in 3D or 2D space. (See feature on page 26 for further examples using visualisation).
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Saab turns to cloud-based HPC platform
Saab Automobile (Sweden) is using a cloud-based HPC platform from Gridcore, following the former’s split from parent company General Motors.
During the summer of 2009,
Saab Automobile, located in Trollhättan (Sweden) contacted Gridcore AB in order to address Saab’s need for new HPC. Gridcore offered Saab Gompute Gridcore’s HPC cloud solution that addressed Saab’s requirements and needs. Since November 2009, Gompute has been providing Saab Automobile engineers with a turnkey dedicated HPC on-demand solution together with complete support from Gridcore’s technical personnel. Gompute minimises capital investment costs while at the same time allowing Saab to enlarge its simulation capacity flexibly without unnecessary overhead costs. Using the Gompute advanced user interface, Saab’s engineers are able to run remotely and post-process simulations ranging from crash analysis and flow dynamics to combustion.
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