Year: 2016

Christmas Seahorse

Ding Dong LED on High

Embecosm's staff got into the Christmas spirit with our entry into the Lymington Christmas Tree Festival. A tree festooned with glittery GNUs and Tuxes, a 3D printed star and 17 small computers Read More

48th HiPEAC Newsletter features article from Dan Gorringe & Jeremy Bennett

The 48th edition of the quarterly HiPEAC Newsletter features an article jointly authored by intern, Dan Gorringe, and Embecosm CEO, Dr Jeremy Bennett. Regular readers of this blog may have followed Dan's adventures in low cost HPC, building and subsequently benchmarking a Beowulf cluster constructed from eminently affordable Pine64 boards. Read More

Report from SC16

I recently attended SC16 in Salt Lake City and here are some of my personal highlights. Energy Efficient Supercomputing (E2SC) Workshop Power utilization and over-provisioning I was particularly looking forward to E2SC. The session began with a keynote from… Read More

Video from Open for Business 2016

We are pleased to announce that the video from the Open for Business conference — which ran as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival back in September — is now online. Read More

Researchers are needed!

A guest post from Professor Elisabeth Oswald, University of Bristol: The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol is recruiting for applicants interested in all aspects of leakage aware cryptographic implementations: in particular in the area of utilising… Read More

Pine Cluster Performance

Over the summer of 2016 I created a Pine64 cluster for Embecosm, for use with their work on the TSERO project. To begin with I had a cluster of four boards and I used Linpack to… Read More

World’s cheapest supercomputer?

First week of work and T Minus 1 week until Hartree HPC summer school with practically no knowledge of software programming, I used the time to learn C by completing Project Euler problems and then converting my serial programs… Read More

Open for Business 2016 is Next Month

OpenUK and the BCS Open Source Specialist Group are co-hosts of the annual Open for Business conference.  This festival of open source in the business environment takes place just four weeks from now in… Read More

ISC 2016

Recently I attended ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. Here are a few of the talks that grabbed my attention. One of the highlights was the Workshop on Energy-Aware High Performance Computing (EnA-HPC). I particularly enjoyed Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos’s keynote… Read More

Open for Business 2016, Mon 5th Sept

Following the success of the inaugural event in 2015, the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and Open Source Consortium will for the second year host the Open for Business conference in September, running again as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology festival in Hebden Bridge. Read More