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| News digest 18 June 2008 |
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| Primeur Live! from Dresden |
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Continue over a decade of PrimeurLive! reporting from Eruoep's major supercomputing event, Primeur publishes this three PrimeurLive! issues from ISC08 in Dresden:
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| Prof.Dr. Meuer kicks off 23rd International Supercomputing Conference, warning "Don't mention 'RoadRunner'" |
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In this third year the International Supercomputing Conference is hosted in Dresden we are rediscovering the feeling of community, established over the ISC years, according to Prof.Dr. Hans Meuer in the opening session, today. This conference edition is welcoming more than 1350 participants this year, in comparison with 1213 attendees in 2007. Yesterday, there was the official opening of the exhibition in a joyous atmosphere of meeting again the familiar faces at the expanded exhibition floor space with delicious food, beer and wine, and live music. Two pre-conference sessions addressing the automotive industry and cluster world and two scientific sessions have been taking place in the afternoon. Starting today, participants will enjoy three days' conference sessions with handpicked international expert speakers.
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| Welcome address by Professor Wolfgang Schmid and Official ISC'08 Awards Ceremony |
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Professor Wolfgang Schmid from Silicon Saxony and Qimonda Dresden, Germany introduced Saxony as a very IT-friendly Bundesland to the ISC'08 audience. Silicon Saxony has over 44.000 employees in IT-companies including AMD, Infinion and many universities and mid-sized companies. The energy cost is the new challenge by excellence to remain efficient in data processing and storage. It is a hot topic in this conference too. Professor Resch, chairman of the Awards Committee, assisted by Stephan Gillich from Intel, Germany and Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem from the Research Centre Jülich, Germany celebrated the winners of the ISC'08 Awards.
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| From Dresden to Hamburg |
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Yesterday, the Supercomputing conference ISC08 kicked-off with a pre-conference programme. One important part was the Exhibition party. To get the participants in Dresden into the exhibition hall and talking to the vendors, nice food and drinks were scattered around the exhibition floor. It worked: there were a lot of people walking around looking at the booths. This year, again there were more booths like last year and it the organisation had to turn down two dozen of vendor applications. Because the Dresden exhibition centre has not more space, IS09 will moge to Hamburg next year. How to get there? Take a boat in Dresden and float down the river Elbe until you reach the sea.
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| Shangai supercomputer centre helps companies in China |
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Shangai Supercomputer Centre is present with a booth in Dresden. The told Primeur it is their first time on an in International supercomputer exhibition. They did choose Dresden because it is easy to come from China to Europe. Shangai Supercomputer Centre is in Dresden to show what they are doing in China and to talk to supercomputing people from all over the world. What are they doing in China? The centre is one of the two large supercomputer centres in China. It is also a main nod in China Grid. Apart from serving the scientific community, they support a number of companies which need supercomputer power, be it continuously or only for peak production. The customers are the usual list of engineering, automotive and the like. Typically there a cycles in a companies involvement. Either they typically have cyclic computing needs or they develop and test new appliaction usages together with Shangai Supercomputer Centre and run it on the centre's supercomputer. After some time they buy their own additional supercomputer power and run the applications there. But after a while new developments bring them back to the Shangai Supercomputer Centre.
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| TOP500 |
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| Europe's share in the TOP500 at decade high |
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With 184 machines in the TOP500, Europe has more systems in the TOP500 than ever during the last decade. Just two years ago, there were only 84. The USA is stil dominating the list with 260 entries. Asia ony has 48 systems in the TOP500. Also in the TOP10 Europe is doing OK with 3 systems. JUGENE in Juelich, Germany, is th fastest system in Europe at position 6 wordlwide. At postion 9 is the second fastest European system: an IBM at IDRIS, France. The SGI at Total in France on postion 10 is also the fastest supercomputer in industry in the world. From the 10 fastest machines in Europe, 6 are produced by IBM, 2 by SGI, one by Cray and one by HP. The European country with the most supercomputers is the UK, followed by Germany and France. A newcomer is Slovenia with its first entrance in the TOP500.
