Spain Builds Supercomputer With Cellphone Chips

Release Date 16 Nov, 2011 in Wired News

Nvidia Says Real-Time Design is Finally Here Wall Street Journal (blog) - 16 Nov, 2011 While engineers and entrepreneurs gather this week to talk about supercomputers�"the room-sized systems that tackle the biggest scientific problems�"there is parallel progress on the desktop. Nvidia believes it just passed a major milestone. ...
Spain Builds Supercomputer With Cellphone Chips Wired News - 16 Nov, 2011 Supercomputers have an energy problem �" one that threatens to curb their steady evolution. If we continue to ratchet up the speed of our supercomputers using today's technologies, by the end of the decade they'll draw as much power as a ...
Nvidia: An unintended exascale-super innovator Register - 16 Nov, 2011 SC11 Jen-Hsun Huang, one of the cofounders of graphics-chip maker Nvidia, never intended to be a player in the supercomputing racket. But his company is now at the forefront of the CPU-GPU hybrid ...
	Nvidia CEO: Supercomputing gated by power CNET - 16 Nov, 2011 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which will build a supercomputer using Nvidia GPUs, is located in a former chapel. When it comes to imagining the future of computing, ...
Nvidia's Tegra ARM chips heading to supercomputers in Barcelona Los Angeles Times - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ The Santa Clara company announced Monday that it was providing a new line of its Tegra ARM processors for supercomputers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, a government funded research center in Spain. At this point, you might be wondering: what ...
Barcelona Center Makes Super Bet on Cellphone Chips Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ Supercomputers, once built from handcrafted circuitry, were transformed when companies started assembling them from inexpensive PC-style microprocessors. Researchers in Barcelona are placing an early bet that the next big leap will be ...
ARM+GPU = dream super? Register - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ SC11 We've seen a lot of ARM server activity in recent weeks, with ARM chip upstart Calxeda announcing its 5-watt EnergyCore ARM chip (breakdown here) and a partnership with x86 giant HP ...
	Nvidia's power-efficient chips picked for supercomputer Reuters Blogs (blog) - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ In the latest challenge to Intel's dominance of the PC and server industry, smaller chipmaker Nvidia is teaming up with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to develop a supercomputer that will run on energy efficient ARM processors. ...
Europe taps Nvidia for ARM-based supercomputer ZDNet UK - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ A pan-European research initative has picked Nvidia's ARM-based processors as the foundation for an experimental low-power supercomputer architecture. The Mont-Blanc Project, which is developing an ...
Nvidia touts the world's first ARM based supercomputer Inquirer - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has announced that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is developing a hybrid supercomputer using its CPUs and GPUs. The system will employ Nividia's Tegra ARM CPUs combined with its Cuda GPUs. ...
NVIDIA Names Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Moscow State University as ... MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ SEATTLE, WA, Nov 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SC11 -- NVIDIA today added two institutions to the list of 13 global CUDA Centers of Excellence: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University. ...
	Nvidia's ARM chips power supercomputer CNET (blog) - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ Nvidia's Tegra chips will for the first time power a supercomputer--more evidence that ARM is movin' on up into Intel territory. The chipmaker said today the Barcelona Supercomputing ...
Supercomputer With ARM Processors Being Built in Spain PCWorld - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ With an eye to bringing power efficiency to high-performance systems, a prototype supercomputer with quad-core ARM processors is being built at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. The prototype server is designed to ...
Barcelona Supercomputing Center to Deploy World's First ARM-Based CPU/GPU ... MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ SEATTLE, WA, Nov 14, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SC11 -- NVIDIA today announced that the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, uses energy-efficient, low-power NVIDIA(R) Tegra(TM) ...
Hybrid Supercomputer CNET - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ Nvidia's Tegra chips will for the first time power a supercomputer--more evidence that ARM is movin' on up into Intel territory. The chipmaker said today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first ...
Tegra, CUDA Powering CPU/GPU Hybrid Supercomputer Tom's Hardware Guide - 16 Nov, 2011 The Barcelona Supercomputing Center plans to build a system using Nvidia's Tegra SoC and CUDA GPU to reduce the enormous power consumption supercomputers typically need. On Tuesday, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), a government funded ...
