Ratin­gen, 01. Dezem­ber 2014 — In der aktu­el­len Green500-Lis­te (Novem­ber 2014) konn­te der deut­sche Super­com­pu­ter “L‑CSC” des Darm­städ­ter GSI Helm­holtz­zen­trums für Schwer­io­nen­for­schung, der in Koope­ra­ti­on mit dem Frank­furt Insti­tu­te for Advan­ced Stu­dies (FIAS) gebaut wur­de, den ers­ten Platz ein­neh­men. Der Com­pu­ter-Clus­ter besteht aus 160 ASUS ESC4000-FDR G2S Ser­ver-Bare­bo­nes mit je zwei Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 v2-Pro­zes­so­ren, vier AMD® Fire­ProT S9150-Work­sta­tion-Gra­fik­kar­ten und 256GB DDR3-1600-RAM (1,35V). Die Ver­bin­dung zwi­schen den ein­zel­nen Clus­ter-Kno­ten wird über (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/27/14 — The Mark­ham, Onta­rio cam­pus of AMD (NYSE: AMD) has been pre­sen­ted the 2014 Smart Com­mu­te “Employ­er of the Year” award for York Regi­on. The annu­al awards aim to reco­gni­ze employ­ers lea­ding the way on sus­tainable com­mu­ting prac­ti­ces. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

War­wick UK, the arri­val of the new 64-bit ARM® pro­ces­sor archi­tec­tu­re in high per­for­mance com­pu­ting recei­ved a signi­fi­cant boost today with the announce­ment of avai­la­bi­li­ty for a key deve­lo­p­ment tool from Alli­nea Soft­ware. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

New Orleans, LA-SC14-Nov. 20, 2014 — Pen­gu­in Com­pu­ting, pro­vi­der of high per­for­mance com­pu­ting, enter­pri­se data cen­ter and cloud solu­ti­ons, today announ­ced the first appli­ca­ti­on opti­mi­zed acce­le­ra­ted pro­ces­sing unit (APU) clus­ters, making seam­less GPU and CPU memo­ry sha­ring on clus­ters a rea­li­ty based on hete­ro­ge­neous sys­tem archi­tec­tu­re (HSA) from Advan­ced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). The shared memo­ry capa­bi­li­ty invol­ves very light­weight con­text swit­ches to switch instanta­neous­ly bet­ween the GPU and CPU, whi­che­ver code runs best at a given moment. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

MANNHEIM, Ger­ma­ny; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the fourth con­se­cu­ti­ve time, Tianhe‑2, a super­com­pu­ter deve­lo­ped by China’s Natio­nal Uni­ver­si­ty of Defen­se Tech­no­lo­gy, has retai­ned its posi­ti­on as the world’s No. 1 sys­tem with a per­for­mance of 33.86 petaflop/s (qua­dril­li­ons of cal­cu­la­ti­ons per second) on the Lin­pack bench­mark, accor­ding to the 44th edi­ti­on of the twice-year­ly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful super­com­pu­ters. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

New Orleans, LA, USA; Novem­ber 20, 2014 — A new super­com­pu­ter, L‑CSC from the GSI Helm­holtz Cen­ter, emer­ged as the most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent (or gree­nest) super­com­pu­ter in the world, accor­ding to the 16th edi­ti­on of the twice-year­ly Green500 list of the world’s most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters. The L‑CSC clus­ter was the first and only super­com­pu­ter on the list to sur­pass 5 gigaflops/watt (bil­li­ons of ope­ra­ti­ons per second per watt). It was powered by Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs and a FDR Infi­ni­band net­work and acce­le­ra­ted by AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 GPUs. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

NEW ORLEANS, Loui­sia­na — Nov. 20, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) powers the L‑CSC clus­ter at the GSI rese­arch faci­li­ty achie­ving the num­ber one posi­ti­on for super­com­pu­ters on the latest Green500™ List, a ran­king of the 500 most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters in the world, with reco­gni­ti­on as the world’s lea­der in ener­gy-effi­ci­ent high per­for­mance GPU com­pu­ting (HPL). The L‑CSC clus­ter is instal­led at the GSI Helm­holtz­zen­trum für Schwer­io­nen­for­schung GmbH rese­arch faci­li­ty in Darm­stadt, Ger­ma­ny, and is powered by AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 ser­ver GPUs. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

