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About Interesting Topics

This is an area for detail & discussion on emerging technologies, interesting articles, and proposed research computing/data services that could be of interest to the research computing community at the University of Manchester.

Technologies

Apps

• An overview of the situation at UoM

Benchmarking

• Good Enough Will Have To Do - from Linux Magazine.

Biologically Inspired Design

• Pickett-Woodland K. (2008). Nature does it best. Progressive Engineer. (Bee colonies inspire server farm design).

Books

• Mesh Partitioning Techniques and Domain Decomposition Methods

• Computational Methods for Acoustics Problems

• Artech - Publisher of Technical Books

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

Business Benefits of HPC

• Can supercomputers help save the economy?

• FAQ for prospective HPC users

• Optimizing Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering with Sun Systems

• Making the Business Case for High Performance Computing: A Benefit-Cost Analysis Methodology

• Microsoft High Performance Computing in Computer Aided Engineering

• Leading Global Organizations to Discuss High Performance Computing as a Competitive Asset

• NetApp Accelerates Time to Market with New Engineering and High-Performance Computing

• New capability in personal, and high-performance computing provides choices: E&P professionals welcome business and science gains delivered through mainstream high-performance computing within departments, workgroups and at the deskside

• COVES: an e-business case study in the engineering domain

• Computational Engineering at Rolls-Royce by Terry Hewitt

• Bring on the Juice! High-Performance Computing Feeds Wall Street’s Insatiable Appetite for Computational Power

• Leveraging on demand HPC capabilities for innovation driven growth and competitive advantage

• The Changing Business Case for Supercomputing: An Industrial Perspective

• High-performance computing enters the reach of today's enterprise

• High-performance computing and Pringle's crisps

• Ferrari takes Microsoft's new High Performance Computing for a spin

• Ferrari Using Windows for Supercomputers as High-Performance Computing Fuel

• Ferrari is forced to throttle back on technology costs

• Why HPC Is Driving Hard into Manufacturing

• SUN Microsystems: HPC for Manufacturing

• Cisco: High-Performance Computing Solution for Manufacturing and Computer-Aided Engineering

• Accelerating Innovation for Competitive Advantage: The Need for Better HPC Application Software Solutions

• U.S. High Performance Computing Initiative

• U.S. Department of Energy Incite Awards

• Application Software for High Performance Computers: A Soft Spot for U.S. Business Competitiveness

• The Role of GRID Computing within Engineering Simulation and Design

• Bob Graybill Starts National Clearinghouse Firm for HPC Services

• High Performance Computing: Are we just getting the wrong answers faster?

• Blue Collar Computing: HPC for the Rest of Us?

• Blue Collar Computing: At Ohio Supercomputing Centre

• High Performance Computing for the masses

• Supercomputing Center Partners with Technology Council to Promote Regional Business Innovation

• Amid the economic downturn, the time is now for IT organizations to consider moving their IT resources into the cloud

• Wachovia's wasted IT investment

• Supercomputers wasted without trained users

• Evolution of the Philosophy of Investments in IT Projects

• Measuring the payoffs of IT investments

• Grids - A Low Cost, High Speed Alternative to Traditional High-Performance Computing

• Who's Getting ROI from Cloud Computing Now

• Computing capabilities are still limiting many of our endeavours to unleash the full potential of engineering simulation ...

• A Tale of Stylish Shades and High Performance Computing

• Chevron adopts Opteron for high-performance computing

• Demand for high-performance computing equipment explodes

• High Performance Business Computing is growing up to supercomputing in its own kind

• Business trends spur the growth of cloud computing

Case studies

A subsection on case studies external to the University of Manchester

• Bringing the Power of HPC to Drug Discovery and the Delivery of 'Smarter' Healthcare

Cell/PS3-Related Links

• Playing with Parallelism on PS3s

• Rapid Mind Development Platform

• Programming high-performance applications on the Cell BE processor, Part 1: An introduction to Linux on the PLAYSTATION 3

• Yellow Dog Linux on a PS3

• Distributed HPc example on vanilla PS3 — Folding@home

• Professor Frank Mueller's PS3 HPC Cluster

• NCSU Official Press Release on Frank Mueller's Cluster

Cloud Computing

• ISC Article on Cloud - Another summary article.

• HPC Wire Cloud round up.

• Low Latency Clouds - HPC in clouds? Things are getting a little closer (a long way to go though).

• Economist Article on clouds.

• Low Performance Computing - Article about shift in research computing provision (and change of focus of OGF).

• Cloud Computing Testbeds - Nice overview of currently available testbeds.

• Cambridge rents out HPC for the Cloud - How Cambridge are planning to cover high MRF costs.

• Clouding of the Grid - Insightful view on Clouds and their relationship to Grids and HPC. The two linked articles on using Amazon EC2 to build an HPC cluster are also worth a look ([1],[2]).

