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Michael Feldman
In Memoriam: Suresh Shukla
Post Date: November 05, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Suresh Shukla, a leader and advocate of high performance computing at Boeing, passed away on October 15.
Michael Feldman
OpenCL on the Fast Track
Post Date: November 03, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
As far as technology maturity goes, GPGPU is just a baby. But there's already an effort underway to produce an industry standard for this new programming model: OpenCL.
Michael Feldman
HPC Vendors Showing Mixed Success in Faultering Economy
Post Date: November 03, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
With the financial environment in turmoil, HPC vendors are holding their own... some more than others..
Michael Feldman
Darkstrand Gives NLR the Business
Post Date: October 27, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Access to National LambdaRail's high-speed optical fiber network will soon be available for commercial businesses (and just in time for the biggest recession in decades).
Diane Lieberman
Has the Joe Boat Sailed? Wanted: HPC Mascot
Post Date: October 22, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
The concept of the "democratization of HPC" is not a new one, but in recent months it appears to have taken on a life of its own. Our own editors and Tabor Research analysts have alluded to it many times, including twice within the last week.
Michael Feldman
Eric the CEO
Post Date: October 21, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent endorsement of presidential hopeful Barack Obama has caused a minor stir in the tech community. While some wonder if execs at high profile companies should even get involved in national politics, the reality is that the tech community overwhelmingly supports Obama over McCain, from the executive suite to the corner cubicle.
Michael Feldman
Tabor Research Bullish on HPC Market
Post Date: October 15, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Things look grim for the economy right now. And while much of the IT market will proably suffer, HPC may turn out to be a bright spot.
Michael Feldman
Weird Science from National Review
Post Date: October 13, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Will Obama Kill Science? When I saw that headline in National Review Online, I thought it might be a good opportunity to read a fresh perspective of the Dems approach to science policy. Boy, was I wrong.
Michael Feldman
AMD Does the Splits
Post Date: October 13, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Today, in an announcement that came as a shock to no one in the industry, Applied Micro Devices revealed it would spin off its chip manufacturing business into a separate entity and focus its efforts on microprocessor design.
Debra Goldfarb
Riding the Storm
Post Date: October 08, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
We are all consumed, and rightly so, with the chaos rampaging the world economic system. And while I am not an economist, I don't believe it takes one to realize the systemic dynamics underway.
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NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs
In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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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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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
May 22, 2013 |
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
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
May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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