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Titan Supercomputer Session Showcases Science on GPUs
BY Roy Kim
On May 15, 2012 in Supercomputing
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When the massive Titan supercomputer goes live this fall at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), it will be positioned to take the title as the world’s fastest supercomputer to the U.S. That makes for great headlines, but, as researchers shared during a session at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Tuesday, Titan’s impact will be a....
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Supercomputers Power Social Networks to Cancer Research
By Ken Brown
On Mar 16, 2012 in Corporate, Supercomputing.
7 CommentsThey are the world’s fastest computers – capable of a million billion calculations per second – but what are they used for? Most of us don’t really know. For those who don’t have a computer science degree, we created this short video for you. To produce this story, we spoke with directors of two prominent….
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Dell Mainstream Servers Get A Boost with NVIDIA GPUs
By Sumit Gupta
On Mar 14, 2012 in Supercomputing.
3 CommentsEvery server manufacturer announced support last week for the new Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs in their new models. That includes PC giant Dell, which announced, for the first time, that it is supporting Tesla GPUs in its mainstream Dell PowerEdge R720 servers. And, our new benchmarks demonstrate why. The PowerEdge R720 is, by far, one….
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Tesla GPU’s Crank Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs To ’11′
By Sumit Gupta
On Mar 8, 2012 in Supercomputing.
3 CommentsTesla GPUs are already used worldwide to boost supercomputers, and now they’re being used to crank up performance on new servers based on Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs. We just got our hands on the HP SL250 ProLiant server, and we took it for a test drive running some popular scientific high-performance computing (HPC) applications. As expected,….
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A Japanese Tale of Two Supercomputers
By Sumit Gupta
On Feb 16, 2012 in Supercomputing.
12 CommentsinsideHPC is reporting that legislators in Japan are questioning the benefit of spending 112 billion Yen (about $1.4 billion U.S. dollars) for its K supercomputer, the world’s number 1 fastest system according to the Top500 list. I leave it to the Japanese officials to decide if the K system was a justified expense. But regardless,….
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Registration For GTC 2012 Swings Open
By Donal Murphy
On Feb 15, 2012 in Corporate, Supercomputing.
No CommentsFollowing a whirlwind tour of Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and China, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) returns home to San Jose, Calif., for its flagship event on May 14-17, and registration opens today. Now into its third year, GTC keeps getting better and better. This year’s event will feature some of the most advanced scientific research….
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Tackling the Big Bang with GPU Supercomputers
By Axel Koehler
On Jan 31, 2012 in Supercomputing.
6 CommentsLife’s full of unanswered questions, but at least one is being addressed with the help of a new GPU supercomputer at Bielefeld University, near Hannover Germany. The university is delving deep into the physics of matter in the moments after the Big Bang. To help carry out the complex simulations required to research quantum chromodynamics….
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Using GPUs to Help Modernize U.S. Air Traffic System
By Calisa Cole
On Jan 27, 2012 in Supercomputing.
No CommentsAir traffic control is getting an upgrade, and GPU technology is helping the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) NextGen initiative reach new heights. Built shortly after World War II, the U.S. air traffic control system is based on a network of radar towers. This means that 50,000 to 60,000 flights a day must fly indirect….
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Using GPU’s for Air Traffic Management
By Calisa Cole
On Jan 17, 2012 in Software, Supercomputing.
No CommentsLegroom is tight, babies are screaming and the food supply is running low. Such are the horrors of being stuck on the tarmac. Thankfully, the folks at Silicon Valley-based Optimal Synthesis are working to advance air traffic flow management using CUDA GPUs. By some estimates, the number of aircraft in our skies will double by 2025…..
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Meet ‘CARMA’ – The CUDA on ARM Development Kit
By Devang Sachdev
On Dec 19, 2011 in Software, Supercomputing.
33 CommentsThe CUDA on ARM development kit gets official today, with a final spec-sheet and its crowdsourced codename. Last week, we asked you, dear reader, for a few good codename suggestions. Within a matter of days, we were inundated with hundreds of thoughtful codename suggestions. Thanks to the help of our enthusiastic and creative NVIDIA community,….
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GTC Asia Wraps Up With Flurry of Workshops, Lectures
By Hector Marinez
On Dec 15, 2011 in Software, Supercomputing.
4 CommentsGTC Asia’s second and final day drew to a rousing close Thursday in Bejing, with more than 40 workshops and lectures, and a closing keynote by Steve Scott, chief technologist for NVIDIA’s HPC business. With more than 1,500 attendees from 40 countries, the event’s closing session focused on a dizzying range of topics, including modeling….
