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IDC Abstract: As the global economic recession unfolds, the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market is feeling the impact. But, how will these economic and market conditions evolve in 2009? Join IDC's expert analysts as they present IDC's top-10 predictions for the worldwide HPC market. This session will examine the trends, challenges, and market opportunities emerging in 2009, and provide essential guidance and advice for finding success in these challenging economic times.
Speakers include: Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Program Vice President, High-Performance Computing Steve Conway, Research Vice President, High Performance Computing Jie Wu, Research Manager, Technical Computing Richard Walsh, Research Director, Technical Computing
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From the this is way cool department
Open-MX is a message passing stack that offers the Myrinet Express features on top of regular Ethernet hardware. It requires no kernel or driver modifications. In addition any software that support (e.g. various MPIs,PVFS2) Myricom MX libraries can link to directly to Open-MX.
The project page and software can be found here. Recently, project leader Brice Goglin gave a presentation entitled High-Performance Message Passing over Ethernet with Open-MX, why and how? You can find the slides and video at the Distributed Computing Group (DISCO) site. Quick review: I have used Open-MX since version .4 (current version is 1.04) and it is a well designed and run project that works great If you use Ethernet, check out Open-MX!
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the move from pixels to petaflops
It is not often someone does our job for us and when it happens we like to take advantage of it. Earlier this month, Andrew Humber, Senior PR Manager, Tesla & CUDA Technologies at NVIDIA Corporation sent us a nice recap of the Tesla milestones for the past year. The GP-GPU revolution is moving rather fast as evidenced by Andrew's summary. Take a look you will be surprised how fast things are moving.
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What does that mean? And what is OpenCL?
This years SC was abuzz with co-processor HPC news. Take a look at how many awards went to the CUDA projects. Developments with co-processors, and GP-GPU's in particular, are moving at a fast pace. Success has been driving this movement and in a very short time we have had more than a few ways to program GP-GPUs (CUDA, Brook+, RapidMind, etc). However, as with any new software paradigm, investing too much time in a non standard approach can be risky. Plus, CUDA and Brook+ only addressed the co-processors.
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For all you tree hugger HPC geeks, I'm moderating a webinar called:
Cool Crunching: Understanding Green HPC
on Wednesday (December 3, 2008) at 11AM EST. More information and FREE registration click here.
And, I am working on the SC08 stories as well -- stay tuned. I have pictures from the Beowulf Bash -- uh oh.
