High Performance Computing
EMC Data Protection Suite
May 10, 2013 3:59 pm | Emc | Product Releases | CommentsThe EMC Data Protection Suite is a "survival kit" designed to provide flexibility and reduce risk by simplifying the acquisition, implementation and use of backup and archive solutions, while lowering total cost of ownership. It delivers a portfolio of data protection services to support virtual and physical environments and tight integration with EMC purpose-built backup appliances.
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Cray XC30-AC Supercomputer
May 8, 2013 2:39 pm | Cray Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe Cray XC30-AC air cooled supercomputer is designed to enable users in fields such as manufacturing, life sciences and energy to apply supercomputing resources toward solving challenges that can only be addressed with high-end HPC technology.
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AMD Radeon HD 7990
April 25, 2013 2:55 pm | AMD | Product Releases | CommentsThe AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics cardis based on AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture with AMD Eyefinity technology. It supports multi-monitor configurations with up to six simultaneous displays, as well as ultra HD (4K resolution) displays
LISTED UNDER: High Performance ComputingDataManager
April 22, 2013 2:38 pm | Cycle Computing Llc | Product Releases | CommentsDataManager schedules and manages the secure transfer and storage of data sets needed for large scale computations. It seamlessly automates data archival and retrieval from lower-cost cloud storage solutions, such as Amazon Glacier.
LISTED UNDER: Big DataPBS Analytics 12.0
April 17, 2013 12:26 pm | Altair Engineering | Product Releases | CommentsPBS Analytics 12.0 is a data analysis and visualization tool for high-performance computing (HPC). The software offers a high-performance database and robust data collectors. A Web-based tool, it incorporates a chart designer that provides users with flexibility in creating clean and concise charts.
LISTED UNDER: Data Analysis Software | High Performance Computing
HP Moonshot Server
April 9, 2013 2:18 pm | Hewlett-Packard | Product Releases | CommentsHP Moonshot servers are “software defined,” designed to enable enterprises to optimize their servers based on specific workload needs and to deliver significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity. These second-generation servers from Project Moonshot are engineered to address the IT challenges created by social, cloud, mobile and big data.
LISTED UNDER: Big Data | SystemsMellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand
April 4, 2013 9:59 am | Mellanox Technologies, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsMellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches are designed to accelerate Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse appliance. InfiniBand enables Microsoft to offer new functionality and deliver higher performance and scalability while reducing the hardware footprint to enable the lowest total cost of ownership.
LISTED UNDER: High Performance ComputingJoint Computing Institute to Tackle Big Data
January 14, 2013 7:31 am | News | CommentsThe deluge of data coming from today's countless electronic devices will be harnessed to take on the most pressing problems facing science and society at a new computational institute in Seattle. The Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing is being formed by the University of Washington and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA.
LISTED UNDER: Big DataLeibniz Supercomputing Centre's SuperMUC Supercomputer gets Innovative Storage Infrastructure
January 9, 2013 3:50 am | News | CommentsIBM has announced that the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) has implemented an innovative IBM tape storage system to provide up to 16.5 petabytes of scientific data archiving and backup for the center's SuperMUC supercomputer. A petabyte is roughly the equivalent of all the content in the U.S. Library of Congress — times 100
LISTED UNDER: High Performance Computing | Big Data | SystemsCeBIT 2013: New Big Data Survey shows Potential for Business
January 7, 2013 8:50 am | News | CommentsFor the first time ever, a total 1.8 zettabytes of data were generated worldwide last year — and according to forecasts, the volume will continue to double every two years. So, one key question we can ask today is: How can we utilize these mountains of data better?
LISTED UNDER: Big DataIntel Atom Processor S1200 Product Family
January 4, 2013 10:59 am | Intel Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsThe Intel Atom Processor S1200 product family is designed to deliver low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers, as well as a new class of energy-efficient storage and networking systems
LISTED UNDER: ProcessorsOpteron 4300 and 3300 Series Processors
December 19, 2012 10:18 am | AMD | Product Releases | CommentsNine new mid-range and entry-level AMD Opteron 4300 Series and 3300 Series server processors are designed to increase performance-per-watt versus the previous generation and to maximize compute capabilities in power-constrained environments
LISTED UNDER: AcceleratorsPBS Analytics 12.0
December 14, 2012 5:16 am | Altair Engineering | Product Releases | CommentsThe PBS Analytics 12.0 data analysis and visualization tool for high-performance computing scales to support millions of job records. It is designed to furnish a deeper, more accurate understanding of an organization’s HPC infrastructure
LISTED UNDER: High Performance Computing | Big Data | Supercomputers
Supermicro Hyper-Speed Servers
December 13, 2012 4:04 am | Super Micro Computer, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsSupermicro Hyper-Speed Servers are a line of ultra-high-performance 2U and 4U/tower platforms designed to maximize processing power and precisely tune hardware and firmware to attain up to 30 percent lower latency over competitive solutions
LISTED UNDER: High Performance Computing | Big Data | SupercomputersIBM Lights up Silicon Chips to Tackle Big Data
December 13, 2012 4:01 am | News | CommentsIBM has announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. The breakthrough technology — called "silicon nanophotonics" — allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using, for the first time, sub-100nm semiconductor technology
LISTED UNDER: Big Data
