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Michael Feldman
Parting Shots at 2007
Post Date: December 20, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The last 12 months of HPC happenings provided great fodder for HPCwire news coverage and commentary. For this final issue of 2007, editor Michael Feldman takes a look at some of the stories and developments that caught his attention.
Michael Feldman
AMD Winds Down Year on a Sour Note
Post Date: December 13, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
By any measurement, 2007 was a miserable time for the company. This week's revelation of the Barcelona problem is just the latest setback in a year that the company would like to forget.
Michael Feldman
HPC Carries Server Market in Third Quarter
Post Date: December 06, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Revenue growth for high performance computing servers continues to outpace the overall server market. According to IDC, HPC server revenue grew 8.8 percent in the third quarter amid an overall server growth of only 0.5 percent. What does it all mean?
Michael Feldman
NEC Revisited
Post Date: November 29, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
At SC07, editor Michael Feldman spent some quality time with NEC, gathering some additional information about the new SX-9 supercomputer and the company's overall HPC strategy.
Michael Feldman
HPC Ideologues
Post Date: November 22, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
One of Microsoft's challenges in the high performance computing realm will be overcoming some of the anti-Windows zealotry of the Linux HPC community.Editor Michael Feldman takes a look at what the company is up against.
Michael Feldman
Tis the Season
Post Date: November 08, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The supercomputing conference season is merging into the holiday shopping season and both are starting earlier every year. SC07 doesn't officially begin until next week, but a bunch of vendors decided to get a jump on the festivities by pre-announcing some of their upcoming offerings.
Michael Feldman
NEC Does Some Vector Addition
Post Date: November 01, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Traditions die hard at NEC. At a time when vector computers are being forced into smaller and smaller niches, the company has introduced its next generation vector supercomputer, the SX-9. While vector systems may not be extinct, they're definitely on the endangered species list.
Michael Feldman
GPU Computing Gets Ready for Act II
Post Date: October 25, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The idea of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) continues to capture the imagination of the HPC community. But the three big players -- Intel, NVIDIA and AMD -- all have their ideas on how this new technology should play out.
Michael Feldman
Are We Green Yet?
Post Date: October 18, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The lure of green computing has launched a thousand marketing campaigns, but are HPC users buying it? Editor Michael Feldman takes a look at what may be holding back the green tide in high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Lustre's New Life
Post Date: October 11, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Sun Microsystems' recent acquisition of the Lustre file system and the associated Cluster File Systems (CFS) resources has caused less gnashing of teeth than one might have suspected. For the time being, Sun has managed to convince the Lustre community that its intentions are honorable.
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