Dell has become one of the top vendors in the worldwide HPC market, capturing 12.7% of revenue in 2009 to take third place globally. Dell has succeeded due to producing price-competitive, standards-based, reliable cluster systems that meet many buyers' needs. Dell offers a wide range of HPC solutions including clusters, workstation-based personal supercomputers, and storage. While maintaining competitiveness and avoiding unprofitable deals, opportunities for Dell include leveraging strengths in departmental and SMB HPC segments and capturing scale-out business in the growing petaflop market.
236341 Idc How Nations Are Using Hpc August 2012Chris O'Neal
Attached is an IDC write-up on the National use of High-end HPC for both scientific innovation and economic advancement. It also includes a list of the current petascale systems around the world.
Mark Lundstrom's new course, Nanoscale Transistors -- a five-week online course on the essential physics of modern MOSFETs. It aims to be broadly accessible (even to people without a background in transistors) but also to go beyond textbook treatments and show that one can easily understand and model in a very physical way sub-100 nm MOSFETs. It should be of interest not only to transistor technology developers, but also to materials scientists, physicists, and even circuit designers who are pushing the state of the art.
The document discusses the TPC-Energy Specification, which was developed to standardize the measurement of energy consumption for IT systems. It aims to provide metrics for price, performance, and power consumption to help customers make more informed purchasing decisions. The specification supplements existing TPC benchmarks by reporting the energy used when running standard workload tests, as well as the energy used by system subcomponents. It also outlines requirements for the system configuration and testing environment to reflect real-world usage. The first results published under this specification included energy consumption figures for several HP server models running TPC workload benchmarks.
Automated storage tiering uses SSDs as a high-performance tier and HDDs as slower tiers. Intelligent algorithms identify "hot" data and move it to SSDs for fast access, then return it to HDDs when no longer hot. This approach uses fewer SSDs more efficiently than manual tiering. However, it remains difficult to determine which applications will benefit, as there are no tools to identify active data set sizes or predict performance gains on different storage media. Workloads with identifiable access hotspots are better candidates for tiering than those without.
On Friday October 14 at 10, at the headquarters of Novacaixagalicia Foundation in Santiago de Compostela, the Chairman of Ports, Gozález Laxe Fernando and the Director General Merchant Marine, Maria Isabel Durantez, will present "Results of MyOcean Project. New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography" the most Operational Oceanography ambitious those undertaken to date by the European Union.
TPCx-HS is the first vendor-neutral benchmark focused on big data systems – which have become a critical part of the enterprise IT ecosystem.
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-cLY
Learn more: http://www.tpc.org/tpcx-hs
Dell has become one of the top vendors in the worldwide HPC market, capturing 12.7% of revenue in 2009 to take third place globally. Dell has succeeded due to producing price-competitive, standards-based, reliable cluster systems that meet many buyers' needs. Dell offers a wide range of HPC solutions including clusters, workstation-based personal supercomputers, and storage. While maintaining competitiveness and avoiding unprofitable deals, opportunities for Dell include leveraging strengths in departmental and SMB HPC segments and capturing scale-out business in the growing petaflop market.
236341 Idc How Nations Are Using Hpc August 2012Chris O'Neal
Attached is an IDC write-up on the National use of High-end HPC for both scientific innovation and economic advancement. It also includes a list of the current petascale systems around the world.
Mark Lundstrom's new course, Nanoscale Transistors -- a five-week online course on the essential physics of modern MOSFETs. It aims to be broadly accessible (even to people without a background in transistors) but also to go beyond textbook treatments and show that one can easily understand and model in a very physical way sub-100 nm MOSFETs. It should be of interest not only to transistor technology developers, but also to materials scientists, physicists, and even circuit designers who are pushing the state of the art.
The document discusses the TPC-Energy Specification, which was developed to standardize the measurement of energy consumption for IT systems. It aims to provide metrics for price, performance, and power consumption to help customers make more informed purchasing decisions. The specification supplements existing TPC benchmarks by reporting the energy used when running standard workload tests, as well as the energy used by system subcomponents. It also outlines requirements for the system configuration and testing environment to reflect real-world usage. The first results published under this specification included energy consumption figures for several HP server models running TPC workload benchmarks.
