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Michael Feldman
Making the Quantitative Models Work
Post Date: October 01, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The ongoing financial turmoil in the U.S. continues to flog the stock market and the credit market. Not surprisingly, economists are in disarray, predicting everything from a mild recession to the end of capitalism.
Michael Feldman
Stocking Up on HPC
Post Date: September 29, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The stock market's recent volatility is giving some publicly traded HPC companies an interesting ride. While tech stocks, in general, have been taking a beating, at least a couple of HPC companies are bucking the trend.
Michael Feldman
Microsoft HPC, Act II
Post Date: September 24, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With the release of Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft is attempting to make up for its late entry into the high performance computing market.
Michael Feldman
Intel: CPUs Will Prevail Over Accelerators in HPC
Post Date: September 23, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
While hardware accelerators continue to show impressive performance results for supercomputing workloads, Intel is sticking to its CPU guns to deliver HPC to the broader market.
Michael Feldman
The Quantitative Models Tanked Too
Post Date: September 22, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The confluence of the U.S. financial meltdown and this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York might be one of those coincidences that's trying to tell us something.
Michael Feldman
The Other Personal Supercomputer
Post Date: September 16, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Prior to yesterday's announcement of the Cray CX1, the SiCortex SC072 was really the only deskside HPC appliance out there. But the two companies have very different ideas of the role of personal supercomputing.
Michael Feldman
Dude, You're Getting a Cray
Post Date: September 15, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
When Intel and Cray became sweethearts back in April, I never imagined the first offspring from that relationship would be a personal supercomputer. But that's what happened.
Michael Feldman
Collaborative Supercomputing
Post Date: September 10, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Over the last seven years, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has changed the direction of DOE research and has become a model for collaborative supercomputing.
Michael Feldman
IDC Sees Steady Growth for HPC in Q2
Post Date: September 08, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
IDC offered some encouraging news for the HPC server market for the second quarter of 2008, while admitting it overestimated the numbers for 2007.
Michael Feldman
A Plea for Rational Branding
Post Date: September 03, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
What are the top 5 mistakes the marketing department makes when choosing a brand name?
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
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At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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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
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