Since 1986 - Covering the Fastest Computers
in the World and the People Who Run Them
Visit additional Tabor Communication Publications
Short Takes
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent
Intel's Core i7 Passes Muster
Nov 04, 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal | Intel Corp.'s next big shift in chip design is receiving strong early reviews from Web sites that test computer hardware.
Read more...
Multicore: New Chips Mean New Challenges for Developers
Nov 04, 2008 |
InfoWorld | More and more help is available so developers can write applications for the new generation of processors.
Read more...
The Energy Impact of Grid Computing
Nov 04, 2008 |
EE Times Asia | Donating unused PC cycles to a grid can make good use of idle resources, but the extra energy required for this "free" computing should not be ignored.
Read more...
Why Apps Can't Run Faster
Nov 03, 2008 |
Forbes | Multicore processors pose a fundamental problem for companies expecting performance gains with every new server that's introduced, and it's an even bigger problem for those selling the servers.
Read more...
Is Apple Preparing a Supercomputer Push?
Oct 31, 2008 |
Apple Eclectic | New developements at Apple Computer suggests the company may be making an HPC play, reports Apple Eclectic's Max Hertz.
Read more...
Is Supercomputing Just About Performance?
Oct 30, 2008 |
ZDNet.co.uk | Does HPC stand for high-performance computing, or is it high-powered? Or high-productivity?
Read more...
High Performance Computing Puts Ferrari in Pole Position in Formula One Stakes
Oct 30, 2008 |
Siliconrepublic.com | Ferrari 's Formula One team relies on HPC servers running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Read more...
Argonne's Intrepid Weathermen
Oct 29, 2008 |
Southtown Star | Our best defense against tornados, floods, hurricanes and other meteorological chaos might be found inside the rusting steel exterior of Building 369 at Argonne National Laboratory.
Read more...
Microsoft Releases Developer Tools for Parallel Computing, Concurrency and Coordination
Oct 29, 2008 |
CIO | Microsoft's new set of libraries promises to help developers exploit multicore processing without requiring anyone to become a threading and distributed computing guru.
Read more...
Breakthroughs of the Pedestrian Nature
Oct 29, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | Consider those forgotten breakthroughs that helped make HPC clusters possible.
Read more...
How Supercomputers Still Influence Programming
Oct 29, 2008 |
TechRepublic | Want to know what programmers may be doing 20 years from now? Take a look at what supercomputers are doing today.
Read more...
Iceland Aims at World’s Green Datacenter Hub
Oct 29, 2008 |
Greentech Media | Cold air and geothermal power — Iceland hopes these two geographic facts of life will allow it to become a global power in datacenters.
Read more...
Super Computer
Oct 28, 2008 |
Salina Journal | The petaflop machine Cray is installing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world to be employed for open science.
Read more...
Scalable Quantum Computing in the Next 5 Years?
Oct 28, 2008 |
Ars Technica | New research has figured out a way to manage atomic states with laser light, which could result in the development of a practical quantum computer.
Read more...
Don't Be Tempted by SGI
Oct 27, 2008 |
Barron's | Silicon Graphics is once again having trouble making ends meet in the competitive supercomputer business.
Read more...
Venture Capital Financing Slows Amid Economic Downturn
Oct 24, 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal | Silicon Valley technology startups are adopting a new business plan: deferral.
Read more...
The Case For A Case
Oct 22, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | The case for a personal cluster case. Can HPC growth be enhanced with only a few pieces of bent metal?
Read more...
Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up
Oct 22, 2008 |
New York Times | Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief architect Andy Bechtolsheim has joined Arista Networks, a startup that offers high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches.
Read more...
IBM-Intel Joint Venture at Dubai Internet City
Oct 22, 2008 |
Gulf News | IBM and Intel on Wednesday announced they are opening a high performance computing centre at IBM's Dubai Internet City (DIC) building.
Read more...
Dear Mr. President: Let's Talk Tech
Oct 21, 2008 |
Computerworld | Both presidential candidates have outlined policy initiatives that they say will make the U.S. more competitive in science and technology.
Read more...
DOD Seeks Improved Collaboration
Oct 20, 2008 |
FCW.com | A new contract for the Defense Department’s high-performance computing program seeks to improve collaboration among government agencies, industry and academia.
Read more...
Multicore Programming Explained
Oct 17, 2008 |
ElectronicsWeekly.com | Programming general purpose multi-core processors is generally regarded as impossible, but XMOS Semiconductor has done it and is applying it in practical applications.
Read more...
At the Nexus of Grid, Cloud and HPC
Oct 17, 2008 |
On-Demand Enterprise | What’s the big difference between cloud computing and grid computing? The goal of cloud computing is to put system administrators out of work.
Read more...
NSF & DOE: Going Steady or Just Dating Now and Then?
