To InfiniBand and Beyond – Supercomputing Support for NASA Missions

2018-03-15T01:51:19+00:00June 11, 2015|

High performance computing has been integral to solving large-scale problems across many industries, including science, engineering and business. Some of the most interesting use cases have come out of NASA, where supercomputing is essential to conduct accurate simulations and models for a variety of missions. NASA's flagship supercomputer, Pleiades, is among the [...]

InfiniBand Volume 1, Release 1.3 – The Industry Sounds Off

2018-03-15T02:08:21+00:00May 14, 2015|

On March 10, 2015, IBTA announced the availability of Release 1.3 of Volume 1 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification and it's creating a lot of buzz in the industry. IBTA members recognized that as compute clusters and data centers grew larger and more complex, the network equipment architecture would have difficulty keeping [...]

Observations from SC12

2018-03-19T18:38:03+00:00December 3, 2012|

The week of Supercomputing went by quickly and resulted in many interesting discussions around supercomputing and its role in both HPC environments and enterprise data centers. Now that we’re back to work, we’d like to reflect back on the successful supercomputing event. The conference this year saw a huge diversity of attendees [...]

HPC Advisory Council Showcases World’s First FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Demonstration at ISC’11

2018-03-20T18:12:19+00:00July 1, 2011|

The HPC Advisory Council, together with ISC'11, showcased the world's first demonstration of FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand in Hamburg, Germany, June 20-22. The HPC Advisory Council is hosting and organizing new technology demonstrations at leading HPC conferences around the world to highlight new solutions which will influence future HPC systems in term of [...]

InfiniBand on the Road to Exascale Computing

2018-03-20T18:05:22+00:00January 21, 2011|

(Note: This article appears with reprint permission of The Exascale Reporttm) InfiniBand has been making remarkable progress in HPC, as evidenced by its growth in the Top5002 rankings of the highest performing computers. In the November 2010 update to these rankings, InfiniBand’s use increased another 18 percent, to help power 43 percent [...]

Documenting the World’s Fastest Network Installation

2018-03-20T18:11:15+00:00November 5, 2010|

Greetings InfiniBand Community, As many of you know, every fall before Supercomputing, over 100 volunteers - including scientists, engineers, and students - come together to build the world's fastest network: SCinet. This year, over 168 miles of fiber will be used to form the data backbone. The network takes months to build [...]

InfiniBand Leads List of Russian Top50 Supercomputers; Connects 74 Percent, Including Seven of the Top10 Supercomputers

2018-03-20T18:16:40+00:00April 14, 2010|

Last week, the 12th edition of Russia's Top50 list of the most powerful high performance computing systems was released at the annual Parallel Computing Technologies international conference. The list is ranked according to Linpack benchmark results and provides an important tool for tracking usage trends in HPC in Russia. The fastest supercomputer [...]

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