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Jan 29, 2012

Aircraft Simulations Push Computing to the Cutting Edge

Designing an aircraft is one of the more expensive endeavors in the manufacturing business. It's no surprise that large manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus have turned to computing, and especially high performance computing, to streamline the effort. To get a sense of the current state of the art, we asked Guus Dekkers, CIO of EADS and Airbus, to shed some light on the computational challenges involved. Read more...

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HPCwire Reveals its People to Watch for 2012
Each year, HPCwire announces its People to Watch list. The annual list is comprised of an elite group of community leaders selected from academia, government, business, and industry who we predict will be impacting the world in 2012 and beyond. Join us in acknowledging those who's hard work, dedication, and discoveries reach beyond the spectrum of high performance computing and influence the direction technology will take in the years ahead. Read more...

Feature Articles

Startup Uses Data Compression to Speed Applications

Silicon Valley-based Samplify Systems has launched an application acceleration technology designed to speed up codes that sling a lot of numerical data. But rather than throwing bigger, faster hardware at the problem, the company aims to make programs speedier by optimizing the data flow between the compute cores and the outside world.
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Intel Snaps Up InfiniBand Technology, Product Line from QLogic

Chip giant Intel has penned an agreement to acquire QLogic's assets related to its InfiniBand product line. The move is in line with Intel's strategy to have a broader, more diverse set of offerings for the datacenter, especially in the lucrative network and interconnect segment. The chipmaker also sees the acquisition as key to fulfilling its promise to deliver exascale technology by 2018.
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China's Dark Horse Supercomputing Chip: FeiTeng

Chinese development of domestic microprocessors for high performance computing seems to be ramping up. The Godson-3B and ShenWei SW1600 CPUs were the first out of the gate, with the latter chip powering a Chinese petascale supercomputer. Waiting in the wings is the FeiTeng processor, an architecture that could be the one that takes Chinese supercomputing into the exascale realm.
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Designer of Microprocessor-Memory Chip Aims to Topple Memory and Power Walls

Whether you're talking about high performance computers, enterprise servers, or mobile devices, the two biggest impediments to application performance in computing today are the memory wall and the power wall. Venray Technology is aiming to knock down those walls with a unique approach that puts CPU cores and DRAM on the same die. The company has been in semi-stealth mode since it inception seven years ago, but is now trying to get the word out about its technology as it searches for a commercial buyer.
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Short Takes

The Big Squeeze: Getting More Power From a Tighter Package

1/26/2012 | Companies like Tilera and Kalray are pushing the manycore envelope.
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Blue Waters Supercomputer to Use Grid-Based File Service

1/25/2012 | NCSA chooses Globus Online as big data mover.
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South African Super Returns to TOP500

1/19/2012 | R9-million upgrade bumps Linpack performance from 25 to 61 teraflops.
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Making the Skies Friendly with GPUs

1/18/2012 | GPU computing speeds up air traffic trajectory software by a factor of 250.
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Ethical Supercomputing

1/12/2012 | The latest volunteer supercomputing grid, Charity Engine, has a new twist on how to make the world a better place.
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Thus Begins the Era of the $1,000 Genome

1/11/2012 | The latest DNA sequencers can map a human genome in a single day, but useful analysis of the results will still be a bottleneck.
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Introducing LRDIMM – A New Class of Memory Modules

01/17/2012 | Inphi | This paper introduces the LRDIMM, a new type of memory module for high capacity servers and high-performance computing platforms. LRDIMM is an abbreviation for Load Reduced Dual Inline Memory Module, the newest type of DIMM supporting DDR3 SDRAM main memory. The LRDIMM is fully pin compatible with existing JEDEC-standard DDR3 DIMM sockets, and supports higher system memory capacities when enabled in the system BIOS.

Effectively applying high-performance computing (HPC) to imaging

01/09/2012 | Matrox | Applications with image resolutions, data rates and analysis requirements that exceed the capabilities of a typical workstation computer continue to exist to this day. Moreover, developers must decide how to select and best use the processing technologies – multi-core CPU, GPU and FPGA – at their disposal. The suitability of a scalable heterogeneous computing platform for demanding applications will be examined by way of a representative scenario.

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pNFS: Are We There Yet?

NFS has been the standard protocol for NAS systems since the 1980s. However, with the explosive growth of Linux clusters running demanding technical computing applications, NFS is no longer sufficient for these big data workloads. After years of development effort, driven by Panasas and others, pNFS is now just around the corner and promises to dramatically improve Linux client I/O performance thanks to its parallel architecture. Watch the on-demand webinar – “pNFS: Are We There Yet?”

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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones has over 15 years of experience in HPC, in supercomputer center management and as a research user in industry. He now leads the HPC Services & Consulting at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). More > >

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Addison Snell is the CEO of Intersect360 Research and a veteran of the high performance computing industry. During his tenure, he has established Intersect360 Research as a premier source of market information, analysis and consulting. More > >

Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe has developed compilers for over 30 years in both academia and industry, and is now a senior compiler engineer at The Portland Group, Inc.