Automated storage tiering uses SSDs as a high-performance tier and HDDs as slower tiers. Intelligent algorithms identify "hot" data and move it to SSDs for fast access, then return it to HDDs when no longer hot. This approach uses fewer SSDs more efficiently than manual tiering. However, it remains difficult to determine which applications will benefit, as there are no tools to identify active data set sizes or predict performance gains on different storage media. Workloads with identifiable access hotspots are better candidates for tiering than those without.
On Friday October 14 at 10, at the headquarters of Novacaixagalicia Foundation in Santiago de Compostela, the Chairman of Ports, Gozález Laxe Fernando and the Director General Merchant Marine, Maria Isabel Durantez, will present "Results of MyOcean Project. New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography" the most Operational Oceanography ambitious those undertaken to date by the European Union.
TPCx-HS is the first vendor-neutral benchmark focused on big data systems – which have become a critical part of the enterprise IT ecosystem.
Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-cLY
Learn more: http://www.tpc.org/tpcx-hs
The Pan-European IT Outsourcing Intelligence Report 2011 presents the summary of the All-European IT Outsourcing and In-House Software Development research conducted between February and December 2011. In the course of the research the following European countries were surveyed (in alphabetical order): Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Malta, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom.
The key goal of the Report is to identify the differences and similarities in the ways how companies from the above listed countries behave in terms of:
Overall adoption of IT / software development outsourcing services
Choosing their IT outsourcing destinations
Choosing their IT outsourcing service providers
Responding to the most critical outsourcing challenges
Managing their vendor relationships
Cost saving
Planning their future adoption of IT / software development outsourcing services
This publication describes some of the research highlights achieved in the focus areas of the Open Smart Spaces spearhead programme 2009–2012: interoperability, smartness, and natural interaction.
Interoperability between devices, software and other resources is essential for the emergence of smart spaces. The different levels of interoperability are discussed together with the importance of a common language for the devices. Semantic interoperability in resource limited devices is also elaborated and an implementation example is given. Context recognition has taken significant technical steps and matured from laboratory to real world applications during last couple of years. This development from recognising user’s physical activity – sitting, walking, running – to more elaborate life pattern analysis is discussed. Development of VTT Node, a wireless sensing and processing device bringing distributed intelligence into industrial condition monitoring is explained. An overview of how existing near field communication antennas and circuits can double for the purpose of wireless charging is given. Finally, the interesting possibilities given by augmented and mixed reality and 3D cameras are introduced.
2010 Ebw Ict And E Business For An Innovative And Sustainable EconomyMadrid Network
The document summarizes key findings from 7 studies conducted by the Sectoral e-Business Watch in 2009 on the topics of ICT, e-business, and sustainable economic activity. The studies found that ICT has the potential to increase sustainability in production and transport by making these sectors more energy efficient. Specifically, the studies found that higher levels of ICT capital investment are linked to greater production sustainability in energy-intensive industries. However, while ICT can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, doing so through ICT may be more expensive than other abatement technologies. The studies also examined the role of ICT in transforming the energy supply industry towards more sustainable "smart grids" and found both opportunities and barriers to deploying
ICT and e-Business for an Innovative and Sustainable Economyguestb45442
7th Synthesis Report of the Sectoral
e-Business Watch (2010): the focus of the ICT and e-business studies conducted in 2009 was on the ICT potential for sustainable economic activity. This report summarises the main results. The full study reports, and further resources such as brochures, case studies and table reports with more detailed survey data, can be downloaded in http://www.ebusiness-watch.org
Intangibles and industry productivity growth: the EU economiesABACO
Participation by Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (ISTAT and LUISS) at the I Workshop of Innovation and Strategy VLC / CAMPUS Program : “The advancement of knowledge-based activities: analysis, experiences and challenges”
The document discusses European policies for high performance computing (HPC). It notes that HPC is important for industries, sciences, and addressing societal challenges in Europe. However, Europe faces problems like fragmentation of efforts and reliance on foreign HPC components. The European Commission has proposed several actions to strengthen Europe's HPC capabilities through initiatives like doubling HPC investments, developing the HPC ecosystem, and establishing an EU-wide cloud computing strategy. If these actions are taken, Europe can better compete globally in HPC and in industries that rely on it.
