Office of Science awards almost 1.7 billion supercomputing hours Legend has it that Prometheus brought us the gift of fire – a gift of comfort, innovation and even inspiration. Researchers in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science are dedicated to passing on those gifts, especially through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The INCITE program is the major means by which the scientific community gains access to some of the nation's fastest supercomputers. Today, it announced awards of nearly 1.7 billion processor hours to 60 high-impact research projects which will address scientific and engineering challenges of national and global importance. For instance: A total of 40 million processor hours was awarded to…

Mellanox Accelerates Half of the World’s Petaflops Systems; Delivers Scalable Networking for Next Generation Supercomputers Mellanox Technologies has continued its command as the leading global interconnect solution provider for the TOP500 list of supercomputers. For the first time, the November 2011 TOP500 list includes FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand-based systems, all based on Mellanox interconnect solutions. Mellanox FDR InfiniBand-connected systems demonstrate the highest x86 clustering efficiency, delivering the highest performance per node. According to the list, InfiniBand-connected systems grew at a CAGR of 15 percent from 2008-2011, connecting and delivering leading performance and efficiency to 210 supercomputers, closing the gap with the 224 Ethernet-based clusters on the list. Mellanox’s scalable interconnect solutions accelerate all five of the InfiniBand-based Petascale systems on the…