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Michael Feldman
Cluster Lust
Post Date: October 04, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The combination of quad-core Opterons and DDR Infiniband is re-landscaping the HPC terrain and is propelling the largest clusters to the top of the high performance heap. A rash of recent announcements of big system purchases suggests good times ahead for HPC cluster vendors. Or does it?
Michael Feldman
Parallel Thoughts
Post Date: September 27, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As Intel and AMD take a break from beating each other about the quads, this week we'll turn our attention to software -- specifically, parallel programming. Yes, multicore processors, GPUs and FPGAs are all the rage; but without applications to run on them, they're just pretty etchings.
Michael Feldman
2007 HPCwire Readers' Choice Nominations Are Open
Post Date: September 27, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Every year we let the HPCwire readership decide which are the most innovative and successful organizations, products and programs in the HPC industry. This time around we're going to do it a little differently. We've set up a short web survey that makes it super-easy to submit your nominations.
Michael Feldman
Wall Street-HPC Lovefest; Intel's Fall Classic
Post Date: September 20, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
High-end computing aficionados had plenty of entertainment this week. In San Francisco, the Intel Developer Forum offered a smorgasbord of technology talks about all things Intel. And in New York, the HPC on Wall Street conference focused on the financial industry's obsession with automated trading and low latency. Editor Michael Feldman recaps some of the bi-coastal festivities.
Michael Feldman
New Opterons Headed for Supercomputing Stardom
Post Date: September 13, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
AMD's public relations blitz for its new quad-core processors is winding down now. While the impact of the latest Opterons in the overall server market will take some time to develop, their effect in the HPC universe will be almost instantaneous.
Michael Feldman
As the Chip Turns
Post Date: September 06, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Will AMD find true happiness in Barcelona? Will Xeon break Opteron's heart? What evil lurks beneath the Front Side Bus? If this sounds like the premise for some weird, high-tech soap opera, that's because it is. The Intel-AMD feud has been going on for over 20 years and the participants show no signs of reconciliation.
Michael Feldman
Intel Prepares to Eat AMD's Launch
Post Date: August 30, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As the formal introduction of AMD's new quad-core "Barcelona" processor approaches, the folks at Intel are trying to grab the limelight with a few well-timed announcements of their own. The fun never stops in x86-land.
Michael Feldman
Beyond Multicore
Post Date: August 23, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
If you thought computing was just getting interesting with four cores, what happens when the chipmakers start delivering 100-core chips with multiple types of processing units? Although the multicore revolution is just starting, some are already thinking about what comes next.
Michael Feldman
The Coming Quad Wars
Post Date: August 16, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As AMD prepares to do battle with Intel in the quad-core arena, it's faced with an uncomfortable reality: Intel is about to jump to 45nm, the next process technology level, with its Xeon processors, just as AMD is pushing its 65nm Opterons out the door.
Michael Feldman
Much Ado About Petascale
Post Date: August 09, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
On Wednesday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the award recipients for two highly coveted petascale supercomputers. But questions are being raised about the validity of NSF's proposal review process.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
May 16, 2013 |
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
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