Cray has launched the Urika-XC, a software suite that brings the capabilities of the Urika-GX big data appliance machine to the XC supercomputer platform. The idea is to offer customers a single system that can host both simulations and advanced data analytics.
On the opening day of the ISC High Performance conference, Atos announced the Bull Sequana X1310, an ARM-based variant of the companys Sequana X1000 supercomputer line.
The recent upgrade to the Piz Daint supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), has thrust the machine into limelight here at the ISC High Performance conference on opening day. The Cray XC50 system turned in a Linpack result of 19.6 petaflops, which was good enough to capture the number three spot on the latest TOP500 list, and displace Titan, the former GPU supercomputing champ, running at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Episode 180: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman react to the news from the Top500 list at SC 17.
FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— The 49th edition of the TOP500 list was released today in conjunction with the opening session of the ISC High Performance conference, which is taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany. The list ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers based on the Linpack benchmark and is released twice per year.
After the recent organizational changes at Intel HPDD, the Lustre* community has been wondering what the future of the most utilized parallel file system would look like. The community has been apprehensive about potential disruptive changes that could affect Lustre development as well as potential outcomes for customers who have adopted the technology as their main parallel file system. Although the new Lustre development and adoption strategy still isn’t completely defined, it has turned out to be surprisingly simple, more clear, and consistent than anticipated.
Episode 179: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman comment on the DOE's exascale awards and discuss the things to watch at ISC 17.
The US Department of Energy announced that it will funnel $258 million into six tech companies as part of its PathForward program to develop new HPC technologies for exascale supercomputers. The awardees include AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA.
Episode 178: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss interesting chip developments coming from IBM and Intel.
In 1999, Peter Braam introduced Lustre, an open-source parallel file system which went on to become one the most popular software packages for supercomputing. Braams success with Lustre was just the start of a career in which he founded five companies and guided technology development in numerous others -- Sun Microsystem, Red Hat, and Xyratex, among them. Hes currently working with Cambridge University on the Square Kilometer Array project and its Science Data Processor effort.
