Subscribe free to our newsletters via your
. 24/7 Space News .




SUPER COMPUTERS
Kudos For CSIRO'S Supercomputing Capability
by Staff Writers
Victoria, Australia (SPX) Jun 09, 2010


The CSIRO GPU cluster has 64 NVIDIA Tesla S1070s, and can deliver 256 plus Teraflops of single precision computing performance. Image credit - Carl Davies, CSIRO

One of the world's leading developers of graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA, announced today that CSIRO has been selected as a member of its international network of high performance computing research centres.

GPUs are the computer hardware which lies at the heart of game consoles and, increasingly, supercomputers.

CSIRO's Group Executive, Information Sciences, Dr Alex Zelinsky, said the announcement -at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany - furthers CSIRO's goal of being a world leader in the application of GPU technology to a broad range of scientific and industrial problems.

"To be involved in NVIDIA's CUDA Research Center Program, which is designed for institutions that embrace GPU computing across multiple research fields, is a great honour for CSIRO," Dr Zelinsky said.

"We're excited to be in such good company. CUDA Research Centers include Johns Hopkins University (US) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)."

CSIRO is currently the only CUDA Research Center in the southern hemisphere. CSIRO's GPU cluster, with 256 GPUs, was the first of its kind in Australia and is one of the world's fastest computers.

GPUs speed up data processing by allowing a computer to massively multi-task through parallel processing.

NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs have helped make supercomputing inexpensive and more widely accessible. The company is based in California.

NVIDIA's Director of Research, Dr David Luebke, said the CUDA Research Center program is designed to recognise and encourage the use of GPUs for scientific and high performance computing.

"CSIRO will gain access to the latest developments in GPU computing and become part of a wider community of organisations with GPU facilities, sharing information and ideas," Dr Luebke said.

Platform Leader of CSIRO Computational and Simulation Sciences, Dr John Taylor, said that, as one of the world's most diverse research organisations, CSIRO is uniquely placed to put GPU technology through its paces.

"We're using the GPU cluster to speed up projects like modelling nuclear analysers, running 3D X-ray and CT image reconstruction, measuring uncertainty in complex environmental models and understanding biomechanical processes like human swimming," Dr Taylor said.

"And we're getting results 6-200 times faster than before."

The GPU cluster is in everyday use with over 100 CSIRO scientists trained to use it. It was installed in Canberra last November by Xenon Systems of Melbourne and runs Linux and Windows applications.

.


Related Links
CSIRO
Super Computer News and HPC Technology






Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle








SUPER COMPUTERS
NASA Supercomputer Doubles Capability And Increases Efficiency
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010
Pleiades, NASAs supercomputing powerhouse, located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., placed sixth on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made June 1, 2010 at the 25th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Since garnering the sixth spot in fall 2009, Pleiades has doubled the science and engineer ... read more


SUPER COMPUTERS
NASA Langley to Break Ground on Hydro Impact Basin

The Earth And Moon Formed Later Than Previously Thought

Old Moon Rover Beams Surprising Laser Flashes To Earth

MSU Robot Digs Most Moon Dirt

SUPER COMPUTERS
Mars500 - Eighteen Months In Isolation

Opportunity For Power Increase Comes With Passing Of Winter Solstice

Team Listens For Spirit

Drilling Down Into Mars

SUPER COMPUTERS
Doctor Needed In Antarctica

A Chance To Name Europe's Next Astronaut Mission

SpaceX founder Elon Musk, a dot.com 'renaissance man'

NASA plans 'Summer of Innovation'

SUPER COMPUTERS
Seven More For Shenzhou

China Signs Up First Female Astronauts

China To Launch Second Lunar Probe This Year

China, Bolivia to build communications satellite

SUPER COMPUTERS
Russian Mission Control Raises ISS Orbit

ISS Orbit Adjusted Prior To Soyuz Spacecraft Docking

ISS Expedition 23 lands safely in Kazakhstan

China May Become Space Station Partner

SUPER COMPUTERS
SpaceX Achieves Orbital Bullseye With Inaugural Flight Of Falcon 9 Rocket

Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Celebrates 50 Years

Space Industry Leaders And Astronauts Congratulate SpaceX

Russia To Test Launch New Spacecraft From Baikonur In 2015

SUPER COMPUTERS
'Out Of Whack' Planetary System

Weird Orbits Of Neighbors Can Make 'Habitable' Planets Not So Habitable

Get It While it's Hot! Star Devours Planet

Exoplanetary System Offers Clues To Disturbed Past

SUPER COMPUTERS
Integral Systems Awarded Contract To Support LS1300

Luxury firms step out cautiously into virtual world

Apple unveils iPhone with video chat and crisper screen

Apple unveils iPhone with video chat and crisper screen




The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement