HPCwire: Blogs & Commentary on High Performance Computing

Blogs & Commentary

2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent

Michael Feldman 2008 HPCwire Readers' Choice Nominations Are Open
Post Date: October 08, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

It's time to vote for the annual HPCwire Readers' Choice awards.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

Diane Lieberman Beep, Beep, Ka-Ching
Post Date: September 21, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters

On the eve of the annual High Performance on Wall Street conference, it's ironic that the words "high performance" and "Wall Street" can be perceived as an oxymoron this week. Is it possible, though, that the very financial crisis we're in may bode well for increased investment in HPC?

More Diane Lieberman

Read more...

Michael Feldman Bad News on Wall Street Doesn't Diminish the Need for Speed
Post Date: September 21, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:

Considering the ongoing crisis in the financial markets, you might expect the mood at a gathering of people who make their living in the financial services industry to be kind of glum. Or at least very, very anxious.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

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.

More Michael Feldman

Read more...

2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent

RSS Feeds

Feeds by Topic

Feeds by Industry

Feeds by Content Type

Subscribe to All Content

Feature Articles

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..
Read more...

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).
Read more...

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...
Read more...

Read more HPCwire features...

Short Takes

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.
Read more...

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.
Read more...

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.
Read more...

Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
Read more...

Read more headlines...

Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.

View the White Paper Library

SGI DMF ZeroWatt Disk Solution

In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.

Cray CS300-AC Cluster Supercomputer Air Cooling Technology Video

The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.