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Michael Feldman
SSDs Make Entrance into HPC... Finally
Post Date: September 03, 2009 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Got flash?
Michael Feldman
Chipmakers Keep Pouring on the Cores
Post Date: August 27, 2009 @ 5:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With a new generation of server processors in the offing, 2010 promises to be chockful of multicore goodness.
Michael Feldman
Platform MPI, Take Two
Post Date: August 26, 2009 @ 3:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Platform Computing continues in its quest to be a one-stop shop for cluster middleware.
Michael Feldman
RapidMind Gets Swallowed by Intel
Post Date: August 20, 2009 @ 6:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Another one bites the dust.
Michael Feldman
SGI Rumored to Dump Graphics Visualization Group
Post Date: August 20, 2009 @ 6:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The SGI rumor mill keeps grinding along.
Michael Feldman
Green Computing, TCO By Any Other Name
Post Date: August 18, 2009 @ 6:13 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Green computing is about the economics of computing, not the environment.
Michael Feldman
Russia Aspires To Be a Supercomputing Power
Post Date: August 13, 2009 @ 5:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Medvedev makes a personal pitch for more HPC.
Michael Feldman
Slow Moving Clouds Fast Enough for HPC
Post Date: August 10, 2009 @ 4:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Ian Foster says supercomputers may be faster, but clouds may be nimbler.
Michael Feldman
Surveys Says: Cloud Computing Is Awesome
Post Date: August 04, 2009 @ 5:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A recent Platform Computing survey gladdens the hearts of cloud computing proponents.
Michael Feldman
Pump Up the Volume
Post Date: July 30, 2009 @ 5:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
More angst about high frequency trading.
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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The Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers has just been announced. Not surprisingly, since it's been reported on prior to the official announcement, the Chinese Tianhe-2 system tops the list. And that is an understatement. We talk with Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Hans Meuer and others from the....
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Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention....
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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Jun 13, 2013 |
Titan, the Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge National Lab that debuted last fall as the fastest supercomputer in the world with 17.59 petaflops of sustained computing power, will rely on its previous LINPACK test for the upcoming edition of the Top 500 list.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
At 31 petaflops of sustained LINPACK capacity, the new Chinese Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be the fastest supercomputer in the world when this month's Top 500 list comes out, as we reported previously in HPCwire.
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Jun 12, 2013 |
HPC system makers are lining up to announce compatibility with the new fourth generation Intel Core processor, codenamed "Haswell." The new Iris GPUs based on the Haswell architecture are giving Intel new credibility in the graphics processing department.
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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.
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.
Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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