Participation by Daniel Nepelski (IPTS) at the I Workshop of Innovation and Strategy VLC / CAMPUS Program : “The advancement of knowledge-based activities: analysis, experiences and challenges”
The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference. The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry. It calls for original papers exploring changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms. Topics of interest include platform theories, business strategies related to mobile platforms, and new revenue models around mobile platforms. Important dates include a May 15 deadline for extended abstract submissions and a July 30 deadline for full paper submissions.
The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference. The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry. It calls for original papers exploring changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms. Topics of interest include platform theories, business strategies related to mobile platforms, and new revenue models around mobile platforms. The submission deadline for extended abstracts is May 15, 2010.
Tracking the Economic Value of Embedded Digital TechnologyJim Bladich
This document presents a methodology for tracking the economic value of embedded digital technology (EDT). It acknowledges that while information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly embedded in goods and services, conventional ICT measurements only consider some products and services, missing much of the ICT impact. The methodology aims to estimate the economic value of EDT by capturing its contribution through intermediate consumption, capital consumption, digitally skilled labor, and ICT/EDT research and development expenditures. If applied, this methodology could provide a more comprehensive understanding of the full economic impacts of ICT diffusion.
1) The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference.
2) The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry and explore changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms.
3) The call for papers encourages original empirical and conceptual papers on topics related to business models and strategies for mobile platforms, including platform theories, mobile app stores, mobile service platforms, and regulatory implications of mobile platforms.
This document provides a final report on opportunities for public technology procurement in the ICT sectors in Europe. It was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. The report explores how technology procurement can drive innovation through case studies, with a focus on the ICT domain. It finds that procurement can effectively stimulate competition between suppliers and promote risk/benefit sharing between public and private partners. However, public technology procurement is currently underutilized as a tool for innovation in Europe. The report provides recommendations for how the European Commission can promote a concept called "pre-commercial procurement" to better leverage public demand to support research and development.
20090616 Investing in Software & Services ResearchArian Zwegers
Presentation about why the European Community funds research in ICT and about the opportunities for funding in Software and Services in the FP7 ICT Work Programme, for the SSAIE Summer School, Heraklion (Greece), 16 June 2009
Research and innovation in Europe has to become more global and digital; EUREKA and especially the Clusters may act as frontrunners for this development. Through their flexibility and adaptability, the EUREKA Clusters are well equipped to consider more global approaches and the involvement of customers and end users.
SMIT is a multidisciplinary research center founded in 1990 that focuses on socio-economic, user, and policy aspects of information and communication technologies. It has over 30 researchers and research projects studying topics like social influences on technology, user practices, business models, cultural changes, health technologies, and more. SMIT works to contribute to an accessible information society through fundamental and applied research.
I Minds2009 Michela Pollone Csp–Innovazione Nelle Ict Innovative Paths To I...imec.archive
CSP is a non-profit research organization based in Turin, Italy that specializes in ICT innovation. It has over 40 employees and focuses on experimental development and industrial research through technology labs, living lab projects, and making ICT ubiquitous. CSP works with local universities and companies to develop the region's innovation potential and create value through joining technological and creative capabilities.
The interim assessment found that the three research PPPs (Factories of the Future, Energy-efficient Buildings, and Green Cars Initiative) have been successful in engaging industry and research organizations. However, to significantly impact European competitiveness, longer term support and increased funding are needed. The PPPs established closer cooperation between the EC and industry but processes need further streamlining. While the PPPs focus on pre-competitive research, supporting activities related to commercializing innovations could better address industrial needs. Dissemination also needs strengthening to engage more SMEs.
