About HPCwire

HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications.

HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers.

HPCwire History - A rich tradition in HPC...

The origin of HPCwire.com dates back to 1986 with the hardcopy publication Supercomputing Review. The launch of this progressive magazine coincided with the evolution of supercomputing; from its limited accessibility in secure environments to its transition to the mainstream realm of university researchers. In early 1989 Supercomputing Review commenced a 'prehistoric,' pre-web browser software, electronic publishing effort on a clunky ASCII, UNIX based bulletin board service; then the principle means of distributing news at a blazing 1200 baud per second (bps).

Supercomputing Review's journey from a hardcopy publication to an Internet publication was stymied by one enormous obstacle: the Internet Use Policy, which prohibited the commercial use of the Internet. Inconceivably, at this particular time the Internet was a newly developed, completely noncommercial, and heavily policed medium with only two to three providers. As the popularity of the Internet expanded, the original administrators met with a plethora of difficulties including: support issues, service issues, and discrepancies regarding standards and protocols. In order to resolve these problems thwarting the management of the Internet, DARPA contracted IBM and Sprint to oversee Internet usage. Together these companies developed and enacted CORE+, a program designed to allow restricted commercial usage of the Internet. With the advent of CORE+ and the financial support of IBM, Supercomputing Review became one of the first content providers on the Internet. After this breakthrough, Supercomputing Review produced SUPERnet, an internet-based supercomputing industry portal, which was able to charge advertisers and provide important HPC information free to users.

The innovative HPC leaders like Cray, IBM, Sun, SGI, Stardent, MasPar, MacStrat, Multiflow, Thinking Machines, HP, and Convex, financially underwrote the costs of SUPERnet; allowing the portal to evolve into HPCwire/Select News, an ad-driven publication delivered via email. In February of 2002, HPCwire/Select News became HPCwire, the first paid advertising, paid subscription, text-on-demand, Internet publication modeled after a hardcopy magazine.

A true Internet publishing veteran, Tabor Communications, Inc. has provided turnkey electronic publishing systems and consultation services for such leading companies as IBM, Intel, Lumina LTD, Hahn Corp. Sub Micron Systems, DMC Marketing, and Tylan General. Tabor Communications, Inc.'s publications include subscribers and business relationships with many of the key members of the Internet and data intensive computing industries, as well as every high performance computing center, major military and government departments, including:

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