This week NVIDIA provided a tutorial outlining first steps for GPU acceleration using OpenACC and CUDA. This was offered as part of the “GPUs Accelerating Research” week at Northeastern University and Boston University. After attending, it seemed…
NVIDIA is now shipping their 4.58 TFLOPS single-precision floating point GPUs. The Tesla K10 GPU Accelerators, based upon the Kepler GK104 architecture, are the first Teslas available from this new generation of products. They are designed for…
Intel has once again done an excellent job designing a high-performance processor. The new Xeon E5-2600 “Sandy Bridge EP” processors run as much as 2.2 times faster than the previous-generation Xeon 5600 “Westmere” processors. Combined with new…
I think everyone in the HPC arena has heard plenty about GPUs. GPUs aren’t sophisticated like CPUs, but they provide raw performance for those who know how to use them. The question for those who have large…
This post was last updated on 2018-11-05 Most users know how to check the status of their CPUs, see how much system memory is free, or find out how much disk space is free. In contrast, keeping…
By default, you won’t find out that one of your hard drives has failed until the data is gone. Even if you are using a software or hardware RAID, it will only continue to function if you…
There are several advantages to assembling hard drives into a RAID: performance, redundancy and capacity. Microway workstations and servers are most commonly outfitted with software RAID to prevent a single drive failure from destroying your operating system…
Although modern Linux distributions have made it very easy to keep your software packages up-to-date, there are some pitfalls you might encounter when managing your compute cluster. Cluster software packages are usually not managed from the same…