The interim assessment found that the three research PPPs (Factories of the Future, Energy-efficient Buildings, and Green Cars Initiative) have been successful in engaging industry and research organizations. However, to significantly impact European competitiveness, longer term support and increased funding are needed. The PPPs established closer cooperation between the EC and industry but processes need further streamlining. While the PPPs focus on pre-competitive research, supporting activities related to commercializing innovations could better address industrial needs. Dissemination also needs strengthening to engage more SMEs.
Fiber-optic telecommunications began generating interest in the late 1970s, but major breakthroughs like the optical amplifier and narrowband filter, which enabled wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), significantly advanced the field in the mid-1990s. This led to an era of rapid bandwidth demand growth and service providers extending optical fiber networks closer to premises. New technologies like fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) and PONs have emerged as a result.
A detailed review of PON system performances, issues and testing solutions
This document discusses the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor codenamed Knights Corner. Knights Corner is a many integrated core (MIC) architecture targeted at highly parallel HPC workloads like physics, chemistry, biology and financial services. It features power efficient cores that support parallelism through less speculation, threads and wider SIMD. Knights Corner runs Linux and supports applications written in languages like Fortran, C and C++. It provides a general purpose programming environment with x86 compatibility. Knights Corner is implemented as a PCIe card containing more than 50 Intel MIC cores connected to GDDR5 memory channels.
This special report about achievements at the Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities—where researchers run simulations that are large, complex, and often unprecedented—may be of interest:
The Pan-European IT Outsourcing Intelligence Report 2011 presents the summary of the All-European IT Outsourcing and In-House Software Development research conducted between February and December 2011. In the course of the research the following European countries were surveyed (in alphabetical order): Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Malta, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom.
The key goal of the Report is to identify the differences and similarities in the ways how companies from the above listed countries behave in terms of:
Overall adoption of IT / software development outsourcing services
Choosing their IT outsourcing destinations
Choosing their IT outsourcing service providers
Responding to the most critical outsourcing challenges
Managing their vendor relationships
Cost saving
Planning their future adoption of IT / software development outsourcing services
This publication describes some of the research highlights achieved in the focus areas of the Open Smart Spaces spearhead programme 2009–2012: interoperability, smartness, and natural interaction.
Interoperability between devices, software and other resources is essential for the emergence of smart spaces. The different levels of interoperability are discussed together with the importance of a common language for the devices. Semantic interoperability in resource limited devices is also elaborated and an implementation example is given. Context recognition has taken significant technical steps and matured from laboratory to real world applications during last couple of years. This development from recognising user’s physical activity – sitting, walking, running – to more elaborate life pattern analysis is discussed. Development of VTT Node, a wireless sensing and processing device bringing distributed intelligence into industrial condition monitoring is explained. An overview of how existing near field communication antennas and circuits can double for the purpose of wireless charging is given. Finally, the interesting possibilities given by augmented and mixed reality and 3D cameras are introduced.
2010 Ebw Ict And E Business For An Innovative And Sustainable EconomyMadrid Network
The document summarizes key findings from 7 studies conducted by the Sectoral e-Business Watch in 2009 on the topics of ICT, e-business, and sustainable economic activity. The studies found that ICT has the potential to increase sustainability in production and transport by making these sectors more energy efficient. Specifically, the studies found that higher levels of ICT capital investment are linked to greater production sustainability in energy-intensive industries. However, while ICT can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, doing so through ICT may be more expensive than other abatement technologies. The studies also examined the role of ICT in transforming the energy supply industry towards more sustainable "smart grids" and found both opportunities and barriers to deploying
ICT and e-Business for an Innovative and Sustainable Economyguestb45442
7th Synthesis Report of the Sectoral
e-Business Watch (2010): the focus of the ICT and e-business studies conducted in 2009 was on the ICT potential for sustainable economic activity. This report summarises the main results. The full study reports, and further resources such as brochures, case studies and table reports with more detailed survey data, can be downloaded in http://www.ebusiness-watch.org
Intangibles and industry productivity growth: the EU economiesABACO
Participation by Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (ISTAT and LUISS) at the I Workshop of Innovation and Strategy VLC / CAMPUS Program : “The advancement of knowledge-based activities: analysis, experiences and challenges”
The document discusses European policies for high performance computing (HPC). It notes that HPC is important for industries, sciences, and addressing societal challenges in Europe. However, Europe faces problems like fragmentation of efforts and reliance on foreign HPC components. The European Commission has proposed several actions to strengthen Europe's HPC capabilities through initiatives like doubling HPC investments, developing the HPC ecosystem, and establishing an EU-wide cloud computing strategy. If these actions are taken, Europe can better compete globally in HPC and in industries that rely on it.
