Category: Supercomputer

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  1. Cray’s Rack-Mounted Supercomputer

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 9 2010) Supercomputer

    Cray’s Rack-Mounted Supercomputer Cray is one of the most venerable names in supercomputing, but it’s still finding new initiatives. In March Cray announced the launch of the CX1000 system, a “rack-mounted supercomputer” that gives the company a supercomputing solution at every level of the high performance (HPC) server market. in this five-minute video, Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro and Richard Dracott, Intel’s General Manager of High Performance Computing, discuss the introduction of the Cray CX1000 supercomputer and its fit with Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Intel   Cray

  2. New Supercomputer Will Track Climate Change

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 16 2010) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Supercomputer

    New Supercomputer Will Track Climate Change The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) broke ground yesterday on a new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming that will house one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The future NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will be a 171,000 square foot facility in North Range Business Park. Scientists will use the supercomputing center to accelerate research into climate change, examining how it might affect agriculture, water resources, energy use, sea levels and impact on extreme weather events, including hurricanes.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   LEED   US Green Building Council

  3. IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building

    Explore Article Technology News (May 10 2010) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Servers , Supercomputer

    IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building An IBM supercomputer is doubling as a space heater via a technique that reduces energy use by 40 percent and dramatically lowers the overall carbon footprint. Based at Swiss university ETH Zurich and dubbed Aquasar, the liquid-cooled supercomputer went live on Thursday and started analyzing fluid dynamics while simultaneously providing heat for the building. In a typical data center, about half of the energy is used for cooling.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM

  4. Super Guzzlers?

    Explore Article Relocate (Dec 15 2009) Supercomputer

    Super Guzzlers? Environmentally conscious people often support a slower pace of life, with lesser amounts of consumption. Stopping to smell the roses may be great but in the data center industry it could spell disaster for a company. Ergo, enter the monsters of the cyber world – the Supercomputers. On one hand, you need supercomputers to cope up with the necessity to operate faster and faster and crunch through ever- increasing amounts of data and on the other hand, there are mounting concerns about the power required to drive and cool these mammoths. Imagine hot CPUs scrunched together in one small space, ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  5. Do SuperComputers Turn a Green Data Center Gray? By Doug Maloney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 11 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Supercomputer

    Do SuperComputers Turn a Green Data Center Gray? By Doug Maloney Green data center technology and supercomputing aren't two things that go well together, and there's a reason why. Faster computational performance in a densely packed space requires the hottest – literally – CPUs available packed very close together. All that heat requires somewhere to go, which requires cooling and more dollars to the power bill. Exhibit A for this is IBM's Blue Waters supercomputer being built at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, as reported by News.com. The machine is getting its own 88,000 square foot building and be theoretically capable of speeds of 10 petaflops, about 10 times as ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Cray

  6. Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035?

    Explore Article Perspectives (Nov 22 2009) Supercomputer

    Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035? Sometime back I whined that Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) is a seriously abused term: PUE and Total Power Usage Efficiency. But I continue to use it because it gives us a rough way to compare the efficiency of different data centers. It’s a simple metric that takes the total power delivered to a facility (total power) and divides it by the amount of power delivered to the servers (critical power or IT load). A PUE of 1.35 is very good today. Some datacenter owners have claimed to be as good as 1.2. Conventionally designed data centers operated conservatively are in ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Norway   IBM   James Hamilton

  7. Fast and Fierce: 5 Awesome Supercomputers

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 19 2009) Supercomputer

    Fast and Fierce: 5 Awesome Supercomputers The top supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. Here’s a look at the top finishers in the latest Top 500 list, their specs, and some cool photos.

