SHOW PREVIEW: SC10
Supercomputing stateside
Warren Clark previews some of the exhibits at SC10, which takes place from 13-19 November in New Orleans, USA
Among the exhibitors at this year’s
supercomputing conference
(exhibition dates are 15 to 18 November) is Accelize, a company providing full- hardware accelerator cards. The cards allow software designers to significantly accelerate the performance-critical portions of their applications, with only a fraction of the power budget. With no alteration to the original application software, algorithms can be alternatively tested on the server and deployed on the accelerator card or cluster, either locally or remotely, allowing instant algorithm updates and dramatic performance improvement. Accelize next-generation ANSI C compiler (HCE) is a key component of the acceleration platform that enables seamless compilation of algorithmic software into configurable hardware.
Accelize accelerators are particularly suited for applications in bio-informatics, molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, electromagnetics and electrodynamics, weather, atmospheric and ocean modelling, and other scientific computing domains.
www.accelize.com
Amax will be unveiling its ClusterMax parallel storage cluster solution. ClusterMax represents a next-generation parallel storage platform
based on the Intel Sandy Bridge processor and latest InfiniBand QDR technology. The storage solution can scale to hundreds
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of petabytes and utilises a massive parallel file system to achieve extremely high data throughput.
ClusterMax was designed to work with large-scale HPC cluster deployments and state-of-the-art supercomputer systems that require solutions for storage to support the massive data sets typical of scientific research. With this peta-scale storage platform, Amax is now capable of deploying large-scale HPC clusters to up to thousands of CPU cores.
www.amaxit.com
Boston will unveil a GPGPU solution based on its SuperFLEXGPU architecture, designed for hybrid-based computing. For 19 years, Boston has offered the latest in high-performance power optimised server, storage and HPC technologies. Boston deliver solutions to the oil and gas, financial services, R&D, digital content creation, and enterprise arenas based on its range of power optimised platforms. Boston have a high level of expertise in optimising CPU and GPU compute technologies combined with platforms including Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Lustre parallel storage solutions and Nvidia’s Cuda. These alliances deliver the best solution for HPC and assure scalability, compatibility and flexibility. The company’s CPU compute platforms support the latest AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon multicore processors in addition to Intel’s Itanium 2-based technologies with true 64-bit architecture.
www.boston.co.uk
Bull will be exhibiting its family of servers designed for extreme computing:
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bullx. HPC users have extremely diverse requirements, and are increasingly searching for hybrid solutions to cover the widest possible spread of applications. Bull has long recognised this need, and has been gradually building a range of solutions that includes thin nodes (bullx blade system), fat nodes (bullx supernodes) and accelerators (bullx accelerator blades with integrated Nvidia Fermi GPUs). They can all be combined with each other in a customised way, and managed as a single system using the bullx supercomputer suite. The bullx blades and supernodes have been designed and developed entirely by Bull’s R&D group, Europe’s largest team of HPC experts. Many prestigious companies and research centres have chosen Bull Extreme Computing solutions, ranging from small departmental clusters to petaflops-scale supersystems.
www.bull.com
CAPS will be demonstrating HMPP Wizard and HMPP Feedback, new tools that help developers tuning their HMPP
generated code for GPU hybrid systems. HMPP Feedback and Wizard provide users with code diagnoses and optimisation advice to improve the performance of their HMPP applications step-by-step. New compatibility with debugging and profiling tools will also enable users to analyse the behaviour of HMPP application and detect errors.
www.caps-enterprise.com
Cray will showcase the new Cray XE6 supercomputer and the latest addition to the Cray CX line – the Cray CX1000 system. The Cray XE6 supercomputer
www.scientific-computing.com
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