Cheer High Performance Computing (HPC)!

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851192545695784152011-11-27T17:30:47.938-08:00Cheer High Performance Computing (HPC)!Blog about High Performance Computing (HPC) including HPC topics, products, applications, performances, etc. The author lives in Japan.Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-696498450353924262009-05-17T20:19:00.003-07:002009-08-05T05:52:59.264-07:00Japan Next Generation Supercomputer Project may get stronger by present revising.

I almost fell off my chair about the press releases on May 14 by RIKEN and NEC as follows.RIKEN: "RIKEN revises the configuration of the Next Generation Supercomputer System (NGS) (in Japanese)"NEC: "NEC revises role of participation in the MEXT's Next Generation Supercomputer Project (in Japanese)"I guess that NEC chooses moderate improvement in their vector machine instead of innovation which

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-73539092252462368052009-05-06T01:14:00.002-07:002009-05-06T01:29:23.924-07:00Flu and Supercomputing

Infection cases by the swine flu virus are reported every day. Watching the 2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak Map, we can well understand that the swine flu virus is transported by traffic networks. In order to imagine present infection status correctly, this map is much better than common maps that paint out whole country even if only one person is infected.I guess that many countries are studying

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-76411163375072787742009-04-23T20:08:00.002-07:002009-04-23T20:14:52.803-07:00SGI into Rackable Systems, and Sun into Oracle

Following SGI's $25M purchasing by Rackable Systems on April 1, now Oracle announced "Oracle Buys Sun" with $7.4B on April 20.After IBM withdrawal of Sun's deal, we concerned about Sun's future. Now Sun Microsystems seems that they succeed in finding a suitable boatman for Sun ship. I wonder why Sun did not propose their purchasing to Oracle first. However, according to the article of NY Times "

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-23487081813820849172009-03-30T01:01:00.005-07:002009-03-30T01:39:07.291-07:00Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?

I am reading the book "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? (Nikkei, 2002, Japanese translation)" so late. The book is written by Louis Gerstner assuming IBM CEO from a non-IT company in 1993, brought dramatic success to terrible IBM and left IBM in spring of 2002.I passed intentionally such a book during an IBM employee because it was too close to enjoy for me. Instead of reading, I always imagined

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-10272251569093835002009-03-22T18:04:00.004-07:002009-03-22T18:23:41.931-07:00RIKEN Symposium “The Third Generation PC Clusters”

RIKEN Symposium, titled “The Third Generation PC Clusters", was held on March 12 in RIKEN Wako Institute, sponsored by RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication, and RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center.All the presentations (almost in Japanese) are now available from the RIKEN symposium program site.The symposium was interesting to me since RIKEN reviewed their five year

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-40563109245302021392009-03-17T19:00:00.006-07:002009-03-17T19:19:37.728-07:00Prof. Genki Yagawa and Dr. Tadashi Watanabe, world-class researcher and architect in HPC, are awarded the Japan Academy Prize in FY2009

The Japan Academy (Nippon Gakushi-in) was established on 15 January 1879 in the Meiji Period for the purpose of advancing education and science in Japan. Now it is operated under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, The Japan Academy announced 10 awardees of the Japan Academy Prize in FY2009 last week, and Prof. Genki Yagawa and Dr. Tadashi Watanabe,

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-47264751923152542622009-03-10T02:04:00.005-07:002009-03-10T02:25:34.029-07:00HPC ASIA & APAN 2009 in Taiwan Last Week

Last week, HPC ASIA & APAN 2009 was held on March 2 – 5 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Its presentation materials and proceedings are ready for download in advanced program.It is the 10th HPC Asia event hosted by National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan. The seventh HPC Asia 2004 was held in Japan, followed by HPC Asia 2005 in China and HPC Asia 2007 in KoreaTaiwan government is

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-83267538763144177172009-03-06T04:24:00.005-08:002009-03-06T05:33:56.339-08:00New Earth Simulator (ES2) and New Plasma Simulator into operation

