HPC NEWS
French Atomic Energy Commission solves storage problems
The Military Applications Division (DAM) of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has installed LSI storage system technology in its petaflop-scale data centre, which hosts the Tera 100 supercomputer. With theoretical processing power of 1.25 petaflops, Tera 100 is among the most powerful supercomputers ever designed and developed in Europe. The implementation of LSI storage technology at CEA/ DAM is part of a partnership between LSI and Bull. The CEA, a government-funded research organisation, initiated a programme with Bull in 2008 designed to extend the data centre capability of the Tera 100 supercomputing centre.
HPC Products
l Colfax International has launched a low-cost 10 Gigabit Ethernet Value Bundle, which includes a 10GigE Fujitsu switch, Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN adapter cards and Mellanox copper cables.
www.colfaxdirect.com l SGI has released
InfiniteStorage 5000, a RAID storage system that combines leading edge hardware with a choice of interfaces and drive technologies in a powerful external storage platform. This system provides advanced features and configuration flexibility to accommodate a broad selection of data store requirements with mid-range performance at entry- level affordability.
www.sgi.com l NextIO has released the vCore C200 GPU Consolidation Appliance, a product that brings enterprise-class features to a
GPU compute platform. NextIO’s vCore C200 delivers serviceability, manageability and flexibility to today’s GPU farms through increased server uptime and reduced GPU over-provisioning.
www.nextio.com l Boston, a distribution partner for Super Micro Computer, has introduced a new range of high performance compute solutions, including the Venom line of professional workstations and servers, which incorporate up to four C2050 cards; together making a total of 1,792 processing cores available.
www.boston.co.uk l Ateji has released Ateji PX for Java, a software package that enables application developers to write parallel programs, allowing them to make use of the full performance of multi-core architectures.
www.ateji.com/px
Mechdyne has introduced Cluster Boss, a secure cluster administration tool that provides administrators with single-point control of all nodes of visualisation clusters. The Windows-based administration tool includes the application resources to manage clusters of practically any size easily.
www.mechdyne.com l Scapos has introduced GPI (Global Address Space Programming Interface), a new interface for application development for multicore architectures, which implements the PGAS (Partitioned Global Address Space) programming model.
www.scapos.com l Caps Enterprise has released version 2.3 of its HMPP directive- based hybrid compiler. It also features an enhanced Cuda back- end, as well as support for more
native compilers, such as Intel ifort/icc, GNU gcc/gfortran and PGI pgcc/pgfort.
www.caps-entreprise.com l Adaptive Computing has released Moab Viewpoint, a next-generation self-service web portal, which includes capabilities at private cloud creation and management from enterprise data centres to HPC customers and environments.
www.adaptivecomputing.com l PBS Works, a division of Altair Engineering, has introduced PBS Works 10.4, its suite of on- demand computing technologies that allows customers to streamline workload management, allowing easy creation of intelligent policies for managing distributed, mixed-vendor computing assets, including applications, as a single unified system.
www.pbsworks.com
SGI partners with Irish HPC centre to provide GPGPU services
The Irish Centre for High- End Computing (ICHEC) is working with SGI to provide consultancy services for General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) based applications. ICHEC will work exclusively with SGI to enable institutions and businesses to accelerate the development of applications that utilise GPGPU systems. Although traditionally associated with gaming applications, the integration of graphics processing for other applications is a rapidly emerging trend. Having largely benefited intensive scientific computing to date, more general-purpose use of
GPU technology is expected to provide solutions to a much broader range of disciplines. Founded in 2005, ICHEC was established as a national high performance computing (HPC) provider with offices in Dublin and Galway, Ireland. Its team of system administrators and computational scientists work with researchers to support the development of internationally competitive computational modelling and research across a variety of disciplines and institutions. In the past year, ICHEC has established a significant team of researchers focused primarily on porting applications on GPGPU architecture.
Swedish technology centre invests in supercomputing system
Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology has ordered a Cray XT6m supercomputing system for its PDC Center for High Performance Computing. The acquisition is part of a national plan by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) to provide Sweden’s scientists with access to world-class high performance computing resources. The Cray XT6m supercomputer, which uses the new 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor, will support scientists in a wide range of disciplines, including computational chemistry, bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, computational fluid dynamics and other areas.
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SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010
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