I had the pleasure to be little bit involved in the creation of the fastest supercomputer in Asia, and the second fastest supercomputer in the world – the Dawning “Nebulae” Petaflop Supercomputer at SIAT. If we look on the peak flops capacity of the system – nearly 3 Petaflops, it is the largest supercomputer in [...]
In the introduction for the “Paving the road to Exascale” series of posts (part 1), one of the items I mentioned was the “many many cores, CPU or GPUs”. The basic performance of a given system is being measured by flops. Each CPU/GPU is capable for X amount of flops (which can be calculated as [...]
Published twice a year, the Top500 supercomputers list ranks the world fastest supercomputers and provides a great indication for HPC market trends, usage models and a tool for future predictions. The 35th release of the Top500 list was just published and according to the new results InfiniBand has become the de-facto interconnect technology for high [...]
It’s almost time for ISC’10 in Hamburg, Germany (May 31-June 3), please stop by and visit Mellanox Technologies booth (#331) to learn more about how our products deliver market-leading bandwidth, high-performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. Mellanox’s end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products deliver the industry’s [...]
Mellanox announced the immediate availability of NVIDIA GPUDirect™ technology with Mellanox ConnectX®-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters that boosts GPU-based cluster efficiency and increases performance by an order of magnitude over today’s fastest high-performance computing clusters. Read the entire press release here: Supporting Resources: Learn more about Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters Learn more about NVIDIA GPUDirect with Mellanox [...]
1996 was the year when the world saw the first Teraflops system. 12 years after, the first Petaflop system was built. It took the HPC world 12 years to increase the performance by a factor of 1000. Exascale computing, another performance jump by a factor of 1000 will not take another 12 years. Expectations indicate [...]
The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its programmability, has made graphics accelerators a compelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in a wide variety of application domains. Due to the great computational power of the GPU, the GPGPU method has proven valuable in various areas of science and [...]
Announced last week, the Russia TOP50 lists the fastest computers in Russia ranked according to Linpack benchmark results. This list provides an important tool for tracking usage trends in high-performance computing in Russia. Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches enable the fastest supercomputer on the Russian Top50 Supercomputer list with peak performance of 414 teraflops. [...]
During Oracle’s recent earnings conference call, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison noted that the Oracle Sun Exadata – with Mellanox InfiniBand – continues to gain market adoption with its stunning database and transaction performance at over 10X of that of its competitors. Ellison also spoke to Oracle’s intention to port additional middleware and applications over the [...]
Interesting article just came out from Dave Raffo at SearchStorage.com. I have a quick summary below but you should certainly read the full article here: “Health care system rolls its own data storage ‘cloud’ for researchers.” Partners HealthCare, a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, is an [...]