According to the recent Japanese news releases, two Japanese supercomputer sites announced start of operation. One is a 131 TFOPS new Earth Simulator (ES2) in Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and another is a 77 TFLOPS new Plasma Simulator in National Institute of Plasma Science (NIFS) in Toki of Japan.ES2, successor of the well-known Earth Simulator is NEC SX-9/E

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-31875766562472084842009-02-26T20:32:00.004-08:002009-02-26T20:57:30.503-08:00HPC related seminars (Japan) in March

Unusual wet snow is falling silently outside. However, March is coming soon while no influenza pandemic came that our government strongly warned. It must be very good for medical researchers in infection diseases as well as for us. In addition, fortunately, there is not much notorious cedar pollen circulating in air until now.Now I briefly list up HPC related seminars in Japan in March as far as

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-54876671328214433192009-02-23T18:36:00.005-08:002009-02-23T19:20:16.889-08:00CRA Praised U.S. Congress for Strong Investments in Science, Innovation

In U.S., the House Democratic leadership released an official stimulus summary on January 15 and it looks great for researchers including HPC. However, the numbers in the Senate version on January 26 were not as generous as the House numbers. It looked quite difficult to expect conclusion because some of the significant differences between the two versions -- including significant differences in

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-18609279283039721162009-02-19T04:10:00.003-08:002009-02-19T04:23:33.832-08:00The first European PetaFLOPS machine to Germany

The German research center, Forschungszentrum Juelich has selected IBM Blue Gene/P to develop the first supercomputer in Europe capable of one PetaFLOPS. IBM will partner with Juelich-based Gauss Centre for Supercomputing to install the new IBM Blue Gene/P System in the first half of this year. This new Blue Gene System is the first to include new water cooling technology, created by IBM Research

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-80268246452838267102009-02-17T05:10:00.003-08:002009-02-17T05:17:47.754-08:00Bushfire and flooding in Australia

I have stayed in Cairns, northeast seashore in Australia from middle of last week as originally planned. It is natural that there is much precipitation this time because of rainy season in tropical climate region, but it was special this year and rivers in the northern part of Queensland flooded due to heavy rain, and ferocious crocodiles moved from rivers to residential area of some town this

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-45505962130333547272009-02-09T19:13:00.005-08:002009-02-10T00:00:16.839-08:00NNSA awards IBM Contract to Build Next Generation Supercomputer

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a contract with IBM to bring world-leading supercomputing systems to its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to help continue to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation’s aging nuclear deterrent on February 3, 2009.IBM will deliver two systems: Sequoia, a 20 PetaFLOPS system based on future Blue Gene

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-89486390720598862522009-02-02T03:52:00.008-08:002009-02-02T04:29:15.124-08:00"Cray CX1 Experience Seminar" in Tokyo

There was a Cray CX1 Experience Seminar was held by Cray Japan in the afternoon of January 27 in Akihabara Convention Hall in Tokyo. Cray CX1 is the system which I was interested in since I found it which was put casually on the floor in the SC08’s Cray booth last November.It was a good opportunity for me to attend this seminar since I left IBM and am not in any vendors now. (In this industry,

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-72663187013807510262009-01-30T04:49:00.006-08:002009-01-30T05:22:14.236-08:00Besides Cell/B.E., the Programming Contest for GPU Just Started in Japan

January 28 was a deadline of application for “Cell Challenge 2009” of the Multi-core Programming Contest in Japan.The specified assignment is "Calculation of Edit Distance between Two Character Strings." A champion will be determined by the sum of scores in the preliminary rounds and the final rounds. The final rounds will complete on March 20.Three special interest groups in Information

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-87520132784408390822009-01-25T21:49:00.002-08:002009-01-25T22:02:53.966-08:00Potsdam Scientists to Tackle New Type of Weather Simulations with IBM iDataPlex

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)'s new iDataPlex computer was put into operation in January and offers 30 teraflops of processing power as described below. Potsdam Scientists to Tackle New Type of Weather Simulations with IBM iDataPlex One of the key reasons that iDataPlex stands apart from other high-performance computer platforms is its energy efficiency, approximately

