Bull, a leading European provider of open, flexible and secure information systems, has been named as the prime contractor for the JuRoPa Project. Other partners include Intel, Partec and Sun. With this selection, Bull can be expected to play an important role in HPC development in Europe.
A recent Sun
Innovation Insider podcast features Tony Warner, HPC Initiative Marketing Manager and Rich Brueckner, Community Manager for HPC Systems at Sun Microsystems
Through Sun, High-Performance Computing (HPC) expands to mainstream small and large businesses, no longer limited to the "large mainframe device" image. Businesses are using HPC technology to create to gain a competitive edge, to solve complex problems, to produce a better product, to complete complex tasks, and to save money.
The title Sun Grid Engine 6.2 for Dummies clearly would not have worked, since natural selection alone excludes that segment of any possible audience, so Daniel Templeton prudently titled his white paper "Beginner's Guide to Sun Grid Engine 6.2: Installation and Configuration." The author's credentials could not be more authoritative. Templeton is Strategic Liaison Manager for the Sun Grid Engine product team.
Aaron Dubrow's article on "Virtual Clustering" at the Texas Advanced Computing Center discusses the locally developed MyCluster software, which allows researchers to aggregate resources across the TeraGrid and into the clouds.
The Sun HPC Consortium Austin is being held in conjunction with SC08 in Austin, Texas on November 15-17, 2008. The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.
SHPCC's mission is to provide the high performance computing community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools in achieving the business and research objectives of member organizations.
In his paper "Grand Challenge: Millisecond-scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Eduardo D'Azevedo, a member of the Computer Science and mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discusses the work in molecular dynamics (MD) simulation being conducted by D.E. Shaw Research (DESRES), a company headed by David E. Shaw, a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University.
The Sun white paper "Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter" summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun’s approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio. It also describes the key services and support offerings that will be available for Sun xVM products.
Sun continues to demonstrate its commitment to the HPC community with the new release of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 software. Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 software enables customers to solve their complex, compute-intensive applications on Sun systems and clusters of Sun systems: the most cost-effective and flexible high-performance computing systems available.
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 is based on Open MPI 1.3 and it is the first release of ClusterTools to include support for Linux platforms as well as Solaris. It also provides support for MPI application profiling with Sun Studio Performance Analyzer (available in Studio Express 7/2008).
Sun, long a proponent of open source technology, has joined the MTConnect Technical Adviosory Group (MTAG), expanding its advocacy of open communication to the area of manufacturing technology, as reported in Market Watch. MTConnect, is an open manufacturing technology standard using royalty free Internet communications technologies as its basis to encourage and enable manufacturing technology vendors and customers to safely and easily communicate.
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