HPC products HPC Products PAS 12
The Panasas ActiveStor 12 (PAS 12), fourth-generation storage-blade architecture, features the company’s PanFS parallel fi le system, 64-bit multi-core processing and integrated 10GbE technology, more than doubling performance, moving from 600MB/s to 1.5GB/s per chassis. Aggregate system performance scales to 150GB/s and this parallel performance, combined with a seven times performance increase in NFS access, makes PAS 12 suitable for highly- demanding applications.
Prism XL
SGI has introduced a new product for accelerator-based high-performance computing. Purpose-built to control the scale and speed of accelerators, SGI Prism XL enables users to scale to tens of Pfl ops or large Tfl op range. The heterogeneous platform is built on the company’s new Stix architecture, which is based on a PCIe infrastructure for accelerator deployment, and can deliver up to a petafl op of computing power from a single cabinet, and a 20-petafl op, double-precision deployment in 100 cabinets.
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Each PAS 12 chassis houses 40TB of RAID protected storage, expandable to four Pbytes per system and extensible as drive capacities increase. Performance and capacity easily scale by adding individual blades, chassis or entire racks, without system disruption. A global namespace presents a single pool of virtualised storage, enabling customers to employ multiple applications and workfl ows in a single storage system. Any number of chassis can be networked to create extremely large high-performance storage pools.
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AVS/Express software Advanced Visual Systems will be introducing ultra-high performance editions of its AVS/Express software, which enables rapid, object-oriented development of rich and interactive scientifi c and technical data visualisations. The company is collaborating with Microsoft to support the Windows HPC Server 2008R2 platform and improve data visualisation processing, application performance and ease of confi guration using Microsoft’s provisioning interfaces.
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Portable workstations available with second generation Intel Core processors
NextComputing has announced the addition of the second generation Intel Core processor line-up to its Radius all-in-one portable workstations. With the addition of these latest processors, based on Intel’s newly redesigned micro-architecture, code-named ‘Sandy Bridge’, users can expect greatly improved performance for any processing-intensive application due to numerous design enhancements at the chip level.
Based on Intel’s 32nm process, the ‘Sandy Bridge’ architecture represents
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the next major step in the evolution of Intel micro-architecture. Users can expect better performance at higher clock speeds while consuming less power than the previous generation Intel Core processors. These second generation processors also include an on-die graphics processing unit (GPU), allowing the processor to adjust its performance and power consumption depending on an application’s needs for general purpose processing, graphics, or both.
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DDT version 2.6.1
Allinea Software has announced the availability of Allinea DDT 2.6.1, which supports versions 3.1 and 3.2 of the Nvidia Cuda Toolkit and has been beta tested for some time. This latest version adds support for multiple GPU devices within the same node, in addition to the existing capabilities for debugging clusters of GPU systems. It also supports the latest hardware, with some of the newer features such
as device function call and stepping into and out of nested functions on the Fermi hardware now possible. DDT’s scalable debugging interface includes components that simplify the task of debugging multiple kernels and multiple processes – such as the parallel stack view, which intuitively consolidates the display of host and GPU thread stacks, allowing the user to identify rogue threads or processes.
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SuperFlex Blade
Boston, a distribution partner for Silicon Valley-based Supermcro Computer, has launched its next generation of blade server solutions, the SuperFlex Blade. Designed in partnership with Supermicro, the SuperFlex Blade has been optimised for hybrid computing and provides 2x PCI-Express x 16 expansion slots per blade with support for dual full-length and double-height expansion cards.
r-BriX
Xtreme Compute Technologies (XCT) has announced the availability of its r-BriX line of FPGA-accelerated systems using advanced co-processing hardware from Stone Ridge Technology. The range provides additional and complementary HPC fl exibility to XCT’s a-BriX line of GPU- accelerated products. ‘XCT brings a seasoned team of HPC experts who have
recognised the persistent role that co-processors such as GPUs and FPGAs are playing and will continue to play in the HPC market,’ said Vincent Natoli, president of Stone Ridge Technology. ‘The r-BriX line of products uses our latest FPGA hardware and will have a dramatic impact on performance for applications in bioinformatics.’
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High-performance networking has been improved with two independent, high-bandwidth, low-latency onboard QDR Infi niBand controllers standard. Technologies made available by Intel Xeon 5600 processors have been combined with the latest generation of Nvidia Tesla 2050 and 2070 GPU compute processors for maximum computational performance.
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