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-88311363560413749822009-01-21T17:44:00.002-08:002009-01-21T17:56:57.561-08:00HPC will grow under the Obama Government

The House Appropriations Committee released the bill text and the accompanying committee report "THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 [DISCUSSION DRAFT]" on January 15.Computing Research Policy Blog quickly analyzed it inMore Detail on 2009 House Dem Stimulus and Recovery Plan (January 15, 2009):http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000715.htmlThe blog concluded that "In

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-72822711105762776422009-01-18T15:32:00.005-08:002009-01-18T15:59:49.198-08:00Japan's Next Generation Supercomputer R&D Budget in FY2009

According to A-Tip news article (12 January 2009 issued by ATIP), Japan's Next Generation Supercomputer (NGSC) Project will receive a budget of 19,000 Myen for FY2009. The total plan (FY2006 – FY2012) is expected to reach 115,447 Myen.The Budget was recently sent to the Diet and it is presently under discussion.The contents of the NGSC Project budget in FY2009 are as follows:- Pilot manufacturing

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-47367109591860093282009-01-10T05:27:00.010-08:002009-01-16T03:25:19.531-08:00Symposiums for HPC in January in Tokyo

･ International Workshop for Peta-scale Application Development Support EnvironmentThe 3rd Advanced Supercomputing Environment (ASE) meeting will be held as International workshop for peta-scale application development support environment on January 20, 2009 in the large conference room in Information Technology Center (ITC) of the University of Tokyo. The invited speaker is Dr. Jonathan Carter (

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-36272745644102300902009-01-01T15:18:00.000-08:002009-01-10T06:14:56.107-08:00Happy New Year from Tokyo!

Greetings for the new year!Hope this year is filled with good times, happiness and sucess! (Mt. Fuji from Amagi highland)

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-91635182372473780382008-12-29T04:23:00.001-08:002009-01-10T06:08:53.136-08:00Biosupercomputing symposium 2008 in Tokyo

The Biosupercomputing Symposium 2008 was held on 12/25 - 26 in Tokyo by RIKEN sponsorship. I found that it was the one of the most interesting HPC symposiums in Japan recently. The MY PLAZA hall in Marunouchi, Tokyo was almost full by many attendees in spite of the last business day of 2008.This symposium was more than just for presentations about progress in RIKEN's Next-Generation Integrated

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-19000402649579503602008-12-15T16:48:00.002-08:002009-01-10T06:10:42.901-08:00The SC08 report by RIKEN's SC08 Reporters

･ The report of SC08 is now in publish on the web site of RIKEN's next-generation supercomputer R&D Center.Three young reporters are those who won the highest award and two outstanding performance awards in the poster session of next generation supercomputing symposium 2008 in Tokyo:- Takayuki Saito (National Astronomical Observatory, Japan)- Katsumi Hagita (National Defense Academy in Japan)-

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-18334716879653663272008-12-14T23:52:00.001-08:002009-01-10T06:11:43.600-08:00The iPAB open seminar "Trend and future of HPC"

The open seminar of the initiative Parallel Bioinformatics(iPAB) was held on December 5, featured "Trend and future of HPC". This open seminar was focused on high performance computing (HPC) indispensable to bioinformatics.Besides iPAB, Chem-Bio Informatics Society (commonly called CBI Gakkai) with a long history, and Japanese society for bioinformatics (JSBI) that held the annual meeting in

Eietsu Tamurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10126895381809590404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85119254569578415.post-82559096795347811872008-11-20T21:34:00.001-08:002009-01-10T06:12:40.277-08:00Another in SC08

･ Now I like to add another with some photos that I couldn't write because of not enough time to write during SC08.BG/P Board･ First, a board being put casually in the booth of IBM is a board of the Blue Gene/P. There are 32 computational node(processor)s and 2 I/O node(processor)s on the board. A power supply places around center line. A four core-SMP is inside a processor chip in the Blue Gene/

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