AMD Demos Petaflop-in-a-Rack Supercomputer

AMD has demonstrated a supercomputer based on its latest AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs that can deliver one petaflop of single precision floating point performance in a single rack

For more information, see https://www.top500.org/news/amd-demos-petaflop-in-a-rack-supercomputer/ 

2015 Stanford HPC Conference Video Gallery

The 2015 Standford HPC Conference Video Gallery. Check it out!

Redhat Summit 2014 Innovation Awards winner. Horray City-State Singapore

From Red Hat

Category: Emerging Technologies
Recognizing the most successful illustration of cutting-edge deployment and business value from Red Hat’s emerging technology portfolio.

Winner: Nanyang Technological University:
Due to high computing demand by researchers and students, Nanyang Technological University, a research-intensive university in Singapore, sought an open hybrid cloud infrastructure to link the school's private cloud with its Amazon Web Services public cloud. The university deployed Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat’s solution for building and managing an open, private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud based on datacenter virtualization and management technologies. Nanyang Technological University reduced costs by 30 percent by integrating their public and private clouds. The school increased flexibility afforded by the Red Hat and Amazon Web Services cloud solution during computing traffic spikes and provided secure data replication.


- See more at Red Hat Honors Outstanding Open Source Advancement with Eighth Annual Red Hat Innovation Awards

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From Computerworld


Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has emerged as the winner in the Emerging Technology category of the eighth annual Red Hat Innovation Awards.

The award ceremony took place at Red Hat Summit 2014 in San Francisco, California.

NTU is the first to implement a Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure solution in Singapore and is now used as a reference for adoption of hybrid cloud solutions amongst academic institutions locally and in the region.

- See more at: http://www.computerworld.com.sg/tech/industries/nanyang-technological-university-of-singapore-wins-technology-award/#sthash.oiFkcXqK.dpuf

News - Beware of DNS Changer Malware

Information on DNS Changer Malware

1. Information on DNS Changer Malware, do look at DNS Changer Working Group (CFWG) Website
2. Check whether your machines are affected or not with the http://www.dns-ok.us/
3. How to disinfect the DNS Changer Malware with http://www.dcwg.org/fix/
   
4. Operation Ghost Click  and additional information from FBI website.
5. According to FBI website, the clean DNS servers will be turned off on July 9, 2012, and computers still impacted by DNSChanger may lose Internet connectivity at that time

IBM and NTU collaborative effort to converge cloud computing & HPC

NTU and IBM HPC-Cloud Collaboration

1. IBM and NTU announce collaborative effort to converge cloud computing and high performance computing (AlphaGalileo)
2. IBM, NTU to converge cloud computing, high performance computing (Singapore Business Review)
3. IBM and NTU collaborative effort to converge cloud computing & HPC (Twitter.com)
4. IBM and Singapore work on HPC and Clouds (Compute Scotland)
5. IBM-NTU collaboration  (Convergence Asia)

The netbook distro - Moblin 2.0 beta

Moblin is an open source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems.

Moblin is Intel's initiative to develop a linux-based OS for mobile devices like netbook. According to the Moblin website, Moblin v2.0 boast the following feastures:

• New, visually rich user experience
• The myzone, acting as the 'home screen' panel
• Aggregation of your social networking content
• A web browser optimized for the Moblin 2.0 netbook user interface
• A 'Zoomable' media player
• A user interface for connection management

Currently, it is v2.0 beta and according to the website tested moblin on the following netbook

• Acer Aspire*One,
• Asus eeePC* 901, 1000H,
• Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind,
• Lenovo S10,
• Samsung NC10,
• HP Mini 1010 and 1120NR (wired networking only for now).

For more information, do go to Moblin Website

Nanyang Technological University in Top500 and Green500 List

Nanyang Technological University supercomputer cluster has broke into the the top500list and green500 list. At point of writing the NTU Cluster is

1. 267th in the Top500 List with over 28 Teraflops
2. 24th most energy efficient with 266.68 Mflops per watts
3. Fastest in ASEAN (in term of Rmax)
4. Deployed the latest iDataplex, DCS9900, GPFS, Voltaire QDR infiniband

Happy for the NTU HPC team in Singapore. First time we are in top 500 for an island state.

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