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Interview with Tomi Ilijas from Arctur HPC centre in Slovenia

24 Oct 2011 Lyon - Primeur talked with Tomi Ilija from the Arctur HPC centre in Slovenia near the Italian border in area where also bears are still abundant. So no place to wander around during the night. Arctur has several large laboratories as customers. They provide not only HPC infrastructure, but also application porting services.

European Commission to coordinate supercomputing developments to bring Europe back in the race - Software is the key

15 Oct 2011 Lyon - European Commission to coordinate supercomputing developments to bring Europe back in the race - Software is the key Read further...

You need more than just a fast processor to build an Exascale system

23 Jun 2011 Hamburg - At ISC11 we had a long interview with Dave Jursik Vice President of Deep Computing at IBM, about what it takes to build an Exascale system. But we started with talking about the new SuperMUC system at LRZ which has some new cooling techniques that allows it to run at the lowest clock speed possible, while delivering the maximum application performance. Read further...

2011 - Another year on the road to Exascale

 23 Jun 2011 Hamburg - At the last day of ISC11 in Hamburg, we talked again to Satoshi Matsuoka, and Thomas Sterling about where we are on the road to Exascale. We hope to talk to them each year. We started in 2010, so we can watch the progress the supercomputing community made during the past year. Read further...

You need more than just a fast processor to build an Exascale system

23 Jun 2011 Hamburg - At ISC11 we had a long interview with Dave Jursik Vice President of Deep Computing at IBM, about what it takes to build an Exascale system. But we started with talking about the new SuperMUC system at LRZ which has some new cooling techniques that allows it to run at the lowest clock speed possible, while delivering the maximum application performance. Read further...

Convey on track with world wide expansion and Graph500 entrance

23 Jun 2011 Hamburg - With so much attention drawn to GPUs at ISC11, we tend to forget, there are other hybrid computers that already do a lot of HPC work, like the hybrid-core system from Convey. In Hamburg, we talked to Convey CEO Bruce Toal, who explained Conveys recent work in graph processing especially in bioinformatics and Internet analysis. Read further...

Cray still going strong with XE6 and new machines in Europe

24 Jun 2011 Hamburg - During the past year since ISC10, Cray has introduced a new system, the XE6, announced sales to HLRS and CSCS in Europe, and continued a strong presence in the upper regions of the TOP500 with three machines in the TOP500. At ISC11 we talked to Cray's Barry Bolding about the developments and the road to Exascale. Read further...

Around the world of HPC in 30 minutes

23 Jun 2011 Hamburg - For the closing session at ISC'11 Chair Prof. Dr. Hans Meuer presented a panel debate that was moderated by Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research. Four panelists were submitted to a high-speed analyst crossfire on a hot set of topics related to HPC, Cloud, exascale, the TOP500, GPU, and ISC'11. The four panelists were Jean-Marc Denis from Bull and Andrew Jones from NAG Group on the vendors' side and Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Michael M. Resch from the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart on the users' side. Read further...

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The e-IRG Knowledge Base contains all relevant information on available e-Infrastructures, supercomputing, storage and networking resources and grids for science and research, as well as policies, funding organisations and projects in Europe. The Knowledge Base is a resource made available to the e-IRG and to the general public, for referencing and policy decision purposes. The information is presented in a readily accessible form. Read further...