compute.org.za
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Industrial Computing
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AMD's new vs Intel's new
A simple view on one HPC test comparing AMD and Intel's new hardware. http://www.advancedclustering.com/company-blog/high-performance-linpack-on-xeon-5500-v-opteron-2400.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/25/act_super_duke_out/ High Performance Linpack on Xeon 5500 v. Opteron 2400 Written by Shane Corder - Cluster Engineer Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:23 This year has brought big advances to the CPU industry with the arrival
Cluster efficiency
Just some feedback on the need for IB interconnects in certain clustering applications. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/mellanox_infiniband_switches/page2.html "While generalizing a bit, Monson says that the increase in speed and bandwidth of the InfiniBand protocol has not only allowed parallel supercomputer clusters to scale out, it has also allowed them to run more
Is Washington ready for cloud computing?
CNET and Cloud spec The financial downturn, momentum from the private sector, and a new Web-savvy administration have come together to create the perfect climate for government adoption of cloud computing, said software as a service vendors, federal information technology purchasers, and others at a cloud-computing conference here Wednesday.
Folding@home Tops 5 Petaflops
HPC Wire reports Last week, the Folding@home team reported that they achieved five petaflops of processing power for their popular protein folding research project, which relies on processor cycles contributed by hundreds of thousands of people. That's more processing power than can be found at any single US
A Look Inside the Data Centers of "The Cloud"
A lovely article on massive data centres and their issues. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all slide show: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/06/14/magazine/20090614-search-slideshow_index.html Data Center Overload By TOM VANDERBILT Published: June 8, 2009 It began with an Xbox game. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Simon Norfolk/NB Pictures, for The New York Times Known for its
Web creator job 'beyond politics'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator job 'beyond politics'This is teh way you manage ICT policy... Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been asked to open up access to government data Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC that the job he has been given by Gordon Brown is an
PGI X64+GPU FORTRAN & C99 COMPILERS
IEEE webinar: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT/ 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour) Until now, C and C++ developers targeting GPU accelerators have had to rely on language extensions to their programs. Use of GPUs from Fortran applications has been extremely limited.
SOFTWARE STANDARDS FOR THE MULTICORE ERA
Systems architects commonly use multiple cores to improve system performance. unfortunately, multicore hardware is evolving faster than software technologies. new multicore software standards are necessary in light of the new challenges and capabilities that embedded multicore systems provide. The newly released multicore communications api standard targets small-footprint, highly efficient
First Look At Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
Slashdot "InfoWorld's Martin Heller takes VS2010 Beta 1 for a test drive and finds the upgrade promising, particularly with regard to improved thread debugging and a revamped UI. But the biggest enhancements have to do with parallel programming, Heller writes. 'I'm not sure that I've completely grasped the
Systems Engineering on the SKA and MeerKAT projects
Hi everyone, Just a reminder that the RSVP deadline for this meeting is today (2/6/2009) at 12:00. INCOSE Western Cape Chapter Meeting: Systems Engineering on the SKA and MeerKAT projects: Thomas Küsel Date:
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