Participation by Daniel Nepelski (IPTS) at the I Workshop of Innovation and Strategy VLC / CAMPUS Program : “The advancement of knowledge-based activities: analysis, experiences and challenges”
The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference. The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry. It calls for original papers exploring changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms. Topics of interest include platform theories, business strategies related to mobile platforms, and new revenue models around mobile platforms. Important dates include a May 15 deadline for extended abstract submissions and a July 30 deadline for full paper submissions.
The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference. The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry. It calls for original papers exploring changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms. Topics of interest include platform theories, business strategies related to mobile platforms, and new revenue models around mobile platforms. The submission deadline for extended abstracts is May 15, 2010.
Tracking the Economic Value of Embedded Digital TechnologyJim Bladich
This document presents a methodology for tracking the economic value of embedded digital technology (EDT). It acknowledges that while information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly embedded in goods and services, conventional ICT measurements only consider some products and services, missing much of the ICT impact. The methodology aims to estimate the economic value of EDT by capturing its contribution through intermediate consumption, capital consumption, digitally skilled labor, and ICT/EDT research and development expenditures. If applied, this methodology could provide a more comprehensive understanding of the full economic impacts of ICT diffusion.
1) The 2nd International Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Platforms (BMMP 10) will be held on October 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the ICIN 2010 conference.
2) The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of the current explosion of mobile platforms in the ICT industry and explore changing business models and industry architectures resulting from the introduction of mobile platforms.
3) The call for papers encourages original empirical and conceptual papers on topics related to business models and strategies for mobile platforms, including platform theories, mobile app stores, mobile service platforms, and regulatory implications of mobile platforms.
This document provides a final report on opportunities for public technology procurement in the ICT sectors in Europe. It was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. The report explores how technology procurement can drive innovation through case studies, with a focus on the ICT domain. It finds that procurement can effectively stimulate competition between suppliers and promote risk/benefit sharing between public and private partners. However, public technology procurement is currently underutilized as a tool for innovation in Europe. The report provides recommendations for how the European Commission can promote a concept called "pre-commercial procurement" to better leverage public demand to support research and development.
20090616 Investing in Software & Services ResearchArian Zwegers
Presentation about why the European Community funds research in ICT and about the opportunities for funding in Software and Services in the FP7 ICT Work Programme, for the SSAIE Summer School, Heraklion (Greece), 16 June 2009
Research and innovation in Europe has to become more global and digital; EUREKA and especially the Clusters may act as frontrunners for this development. Through their flexibility and adaptability, the EUREKA Clusters are well equipped to consider more global approaches and the involvement of customers and end users.
SMIT is a multidisciplinary research center founded in 1990 that focuses on socio-economic, user, and policy aspects of information and communication technologies. It has over 30 researchers and research projects studying topics like social influences on technology, user practices, business models, cultural changes, health technologies, and more. SMIT works to contribute to an accessible information society through fundamental and applied research.
I Minds2009 Michela Pollone Csp–Innovazione Nelle Ict Innovative Paths To I...imec.archive
CSP is a non-profit research organization based in Turin, Italy that specializes in ICT innovation. It has over 40 employees and focuses on experimental development and industrial research through technology labs, living lab projects, and making ICT ubiquitous. CSP works with local universities and companies to develop the region's innovation potential and create value through joining technological and creative capabilities.
