Supercomputing

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: Supercomputing

Cray's supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) upgraded (doubled) its performance to 119 teraflops - putting it number 2 on the world's Top 500 list of supercomputers:

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1370386.html

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveils "Kracken" - a new supercomputer that would run alongside "Jaguar," the second fastest supercomputer in the world capable of a peak capability of 1.6 petaflops:

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/12/26/3878860.htm

HenryTo · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:06 am Post subject:

Virginia Tech tries to stimulate the lives of America's 300 million citizens with a supercomputer:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/dec08/7051

Note that the machine is relatively puny by today's standards:

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008&itemno=745

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

The democratization of supercomputing is finally here - as Nvidia releases the Tesla in the UK and as Dell promises to mass produce them for the consumer market:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/3564435/Worlds-first-personal-supercomputer-unveiled.html

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:09 am Post subject:

Renault F1 replaces the wind tunnel with a 38 teraflop supercomputer. Also partners with Boeing Phantom Works develop computational fluid dynamics tools:

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/12/01/319584/boeing-phantom-works-races-to-develop-computational-fluid-dynamics-tools-with-renault.html

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject:

The real innovation in the supercomputing field that everyone should be talking about:

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120741

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:

Latest "Top 500 list" just released:

http://www.top500.org/lists/2008/11/press-release

Some highlights:

HenryTo · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:52 am Post subject:

Cray XT "Jaguar" supercomputer and Roadrunner in a race to secure the top position in the new "Top 500" list to be released next week. Note that the new number 2 will have ten times the computing power of the former number 2 just 18 months ago, as can be seen in the first post of this thread:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120142&intsrc=hm_list

HenryTo · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:28 am Post subject:

We now have a new number one on our hands - in the form of Cray XT "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212001621

HenryTo · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

6th fastest supercomputer in the most unlikely of places: Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:32am EDT

By Asma Alsharif

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world's largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due to open next year on the Red Sea coast near Jeddah, the most liberal city in a country where religious conservatives have extensive control over society.

Inside the campus, male and female students will be able to mingle freely, contrary to strict gender segregation enforced in most of the country. The university is part of a series of reforms by King Abdullah aiming to open the country up.

"The supercomputer is the cornerstone of this knowledge-based economy that we are seeking," said Majid Al-Ghaslan, in charge of the acquisition, design and development of the "Shaheen" supercomputer.

Named after the peregrine falcon, which reaches speeds of up to 340 kilometers per hour, Shaheen is expected to reach 222 teraflops, a measure equaling a trillion floating point operations per second, Ghaslan said. This will make it sixth most powerful computer in the world.

Shaheen will be able to simulate the Red Sea environment and model oil fields in three dimensions.

Although Saudi Arabia has immense financial resources as the world's biggest oil exporter, the parameters of school and university education are governed by religious strictures and many subjects are even off-limits for women to study.

The new university will offer research in biosciences and bioengineering, material sciences and engineering, applied mathematics and computational sciences.

With a $10 billion donation to its endowment from King Abdullah, it is able to lure experts from around the globe with the promise of almost unlimited funding for research work.

"KAUST is a remarkable addition to the world's resources in high-end computing," said David Keyes, Chair of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering Division, who is moving from Columbia University in the United States.

"The machine that is being purchased here is one of the main attractions to me," he said.

The supercomputer will be used by KAUST and its partners including Cornell University, the University of Oxford, Stanford University, and Texas A&M University.

HenryTo · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:50 am Post subject:

Africa triples its supercomputing capability, courtesy of IBM:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=856292

HenryTo · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

Stanford's Folding@Home project's current performance about to surpass four petaflops. Note that its performance just surpassed three petaflops a month ago!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

At this rate, we should see this approach/surpass five petaflops by the end of October.

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

Bulgeria opens its first supercomputing center:

http://www.huliq.com/1/68044/ibm-supercomputer-boosts-bulgarias-advance-towards-knowledge-based-economy

Its IBM Blue Gene/P - at 23 teraflops - lands in the top 100 of fastest supercomputers on the Top 500 list.

rffrydr · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

The biggest "computer" of them all is taking a new direction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?em=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1220212859-uAivfV1pbh/5XSc1/fmlfw
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diesel · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

In a recent Nvidia presentation they mentioned that if all Nvidia GPUs 8 series plus were put to work on folding@home they would add 7000 pentaflops of computing power to folding@home.

If you add this to programmable ATI GPUs, Xbox360s and the ps3 you would have a seriously fast exaflop supercomputer. Cool

Add all the worlds computing power in and you would be in the zettaflop range or close to it I would think.
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HenryTo · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:08 am Post subject:

Stanford's Folding@Home project's current performance about to surpass three petaflops, due to the recent participation of ATI's GPUs. Note that its performance just surpassed two petaflops slightly less than two months ago:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats