Over at CIO Australia, Hamish Barwick writes that newly developed algorithms could lower energy bills in HPC datacenters. According to Professor Albert Zomaya at the University of Sydney, the University has patented a “very sophisticated” algorithm that deals with energy consumption by manipulating voltages at a processor level. We know that modern processors can operate at different voltage levels and...

NCSA has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology a highly parallel, shared memory supercomputer. Named Ember, the SGI system has become part of the IGB biocluster, adding 1536 cores and eight terabytes of memory spread across four nodes. 

This week Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of transceiver circuits capable of communicating at 32 Gbps, a world record. The company said the new technology will support inter-processor communications at roughly twice today’s rates, leading to improved performance in next-generation of servers and supercomputers. 

In this video, Sarah Tariq from Nvidia presents: Lessons learned in improving scaling of applications on large GPU clusters.