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| News digest 13 November 2007 |
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| PrimeurLive! during SC07 |
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Primeur publishes PrimeurLive! issues during SC-7 in Reno:
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| TOP500 |
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| Europe recovers on TOP500 supercomputer list |
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In the list of 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, revieled today, European supercomputers occupy 149 positions. This shows the continent is recovering from the all time low in June of 2006 when only 83 supercomputers were installed in Europe. Also the number 2 system is located in Europe: the Jugene system - a BlueGene computer with 65.000 processors and a top speed (Rmax) of 167 Tflop/s. A second machine in Europe in the top10 is an HP system in Sweden at position 5. Of the countries in Europe, the UK still is home to the most supercomputers: 48 systems. Germany is still second with 31 systems. The only other European country with more that 10 supercomputers is France with 17 systems.
Read further... |  >Development of number of supercomputers in Europe over time.
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| 30th Edition of TOP500 ist of world's fastest supercomputers shows many new systems in Top 10 |
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The twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers shows five new entrants in the Top 10, which includes sites in the United States, Germany, India and Sweden. The 30th edition of the TOP500 list was released on Nov. 12, 200 at SC07, the international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, in Reno, Nevada.
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| PRACE: Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe |
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PRACE will provide researchers in Europe with access to world class supercomputers. The PRACE consortium is made up of Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Finland, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. Five principal partners of this consortium have declared interest in hosting one of the research infrastructure’s facilities, and to contribute adequately to its funding, together with the European Commission 7th Framework Programme and the other partners. Estimated investment is anticipated to be in the range from euro 400 - euro 600 million covering the first five years of operation. A first step towards establishing this world class European Research infrastructure was made by the consortium, when its proposal for a /preparatory phase project,/ submitted to the 7th Framework Programme for the funding of large infrastructures, was successfully evaluated by the European Commission’s DG INFSO. This funding will enable the launch of the Project PRACE, under coordination by Professor Achim Bachem, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Research Centre Juelich, Germany. The project will start on January 1st 2008 and will last for 2 years, with a total budget of euro 20 million. Half of the funding (euro 10 million) will be provided by the European Commission under the FP7 Capacities programme grant agreement INFSO-RI-211528.
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| IBM number 1 and 2 on TOP500 list |
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The world’s fastest computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now nearly three times faster than the number 2. Livermore’s Blue Gene/L was expanded this summer to deliver a sustained performance of 478 Tflop/s. The No. 2 computer in the world - and Europe's fastest - is the new first-time installation of Blue Gene/P, a sister machine to Blue Gene/L, located at the research consortium Juelich in Germany. Juelich's Blue Gene/P clocks in at 167 Tflop/s.
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| HP has two new systems in Top 10 of TOP500 Supercomputer List |
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HP today announced that it placed two systems in the top five of the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world's 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems.
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| Quadrics QsTenG for HPC interconnect product family |
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Quadrics has announced $300 per-port price tag for its 24-Port CX4 10Gbps Ethernet Switch. The new price is a further step towards the adoption of 10Gbps Ethernet in HPC environments. Attractive pricing together with the ubiquitous nature of Ethernet will catalyse the adoption of this standard in server clusters and storage. At SC07 in Reno, USA, Quadrics did announce the pricing strategy for its QsTenG-TG201 Switch, the latest member of the QsTenG family, designed for smaller networks. Quadrics is offering the 1U 24-port Ethernet switch, based on the Fulcrum FM2224, in both CX4 copper and XFP optics versions.
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| First book on petascale computing launched at SC07 |
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The College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Chapman and Hall/CRC Press today announced the launch of "Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications", the first published collection on petascale techniques for computational science and engineering, at the SC07 conference. Edited by David A. Bader, associate professor of computing and executive director of high-performance computing at Georgia Tech, this collection represents an academic milestone in the high-performance computing industry and is the first work to be released through Chapman & Hall/CRC Press’ new Computational Science series.
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| Allinea software announces collaboration with TACC on development tools for massively parallel applications |
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Allinea Software has signed an agreement with the Texas Austin Computing Centre (TACC) that relates to the definition, development and testing of next-generation debugging capabilities on very large numbers of processes.
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| Mitrionics reached milestones with scalability, 900X performance increases and boinformatics applications |
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Mitrionics, Inc., developer of the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, will be showcasing numerous technology developments, partnerships, and industry milestones at the Supercomputing 2007 Conference this November 10-16, 2007 in Reno, Nevada.
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| Sun Showcases Petascale Computing and Storage at Supercomputing 2007 |
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Sun Microsystems presented two new systems designed to address the extreme computation, scale and storage requirements of today's HPC customer. The Sun Constellation System combines ultra-dense, high performance compute, networking, storage and software into an integrated general purpose system that can scale to Pflop/s. The Sun StorageTek 5800 System is designed to help ensure long-term preservation, protection and integrity of massive data stores with extensive metadata facilities.
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