The interim assessment found that the three research PPPs (Factories of the Future, Energy-efficient Buildings, and Green Cars Initiative) have been successful in engaging industry and research organizations. However, to significantly impact European competitiveness, longer term support and increased funding are needed. The PPPs established closer cooperation between the EC and industry but processes need further streamlining. While the PPPs focus on pre-competitive research, supporting activities related to commercializing innovations could better address industrial needs. Dissemination also needs strengthening to engage more SMEs.
The interim assessment found that the three research PPPs (Factories of the Future, Energy-efficient Buildings, and Green Cars Initiative) have been successful in engaging industry and research organizations. However, to significantly impact European competitiveness, longer term support and increased funding are needed. The PPPs established closer cooperation between the EC and industry but processes need further streamlining. While the PPPs focus on pre-competitive research, supporting activities related to commercializing innovations could better address industrial needs. Dissemination also needs strengthening to engage more SMEs.
Fiber-optic telecommunications began generating interest in the late 1970s, but major breakthroughs like the optical amplifier and narrowband filter, which enabled wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), significantly advanced the field in the mid-1990s. This led to an era of rapid bandwidth demand growth and service providers extending optical fiber networks closer to premises. New technologies like fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) and PONs have emerged as a result.
A detailed review of PON system performances, issues and testing solutions
This document discusses the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor codenamed Knights Corner. Knights Corner is a many integrated core (MIC) architecture targeted at highly parallel HPC workloads like physics, chemistry, biology and financial services. It features power efficient cores that support parallelism through less speculation, threads and wider SIMD. Knights Corner runs Linux and supports applications written in languages like Fortran, C and C++. It provides a general purpose programming environment with x86 compatibility. Knights Corner is implemented as a PCIe card containing more than 50 Intel MIC cores connected to GDDR5 memory channels.
This special report about achievements at the Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities—where researchers run simulations that are large, complex, and often unprecedented—may be of interest:
Below is a link to a paper to be presented at the The International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA\'11) that describes SRC Computers\' efficient toolflow for FPGA development, which has demonstrated success in cost-effective migration of applications to hardware.
Force10 Networks commissioned Tolly to evaluate the energy consumption of its ExaScale E1200i core switch/router. Tolly found that with Gigabit Ethernet, the Force10 consumes 52% less power than Cisco and 22.5% less than Juniper per Gbps of throughput. With 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Force10 consumes 56% less power than Cisco and 29% less than Juniper per Gbps of throughput. The maximum configured Force10 consumed over 1,000W less power than Cisco and over 1,350W less than Juniper for Gigabit Ethernet, and over 5,000W less than Cisco for 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
Virident's tachIOn drive is a revolutionary solid-state storage product that uses PCI Express and innovative hardware/software architecture to deliver best-in-class performance and enterprise reliability. It provides sustained random IOPS of up to 200,000 and capacities of 200-400GB in a compact form factor. The drive features advanced error correction, global wear leveling, and replaceable flash modules that enable industry-leading lifetimes of 24 years of continuous operation.
Tres investigadores están usando Ciencia para estudiar qué sucedería si los combustibles convencionales de aviones fueran reemplazados con biocombustibles. Mediante simulaciones masivas en paralelo, generan una biblioteca química que rastrea más de 500 especies distintas para comparar las emisiones de varios combustibles. Los resultados podrían ayudar a la industria de las aerolíneas a reducir su huella de carbono.
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $122 million over five years to establish the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) as its first energy innovation hub. CASL will develop advanced computer models and a "virtual reactor" to simulate nuclear power plant operations in order to reduce costs and extend the lifetime of reactors. The consortium includes national laboratories, universities, and private companies, and will utilize the world's most powerful supercomputers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Fujitsu will showcase several high performance computing products and technologies at ISC'10, including Japan's Next-Generation Supercomputer, the PRIMERGY CX1000 scale-out server, the PRIMERGY BX900 blade server, and the SynfiniWay cloud middleware. Fujitsu aims to contribute innovative solutions to advance the HPC sector through low-power processors, efficient interconnects, and optimized cooling and packaging technologies. Speakers from Fujitsu will discuss energy efficiency in HPC and Green computing approaches.
