HPC Advisory Council Receives Intel Cluster Ready Explorer Award

November 14, 2011

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SC11 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, today announced it has been honored with the ‘Explorer Award’ from the Intel® Cluster Ready team at Intel, which recognizes organizations who have continued to explore and implement Intel Cluster Ready certified systems. The award was given as a result of the numerous joint activities between the HPC Advisory Council and Intel Cluster Ready, such as testing and benchmarking applications on Intel Cluster Ready certified clusters, developing documents and best practices for implementing open source applications on Intel Cluster Ready certified clusters, and extending Intel Cluster Ready’s reach into HPC end-user audiences.

“We are honored to be recognized by the Intel Cluster Ready program,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “Working in tandem with the Intel Cluster Ready team, the HPC Advisory Council, with its large library of best practices and guidelines, is providing the HPC end-user community valuable information to quickly improve their system and application usage.”

Visit the HPC Advisory Council at SC11 (Nov 14-18, 2011)

Visit the HPC Advisory Council at booth #853 to learn more about the organization’s worldwide HPC training, best practices, workshops and educational outreach programs. In addition, find out more about how you and your organization can join the growing list of companies and end-user organizations in the HPC Advisory Council.

The HPC Advisory Council will also present at the following SC11 sessions:

Tue. Nov. 15 at 5:30 PM, together with CSCS, room TCC 101 “Parallel Communication, I/O and Storage Interfaces for Accelerators: HPC Advisory Council Special Interest Group”
Wed. Nov. 16 at 12:15 PM, room TCC 101 “HPC Advisory Council University Awards”
Thu. Nov. 17 at 3:30 PM, room 613/614, “The HPC Advisory Council Outreach and Research Activities”

Supporting Resources:

Application Best Practices and Benchmarks
Intel Cluster Ready Installation Guides
Connect with the HPC Advisory Council on Twitter and Facebook

About the HPC Advisory Council

The HPC Advisory Council’s mission is to bridge the gap between high-performance computing (HPC) use and its potential, bring the beneficial capabilities of HPC to new users for better research, education, innovation and product manufacturing, bring users the expertise needed to operate HPC systems, provide application designers with the tools needed to enable parallel computing, and to strengthen the qualification and integration of HPC system products. For more information about the HPC Advisory Council, please visit www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com.