• Sun Cloud - The Reg article on Sun's new open cloud approach.

• Microsoft's Dan Reed describes the parallels between cloud and HPC.

• Infoweek overview of the current state of commercial cloud offerings.

• Berkeley's cloud overview article (12.2.09)

• That’s cloud computing. But not as we know it, Jim The Register polls potential cloudies (cloud users) Dec2008

• What clouds and grids can learn from each other - interesting article by Wolfgang Gentzsch.

• Pair (1,2) of articles from On-Demand Enterprise (formerly Grid-Today) about the grid-cloud connection. Illustrating the similarities and differences.

• Humourous take on cloud computing by Ted Dziuba in The Register.

Co-processing and new approaches

Also see University GPU Club

• Intel Larrabee - Great HPC Wire article featuring Larrabee.

• Pervasive GPGPU computing - also has details of DirectCompute, Microsoft's answer to OpenCL (why not support OpenCL?).

• nVidia Fermi Announcement - The follow on from Tesla lands.

• AMD's answer to nVidia's GPGPU push.

• Article detailing Larrabee New Instructions, LRBi.

• Intel's Ct - C for Throughput computing.

• More Intel Larrabee infomation.

• CUDA and Numerical Weather Prediction - using CUDA for WRF kernels

• Some specifics of OpenCL - with the standard now ratified, this HPCWire article provides some specifics

• nVidia CUDA Programing guide: PDF @ nVidia or local PDF copy of v1.1 (Dec2008)

• Chapel - a new language from Cray for parallel code development.

• Moore's Lawless - High level overview from the Reg on David Patterson's SC08 talk.

• OpenCL - HPCWire overview of the forthcoming standard (Update article).

• UK academics using GPUs and accelerators

• High-end coprocessors: An overview - Nice overview from TG Daily

• Co-processing with GPUs

• Intel Larrabee - Like NVIDIA and its CUDA API this approach has massive potential for research computing. Another HPCWire article

• Ct - Intel's answer to distributing workloads in multithreaded architectures?

• Processor revolution - Interesting HPCWire article that partially related to the above.

• Paper on GPUs for molecular modelling, by Matt Harvey et al.

• Compilers and More: Optimizing GPU Kernels - Optimising computational kernels on GPGPUs, an article in HPCWire by Michael Wolfe of PGI.

• Pritchard, S. (2008). Games need to be taken seriously. Financial Times.

• GPGPU pages on the DISCO site at Daresbury labs. UoM campus users can get access to the evaluation machines at DL. Contact RCS for help and details.

• Lucid HYDRA Multi-GPU Technology Launches - End of SLI and CrossFire? a hardware solution to get heterogeneous GPUs to work together.

CPU technologies

• Intel's Nehalem - report from Daresbury's DisCo team.

Data-centric Computing

• Cray XMT

• Dataflow - techniques and available hardware

• The Fourth Paradigm - free book from Microsoft Research. With contributions from UoM researchers.

• DASH - a data-centric approach to supercomputing.

• CERN experiments generating 1 Petabyte of data every second

• Using data mining for strategic advantage in higher education

• SGI Webinar featuring how The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) use their UV System in Bioinformatics

Data Storage

• An article about the US VertNet project for "Storing vertebrates in the cloud"

Disk-bound Computations

• Fusion io case study - Fusion io can help solve the problems of disk i/o latency, fusion io claims latency is sub 50 microseconds.

Exascale

See Petascale

Funding

• Funding Opportunities

• Special Report: "Driving UK HPC enabled science and innovation through US collaborations", March 2013

Greener Computing

• Area for discussing techniques for undertaking computational science with a lower environmental impact

HPC in other UK academic Instritutions

• Other HPC centres - Page detailing other leading university's HPC facilities

Interactive Supercomputing

• High-performance computers become interactive

Jobs

• Recent HPC jobs - details of Research Computing positions

Petascale and Exascale

• http://science.energy.gov/ascr/news-and-resources/workshops-and-conferences/grand-challenges/

Performance/Profiling

• “The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley” (a.k.a. the “Thirteen Dwarfs” paper).

Security Interest

• OpenID evaluation final report.

• FOAF+SSL: Authentication based on social networks and semantic web.

Virtual Machines

• A Case for High Performance Computing With Virtual Machines

Visualization

• InfoVis.net a collaborative project promoting Information Visualization that produces a occasional newsletter with in depth articles.

  • The Rainbow/Spectral Colour Palette and why you shouldn't use it!

• The return of SGI to visualization.

Web 2.0

• Web 2.0 Doesnt Matter - Dr Lee Margetts reflects on the technology that makes the RCS Community Wiki possible.

• A satirical view of Web 2.0