Since 1986 - Covering the Fastest Computers
in the World and the People Who Run Them
Visit additional Tabor Communication Publications
Blogs >> HPC Matters
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent
Isaac Lopez
Searching for the Personal Supercomputing Killer App
Post Date: December 03, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
I have always been a lover of technology. I was the type of kid who would spend hours on the Tandy computer at the local municipal library, trying to get it to do my bidding. So why am I so skeptical when I read about the emerging "personal supercomputer?"
Addison Snell
Feast or Famine: A Hungry Analyst's Review of SC08
Post Date: November 26, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
It happens every year at the Supercomputing Conference and Expo, whether it's seafood in Seattle, pierogies in Pittsburgh, or anchos in Austin. Some days it's a feast, others a famine.
Chris Willard
What Makes a Supercomputer Super?
Post Date: November 13, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
The announcement of each new TOP500 list and especially those with systems that break the triple order of magnitude barrier in FLOPS tend to get me thinking about the meaning of the term "supercomputer."
Debbie Walsh
HPC Horizons Community Member SPOTLIGHT
Post Date: November 12, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
In order get to know our HPC Horizons members a little better, we have started this new column. For the first edition of HPC Horizons Community Member SPOTLIGHT, we introduce Laurence Liew, the Open Source Grid Development Centre Director at Platform Computing in Singapore.
Chris Willard
Traditional HPC and Edge HPC -- The Same Only Different
Post Date: November 11, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Tabor Research is in the midst of conducting in depth end user interviews with organizations running or considering Edge HPC applications. As we have completed the initial interviews several similarities and difference between the two branches of high productivity computing have become apparent.
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.
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.
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?
Isaac Lopez
What Is the Metaverse and Should HPC Care?
Post Date: August 27, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
What happens when the physical and virtual worlds meet and meld into something entirely new and different? You get the Metaverse, that's what.
Debbie
Are You Ready for Spring Training?
Post Date: August 20, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
192 days and counting -- it's never too early to start planning for spring training! But, I'm not talking about baseball. The major leaguers I'm referring to are members of the HPC Horizons Community.
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent
Sponsored Links
One of the first HPC providers installing a 4X NVIDIA Kepler K-20 cluster. Invites you to a free evaluation on Seneca’s NVIDIA K20 Kepler cluster, pre-loaded with AMBER, NAMD, LAMMPS
Webinar: Programming Heterogeneous X64+GPU Systems Using OpenACC
Join Michael Wolfe as he compares the advantages and costs of using both low-level models and the directive-based OpenACC model for programming accelerated heterogeneous systems. Registration is free.
High-Performance Computing in Action
Businesses that want to be on the cutting edge of their industries are increasingly turning to high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to handle complex compute processes and speed up their rate of innovation. Download this Executive Brief to see how businesses in energy, life sciences and entertainment put HPC solutions to work in their operations.
- PGI 2013: OpenMP 1.5X faster than GCC, new GNU-compatible OpenACC C++ compiler, CUDA 5 and Tesla K20 support, and more.
- Acer and Altair simplify cluster computing
- Receive Higher Application Performance with end-to-end 56GbE
- The Accelerated Genomics Cloud $25,000 Giveaway
- Visualize Historical Usage for Optimized Returns on HPC Investments
- Memory Debugging Challenges in Parallel and Distributed Applications
- Introducing the Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer Series
- ClusterStor™ 1500 – High Performance Efficiency
RSS Feeds
Feeds by Topic
- Applications
- Developer Tools
- Interconnects
- Middleware
- Networks
- Processors
- Storage
- Systems
- Visualization
Feeds by Industry
Feeds by Content Type
- Features
- Blogs
- Short Takes
- Off the Wire
- Whitepapers
- Multimedia
- HPC Soundbite Podcasts
- HPCwire Job Bank
Subscribe to All Content
About HPC Matters
HPC Matters is a joint blog consisting of contributors from the Tabor Communications team on their observations and insights into HPC matters.
Feature Articles
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...
"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
Read more...
Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
Read more...
Short Takes
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...
Floating Funding to Exascale Island
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
Read more...
HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
Read more...
Sponsored Whitepapers
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.
Sponsored Multimedia
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.
Blogs by Topics
Blogs by Author
- James Reinders
- Gary Johnson
- Andrew Jones
- Tiffany Trader
- Addison Snell
- Nicole Hemsoth
- Charlie Catlett
- Sue Korn
- Michael Feldman
- Chris Willard
- Isaac Lopez
- Tom Tabor
- Cathy Davidson
- William Lu
- Michael Wolfe
- Dan Gatti
- Caroline Connor
HPC Blogroll
- Computing Research Policy Blog
- Interconnects
- Reed's Ruminations
- Scalability.org
- StorageMojo
- Sun HPC Watercooler
Featured Events
- June 13, 2013
- June 14, 2013
Think Beyond Plastics Conference
Berkeley, CA
United States
- June 16, 2013
- June 20, 2013
ISC'13
Leipzig,
Germany
.gif)
- June 17, 2013
- June 18, 2013
Forecast 2013
San Francisco, CA
United States
- June 20, 2013
- June 21, 2013
CIO North America
Marina Del Rey, CA
United States
- June 24, 2013
- June 25, 2013
The Trading Show Chicago
Chicago, IL
United States
- June 25, 2013
- June 26, 2013
TERATEC 2013 Forum
Paris,
France