Wednesday November 11, 2009 TACC Ranger Supercomputer Surpasses 1.1 Million Jobs
The Sun-powered Ranger supercomputer, one of the most powerful systems in the world for open science research, has run about 1.1 million jobs in under two years. When it entered full production on Feb. 4, 2008, this first-of-its-kind system marked the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing (HPC) where systems now approach a thousand trillion operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data.
"Ranger has already enabled hundreds of research projects and thousands of users to do very large-scale computational science in diverse domains," said Jay Boisseau, director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). "We're very proud of the tremendous impact it has had on open science, and the impact is growing as it matures and more researcher applications are optimized to use its tremendous capabilities." Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( November 11, 2009 10:54 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Video: Sun Solutions for Optimizing MD Nastran Performance
In this video, Dale Layfield describes performance tuning recommendations and guidelines to allow an IT administrator or experienced MD Nastran user to configure both MD Nastran and the hardware platform for optimum performance. For more information, check out this Sun Blueprint: Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran.
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Video of the Week] ( November 11, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
