HPC NEWS
Contents HPC News
The latest news in
high-performance computing HPC Products
A brief update of the latest HPC software and hardware
Storage plans
Paul Schreier on improving links between storage data and memory
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PRACE calls for one-year project applications
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Stephen Mounsey on the application of HPC technology to astrophysics and cosmology
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, has made its first regular call for those wishing to use PRACE resources with the standard allocation time of one year. The call is aimed at projects wishing to use the HPC system available to researchers through PRACE: the IBM BlueGene/P – Jugene – hosted by the Gauss-Centre member site in Jülich, Germany. Allocation will be for one year starting from 1 November. Jugene offers computation power of one petaflop/s and is Europe’s fastest computer (number five on the latest Top500 list of world’s most powerful computers). The term petaflop/s means computation capability of 10 to the power of 15 floating point operations per second. In this call, a total of 360 million compute core hours is available.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 August. The first PRACE Regular call is intended for large-scale projects of high scientific quality and
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Dona Crawford, associate director for computation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
l Cray has selected the LSI Engenio 2600 storage system for integration with the new Cray
CX1000 supercomputer. l DataDirect Networks’ (DDN) Extreme Storage technology and services are now available as part
of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio. l Allinea’s Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) v2.6 now supports the debugging of optimised code that is produced by the Cray Compiler
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Environment (CCE). l Gaussian, an ongoing collaboration of scientists and academic research groups, has used Portland Group’s PGI
compilers to port a version of its flagship Gaussian 09 product to Intel processor-based Macintosh computers running 64-bit versions
of Mac OS X. l Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Genomics Institute and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary repository for its next- generation DNA sequencing and
analysis workflow. l NEC’s High-Performance Computing Group Europe (NEC HPCE) has supplemented its parallel file system concept, LXFS,
with Raid storage solutions from
Promise Technology. l Supermicro has opened a systems integration logistics centre in the Netherlands to better service
its European customers. l T-Platforms has opened an office in Hannover, signalling its intention to expand into Western Europe. Further plans include offices and technical support infrastructure in the UK, France,
Italy and Spain. l Transtec has announced a deal with Cray that will see the former add the Cray CX1 supercomputing workstation to its portfolio.
for which a significant impact at European and international level is anticipated. High scalability of the code (at least 8,000 compute cores) must be demonstrated. Proposals for project access must be ready to run. The projects must demonstrate scientific excellence and should cover topics of major relevance for European research. They should also include elements of novelty, transformative aspects, have a recognised scientific impact and include a dissemination plan. Possible practical and timely applications resulting from the project are also desirable. The projects should also demonstrate the possibility of achieving results that will be publishable in journals of recognised scientific impact. All proposals will undergo PRACE technical and scientific assessment.
All applicants should expect to be notified of the outcome by the end of October 2010.
ISC10 declared most successful ever
The 2010 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC10) attracted 1,998 registered participants and 151 of the world’s leading supercomputing vendors and research organisations in Hamburg in June.
‘When I started this meeting
as a small workshop in Mannheim back in 1986, I really had no idea that it would become such an important international meeting place for ideas and innovation,’ said ISC general chair Professor Hans Meuer. ‘Just five or six years ago we were hoping to someday attract 500 attendees, and now we are at almost 2,000. Best of all, the increase in attendance has also brought an increase in the energy and enthusiasm of the programme.’
Building on 25 years of
success, ISC Events will host ISC Cloud ’10, a two-day meeting devoted to cloud computing. The meeting will be held 28-29 October at the Marriott Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany.
In 2011, ISC will be held 19- 23 June in Hamburg.
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010
www.scientific-computing.com
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