[BANANA] Berkeley Lab - Scientific Computing Seminar, June 1, 2007

[Parry Husbands]

Date: Friday, June 1, 2007
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Building 50A-5132

Seminar Speaker: Gerhard Wellein
                  HPC Services
                  Computing Center Erlangen (RRZE)
                  Germany

Title: Experiences with Intel dual-core processor
        systems: From small to large scales

Abstract:

In the past months Intel has moved its two processor lines used
in HPC to dual-core technology. In this timeframe the RRZE has
installed a 9 TFlop/s Infiniband Cluster based on Intel Xeon5160
(Woodcrest) and the LRZ Munich has upgraded its SGI Altix to
62 TFlop/s using Intel Montecito processors. The talk reports
about experiences with both systems and discusses the performance
characteristics of these machines using small benchmark kernels
as well as large scale user applications such as lattice Boltzmann
solver and a Multigrid solver based on hierarchical hybrid grids.

Links:
SGI Altix at LRZ Munich:
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/compute/
IB Woodcrest Cluster at RRZE:
http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/dienste/arbeiten-rechnen/hpc/systeme/woodcrest-cluster.shtml

Sponsor of Seminar: Harvey Wasserman