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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.
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.
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?
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
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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.
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.
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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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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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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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