Category: News
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The Bulletin: University of Toronto supercomputer among 20 fastest machines in the world
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…
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TOP500 Ranking: Net’s GPC ranks higher than previously forecasted
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.
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The Globe and Mail: Canada’s monster computer roars to life
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…
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The Toronto Star: U of T supercomputer probes origins of the universe
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…
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CBC News: Toronto team completes Canada’s most powerful supercomputer
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…
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TechKnowFile
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…
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IBM: Canada’s most powerful Supercomputer
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.
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SciNet and the Intel Xeon 5500
“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
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IBM Maintains Top Spot
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…
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University of Toronto to Acquire Canada’s Most Powerful Supercomputer from IBM
System will process up to 360 trillion calculations per second, store 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive, and be housed in an ultra energy-efficient data centre TORONTO, 14 August 2008: The University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement to build Canada’s most powerful and…