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Intel Will Ship Knights Corner Chip in 2012
Jun 18, 2012 |
On Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Intel announced that Knights Corner, the company's first manycore product, would be in production before the end of 2012. The company also released a few more details about the upcoming product line, including the creation of a new Xeon brand for the architecture, some performance updates on pre-production silicon, and Cray's adoption of MIC as part of its future Cascade supercomputer.
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SGI Launches Second Generation UV Supercomputer
Jun 14, 2012 |
The sequel to SGI's UV supercomputer has arrived. Dubbed UV 2, the new platform doubles the number of cores and quadruples the memory that can be supported under a single system. The product, which will be officially announced next week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, represents the first major revision of SGI's original UV, which the company debuted in 2009.
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Intel Releases Knights Corner ISA, Lays Groundwork for MIC Launch
Jun 11, 2012 |
Intel has released a partial software stack for Knights Corner, the company's first commercial chip based on its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. Also released were a number of documents describing the processor's micro-architecture, including the Knights Corner Instruction Set (ISA) Manual, which will help toolmakers and application developers build software for the upcoming chip.
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Terascala Releases Software Suite, Framework for Lustre Appliances
Jun 20, 2012 |
Terascala announced the availability of a new software suite and framework for Lustre appliances. The offering is set to improve the process of developing and deploying the devices using Intel Xeon chips.
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OpenACC Group Reports Expanding Support for Accelerator Programming Standard
Jun 20, 2012 |
The OpenACC standards group today announced broad new support for the OpenACC parallel programming standard by technology providers and leading research institutions, as well as new results highlighting the tremendous benefits of using OpenACC for engineering and scientific applications.
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Eurotech Adds Kepler GPU Option to Supercomputer Line
Jun 20, 2012 |
Eurotech has announced an agreement with NVIDIA to expand the Eurotech Aurora supercomputer product line with new energy-efficient, high-performance GPU-accelerated systems.
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SAGA Supercomputer Uses Tesla GPUs to Assist Indian Space Research
Jun 19, 2012 |
Nvidia has announced the SAGA supercomputer at the Indian Space Research Organization, uses Tesla GPUs. The system can perform 394 teraflops a peak performance, using 640 accelerators.
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Upcoming ScaleMP Foundation To Support MIC Architecture
Jun 19, 2012 |
ScaleMP has announced compatibility for Intel's upcoming Phi chips. The vSMP Foundation now supports the company's MIC architecture.
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NVIDIA GPUs Assist in Prevention of Future H1N1 Outbreaks
Jun 18, 2012 |
Researchers at the University of Bristol, Chulalongkorn and Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat universities are using NVIDIA GPUs to study the H1N1 virus. By simulating the virus, researchers are preparing for possible mutations that may be resistant to traditional anti-flu drugs.
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Exascale Computing: The View from Argonne
As a result of the dissolution of DARPA's UHPC program, the driving force behind exascale research in the US now resides with the Department of Energy, which has embarked upon a program to help develop this technology. To get a lab-centric view of the path to exascale, HPCwire asked a three of the top directors at Argonne National Laboratory -- Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir -- to provide some context for the challenges and benefits of developing these extreme scale systems.
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TOP500 Gets Dressed Up with New Blue Genes
The 39th TOP500 list was released today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, with a new machine at the top. Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene/Q machine, delivered a world record 16 petaflops on Linpack, knocking RIKEN's 10-petaflop K Computer into second place. The Japanese K machine had held the TOP500 title for a year.
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Intel Will Ship Knights Corner Chip in 2012
On Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Intel announced that Knights Corner, the company's first manycore product, would be in production before the end of 2012. The company also released a few more details about the upcoming product line, including the creation of a new Xeon brand for the architecture, some performance updates on pre-production silicon, and Cray's adoption of MIC as part of its future Cascade supercomputer.
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