Imagine being able to access information from a remote source with almost the same speed as a storage device within a computer. While the speed of light will always provide limits to the speed and apparent latency of data access from a distance it will be possible to build computer architectures that can use resources, including digital storage, that are located far away from the user and that ...
Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? This video from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explores what FLOP means for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing. It also gives an overview of trends in supercomputing and how they impact this measure of computing speed.
Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? This video from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explores what FLOP means for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing. It also gives an overview of trends in supercomputing and how they impact this measure of computing speed.
The Week in Review: A closer look at two powerful supercomputers, Blue Waters and the ALMA Correlator, Internap is best-perfoming data center stock in the first quarter, how storage is shaping the evolution of cloud infrastructure.
Less than two years after a reboot to switch vendors, one of America’s most ambitious supercomputing projects has gone live. The $350 million Blue Waters supercomputer, which was dedicated last week at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was envisioned as the new frontier in American supercomputing technology.
There is lots of press around that the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is being turned off. First Petaflop Supercomputer, 'Roadrunner,' Decommissioned
In its first days of operation, the new Stampede system at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) debuted as the world's seventh-fastest supercomputer. But there's plenty more power in the pipeline.
Cray announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade and expand its Cray XC30 supercomputer. Cirrascale and Penguin also unveil news on GPU technologies.
This video gives an overview of JuQueen, a new supercomputer recently unveiled at a research center in Juelich, Germany, which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second.
The "big data" community will get a global ranking system for data applications. The BigData Top 100 will create a counterpart to the Top500, the supercomputing rankings that have generated enormous interest in high performance. Charter members of the group include Facebook and Google.
The Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem — he prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine.
The Encanto supercomputer, which was the third-fastest system in the world in 2008, has been repossessed by the state of New Mexico and will likely be sold for parts to three universities, local media reported last week.
Rolling out news ahead of the SC12 supercomputing conference, Cray announced the launch of the its next generation Cray XC30 supercomputer, and said it has acquired Appro for $25 million.
Appro introduced the new Appro Xtreme-Cool Supercomputer, which features an energy-efficient design using warm water liquid-cooling heat exchangers and no chillers.
Over the years, we’ve seen data centers in lots of strange places – old chapels, shopping malls, old particle accelerator silos and all kinds of underground bunkers. Proposals have been floated for containers in caves, data centers on floating barges and servers mounted on hovering drones. Now a researcher has come up with an out-of-this-world computing challenge – building a supercomputer on the moon.
The main data center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee powers some of the world’s most advanced data-crunching to support research in weather, climate science, quantum physics. The Department of Energy plans to deploy an Exascale computing system here by 2018.
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is on the frontier of supercomputing, forging a path toward "exascale" computing. The data center houses three of the world's most powerful supercomputers, including a machine that looms as the once and future king of the supercomputing realm.
HP and Intel are using Xeon processors and ProLiant servers to build an energy-efficient supercomputer system
During the month of June, stories about supercomputers, Stephen Hawking and downtime for Amazon’s cloud were among the top items that interested Data Center Knowledge readers. Also, Facebook’s data center designs, such as those for servers and racks, continued to be a leading topic on our site. Here are the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for June 2012, ranked by page views: Top 10 Supercomputers Illustrated – June 18 Hawking is First User of SGI ‘Big Brain’ Supercomputer – June 14 Video: Amazing LEGO Data Center – June 14 Seven Cloud Computing Trends – Part 1 – June 4 Amazon Data Center Loses Power During Storm – June 30 More Problems for Amazon EC2 Cloud – June 29 Power Outage Affects Amazon Customers – June 15 Closer Look: Facebook’s New Server, Storage Designs – June 27 Netflix Rolls Out Its Own Content Delivery Network – June 27 eBay: Bloom Boxes Will Power Utah Data Center ...
National High Performance Computing (HPC) organisations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland have pooled resources and powered up an innovative joint supercomputer in Iceland. It is innovative not so much for its technology, but for its concept, placement and operations. The supercomputer is hosted in the Advania Thor Data Center in Iceland, a new environmentally friendly “green” data center. The computer is part of a pilot initiative aiming to test remote hosting, such that computing is brought to the energy source and not vice versa, as is the norm, thereby introducing substantial savings. Further aims are to understand the political, organizational and technical aspects of joint ownership, administration and operation of such expensive and strategic infrastructure. Read more: http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/04/20/innovative-nordic-supercomputer-in-iceland/#ixzz1snJVlVlr
Last week, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) broke ground on a facility that will house its vision for the supercomputer of the future. The 140,000 square foot data center will overlook the San Francisco Bay on a hill above the UC Berkeley campus. It may also provides the first view into exascale – the new frontier for supercomputing. Planning for supercomputers that can surpass current petaflop levels to exaFLOPS (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Floating Point Operations per Second ), the U.S. Department of Energy has recognized that energy consumption for powering that compute load is a particular challenge.