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Michael Feldman
Podcast: The HPC Year in Review
Post Date: December 22, 2009 @ 10:10 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison recap some of big HPC stories and trends in 2009.
Michael Feldman
Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2009
Post Date: December 18, 2009 @ 10:02 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Highlights and lowlights of the year in HPC.
Michael Feldman
Japan Looks to Reinstate Supercomputer Funding
Post Date: December 16, 2009 @ 10:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Next-generation supercomputer project gets a reprieve.
Michael Feldman
Verari Systems in Limbo
Post Date: December 14, 2009 @ 1:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Server maker looking to "restructure the business."
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Larrabee Work Stoppage; Exascale and Climate Change
Post Date: December 11, 2009 @ 12:56 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison take a look at Intel's cancellation of Larrabee's 2010 debut, and also discuss the relationship between exascale computing and climate change research.
Michael Feldman
Analysts Speculate on Larrabee Flap
Post Date: December 11, 2009 @ 7:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Intel's GPU work stoppage gets scrutinized.
Michael Feldman
Exaflops Needed to Solve Climate Crisis?
Post Date: December 10, 2009 @ 2:04 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Exascale computing. What is it good for? Certainly not to solve problems that need solving today.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Intel, AMD on the Road to Manycore
Post Date: December 04, 2009 @ 1:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss AMD's latest server roadmap and talk about the significance of Intel's new 48-core research chip.
Michael Feldman
IBM Cat Brain Simulation Research Called a "PR Stunt"
Post Date: November 24, 2009 @ 3:20 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Has Big Blue coughed up a hair ball?
Michael Feldman
IBM Cuts Cell Loose
Post Date: November 24, 2009 @ 9:56 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The roadmap not taken.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SC09 Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: November 23, 2009 @ 6:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In our final SC09 podcast, Addison and Michael highlight the HPC trends they saw at the conference and pick the show's winners and losers.
Michael Feldman
A Pervasive GPU Computing Strategy
Post Date: November 23, 2009 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA connects the GPGPU dots.
Michael Feldman
Vendors to Watch
Post Date: November 23, 2009 @ 9:49 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
The SC09 exhibitors are gone, but not forgotten.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SC09 Special Edition from Portland #2
Post Date: November 20, 2009 @ 6:52 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss the Al Gore keynote address, Convey's good news, and brain simulation from IBM.
Michael Feldman
Big Blue Simulates Little Brain
Post Date: November 18, 2009 @ 11:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
Bigger brains on the way.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SC09 Special Edition from Portland #1
Post Date: November 18, 2009 @ 6:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Addison and Michael discuss the new TOP500 list. They also cover Justin Rattner's discussion on Larrabee and the new systems announced by Cray and SGI.
Michael Feldman
Tokyo Tech Aims for 3 Petaflop Super in 2010
Post Date: November 18, 2009 @ 12:12 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Buying Teslas by the bushel.
Michael Feldman
Cray Supers Grab Gold, Bronze in TOP500
Post Date: November 16, 2009 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
Jaguar leaves Roadrunner in the dust.
Michael Feldman
SC09 Ready Or Not
Post Date: November 13, 2009 @ 2:09 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Once more unto the breach.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Pre-SC09 News
Post Date: November 13, 2009 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Addison and Michael discuss the new Cray and Spectra Logic products unveiled this week. They also offers their thoughts on Intel's $1.25B settlement with AMD and Japan's big pull-back in supercomputer funding.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Virtual SMPs; HPC in the Cloud
Post Date: November 06, 2009 @ 1:24 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison recap this week's announcements of virtual SMP offerings from 3Leaf Systems and ScaleMP. They also gauge the impact of the "Cloud" phenomenon in HPC and talk about what we might expect to see in this area at SC09.
Michael Feldman
Clouds Envelop HPC
Post Date: November 05, 2009 @ 4:13 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Cloud computing is swallowing the world and taking HPC with it.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: China Enters Petaflop Arena; Roadrunner Does Big Science
Post Date: October 30, 2009 @ 1:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison talk about what's been going on with the Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos and discuss the significance of China's entry into the petaflop club.
Michael Feldman
China Joins Petaflop Club
Post Date: October 29, 2009 @ 6:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Latest GPU-equipped super hits 1.2 peak petaflops.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC 360 Conference; SGI Adds New Partners
Post Date: October 23, 2009 @ 4:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss what went on at the recent HPC 360 Conference in Champaign, Illinois and also talk about SGI's two new best buds.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: DOE in the Cloud; Flash Update; FPGAs in a GPU World
Post Date: October 16, 2009 @ 1:34 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison talk about the Department of Energy's new cloud computing experiment, a couple of flash memory developments, and how GPU computing may be changing the prospects for FPGAs in HPC.
Michael Feldman
In Fermi's Wake, a Place for FPGAs?
Post Date: October 15, 2009 @ 6:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As HPC embraces GPUs, will reconfigurable computing fade away?
