Supercomputers

In this Videocast we'll look at the current state of blades, including market share, revenue and OSs. Well highlight the benefits of blades and consider where the technology is heading. tech news

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun to bring Intel Itanium processor based servers to market and plans to transition its 64-bit server products tothis processor over time. This white paper details this transition to Servers Based onItanium Processors. tech news

This paper describes the global shared memory architecture and benefits of the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and super-clusters. Memory size and scaling, cache organization and coherency, nodes and inter-node memory access, bandwidths and latencies, and RAS features are all discussed. The paper is written from a perspective that may be useful to an applications developer or a system administrator. It describes the current implementation of the Altix 3000 system communication infrastructure. tech news

The SGI Altix system was designed to bring the performance advantages of robust shared-memory architecture into an industry-standard, open-source Linux environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe the features, scalability enhancements, and additional tools implemented in SGIs Linux Environment for Altix. These include scalability enhancements to the kernel, I/O enhancements, storage and system management enhancements, and development tools. tech news

The Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3) built an Intel architecture-based supercomputing cluster with the goal of obtaining the best possible performance from the hardware. When the centers staff realized how powerful the cluster was, they became determined to develop a high-performing supercomputer that would place in the TOP500 list of the worlds most powerful computers. Intel Solution Services helped ac3 design the large cluster as well as tune the software to yield the maximum performance. The result was a performance of 1.095 teraflops on the LINPACK benchmark and the rank of 108 among the TOP500 (November 2003) supercomputers. tech news