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University Professor Richard Peltier is the first Canadian to win prestigious international science prize University Professor Richard Peltier of physics has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award and joins a group of previous…

Link to the Bulletin article on SciNet Tuesday June 23rd 2009 http://www.news.utoronto.ca/media-releases/university-of-toronto/university-of-toronto-supercomputer-among-20-fastest-machines-in-the-world.html University of Toronto supercomputer among 20 fastest machines in the world Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer, located at the University of Toronto and built by IBM, has been ranked 16th on the top 500 list of the most powerful commercially available computer…

The SciNet GPC- iDataplex system, which had been forecasted to rank in the top 25, comes in at a staggering #16 on the TOP500 List of the world’s top supercomputers.  The TCS- Power6 system, which was ranked at #53 in the November list still stays in the running at #80 this summer.

Link to Globe and Mail article on Scinet Thursday June 18 2009: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/canadas-monster-computer-roars-to-life/article1186431/ The Globe and Mail: Canada’s monster computer roars to life It has taken a year and $50-million to put together, and its brain takes up as much room as a warehouse full of refrigerators. Today, the monster finally opens its eyes, as…

Link to Toronto Star article on SciNet Jun 18, 2009: http://www.thestar.com/article/652745 U of T supercomputer probes origins of the universe Go on. Ask this IBM System x iDataPlex to do as many calculations as there are stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.  Hold on. It won’t take a second. Not even close to one.Although its…

CBC News article on SciNet Thursday, June 18, 2009: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/18/tech-090618-ibm-supercomputer-scinet-toronto.html Toronto team completes Canada’s most powerful supercomputer A supercomputer that can complete more than 300 trillion calculations per second — the most powerful in Canada — has been completed at the University of Toronto’s SciNet facility. The IBM iDataPlex cluster computer would be one of…

Canada’s Fastest Supercomputers: Daniel Gruner and Chris Loken, SciNet Consortium SciNet is a new High-Performance Computing consortium based at University of Toronto which operates Canada’s two fastest supercomputers in a new, highly energy-efficient datacentre. We will discuss the challenges of designing, building and operating a cluster with 30,000 cores and the surrounding infrastructure as well…

Learn about how IBM and the University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium built Canada’s most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in this video created by IBM. Video located on the right side of page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/ The video does not work in Firefox on all machines, please use Internet Explorer if you’re having trouble viewing.

“The Canadian Scinet machine is one of the first to use the newly launched Intel Xeon 5500.  The  Xeon 5500 is considered to be Intel’s most significant chip advance in more than a decade.” For the full story go to: http://www.hpcwire.com/features/HPC-Vendors-Jump-On-Nehalem-42360237.html

From HPCwire article: IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List November 17, 2008 IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 17 — For a record-setting ninth consecutive time, an IBM system took the No.1 spot in the ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The IBM computer built for the “roadrunner project” at…