The Week in Review

Sep 07, 2007 | Intel pushes more quads out the door; HP and Verari lap them up. ClearSpeed heads for outer space. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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DRC Stakes Claim in Reconfigurable Computing

Sep 07, 2007 | DRC Computer Corporation is one of just a handful of companies hoping to ride the popularity of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) into the high performance computing realm. DRC President and CEO Larry Laurich talks about the company's mission and the nature of the technology they've developed.
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Switching Buses

Aug 31, 2007 | With the superior performance facilitated by HyperTransport and on-chip memory controllers, AMD has managed to eat away at Intel's market share in x86 servers. In response, Intel is preparing to retire its front side bus and discrete memory controller architecture for all of its high-end processors.
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The Week in Review

Aug 31, 2007 | AMD pumps up x86 instruction set; University of Nebraska at Omaha announces dual-boot cluster; analyst dissects Intel's Common System Interface; and IBM beefs up Cell-based blade. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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Genome Matchmaker

Aug 31, 2007 | A DOE graduate fellow has developed an algorithm that will dramatically slash the time it takes to sort and catalog billions of genome sequences from the Joint Genome Institute and other research centers. The increased speed will enable staff at the Biological Data Management and Technology Center at Berkeley Lab to massage raw data into materials that scientists can easily use for genomic analyses.
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Linux Networx Pumps Up its Cluster Management Offering

Aug 24, 2007 | On Monday, Linux Networx launched Clusterworx Advanced, its fourth generation cluster management software. The software provides a high-level interface for managing and monitoring computing clusters and gives the system administrator a single point of control for all their cluster computing systems -- even those not purchased from Linux Networx.
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The Week in Review

Aug 24, 2007 | How is a dinosaur different from a chicken?Why are scientists excited about Web 2.0? What do you get when you cross a laser with a computer chip? We answer these questions and more in this Week in Review.
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Heterogeneous Processing In The Age Of Nanocore (Part I)

Aug 24, 2007 | In a series of three articles, the High-End Crusader ponders the future impact of industry's ever-evolving many-core technology on both parallel computing and heterogeneous processing. In the first article, he explains the meltdown of monolithic, monothreaded, out-of-order scalar processors as vehicles for delivering steadily increasing performance.
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The Week in Review

Aug 17, 2007 | DARPA cuts HPCS Phase III research funding; AMD prepares to optimize multi-threaded apps; and Intel sets November launch date for Penryn. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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Partnering for Success

Aug 17, 2007 | In many instances, supercomputing solutions are built for customers on the leading edge. In this type of environment it's especially important that the main players -- the integrator and the primary hardware vendor -- have a solid relationship.
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How Big is the HPC Market, Really?

Aug 17, 2007 | For a research analyst in any industry, there is one question that is fundamental: How big is the market? But the way you arrive at the answer is not nearly as straightforward.
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Optical Cables Light Up InfiniBand

Aug 17, 2007 | As InfiniBand data rates rise and clusters grow in size, copper cable technology is getting stretched to its limits. Optical cable technology is poised to take its place.
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The Week in Review

Aug 10, 2007 | NSF reveals petascale winners; IBM talks up Live Partition Mobility; Sun rolls out "world's fastest processor"; and the Green Grid reveals its technology roadmap. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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Ethernet Headed for 40/100GbE Standard

Aug 10, 2007 | Late last month, the IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group reached a consensus on the future path of the Ethernet standard. The group recommended that the standard move forward on two parallel tracks -- a 40GbE data rate for server and storage applications and a 100GbE data rate for long-haul networking and network aggregation.
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Liquid Computing Presses Sales to Boot Up Company

Aug 10, 2007 | The engineers have done their job. All that's left is that annoying detail of selling the product. So thought Liquid Computing, a Canadian tech startup that builds Linux-based high performance computing systems. But so far, the potential of the technology has exceeded Liquid's ability to capitalize on it.
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SiCortex Brings Its Compiler In-House

Aug 03, 2007 | Not many computer system vendors develop their own compiler technology. Now SiCortex can claim to be among them. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had acquired the PathScale compiler business from QLogic Corp under undisclosed financial terms.
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EverGrid Targets Evolving Datacenter

Aug 03, 2007 | In June, EverGrid debuted its Cluster Availability Management Suite (CAMS), a continuous availability and resource management software solution for high productivity computing environments and the utility enterprise datacenter. We asked Mitch Ratner, the VP of Product Management and Business Development at EverGrid, to give us some background on EverGrid's offering and talk about the company's strategy going forward. He also talks about their new Data Center Resource Manager (DCRM) product, which was announced on Tuesday.
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Startup Looks for Niche in HPC Services

Aug 03, 2007 | Capital Advanced Technology Services, Inc. is a Maryland-based, small business that came on the scene last week when they announced the availability of their cluster managed services offering. To get more details, HPCwire spoke with company founder and industry veteran, Richard Glassbrook.
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The Week in Review

Aug 03, 2007 | EU charges Intel with monopoly abuse; SiCortex acquires PathScale compiler technology and team; and a whole bunch of financial news. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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Intel Opens Up Multicore Development Library

Jul 27, 2007 | This week, Intel announced it was making its Threading Building Blocks template library available to the open source community under the GNU General Public License. The library extends the C++ language in order to make it easier to write scalable, parallel applications for multicore processor environments.
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The Week in Review

Jul 27, 2007 | MVAPICH enhanced for QLogic InfiniBand products; Intel talks up Caneland; SiCortex closes a deal for $10 million in venture debt; and Voltaire lowers IPO expectations. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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Compilers and More: Productivity and Compilers

Jul 27, 2007 | The mantra of productivity is beginning to permeate the HPC community. But can we usefully define it? And, once defined, are there straightforward ways to improve it? PGI's Michael Wolfe examines some approaches to the productivity dilemma.
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HP Looks to Bring HPC Applications Up To Speed

Jul 20, 2007 | At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden last month, HP revealed its multicore optimization program for high performance computing applications. HP, like every HPC computer vendor, is looking for ways to make multicore technology live up to its potential.
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Petascale Era Will Force Software Rethink

Jul 20, 2007 | As we enter the petascale era, there will be a number of challenges to overcome before applications can truly take advantage of the enormous computational power that is coming available. One of the most pressing of these challenges will be to design software programs that map well to petascale architectures to allow the community to solve previously unattainable scientific and business problems.
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The Week in Review

Jul 20, 2007 | Infosolve Technologies saves money using Network.com; Intel announces new Core 2 Extreme processors; and SPEC releases its MPI benchmark. John West recaps those stories and more in the latest HPC news of the week.
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