A*STAR Computational Resource Centre and Obsidian have teamed up in the InfiniCortex project. Their aim is to create a geographically distributed Supercomputer of Supercomputers based on global collaboration between HPC clusters partnering to form the Galaxy. The initiative is based on high capacity transmission facilities, novel applications of long distance InfiniBand and advances in the application of graph theory. The project strives to pave the way to distributed Exascale. Read further...

International Data Corporation (IDC) has made available the first in-depth forecasts for high performance data analysis (HPDA), the fast-growing worldwide market for Big Data workloads that use high performance computing (HPC) resources. IDC forecasts that the server market for HPDA will grow rapidly at 23.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $2.7 billion in 2018 and the related storage market will expand to about $1.6 billion in the same year. Read further...

InfiniBand is the most deployed interconnect solution on the TOP500 list of supercomputers. The number of InfiniBand-based supercomputers increased 8.3 percent year-over-year to 222, representing 44.4 percent of the TOP500. Mellanox InfiniBand is the only Petascale-proven, standard interconnect solution, connecting 24 out of the 48 Petaflop capable systems on the list. Overall, the number of Mellanox FDR InfiniBand connected systems grew 1.9x from June 2013 to June 2014, connecting 127 systems, showing the increased demand for higher performance, scalability and efficiency. Read further...

Two years ago the UberCloud started its free HPC Experiment which today has attracted more than 2,000 organisations and individuals from computational fluid dynamics, finite element material analysis, multi-physics, chemistry, life sciences, biology, finance, Big Data, and the HPC community. Today, UberCloud announces the addition of its Marketplace and Appstore, where engineers and scientists can discover, try and buy the computing power and expertise they need for their computational and data-intensive tasks. Read further...

Univa Corporation will start a collaboration and technical partnership with CPU 24/7, the highly specialized IT service provider with a mechanical engineering focus, headquartered in Germany. Read further...

AppliedMicro has launched the X-Gene Server on a Chip based on the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. Read further...

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation and E4 Computer Engineering have joined forces to design EK003 a low-power solution part of E4's ARKA series, targeting High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data workloads. Read further...

CoolIT Systems, a global expert in Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies for HPC, Cloud and enterprise markets, is a Bronze Sponsor at International Supercomputing Conference 2014 (ISC14) in Leipzig, Germany from June 23-25. This level of commitment to the event will allow CoolIT ample opportunity to showcase their liquid cooling expertise, experience and unique data centre solutions for HPC, Cloud and enterprise markets. Read further...

Intel Corporation has launched new details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi processors, code-named Knights Landing, which promise to extend the benefits of code modernization investments being made for current generation products. These include a new high-speed fabric that will be integrated on-package and high-bandwidth, on-package memory that combined, promise to accelerate the rate of scientific discovery. Currently memory and fabrics are available as discrete components in servers limiting the performance and density of supercomputers. Read further...

Echostreams Innovative Solutions LLC has introduced the proof-of-concept for an all-SSD Demo-Flash Storage Solution for High-Performance-Computing at the International Supercomputing Conference 2014, reaching 2 million transactions per minute running Oracle RAC 12c performance test. The benchmark test at Orange Silicon Valley consists of five commodity servers running Oracle 12c Real Application Cluster software, CacheIO FlashCache Appliance based on Echostreams patented FlacheSAN2 flash server, and commodity iSCSI array. Besides high IOPs and tpmC, FlacheSAN2 also provides up to 170 Gbit /s throughput sustained random read. Read further...

ISC'14 is not only a supercomputing conference but also an HPC exhibition, showcasing the latest technologies in processor design, storage, server and supercomputing development. This year, 156 vendors are demonstrating their products. The ISC'14 organisation took us on a tour where 11 vendors were given the opportunity to present their highlights. Read further...

T-Platforms, a global supplier of solutions and services for high-performance computing, has introduced the new A-Class supercomputer system, a highly integrated platform designed to simplify the transition to multi-petaflops computations. T-Platforms is unveiling the A-Class at the International Supercomputing Conference, June 23-26, in Leipzig, Germany. The A-Class is the most advanced T-Platforms product, with the highest computational density, scalability, energy efficiency and reliability features combined in a custom rack-level chassis. Read further...

Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has launched Switch-IB, the next generation of its InfiniBand switch IC optimized for HPC, Web 2.0, database and Cloud data centres, and the first-ever switch IC capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds. Switch-IB is the world's fastest switch with 36-ports of 100Gb/s to provide 7.2Tb/s of switching capacity - 250 percent higher than the nearest alternative - with industry-low 130ns of latency and power consumption. Switch-IB is also the first to introduce router capabilities that enable full isolation and scalability to meet tomorrow's needs of hundreds-of-thousand node clusters and beyond. Read further...

HP's Apollo family of high-performance computing systems are accelerated by Mellanox's FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect solutions to maximize data centre return-on-investment and solve space and energy efficiency challenges. Read further...

Mellanox Technologies Ltd. has made available HPC-X Scalable Software Toolkit, a comprehensive software suite for high-performance computing environments, which provides enhancements to significantly increase the scalability and performance of message communications in the network. Read further...

Mellanox's end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect solutions deliver leading performance and efficiency for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation X-Gene ARM-based platform. The X-Gene family with integrated 64-bit ARM-enabled processing is the first commercially available 64-bit ARM platform. Connected with Mellanox interconnect solutions, the X-Gene ARM architecture platform provides high-performance data centres, Cloud providers and application developers with an efficient ARM-based infrastructure. Demonstrations of the joint solution will take place at the ISC'14 conference at the Mellanox booth and the AppliedMicro booth. Read further...