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Michael Feldman     
European Vendors Offer Home-Grown Petascale Supers
Post Date: July 2, 2009 @ 6:32PM
Blog: From the Editor

As American HPC companies retrench, a new crop of European-based vendors is emerging.

Michael Feldman     
Podcast: ISC'09 Vendor Spotlight: DataDirect, Mellanox and PGI
Post Date: July 1, 2009 @ 12:35PM
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

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.

Michael Feldman     
Nehalem Bests Istanbul on STREAM Benchmark
Post Date: June 30, 2009 @ 10:55AM
Blog: From the Editor

The STREAM benchmark plays to one of the big strength of Intel's Nehalem architecture -- its memory performance.

Michael Feldman     
Podcast: ISC Impressions, Nehalem Shining Star, NVIDIA Owns GPU Computing, Euro HPC
Post Date: June 25, 2009 @ 1:52PM
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison give their impressions on the news surrounding ISC and the buzz on the show floor.

John Towns, Director of Persistent Infrasctucture Directorate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois John Towns     
TeraGrid, the Social Experiment Continues
Post Date: June 29, 2009 @ 10:25AM
Blog: HPC Community Voices

Deep, wide and open: these three simple words have endured as shorthand for TeraGrid's enabling vision.

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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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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.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

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DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

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

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Featured Whitepapers

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

Apr 14 | | 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


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.

Video White Paper: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

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


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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