Increasing Standardization and Democratization to Drive Next Wave Of Supercomputing

The next era of supercomputing will be marked by increasing standardization and democratization of high-performance computing (HPC) technologies, accelerating the pace at which we are able to address the world’s most serious issues, Dell CEO and Chairman Michael Dell told attendees at the SC08 conference today.

• Dell-powered Hyperion cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aims to be first non-proprietary petascale supercomputer
• The Texas Advanced Computing Center’s ‘Stallion’ visualization cluster reaches 307 million pixels – now the highest resolution tiled display for open science in the world

The News:

Dell, Intel and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the availability of LLNL’s Hyperion hyperscale computing environment.

• The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program at LLNL expects Hyperion, created with a consortium of eight additional HPC industry leaders, to speed the development and reduce the cost of powerful HPC clusters vital to U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration missions, from national and homeland security to energy, climate change, and other global challenges. Hyperion will also enhance U.S. competitiveness in HPC.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin announced that Dell is powering Stallion, the world’s highest resolution tiled display for open science.

• The new ACES Visualization Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin will aid researchers in data-intensive fields by transforming information into logical, visual formats from which scientists can identify patterns, anomalies and relationships en route to critical discoveries. This capability is essential to efforts ranging from tracking hurricanes to studying diseases to understanding the origins of the universe.

Quotes:

Michael Dell – Chairman and CEO, Dell

We’re proud to power Hyperion, the world’s largest standards-based test bed dedicated to enhancing the productivity of researchers worldwide.

The acceleration of open, standards-based high-performance computing will continue – driven by Dell, our partners and customers.