During Event Key­notes, Sam­sung Shows Upco­ming Line of Free­Sync-Enab­led Ultra High-Defi­ni­ti­on Dis­plays and Cap­com Announ­ces Eva­lua­ti­on of AMD Man­t­le API (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

2015 AMD Mobi­le Road­map Adds “Car­ri­zo” and “Carrizo‑L” SoCs to APU Lin­e­up SINGAPORE — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/20/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today at its Future of Com­pu­te event announ­ced the addi­ti­on of its first high per­for­mance sys­­tem-on-a-chip (SoC), code­na­med “Car­ri­zo”, and a main­stream SoC code­na­med “Carrizo‑L” as part of the company’s 2015 AMD Mobi­le APU (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 18 — NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on has announ­ced that it has star­ted deve­lo­ping a next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor super­com­pu­ter. This new model will be the suc­ces­sor to the SX-ACE super­com­pu­ter. With this next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor machi­ne, NEC aims to achie­ve a rack per­for­mance that is more than 10 times grea­ter than the cur­rent model, and a maxi­mum sys­tem per­for­mance that is more than 100 times grea­ter, resul­ting in an impro­ve­ment of pro­ces­sing per­for­mance to tens of peta­flops. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Novem­ber 18th, 2014, – The Khro­nos™ Group today announ­ced the rati­fi­ca­ti­on and public release of updated Open­CL™ 2.0 and Pro­vi­sio­nal SYCL™ 1.2 spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons. The new spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons inte­gra­te feed­back from the deve­lo­per com­mu­ni­ty, ali­gn with the latest C++ deve­lo­p­ments, and increase imple­men­ta­ti­on con­sis­ten­cy for impro­ved por­ta­bi­li­ty of hete­ro­ge­neous par­al­lel appli­ca­ti­ons. The latest Open­CL and SYCL spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons are open, royal­ty-free and available at www.khronos.org/opencl/ and www.khronos.org/opencl/sycl. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Sys­tem fea­tures 5184 CPU cores and 20.7 TBytes of shared memo­ry, hand­les mas­si­ve amounts of data as the first part of a new lar­ge cloud com­pu­ting faci­li­ty for Big Data Ana­ly­tics. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 17 — The Open­ACC stan­dards group today announ­ced that Advan­ced Micro Devices (AMD) and PathSca­le, Inc., have joi­n­ed the orga­niza­ti­on, alig­ning with 18 other mem­bers and sup­port­ers world­wi­de to dri­ve the deve­lo­p­ment of appli­ca­ti­ons for acce­le­ra­tor-enab­led super­com­pu­ters, clus­ters and other high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) sys­tems. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 17 — Appli­ed Micro Cir­cuits Cor­po­ra­ti­on, today announ­ced col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Red Hat and Cir­ras­ca­le to deli­ver a high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) clus­ter based on the world’s first ARM 64-bit X‑Gene Ser­ver on a Chip to Law­rence Liver­mo­re Natio­nal Labo­ra­to­ry. This clus­ter will be tes­ted and eva­lua­ted as a plat­form for HPC and Big Data tech­no­lo­gies. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

SEATTLE, WA and NEW ORLEANS, LA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/17/14 — At the 2014 Super­com­pu­ting Con­fe­rence in New Orleans, Loui­sia­na, glo­bal super­com­pu­ter lea­der Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announ­ced the Com­pa­ny is eva­lua­ting alter­na­ti­ve pro­ces­sor design points, inclu­ding the poten­ti­al use of 64-bit ARM® and other power and per­for­mance effi­ci­ent pro­ces­sing tech­no­lo­gies for its super­com­pu­ters and data ana­ly­tics sys­tems. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »