ICL Project News

MAGMA version 0.2 Released

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:52 GMT

MAGMA version 0.2 for 32 and 64-bit Linux is now available. This release is intended for a single
CUDA enabled NVIDIA GPU and includes:

LU, QR, and Cholesky factorizations in both real and complex arithmetic (single and double);
LQ and QL factorizations in real arithmetic (single and double);
Linear solvers based on LU, QR, and Cholesky in real arithmetic (single and double);
Mixed-precision iterative refinement solvers based on LU, QR, and Cholesky in real arithmetic;
Reduction to upper Hessenberg form in real arithmetic (single and double);
MAGMA BLAS in real arithmetic (single and double), including gemm, gemv, symv, and trsm.

See the Software section for a download link.

Tennessee Supercomputing Titans Triumph at HPC Challenge

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:08:17 GMT

Two powerful Cray XT5 systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory computing complex outmuscled competitors to win half of this year's High-Performance Computing (HPC) Challenge awards. Results of the "Best Performance" awards, which measure excellence in handling computing workloads, were announced Nov. 17 at SC09, an international gathering of supercomputing professionals.
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Tennessee Supercomputing Titans Triumph at HPC Challenge

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:02:24 GMT

PLASMA 2.1.0 released!

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:09:05 GMT

Now with Windows support.

Read the Release Notes for more information.

PAPI 3.7.1

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:21:26 GMT

Just in time for SC09, PAPI 3.7.1 is now available for download. This is an incremental release of Classic PAPI with a few bug fixes and a few new or improved features.

U of Tennessee Named CUDA Center of Excellence

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:03 GMT

NVIDIA Corp. today recognized the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's (UTK's) Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) as a CUDA Center of Excellence, noting its adoption of the CUDA programming model in its curriculum, as well as its pioneering research into the development of linear algebra libraries for the high-performance computing community.

The Green500 expands its coverage of energy-efficient supercomputers

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:53 GMT

Two new exploratory lists also are now open for submissions. The Open Green500 will allow supercomputers to use a combination of single-precision and double-precision to generate a correct double-precision result for LINPACK. “We hope that this will stimulate innovation by allowing hardware manufacturers to explore novel architectural solutions while numerical analysts compose novel algorithms to perhaps create a synergistic multi-grid method for LINPACK,” Feng said. Similarly, the second exploratory list will use the High Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) benchmark for its performance results.

PAPI 3.7 and Jaguar

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:54:32 GMT

The newly released PAPI 3.7.0 runs great on the newly upgraded Jaguar 6-Core XT5.

Announcing PAPI 3.7.0

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:04:57 GMT

The latest release of PAPI Classic is here.

PAPI version 3.7.0 provides support for the latest processors from Intel and AMD, including Core i7 (Nehalem) and Atom, Shanghai and Istanbul.

PAPI Now Has User Forum

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:49:41 GMT

In a blatant attempt to remain trendy and relevant, PAPI now has its very own User Discussion Forum. You can find it at: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/forum/, or by following the link at the bottom left of the PAPI web page. Of course, we'll continue to maintain our mailing lists, but anyone who is truly cool will want to start their own topic in this forum -- or at least chime in on someone else's topic. Register now. It's easy. The more people that use it, the more value it will have. You might even be the first to post!

Why You Should Touch MAGMA

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:07:13 GMT

Hiding the details of the multi-core and GP-GPU hardware is a really cool goal. Read the full article at Linux Magazine.

MAGMA User Forum up and running

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:55:30 GMT

The MAGMA team is happy to announce the creation of the MAGMA User Forum. Established to aid with feedback and discussion regarding the newly released MAGMA software, the forum is now up and running.

MAGMA gets its 1st user

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:53:10 GMT

The MAGMA team is happy to announce it has it's first user! In less than 24 hours of releasing MAGMA version 0.1 we got the first feedback.

MAGMA version 0.1 Released

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:56:31 GMT

MAGMA version 0.1 for 32 and 64-bit Linux is now available. This release is intended for a single
CUDA enabled NVIDIA GPU and includes the 3 one-sided factorizations - LU, QR, and Cholesky in
single and double precision arithmetic. See the Software section for a download link.

SCALASCA 1.2 released

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:24:17 GMT

Includes improved support for OpenMP & hybrid MPI/OpenMP codes, MPI File I/O analysis, PGI compilers, Cray XT & NEC-SX, a new User Guide, and numerous other bug fixes & improvements.

To download the software, visit the distribution site at http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/scalasca/software/download#scalasca.