- Rogue Wave is a provider of software development tools and components for high performance computing (HPC) applications. It has experience developing tools for parallel architectures.
- The landscape of application development is evolving due to increasing data complexity, new computing architectures like multi-core/GPU systems, and pressure to produce high quality applications efficiently.
- Rogue Wave aims to enable the next era of HPC by providing a workbench for developers with tools that increase productivity, support multiple languages and platforms, and help leverage large amounts of data and parallelism.
This document summarizes Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2. It offers world-class performance by taking advantage of existing technology investments and skills. It makes supercomputing broadly available and accessible to scientists, engineers, and analysts by being simple to manage and easy to use. It also sustains commitment to performance by matching Linux performance on benchmarks and engaging with the Top500 supercomputers.
QLogic announces two new InfiniBand solutions for Dell PowerEdge blade servers: 1) The QLogic 12005-PT16 QDR Pass-Through Module, which provides a dedicated 40Gb/sec QDR IB interface for Dell blade servers while taking up only a single chassis slot, and 2) The QME7342 dual-port 40Gbps QDR IB expansion card. These solutions allow Dell customers to build higher performance IB clusters with lower power consumption and added configuration flexibility compared to Mellanox's solutions. QLogic is positioned to increase its market share with Dell customers using PowerEdge servers for HPC applications.
The Voltaire Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA) is a solution that offloads collective operations from CPUs to switches to accelerate performance and scalability. It uses CPUs in switches to perform reduction and messaging for collective operations. The FCA addresses network congestion through single-message transmissions per wire and shields collectives from node noise. It can reduce collective operation runtimes by up to 100x and enable linear scalability to thousands of nodes.
Idc Hpc Web Conf Predictions 2010 FinalChris O'Neal
1. The HPC market is expected to resume growth in mid-2010 after declining in 2009, reaching $10.5 billion by 2013. The supercomputers segment focusing on $500k+ systems is expected to grow most rapidly.
2. Competition to achieve global leadership in supercomputing is expected to drive rapid growth in the largest supercomputer systems. Industries like oil and gas will also purchase large petascale systems, and governments are exploring exascale computing.
3. Most major advances in high performance computing in 2010 are expected to involve incremental evolutionary changes rather than revolutionary new architectures, though programming challenges from growing parallelism remain a barrier.
1) Cloud computing involves on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network. It provides scalable resources, rapid provisioning, and reduces management effort.
2) ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 platform provides optical networking and connectivity solutions that are critical for efficiently operating reliable cloud services within and between data centers.
3) The FSP 3000 supports a wide range of transmission interfaces up to 100Gbps and flexible optical networking with redundancy and protection concepts to satisfy the stringent reliability and security requirements for transporting cloud applications.
StorNext is a data management software solution that has over 4,000 customer installations. It provides a shared file system across multiple storage tiers, including disk, NAS, tape, and archives. Key benefits include reducing storage costs, preserving data across platforms and vendors, and independently scaling performance and capacity. Example customers in media/entertainment, life sciences, and science have used StorNext to accelerate workflows, manage petabytes of research data, and integrate legacy storage investments.
1. SPECIAL STUDY
D2 Interim Report: Development of a Supercomputing
Strategy in Europe (SMART 2009/0055, Contract Number
2009/S99-142914)
Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Steve Conway
Chris Ingle Gabriella Cattaneo
Cyril Meunier Nathaniel Martinez
Author(s) IDC: Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway,
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Chris Ingle, Gabriella Cattaneo, Cyril Meunier
and Nathaniel Martinez
Deliverable D2 Interim Report
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Date of July 7, 2010
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Addressee Bernhard FABIANEK
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