Oct 16, 2008 |
Knoxville News Sentinel | Oak Ridge National Laboratory will soon be the proud owner of two petaflop supercomputers -- one from the DOE and one from the NSF. At some point, they may be hooked together.
Read more...
Liquid Computing Drops IQ for Ethernet
Oct 16, 2008 |
The Register | To appeal to the broader market, Liquid Computing ditched the proprietary interconnect in its LiquidIQ offering and adopted Ethernet.
Read more...
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Recent
Sponsored Links
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.
Accelerate your science with Seneca
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
- Cray Xtreme-Cool™ Supercomputer: Liquid-cooled architecture delivering superior energy-efficiency, lower TCO and faster ROI.
- Memory Debugging Challenges in Parallel and Distributed Applications
- Introducing the Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer Series
- Receive Higher Application Performance with end-to-end 56GbE
- Acer and Altair simplify cluster computing
- PGI 2013: OpenMP 1.5X faster than GCC, new GNU-compatible OpenACC C++ compiler, CUDA 5 and Tesla K20 support, and more.
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
May 17, 2013
May 16, 2013
- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
- Kitware Develops Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Next HPC Installation Step Initiated at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
- HybridCluster2.0 Self-Healing, Ultra-High Availability Capabilities Unveiled
May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
- Flow Science Releases FLOW-3D/MP 5.0
- NEC Establishes NEC Ukraine to Strengthen Operations in Russia and the CIS
- Fujitsu Receives Supercomputer Order From Nagoya University
- Avere Systems Helps Framestore Create Extraordinary Visual Effects for Blockbuster Films
- Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Exascale Systems Call for Papers
May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
- HPC Simulations Target Nanoscale Materials Under Strain
- New IBM Center in Beijing to Speed Linux Applications on Power Systems
- OpenCL Software Development Kit Fosters FPGA Exploitation
- S&P Capital IQ and Kuberre Systems Sign Data Facilitator Agreement
- Solarflare to Speak at Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit
May 13, 2013
- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
- AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
- ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
- Special ISC’13 Session to Probe the Thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project
May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
- Durham University Cluster Boosts Study of the Stars
- Supermicro Ships New 4U 72x 3.5" Hot-Swappable HDD Storage Platform
- Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
May 08, 2013
- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
- NCSA Hosts 2013 Private Sector Program Annual Meeting May 13-17 in Champaign/Urbana.
- Seagate Unveils Complete SSD Product Line
- Clustered Systems Installs Efficient 100kW Rack at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Penguin Computing Named Open Compute Project Solution Provider
- Silicon Mechanics Shows Computing and Storage Platforms at TechKnowFile
- OrangeFS Available on AWS Marketplace
- Teradata Introduces In-Memory Technology that Supports Big Data Deployments
May 07, 2013
- Argonne Announces Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
- Virtual School Summer Courses Available on Data-Intensive and Many-Core Computing
- Nallatech Joins Altera’s Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL
- Vicor's ChiP Power Component Packaging to Make European Debut at PCIM Europe 2013
- Hetzner Online Deploys ADVA 100G Core to Answer Data Growth
- WD And SanDisk To Create Solid State Hybrid Drives
- Solarflare's High-Performance 10GbE Ethernet Adapters Selected for IBM Servers
- CQUniversity Selects SGI to Expand HPC Environment
- Cray Expands XC30 Line with Air-Cooled Option
- AMAX to Showcase Solutions at 2013 Interop IT Conference & Expo
- PRACE Free Autumn School Focuses on Industrial Simulation
- International Symposium on Computer Architecture and HPC: Call for Papers
May 06, 2013
- AMAX Named Official Solutions Provider of Open Compute Project Foundation
- Altera Opens FPGAs to Programmers with SDK, Off-the-Shelf Boards for OpenCL
- 6WIND Announces OpenFlow Compatibility within Open vSwitch Acceleration Platform
- BittWare Joins Altera Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL
- Carnegie Mellon Robot Uses Arms, Location and More To Discover Objects
- IEEE TCSC Seeks Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
- ACM Opens Participation Doors for Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Event
- Broadcom Intros Lowest-Power Multi-port Gigabit PHYs
Most Read Short Takes
- Speaking Many Languages into the MIC
- Supercomputing's Golden Age?
- New Tome Tells Modern History of Supercomputing
- CUDA-Designed Robot: It's a Hit!
- Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction
- Sequoia Hits Warp Speed
- HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
- Floating Funding to Exascale Island
- Finnish Researchers Welcome New Cray Super
- Blue Waters: Security at Scale
- University of Florida Opens HiPerGator Jaws
- Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gender Divide
- HPC Center Meets Green Mandate
- World's Smallest Movie Has Big (Data) Implications
- Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications
- Computing the Physics of Bubbles
- Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
Most Read Blogs
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.
HPC Job Bank
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