Category Archives: HPC

TOP500@June 18 2012

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

  Some observations on Top10: IBM BlueGene 16C 1.60 Ghz take the price and 4 out of 10, 1st, 3rd, 7th, 8th K computer SPARC64 VIIIfx is 2nd Xeon take 4 out of 10  one AMD from Cray USA has … Continue reading →

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Intel E5-4600, E5-2400, E3-1200 v2

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Intel announce new Xeon chip  E5-4600, E5-2400 and E3-1200V2 to join E5-2600 E5-4600 support  four-socket server 4, 6, 8 core/socket, <=32 core/system 4 memory channels , 48 DIMMS , <=1.5TB 40 channel PCIe3 256 bit AVX ,TXT 95-130W E5-2400 support … Continue reading →

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NVidia Kepler GK110

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Nvidia announce Tesla GPU build on Kepler Architecture   15 SMX units 6 64-bit memory controller TSMC 28nm 192 cuda-cor SP (K10) and 64 cuda-core DP (K20) 1 Tflops DP SMX Streaming Multiprocessor — 3X  performance per watt than the … Continue reading →

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Some Observations on HPC in China

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

China support various research and development in CPU and OS On the OS side it is taking the open source Linux direction and try to add the Chinese requirements On the CPU side it also take open source and license … Continue reading →

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Oracle E5-2600 M3 Server

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Oracle announce the server and blade based on Intel E5-2600 X4170M3 X4270M3 X6270M3 (blade) key features 4 1/10 Gbe on Board PCI-3 slots More and higher speed memory support s10u10 and S11 and OEL 5.7/6.1 support w2008sp2 w2008R2sp1, suse11sp1, ESXi5.0 … Continue reading →

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Low Latency 2.0 and Big Data Andy Bechtolsheim

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

At 2012 HPC Linux for Wall Street, Andy Bechtolsheim give two presentations:Low Latency 2.0Big DataI include some picture for Andy’s talk with this linkvery interest talks

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China’s Super Computer WJS

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

The   WJS article  By Bob Davis with title “China’s Not-So-Supr Computers” Key Points: Nebulae  星雲 National Supercomputing Center (Shenzhen) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Use of SC is determine by local politicians not the breakthrough technology SW development project is … Continue reading →

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Raspberry PI $2k TFLOPS HPC/GPGPU cluster

Posted on February 29, 2012 by
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which Grid engine?

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

Chris Dagdigian recent article on bio-itworld with title “Which Grid Engine?”key observations: Gridengine still very popular OGE would last long Recommend Comerical Support to use Univa Gridengine  with open core Recommend Opensource support to use Open Grid Schudler and with … Continue reading →

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rocks-openmpi and gridengine in 5.4.3

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

it is well know that rocks-openmpi come with hpc roll in rocksclusters (5.4.3 current) did not compiled with-sge.e.g. /opt/openmpi/bin/ompi_info|grep gridengine return nothing (this bugs was fix by rocks’s developer the new rpm is here ) As an experiment, I download … Continue reading →

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