[Nottingham] [Talk] Parallel Penguins *TODAY* Thursday 07/05/09

[Martin]

On a related note on "High Performance Computing", this is an 
interesting site with various podcast talks about various compute clusters:

Research Computing and Engineering, targets topics relevant to the High 
Performance Computing (HPC) and Research Computing communities. ...

We hope that you enjoy the show. Please give us feedback, and let us 
know what you want to hear, or if you want to be on the show!

http://www.rce-cast.com/


Cheers,
Martin


Martin wrote:
>>>> This month's talk is guaranteed super! :-)
>>>>
>>>> Supercomputers
>>>>
>>>> Including something about the one we have here in Nottingham.
>>> Parallel Penguins
>>>
>>> Chris Booth
>>> Nottingham University
> 
> And super it was! :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks to Chris for a screaming good talk and a brief glimpse of some of 
> the work done both in and on the systems. All nicely extreme with 
> simulations of the universe down to molecular interactions and many 
> things in between. All equally extreme with the 80dBA to 100dBA scream 
> of cooling fans and a temperature gradient spanning 14 deg C to 36 deg C 
> across the cooling corridors... If only the students knew what might 
> fall on their heads!...
> 
> And all running batch jobs on Linux :-)
> 
> Great stuff!
> 
> See:
> 
> The Facility
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hpc/html/facility/index.php
> 
> Specifications
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hpc/html/facility/specifications/index.php
> 
> Pictures
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hpc/html/facility/pictures/index.php
> 
> SRIF-III upgrade
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hpc/html/facility/pictures/index2.php


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