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...
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...
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...
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...
24 Jun 2011 Hamburg - You can't miss them. Prominently located at the entrance of the exhibition hall, the booth could be seen as a portal to all the turbulent exhibition activity behind. Here they are, the gatekeepers of HPC. It's not unlike their primary software product, Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite, the transcendent automation software for HPC, data center and cloud environments. Yes, you must have gathered by now, we are at Adaptive Computing. Read further...
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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