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| Did they make it in time? |
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Dr. Erich Strohmaier from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA presented the 31st TOP500 list, assisted by Dr. Jack Dongarra. At the number one spot figures a new IBM system - we are not allowed to mention its name: but it sounds like the one of the New Mexican state bird - hosted at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. The new number one has 12.210 cell chips (8+1 cores) on IBM Model QS22 blade servers; 6562 dual-core AMD Opteron (LS21 blades); 98 TB main memory. Its power is approximately 2,35 MWs at load and it includes 278 racks grouped in 18 units and occupies 5200 square feet. The no. 1 in Asia is The Supercomputing Facility at Computational Research Laboratories in Pune India with the HP Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c System with 132,8 TFlop/s Linpack performance. The no. 1 in Europe is the JUGENE, an IBM System BlueGene/P solution at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. They have promised to attack the New Mexican state bird. As for now they are figuring at place six in the TOP500 with 180 TFlop/s Linpack performance. The biggest surprise came from the University of Mannheim that reentered the list at place 405: Noblesse oblige.
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| TSUBAME - towards petacomputing for the masses |
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At the opening keynote of ISC08 in Dresden, Satoshi Matsuoka described the past 30 years of computing and the next 30 years. A broad talk, but luckeley he had a focus too: the TSUBAME, at positon 24 of the June 2008 TOP500 list with 67.70 Tflop/s average speed and 109.73 Tflop/s peak. The machine is operated by the GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology for several years now and was designed to be a general purpose supercomputer. One that can be used for capacity computing and for capability computing. With 1400 users, but 2/3 of the sstem used by a few very demanding appliactions, Satoshi Matsuoka claims the TSUBAME is a success and could be used as a blue-print for a general purpose petflop/s supercomputer.
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| PRACE Award goes to Dortmund University of Technology |
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PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, awarded a prize for the best scientific paper submitted to ISC'08 by a European student or young scientist on petascaling. The authors of the award winning paper are Stefan Turek, Dominik Göddeke, Christian Becker, Sven H.M. Buijssen and Hilmar Wobker from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany.
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| 31st TOP500 List of world's most powerful supercomputers topped by world's first petaflop/s system |
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With the publication of the latest edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers on June 18, the global high performance computing community has officially entered a new realm - a supercomputer with a peak performance of more than 1 petaflop/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second).
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| European Grid Initiative at ISC'08: Supercomputers and Grids - The Future European Ecosystem |
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The European Grid Initiative Design Study (EGI_DS) welcomes the collaboration of the major European supercomputer projects, such as the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), to contribute to the construction of the future sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe.
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| SGI mobilizes accelerator technology innovators in effort to boost scientific application performance |
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SGI has launched a collaborative initiative aimed at using a range of accelerator technologies to dramatically boost the performance of scientific applications. The new SGI Accelerator Enabling Programme rallies industry innovators - including NVIDIA, XtremeData, Inc., PACT XPP Technologies and ClearSpeed Technology - to collaborate with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and customers to determine the optimal accelerator choice for specific scientific disciplines.
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| Allinea Software's DDT Debugger and OPT Optimization, Profiler Tool now available for Cell Broadband Engine |
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Allinea Software, a provider of innovative products for large-scale scalar and parallel high performance computing applications, has made available its Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and Optimization and Profiling Tool (OPT 1.4) on the IBM BladeCenter QS20 featuring the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) processor. New features have been integrated specifically designed for Cell/B.E. to offer easy-to-use and highly capable debugging and optimization tools for complete Cell/B.E.-based applications.
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| Allinea Software and Terra Soft Solutions partner to maximize performance for Cell BE Power Ecosystem |
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Allinea Software has signed a new reseller agreement whereby Terra Soft Solutions will offer Allinea's Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) and Optimization and Profiling Tool (OPT), both recently made available for Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) platforms.
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| Platform Computing launches networking site for HPC community |
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HPCcommunity.org, a networking site for High Performance Computing (HPC) users and researchers has been launched. The site is sponsored by Platform Computing.
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| ScaleMP announces support for IBM iDataPlex system |
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ScaleMP's patent-pending virtualization software, vSMP Foundation Standalone, is available for the IBM iDataPlex system. vSMP Foundation Standalone aggregates multiple x86 systems into a single virtual x86 system, enabling them to share a common operating system and memory.
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| Supermicro demonstrates 290GFLOPS/kW HPC solutions with best density at International SuperComputing (ISC) '08 |
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Super Micro Computer is showcasing its industry-leading HPC server solutions at ISC '08 in Dresden, Germany (booths B25-B28). With superior computing density and energy efficiency, Supermicro 1U Twin and SuperBlade servers deliver exceptional performance and energy savings.
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