http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs RSS Feed for Blogs en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:39:44 GMT 2009-07-03T03:39:44Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/European-Vendors-Offer-Home-Grown-Petascale-Supers-49756072.html As American HPC companies retrench, a new crop of European-based vendors is emerging. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:32:36 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/European-Vendors-Offer-Home-Grown-Petascale-Supers-49756072.html 2009-07-03T01:32:36Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC09-Vendor-Spotlight-DataDirect-Mellanox-and-PGI-49612597.html 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. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:36:03 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC09-Vendor-Spotlight-DataDirect-Mellanox-and-PGI-49612597.html 2009-07-01T19:36:03Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Nehalem_Bests_Istanbul_on_STREAM_Benchmark-49508502.html The STREAM benchmark plays to one of the big strength of Intel's Nehalem architecture -- its memory performance. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:55:44 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Nehalem_Bests_Istanbul_on_STREAM_Benchmark-49508502.html 2009-06-30T17:55:44Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC-Impressions-Nehalem-Shining-Star-NVIDIA-Owns-GPU-Computing-Euro-HPC-49112607.html Michael and Addison give their impressions on the news surrounding ISC and the buzz on the show floor. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:52:46 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC-Impressions-Nehalem-Shining-Star-NVIDIA-Owns-GPU-Computing-Euro-HPC-49112607.html 2009-06-25T20:52:46Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/TeraGrid-the-Social-Experiment-Continues-49090751.html Deep, wide and open: these three simple words have endured as shorthand for TeraGrid's enabling vision. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:39:44 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/TeraGrid-the-Social-Experiment-Continues-49090751.html 2009-07-03T03:39:44Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Wild-World-of-Global-Grids-49005416.html From Teragrid '09: Tuesday morning’s panel on “Global Grid Perspectives” gave a taste of the future while, at the same time, acknowledging some of the obstacles, such as the importance of standardization and the difficulties of funding. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:47:20 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Wild-World-of-Global-Grids-49005416.html 2009-06-25T18:47:20Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC-Special-Edition---Top500-Infiniband-vs-Ethernet-Getting-to-Exaflop-by-2020-48910422.html ISC Special Episode 1 of 2! Michael and Addison on location at International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, discuss the TOP500, InfiniBand vs. Ethernet, the road to Exaflops, and more... Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:13:34 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-ISC-Special-Edition---Top500-Infiniband-vs-Ethernet-Getting-to-Exaflop-by-2020-48910422.html 2009-06-23T23:13:34Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Anticipating-TeraGrid--48782247.html After more than a year of planning and preparations we are finally nearing the TeraGrid ‘09 event! As chair, John Towns, is amazed by the amount of effort and enthusiasm that has gone into the development of the program and activities of the conference. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:15:53 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Anticipating-TeraGrid--48782247.html 2009-06-22T23:15:53Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-Bull-Intros-Extreme-Computing-Looking-Ahead-to-ISC09-48618047.html In this week's podcast Addison and Michael talk about European computer maker Bull and its new push into HPC. They also look ahead to next week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:41 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Podcast-Bull-Intros-Extreme-Computing-Looking-Ahead-to-ISC09-48618047.html 2009-06-30T14:09:41Z http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/The-Essential-ISC-48555697.html Wondering what the can't-miss activities will be at ISC? Here is one man's opinion. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:54:03 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/The-Essential-ISC-48555697.html 2009-06-18T22:54:03Z