SGI Technology Briefing at Marquette
cstruble — Tue, 10/30/2007 - 20:33
SGI is hosting a Technology Briefing at Marquette University.
Date: Tuesday, November 16
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Location: Cudahy Hall Room 401, 1313 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee WI
Refreshments will be served at 3:00 in Cudahy Room 342. See the Evite for more details.
Student and professor build a budget super computer
cstruble — Fri, 08/31/2007 - 12:33
The following story describes the creation of a budget supercomputer, named Microwulf. For under $2500, a computer faster than IBM Deep Blue has been created by a professor and student at Calvin College. See the URL below for more details.
NCAR Donates Time To TeraGrid
cstruble — Mon, 08/20/2007 - 16:44
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is making their 2048-processor BlueGene/L system available to TeraGrid. Read the story below for more details.
SC07 Features Four HPC Challenges
cstruble — Mon, 08/20/2007 - 15:47
This story copied from HPC Wire, but might be of interest to SeWHiP members.
HPC Wire (07/17/07)
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision
cstruble — Mon, 08/06/2007 - 06:47
In March, 2007 the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a vision of cyberinfrastructure for scientific discovery. This report provides guidance and ideas for the future of SeWHiP and how it can impact scientific discovery in the Southeast Wisconsin region. The entire report can be found at
Intel Releases Threading Building Blocks 2.0 as Open Source
cstruble — Fri, 07/27/2007 - 09:19
Intel has released Threading Building Block, a C++ library for building scalable threaded applications, as open source. The libraries are cross-platform and Intel has a history of producing quality software in this domain. The product announcement is available at
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/294797.htm
Presentation by Miron Livny to SciDAC 2007
cstruble — Thu, 07/26/2007 - 11:42
There's an interesting presentation by Miron Livny, head of the Condor project at UW-Madison and Principal Investigator of the Open Science Grid project. In it, Miron points out the notion of "grids of grids" and regional grids like the one SeWHiP is promoting and proposing. Also of note is mention of the LIGO project, in which UW-Milwaukee is one of the major participants.
NetSeminar about RapidMind
cstruble — Thu, 07/26/2007 - 11:36
Dr. Dobb's Journal is sponsoring a web seminar titled Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind. The seminar is Tuesday, July 31st at 1pm. Central time. The link for registering is
http://onlineevents.cmptechnetwork.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/nBAvq0Ljmfk0SSf0FN6...
Be sure to check for computer requirements at
http://onlineevents.cmptechnetwork.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/nBAvq0Ljmfk0SSf0Ed3...
SeWHiP.org Launches
cstruble — Thu, 07/12/2007 - 09:33
Welcome to SeWHiP.org, a web site dedicated to high performance computing activities in Southeast Wisconsin. This site was created based on feedback from the June 1, 2007 workshop held at UWM to discuss ongoing activities related to high performance computing.