	Nvidia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Developing Energy-Efficient Hybrid ... Social Barrel - 16 Nov, 2011 Nvidia has collaborated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) to build a hybrid computing system using its ARM processors and CUDA graphics processing units (GPUs). Tesla NVIDIA GPU cluster. (Image: ChrisDag (CC), via Flickr) BSC aspires to ...
	nVidia's quick move to 28nm secures laptop business for 2012 KitGuru - 16 Nov, 2011 The launch of Fermi (GTX480) was a wake up call for nVidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang and co. While the huge GPU satisfies a gamer's willy-waving urges, it seemed a little out of place with the economic downturn and global warming worries. ...
	GPU technology key to exascale says Nvidia EE Times - 16 Nov, 2011 SEATTLE--SUPERCOMPUTING 2011--Disruptive technologies like the GPU are important steps on the path to exascale computing said Nvidia Corp.'s CEO Jen Hsun Huang in a keynote at SC11 on Tuesday (Nov. 15). With supercomputing already an essential tool in ...
Nvidia CEO Huang: Power Is Key Hurdle to Exascale Computing eWeek - 16 Nov, 2011 In his keynote speech at SC 11, Nvidia President and CEO Ten-Hsun Huang said GPUs will help the industry improve energy efficiency as it tries to move to exascale computing. SEATTLE�"The computing industry's march toward exascale capabilities will be ...
Can Anything Cure Intel From ARM Fever? DailyFinance - 16 Nov, 2011 Another day, another front that ARM Holdings (NAS: ARMH) is assaulting. Intel (NAS: INTC) already has plenty of arenas to defend; we might as well add another on to the growing ...
	SC11: Nvidia chief Jen-Hsun Huang talks up 'disruptive' supercomputing V3.co.uk - 16 Nov, 2011 SEATTLE: The use of GPU hardware will be essential in cracking the exascale performance barrier by the end of the decade, according to the chief executive of Nvidia. Jen-Hsu Huang used his keynote at the SC11 supercomputing conference ...
	Nvidia and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre to Build ARM- and GPU-Based ... X-bit Labs - 16 Nov, 2011 Nvidia Corp. and Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) said on Monday that they had initiated development a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, will use energy-efficient, low-power Nvidia Tegra ARM system-on-chips as well ...
VIDEO: Watch Jen-Hsun's Huang, NVIDIA CEO SC11 Keynote Live Bright Side of News* - ‎Nov 15, 2011‎ The topics of the session will be the high-level overview of the announcements the company made at the conference, but also the way where HPC is heading, with the recent news of HP developing an ARM-based HPC-oriented server. ...
	Supercomputing Breakthroughs on Display at SC11 Engineering on the Edge - ‎Nov 15, 2011‎ The annual SC11 (Supercomputing 2011) international conference on high-performance computing (HPC) is taking place this week in Seattle, WA. I attended last year in New Orleans, and can tell you it's an impressive �" nearly overwhelming �" display of ...
	Nvidia Takes On x86 in HPC Market With ARM, GPU Combination ITProPortal - ‎Nov 15, 2011‎ Barcelona will be the host to the first supercomputer project based on Nvidia's Tegra CPU combined with its Geforce GPUs. The project is viewed as Nvidia's first attempt to siphon marketshare from the prevalent x86 architecture, dominated by Intel. ...
	EU Builds Hybrid ARM-Based Supercomputer eWEEK Europe UK - ‎Nov 15, 2011‎ The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) will use a combination of CPUs and graphics technology from Nvidia in a hybrid supercomputer that researchers expect will enable exascale computing while using 15 to 30 percent less power than traditional ...
NVIDIA Names Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Moscow State University as CUDA ... HPCwire - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ SEATTLE, Nov. 14 -- NVIDIA today added two institutions to the list of 13 global CUDA Centers of Excellence: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The CUDA Center of Excellence designation is the highest honor given ...
Nvidia aims at low-power ARM supercomputing, pairs a quarter-thousand Tegra 3s ... The Verge - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ The Barcelona Supercomputing Center already had a prototype ARM-based computer cluster, but it's getting a hefty upgrade this year, possibly to stay ahead of the ARM server racks that companies ...
How the cloud is reshaping supercomputers GigaOm - ‎Nov 14, 2011‎ In the last decade supercomputers were dressed up versions of Intel's x86 machines, but increasingly supercomputers are borrowing innovations (and silicon in the form of ARM-based chips or ...