http://www.hpcwire.com/features RSS Feed for Features en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:36:48 GMT 2010-03-12T03:36:48Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100311.html The ACM Turing Award goes to the creator of the modern personal computer; and Voltaire announces a mid-range InfiniBand switch and new technology that accelerates distributed applications. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:36:48 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100311.html 2010-03-12T03:36:48Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Florida-State-Gives-Virtual-SMPs-a-Spin-87281502.html The prospects for virtual SMP technology got another boost last month when Florida State University announced it had installed a new HPC system from 3Leaf Systems. The servers are being housed at the university's HPC facility and will be used across a range of scientific disciplines. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:10:37 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Florida-State-Gives-Virtual-SMPs-a-Spin-87281502.html 2010-03-11T00:10:37Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/HPC-Powers-Bobsled-Team-to-Olympic-Gold-87153032.html For the first time in 62 years, the four-man Olympics bobsled team from the US captured the gold medal, setting a course world record in the process. The winning bobsled had some state-of-the-art engineering behind it, including CFD software from Exa Corporation. As it turned out, that software may have proved to be the margin of difference in the race. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:57:24 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/HPC-Powers-Bobsled-Team-to-Olympic-Gold-87153032.html 2010-03-09T23:57:24Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100304.html Cray and Microsoft Research partner on cloud computing project; IBM donates a POWER7-based supercomputer to Rice University; and the Kavli Foundation hosts a dialogue on the convergence of nanoscience and neuroscience. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:44:58 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100304.html 2010-03-05T03:44:58Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Fixstars-Launches-Linux-for-CUDA-86044987.html Multicore software specialist Fixstars Corporation has released Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) for CUDA, the first commercial Linux distribution for GPU computing. The OS is aimed at HPC customers using NVIDIA GPU hardware to accelerate their vanilla Linux clusters, and is designed to lower the overall cost of system deployment, the idea being to bring these still-exotic systems into the mainstream. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:45:14 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Fixstars-Launches-Linux-for-CUDA-86044987.html 2010-03-11T23:45:14Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/IBM-Invents-Short-Cut-to-Assessing-Data-Quality-85427987.html In what IBM is characterizing as a "breakthrough," researchers have developed an algorithm that cuts the computational costs of assessing data quality by two orders of magnitude. The new algorithm has potentially far-reaching applicability, extending to nearly all types of analytics applications as well as scientific modeling and simulation. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:37 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/IBM-Invents-Short-Cut-to-Assessing-Data-Quality-85427987.html 2010-03-11T23:42:37Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100225.html A safer nuclear reactor could be on the horizon thanks to computer modeling; and the National Science Foundation awards $24.5 million to UC Berkeley researchers engaged in reducing the power draw of electronics. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:21:14 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100225.html 2010-03-11T23:21:14Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Remote-Direct-Memory-Access-Networking-for-HPC-Comparative-Review-of-10GbE-iWARP-and-InfiniBand-85217182.html Cluster computing systems have caused disruptive changes in the HPC market. One consequence of the range of requirements for cluster networking is that the leading interconnects in HPC are Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), which is based on Ethernet networking standard, and InfiniBand, delivering upwards of 10X performance vs. GbE. Both show significant deployment in HPC. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:19:35 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Remote-Direct-Memory-Access-Networking-for-HPC-Comparative-Review-of-10GbE-iWARP-and-InfiniBand-85217182.html 2010-03-11T23:19:35Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Profitable-Year-Eludes-Cray-in-2009-84718797.html Supercomputer maker Cray had one of its best years in recent memory, but just missed posting a profit. This week the company told investors what went wrong and right for the company in 2009, and gave an outline of what's on tap for 2010. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:18:30 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Profitable-Year-Eludes-Cray-in-2009-84718797.html 2010-03-11T23:18:30Z http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The-Week-in-Review-20100218.html Mellanox introduces flexible remote boot technology; Carnegie Mellon University adds newest cluster to cloud computing test bed Open Cirrus, and Barbie doll turns techie. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. 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