LIVERMORE SEEKING INDUSTRY FOR CATALYST SUPERCOMPUTER WORK

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is opening up a recently commissioned supercomputer for industry collaborators to test big data technologies, architectures and applications. A high performance computing cluster dubbed Catalyst—a collaboration between Livermore, Intel and Cray—came on line at Livermore last fall, and the lab’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) is soliciting statements of interest from industry about potential work on Catalyst. “Our purpose is to use Catalyst as a test bed to develop optimization strategies for data-intensive computing,” HPCIC Director Fred Streitz said in a statement. “We believe that advancing big data technology is a key to accelerating the innovation that underpins our economic vitality and global competitiveness.”