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Bionimbus Applies Cloud Power to Genetic Data-Crunching
May 16th, 2013 : John Rath
An ambitious project at the University of Chicago aims to lead the nation in biomedical computation, by making the region the largest hub in the world for genetic and medical information. At the forefront of the effort is Bionimbus, an open source cloud-based system for managing, analyzing and sharing genomic data. Read More
Cray Offers Air-Cooled Version of its XC30 Supercomputer
May 9th, 2013 : John Rath
Cray announced a new addition to its XC30 systems, with the XC30-AC (air-cooled) supercomputer. The new model includes all of the advanced high performance computing (HPC) technologies offered in the Cray XC30 system, and features aggressive price points intended to attract a new a class of HPC users -- the technical enterprise. Read More
USPS Leverages Big Data To Fight Fraud
May 1st, 2013 : John Rath
As it processes more than 528 million pieces of mail each day, the USPS has become an active participant in the big data revolution, and operates one of the most powerful non-classified supercomputing databases in the world. Read More
What is a FLOP?
April 29th, 2013 : Colleen Miller
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. Read More
NREL To Use Hot Water Cooling From Asetek
April 10th, 2013 : John Rath
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Lab will be installing Asetek RackCDU (Rack Coolant Distribution Unit) direct-to-chip liquid cooling system in its new data center at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado. Read More
Blue Waters Supercomputer Debuts At 11.6 Petaflops
April 2nd, 2013 : John Rath
Pushing into a new frontier in the field of U.S. supercomputing with 11.6 petaflops of power, the $350 million Blue Waters supercomputer was dedicated last week at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The Cray supercomputer is made up of over 300 cabinets, with 25,000 nodes, over 380,000 cores, aided by more than 3,000 NVIDIA GPU’s, and has over 25 Petabytes of usable storage. Read More
Univa Adds Intel Phi Support to Resource Management Platform
April 1st, 2013 : John Rath
Data center automation company Univa, announced the release of Univa Grid Engine Version 8.1.4 with 46 new updates, and enhanced support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors. Read More
In Texas, A Stampede of Petaflops
March 28th, 2013 : John Rath
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. Read More
80 Million Hours of Digital Rendering Produce “The Croods”
March 28th, 2013 : John Rath
DreamWorks' latest movie, "The Croods,"pushed the boundaries of high-performance workloads, requiring more than 80 million render hours to generate visual images from 3-D models. Read More