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December 21, 2007
The insideHPC Top Five Stories for 2007
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This week we're stepping back from our usual 7-day shot of what's going on in the world of HPC and taking a peek at the long view. I've combed through the insideHPC.com archives to come up with some of the most popular themes and news items from the full year of coverage, as determined by reader page views and clicks.
First, some stats. We started publication of insideHPC.com on Dec. 28, 2006, with post one. As of this writing (early morning on Dec. 20, 2007), we have written 1,273 posts about HPC news. Our readership has grown too, from 1 (me!) on Day 1 to nearly 1,000 visitors a day in December of this year, and all from the very tightly knit world of HPC.
There are two biases in this analysis. First, about 40 percent of my traffic comes from search engines, and that has grown over the year. These referrals are to deep links in the site, and this traffic biases in favor of posts that have been around longer. insideHPC.com has a fairly high page rank, which means that we show up on the first page for lots of searches in HPC. In fact, many of the same searches for which HPCwire shows up (a good thing!).
Second, readership has built steadily throughout the year. As more and more readers turn to insideHPC for a daily swig of HPC news, the pool of potential readers and clickers grows, which biases in favor of the more recent posts.
I've made absolutely no attempt to correct for these biases. But, I was surprised to see posts from as recently as this month alongside posts from March show up in the site's top content. So it may be that this summary is at least partially representative of what the HPC community thought was interesting throughout the year.
Without further ado, and with so many caveats you're going to need an extra Barney's bag to tote them around in, I give you:
The insideHPC Top 5 Stories for 2007
>>HP and Bull getting hitched?
As it turns out, no. At least not in 2007. But back in late July rumors were swirling that the two companies might get hitched, providing HP a native hook into the European HPC market, and a strong local service presence. The deal was thought to be worth just shy of $1B US at the time, and the story was covered in major tech news outlets across the country.
We can cross our fingers that they kept each other's numbers in speed dial though, and that they might finally get together in 2008. I mean, Rachel and Ross got back together, right?
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