This one-day symposium will explore the use of GPUs and Cell processors for scientific and high performance computing. SHARCNET has deployed high-performance clusters containing both architectures, and this symposium will give researchers the chance to learn about these new technologies from keynote speakers who are at the forefront of research in this field.
The world of high performance computing has just changed. Radically. With the introduction of Convey Computer™ Corporation’s HC-1™ – the world’s first and only hybrid-core system – the problem of squeezing more performance per dollar, watt, or rack is finally addressed. And answered. Brought to market by the team that built Convex Computer Corporation, the Convey HC-1 brings power, performance and personality to HPC environments. Convey’s hybrid-core computers turn industry-standard x86 clusters into over-achieving computing machines.
The aim of the DIET project is to develop a set of tools to build computational servers. Huge problems can now be computed over the Internet thanks to Grid Computing Environments like Globus or Legion. Because most of current applications are numerical, the use of libraries like BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK or PETSc is mandatory. The integration of such libraries in high level applications using languages like Fortran or C is far from being easy. Moreover, the computational power and memory needs of such applications may of course not be available on every workstation. Thus, the RPC seems to be a good candidate to build Problem Solving Environments on the Grid. Several tools following this approach exist, like Netsolve, NINF, NEOS, or RCS.