August 2007 - Posts

Distributed Workloads Drive Up Server Demand
30 August 07 08:54 AM | saptaks | 0 Comments   

According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 6.3 percent year over year to $13.1 billion in the second quarter of 2007. This is the fifth consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth and Read More...

Filed under: HPC News

Bulldozer for High Performance Computing
30 August 07 12:25 AM | saptaks | 0 Comments   

AMD today announced SSE5 Extensions to x86 instructions. It will be specially useful for algorithms that require fast floating-point matrix and vector processing. A floating-point matrix multiply using the new SSE5 extensions is reportedly 30 percent Read More...

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9,200 core Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 cluster
29 August 07 11:50 PM | saptaks | 0 Comments   

Actually, the cluster is a dual boot Linux/CCS cluster, which makes it even more interesting than the headline. The machine is reported to have 1,1151 Dell servers with dual-socket Barcelonas for a total of over 9,200 cores and will be housed at the University Read More...

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Data dependency concerns in parallel computing
29 August 07 05:52 PM | saptaks | 1 Comments   

The most severe bottlenecks in high performance systems in majority cases results from I/O operations. To buffer I/O or other slow accesses, engineers devised cache. So, what is a cache, how does it work, and what should we know to intelligently program? Read More...

Filed under: HPC Banter

What's up in the Parallel [Programming] world?
29 August 07 02:30 PM | saptaks | 1 Comments   

While I try to wrap my head around a bunch of the new and some not so new technologies in this area, let me put some links out, so that you can explore these stuff for yourself and let me know your comments. PLINQ Dryad MPI OpenMP Boost.MPI CCR MPI.NET Read More...

Filed under: HPC, Programming