November 17th marks the start of the 25th Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado. This year Boston will be demonstrating solutions that address the theme of 'Energy for Sustainable Science'. With advanced scientific and technical applications becoming increasingly hungry for power and performance, the industry is struggling to cope – how can performance be increased when the limits of the power supply into a datacentre is reached?
Boston's solution is to look at ways of increasing efficiency so that performance ceilings can be raised. By focusing on energy efficiency, datacentres can use power in a smarter way to deploy an efficient infrastructure that is the backbone for sustainable science.
At SC13, Boston will be demonstrating:
ARM-as-a-Service: The world's first ARM cloud platform
Powered by the world's first ARM-based enterprise server, the Boston Viridis, ARM-as-a-Service has been specifically designed to help users experiment with ARM-based server hardware and to ease the transition from an x86 infrastructure to ARM.
As part of the ARM-as-a-Service demonstration, Ellexus will be showing how their Breeze software tracing tool helps solve installation and configuration problems, discovers program dependencies, and helps the migration of programs to an ARM-based infrastructure.
Also on show will be CEPH-based storage on ARM, fundamentally changing the economics of large-scale storage, and Baserock, helping make the process of integrating and developing with open source much faster.
Exciting NVIDIA Announcement
Boston will also be sharing an exciting announcement with NVIDIA® based around the next generation of GPU technology. We’ll be demonstrating how our work with technology partners like NVIDIA can help you respond to your most demanding Supercomputing requirements.
In addition to Boston's own booth at SC13, we're also sharing space with Technology Partner Supermicro to highlight how Boston adds value to Supermicro products and builds solutions tailored to customer needs. On display will be a liquid cooled Intel Xeon Phi co-processor and Boston's ScaleMP xScaler solution – perfect for scale-out application clusters. Check out the Boston HPC site for more details.
The Boston team are looking forward to meeting up with the HPC community and celebrating the Supercomputing Conference's 25th ayear anniversary. Here's to a great event with plenty of interesting discussion.