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Michael Feldman
Gentlemen, Start Your Benchmarks
Post Date: May 25, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Editor Michael Feldman has a few words to say about AMD's entry into the world of Dell. He also offers his perspective on the processor performance battle brewing between Woodcrest and Opteron, where Intel just fired the first shot. Lastly, Feldman notes that SGI is getting serious about the enterprise market and it has the benchmarks to prove it.
Michael Feldman
Programming Clusters Just Got Easier
Post Date: May 18, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Today, one of the biggest impediments to high performance computing application development is the difficulty of writing software for cluster architectures. Editor Michael Feldman talks about two new developments that may ease this burden.
Michael Feldman
The Path Ahead for SGI
Post Date: May 11, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The HPC community is still absorbing the news of SGI's bankruptcy filing that was announced on Monday. Editor Michael Feldman offers his perspectives on the company's fortunes. He also scolds Microsoft for offering up yet another pre-release version of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
Michael Feldman
The Return of High-End Crusader
Post Date: May 04, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
This week's issue has an eclectic mix of articles from the world of high performance computing. We've covered everything from DARPA's HPCS petascale program to modeling potato chips. In between, we touch on HyperTransport, Dutch clusters, and nanoelectronics.
Michael Feldman
Itanium's Growing Pains
Post Date: April 27, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The Itanium microprocessor has endured a controversial existence that has polarized not just the industry watchers, but the industry itself. First introduced in 2001, the Itanium was advertised as the next generation 64-bit microprocessor that was destined to replace RISC architectures. HPCwire editor Michael Feldman offers some of his perspectives on the Itanium's bumpy ride through history.
Michael Feldman
The Battle for 64-bit x86 Supremacy
Post Date: April 20, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With the popularity of the 64-bit x86 architecture in the high performance computing market now established, a lot of us in the HPC community closely follow the rivalry between the two chip vendors, AMD and Intel. Rivalries are fun, especially when it's a "David and Goliath" story. But a lot is on the line. At a time when the demand for commodity clusters and blade servers is rapidly growing, these two companies have much to gain and just as much to lose.
Michael Feldman
Three Vendors on a Mission
Post Date: April 13, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
In this issue, three of our feature articles focus on some of the top vendors vying for supercomputer leadership -- Cray, IBM and Linux Networx. Though quite different in product offerings and corporate strategy, all these companies have had and, hopefully, will continue to have a significant role in the high performance computing market.
Michael Feldman
The Search For Next Generation Supercomputing
Post Date: April 06, 2006 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
In this special issue of HPCwire, all of our feature articles are devoted to DARPA's High Productivity Computer Systems program. The program's ambitious goals are to take supercomputing to the petascale level and increase overall system productivity ten-fold by the end of this decade.
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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede
The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Computing the Physics of Bubbles
May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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