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Jul 6, 2009

A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Last week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) was a convenient excuse for vendors to announce a raft of new products, but three, in particular, stood out. Read more...

Feature Articles

Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader, is the first book in CRC's Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon. Although the book is a collection of papers, Bader has done an excellent job of creating a compilation that holds together and covers a broad topic very well.
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The Week in Review

Cilk++ used in parallelization of the FP-tree algorithm for pattern mining; Istanbul benchmark results posted; and the latest on the NVIDIA Tesla shortage. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Parallel Programming Is Here – Are You Ready?

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Whether you're simulating the extreme conditions inside an exploding star or designing an ergonomically innovative office chair, it's a good bet that a high performance computing (HPC) system and some brain-bending programming will be involved.
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The Week in Review

Insiders reveal backstory for Wolfram|Alpha launch; commentary questions Encanto supercomputer investment; and Sun rumored to be pulling the plug on its Rock chip project. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Top Headlines

Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

7/1/09 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference. Read more...

HPC From the Beach

7/1/09 | Linux Magazine | How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing? Read more...

DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

6/29/09 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Read more...

Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

6/29/09 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing. Read more...

CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

6/18/09 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab. Read more...

When Supercomputing Benchmarks Fail to Add Up

6/18/09 | ZDNet UK | Benchmarking is either an invaluable procurement tool or just a pointless attempt to quantify the immeasurable. Read more...

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Featured Whitepapers

Building High Performance Computing in a Green and Modular Solution Building Block

4/14/09 | Appro | Many HPC IT departments are feeling the rising pressure to deliver more capacity computing and performance while trying to reduce the total cost of ownership. This white paper discusses how an environmentally-friendly and open-standards HPC building block based computing system using flexible interconnect options helps address capacity computing needs.

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Webcast: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

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Source: Addison Snell, GM/VP, Tabor Research; sponsored by Dell

Many organizations that could benefit from the use of HPC clusters find that it is complicated to get the systems up and running because of limited IT resources or the complexities of the clusters themselves. Learn how the Intel Cluster Ready program, for which Dell was an original partner, seeks to address this challenge for entry level and mid-range HPC users.

Webcast: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

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BlueArc's Titan architecture represents an evolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale bandwidth, IOPS, and overall data capacity well beyond conventional software-based devices. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to four usable petabytes of tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements, offering a competitive advantage for businesses, researchers, or other enterprises seeking to better manage data growth while still ensuring optimal performance.

Webcast: HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools

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Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support. Learn about all this and the latest in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.

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From the Editor
European Vendors Offer Home-Grown Petascale Supers
As American HPC companies retrench, a new crop of European-based vendors is emerging.
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Podcast: ISC'09 Vendor Spotlight: DataDirect, Mellanox and PGI
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss what DataDirect Networks (DDN), Mellanox, and PGI (The Portland Group) were talking about at last week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
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