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  8. Red Sky: Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 17 2009) Supercomputer

    Red Sky: Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet The new Red Sky supercomputer as Sandia National Laboratories just debuted as the 10th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, with a sustained performance of 429.9 teraflops. Red Sky consists of 68 cabinets of Sun Constellation gear, with up to 96 nodes and 678 cores per rack. Each cabinet can each require up to 32 kilowatts of energy at full load. But the system is notable not just for its power, but for its energy efficiency. Red Sky has an estimated Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.035.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sun Microsystems

  9. Supercomputing In The Enterprise

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Sep 28 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers , Supercomputer

    Supercomputing In The Enterprise Virtualization and cloud computing sound logical enough on paper, but exactly how do you get there from here and what sorts of problems can you encounter along the way? These questions have already been answered by the supercomputing world, where a select few have been wrestling with these problems for years--usually with huge government grants and budgets that dwarf the resources of even the best-equipped corporate data centers. In an ironic twist, that approach to computing is now being used to save money.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Forbes   Gartner

  10. SGI Unveils Octane™ III Personal Supercomputer

    Explore Article Press Release Distribution Services (Sep 27 2009) Servers , Supercomputer

    SGI Unveils Octane™ III Personal Supercomputer FREMONT, Calif. — SGI® (NASDAQ: SGI) announced the immediate availability of Octane™ III, the company’s first personal supercomputer. This new product takes high-performance computing to a new level by combining the immense power and performance capabilities of a high-performance deskside cluster with the portability and usability of a workstation. The Octane III is uniquely suited for workplace environments and supports a vast range of distributed technical computing applications. Octane III is office-ready with a pedestal, one-by-two-foot form factor, whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. While a typical workstation has only eight cores ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Interactive Data Corporation   Intel

  11. Global Politics Meets The Data Center

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Sep 14 2009) Supercomputer

    Global Politics Meets The Data Center Why CIOs should take note of a seemingly insignificant chip maker acquisition. The proposed purchase of Chartered Semiconductor, a Singapore-based semiconductor foundry, by a Middle Eastern investment group may sound far removed from the everyday buzz of the data center and the CIO's world, but reality may prove to be quite different. Just to set the stage, Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC) is wholly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. It has a subsidiary known as ATIC International Investment Co., which is the group buying Chartered. If the name sounds unfamiliar, think of it as the same company that ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   IBM

  12. Greening Supercomputers

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 3 2009) Supercomputer

    Greening Supercomputers Are powerful supercomputers hopelessly un-green? Last week the UK Meteorological Office made headlines when it was cited as one of the country’s worst polluters, primarily due to the energy requirements of a supercomputer used to predict climate change. This week HPC Wire examines the challenges in greening supercomputer installations, which have escalated as these machines have gotten faster and more powerful, and looks at solutions from Nvidia using programmable graphic processing units (GPUs) to find a balance of power and energy efficiency in case studies at Temple University, Hess Corporation and BNP Paribas.

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  13. UK Climate Change Computer Cited as Polluter

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 28 2009) Carbon Footprint , Supercomputer

    UK Climate Change Computer Cited as Polluter In one of the most vivid examples yet of the ”headline risk” posed by IT energy usage, the UK Meteorological Office has been cited as one of the country’s worst polluters - primarily because of its use of a powerful IBM supercomputer used to predict climate change. The Met Office’s headquarters building in Devon came in 103rd in a list of 28,259 public buildings responsible for the highest carbon footprint in the UK. While the agency was not near the top of the list, the alignment of a poor carbon profile with technology designed to track climate change has captured ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM

  14. Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines

    Explore Article Government Computer News (Aug 6 2009) Supercomputer

    Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines Computer scientists at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted one million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer. The researchers, Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, hope to use their million virtual-machine network to better understand how botnets operate. A million virtual machine is the largest number that has ever been spun up on a single system, to the best of the researchers' knowledge. Previously, they were only able to boot 20,000 virtual instances at once.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Energy Department

  15. Supercomputers More Power Hungry But More Efficient

    Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 15 2009) Servers , Supercomputer

    Supercomputers More Power Hungry But More Efficient Machines are using more energy but using it more efficiently claim computer researchers and makers including IBM The compilers of a list of top 500 most energy efficient supercomputers claim that although the machines are actually consuming more energy than before they are actually doing it in a more efficient way. According to the Green500 list, updated regularly throughout the year, average efficiency has increased by 10 percent between the publication of the 4th edition of the list in November 2008 and the 5th edition in June 2009

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   IBM

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