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Michael Feldman
Parallel Vision
Post Date: August 02, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As computer vendors apply themselves to the task of unleashing parallel computing, it's hard not to see a certain convergence of ideas and approaches. At least your favorite editor thinks so.
Michael Feldman
The End Game
Post Date: July 26, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Performance is so yesterday. Productivity is the new game. But what's next? Editor Michael Feldman offers his thoughts on where this is all leading.
Michael Feldman
Because It's There?
Post Date: July 19, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With last month's announcement of the Constellation System, Sun officially re-entered the elite realm of high-end supercomputing. HP might not be far behind. Why the sudden interest in a business segment with little prospect for growth?
Michael Feldman
What the Top500 Doesn't Tell Us
Post Date: July 12, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The new Top500 list is out. But how useful is it? Editor Michael Feldman talks about a few things he'd like to see added to the list.
Michael Feldman
A Half-Year Retrospective
Post Date: July 05, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
For high performance computing, 2007 has already been an event-filled year and it's only half over. Editor Michael Feldman recaps some of the more significant news since January.
Michael Feldman
HPC Vendors Stir the Pot at ISC
Post Date: June 28, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As a runner-up to the much larger Supercomputing Conference held in November, the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden, Germany is a convenient platform for delivering mid-year HPC product announcements and company happenings. There was plenty to go around this year. Editor Michael Feldman looks at some of the more noteworthy news delivered at the event.
Michael Feldman
Wall Street Rides HPC Into the Future
Post Date: June 21, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
If you want to know where high performance computing is headed, just follow the money. In particular, look at how aggressively Wall Street is applying advanced computing infrastructure in their quest to expand profits.
Michael Feldman
PeakStream Dissolution Shines Spotlight on Stream Computing
Post Date: June 14, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With the buzz still in the air about Google's acquistion of PeakStream, editor Michael Feldman takes one more look at the ramifications of the transaction. He also gets some feedback from the CEO of RapidMind, the last vendor standing for high-level stream computing.
Michael Feldman
PeakStream Gets Swallowed; Cray Gets Bitten
Post Date: June 07, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
This week we were reminded how relatively minor events at big IT companies can produce serious consequences in the HPC community. For example, by slipping the delivery of its low-end quad-core Opteron, AMD sent Cray to the the land of the almost-profitable.Meanwhile, Google used some pocket change to make PeakStream disappear.
Michael Feldman
InfiniBand Rides HPC Wave Into the Enterprise
Post Date: May 31, 2007 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Last week, IDC released a report that projects a rather healthy future for InfiniBand adoption. While the interconnect has represented the premier fabric for HPC clusters, applications in other IT sectors are beginning to discover that high peformance and low-latency communication are not just for supercomputing.
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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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