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    1. Red Sky: Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet

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      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.
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    2. Supercomputing In The Enterprise

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      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.
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    3. SGI Unveils Octane™ III Personal Supercomputer

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      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 and moderate memory capacity, the superior design of the Octane III permits up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance.
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    4. Global Politics Meets The Data Center

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      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 established a joint venture with Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD - news - people ) for its foundry business, now called Globalfoundries.
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    5. Greening Supercomputers

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      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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    6. UK Climate Change Computer Cited as Polluter

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      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 the imagination of the British press, prompting coverage by the BBC, The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Sun.
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    7. Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines

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      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.
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    8. Supercomputers More Power Hungry But More Efficient

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      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
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    9. Report Finds IBM Supercomputers Most Energy Efficient in the World

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      Report Finds IBM Supercomputers Most Energy Efficient in the World
      IBM Dominates Green500; 90 percent of Top20 Energy Efficient Supercomputers Made by IBM, Staggering 57 Percent of Top100 from IBM A new list announced found that IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputers already deemed the most powerful in the world are also the most energy efficient according to the findings of the latest Supercomputing ’Green500 List’ announced by Green500.org. Energy efficiency--including performance per watt for the most computationally demanding workloads--is a core design principle in developing IBM systems. IBM offers the broadest range of generally applicable supercomputers represented on the Green500 List including Blue Gene, Power servers, iDataPlex, BladeCenter and hybrid clusters.
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    10. IBM claims 90% Top 20 Energy Efficient Supercomputers

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      IBM claims 90% Top 20 Energy Efficient Supercomputers
      IBM will release on Monday, July 13 a press release on its energy efficient supercomputers. I don’t have the link yet, but below is the text. Ironically, I just sat down with a person at ARM to discuss energy efficiency and he was mentioning how in 2005 he asked about energy use at a super computing conference, and people would think he was asking a stupid question. It’s great to see the question “how much energy does your supercomputer use?” is now a normal part of a purchase decision. Note this quote below. "Modern supercomputers can no longer focus only on raw performance," said David Turek, vice president, deep computing, IBM. "To be commercially viable these systems most also be energy efficient. IBM has a rich history of innovation that has significantly increased energy efficiency of our systems at all levels of the system that are designed to ...
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    11. IBM and ETH Zurich Unveil Aquasar Video

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      IBM and ETH Zurich Unveil Aquasar Video
      In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today's cooling technologies. Making computing systems and data centers energy-efficient is a staggering undertaking.
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    12. Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater

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      Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater
      Massive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water to keep the system cool and even recycle some of the waste heat to help heat the university where it’s housed. The technology could lead to a reduction in overall energy consumption by at least 40 percent, when compared to similar air-cooled machines, says the company. “Energy is arguably the number one challenge humanity will be facing in the 21st century,” says Dimos Poulikakos, lead investigator of the project. “We cannot afford anymore to design computer systems based on the criterion of computational speed and performance alone.” Supercomputers are used in energy research labs such as Argonne National Laboratory, in space research by NASA and at universities for scientific research, all applications which have ...
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    13. Ibm's Energy Efficient New Supercomputer Cooled by Water

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      Ibm's Energy Efficient New Supercomputer Cooled by Water
      IBM today unveiled a new, first-of-its-kind high-performance computer (HPC) that will use water for cooling, as a way of cutting energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. The new machine, which has been developed with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), is called Aquasar, and the two organizations say it can decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85percent and save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to similar existing systems. Aquasar will begin operations at ETH Zurich in 2010, cutting energy consumption by 40 percent and harnessing the waste heat to warm university buildings. The system will consist of two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack and the company estimates it will have a peak performance of about 10 Teraflops.
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    14. Ten of the Coolest and Most Powerful Supercomputers of All Time

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      Ten of the Coolest and Most Powerful Supercomputers of All Time
      For decades, supercomputers have helped scientists perform calculations that would not have been possible on regular computers of that time. Not only has the construction of supercomputers helped push the envolope of what is possible within the computing field, but the calculations supercomputers have performed for us have helped further both science and technology, and ultimately our lives. This post pays tribute to some of the most powerful supercomputers the world has seen, all the way from the 1970s until today. Cray-1 The first Cray computer was developed by a team lead by the legendary Seymor Cray. It was a freon-cooled 64-bit system running at 80 MHz with 8 megabytes of RAM. Careful use of vector instructions could yield a peak performance of 250 megaflops. Together with its freon cooling system, the first model of the Cray-1 (Cray-1A) weighed 5.5 tons and was delivered to the Los Alamos National ...
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    15. Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility working to get more science per watt

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      ( DOE/Argonne National Laboratory ) Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P -- called Intrepid -- at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient computers in the world, researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility ...
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