Michael Feldman
High Performance Storage Getting More Flashy
Post Date: October 14, 2009 @ 4:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Solid state storage gets its second wind.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Bright Computing Debut; Kraken Super Hits a Petaflop; Obama Awards IBM Blue Gene
Post Date: October 09, 2009 @ 2:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Michael and Addison talk about the latest supercomputer to reach a petaflop and discuss how the IBM Blue Gene garnered a presidential award. In addition, ClusterVision co-founder Matthijs van Leeuwen tells us what's behind the launch of Bright Computing, a new cluster management software vendor.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputing for a More Civil Society
Post Date: October 08, 2009 @ 4:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Can Islamic Law, supercomputers, and a co-ed university peacefully coexist?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Nvdia GPU Technology Conference Recap; Impact of "Fermi" on HPC landscape
Post Date: October 06, 2009 @ 7:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss their impressions of the big news coming out of the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference this week. Michael interviews Nvidia Bill Dalley, Chief Scientist at Nvidia and discusses the future of GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
GPU Debugging Grows Up
Post Date: October 01, 2009 @ 7:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA toolset latches onto Visual Studio.
Addison Snell
Oh, Yeah – The Workstation Is Sexy Again (Just Please Don't Call It a Personal Supercomputer)
Post Date: October 01, 2009 @ 6:13 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
The technical workstation is back, and there are reasons to fall in love.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Changes the Calculation with 'Fermi' GPU
Post Date: September 30, 2009 @ 10:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Company pushes the envelope for GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Gears Up for GPU Computing Event
Post Date: September 29, 2009 @ 10:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Chipmaker is cooking up something big.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IDF Recap; SGI Personal Supers; Microsoft Buys Interactive Supercomputing
Post Date: September 25, 2009 @ 3:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the September 25 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell review the HPC-worthy news at this week's Intel Developer Forum. They also talk about SGI's foray into "personal supercomputing" and discuss the ramifications of Microsoft's acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing.
Michael Feldman
The Shape of Chips to Come
Post Date: September 24, 2009 @ 5:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Larrabee, Westmere, and "microserver" chips: Intel talks up its future silicon at IDF.
Michael Feldman
Microsoft Snaps Up Interactive Supercomputing
Post Date: September 22, 2009 @ 10:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Star-P technology to be folded into Microsoft's HPC effort.
diana test (Clickability Client Services)
lion test 710
Post Date: September 19, 2009 @ 7:13 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC on Wall Street Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: September 18, 2009 @ 12:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the September 18 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell discuss the happenings at the High Performance Computing on Wall Street conference and talk with Stanley Young CEO NYSE Technologies, co-CIO of NYSE Euronext.
Michael Feldman
Inhuman Models
Post Date: September 17, 2009 @ 7:14 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The perils of ignoring human behavior when modeling reality.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: OpenCL Perspective; New Supercomputing Network
Post Date: September 14, 2009 @ 10:23 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the September 11 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with PGI compiler engineer Michael Wolfe about the prospects of OpenCL in the parallel programming world. Addison and Michael also discuss the latest supercomputer network project being funded by the NSF.
Michael Feldman
Low Latency 10 GigE Looks to Build HPC Cred
Post Date: September 10, 2009 @ 5:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A focus on low latency is giving a new breed of Ethernet switch vendors a leg up on their competition.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: EU Holds Up Oracle-Sun Deal; Server Sales Slide; Defense Contractor Layoffs
Post Date: September 04, 2009 @ 12:56 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the September 4 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell discuss the significance of the EU inquiry into the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Michael and Addison also talk about continuing shrinkage of the server market and how a shift in US government military priorities is causing some churn for defense contractors.
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
Podcast: This Is a Test
Post Date: September 02, 2009 @ 2:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the August 28 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest Christopher Bergstrom about the Cray acquisition of the SiCortex PathScale technology. Michael and Addison also offer their thoughts about the direction of high-end server chips.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Cray Saves PathScale; Server Chip Update
Post Date: August 28, 2009 @ 12:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the August 28 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest Christopher Bergstrom about the Cray acquisition of the SiCortex PathScale technology. Michael and Addison also offer their thoughts about the direction of high-end server chips.
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
Podcast: Intel Acquires RapidMind; SGI Visualization Strategy Gets Murky
Post Date: August 21, 2009 @ 2:12 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the August 21 podcast Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest James Reinders about Intel's plans for newly acquired RapidMind. Michael and Addison also discuss the latest rumor regarding SGI and its visualization product strategy.
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
Podcast: Russia Falls for HPC; DOE Awarded Stimulus Money; Penguin Adds HPC On Demand
Post Date: August 14, 2009 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the August 14 podcast Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk about the Russian government's newfound interest in HPC and how US stimulus money is starting to work its way into the HPC research community. They also pick apart the latest news from Penguin Computing.
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
Podcast: Cray Strategy Pays Off; Cluster Resources Expands Market Focus; HPC Helps Restore Moon Landing Videos
Post Date: August 07, 2009 @ 11:57 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In the August 7 podcast Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss why Cray has been doing so well in a tough economy. They also talk about Cluster Resources' new focus beyond HPC and how NVIDIA Tesla GPU technology helped restore some lost moon landing videos.
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
Podcast: Algorithmic Trading Angst; SGI Roadmap Redux
Post Date: July 31, 2009 @ 5:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss a number of controversies surrounding the use of high frequency trading. They also take a few minutes to rehash the SGI Ultraviolet story.
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.
Michael Feldman
Is Supercomputing Cheating the Small Investor?
Post Date: July 27, 2009 @ 5:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
High frequency trading comes under scrutiny.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SGI Update; Japan Stays with Fujitsu for Next-Gen Super; Storage Vendor Consolidation
Post Date: July 24, 2009 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss the latest rumors and news surrounding SGI, the status of the Japanese multi-petaflop project, and some recent consolidation in the storage space.
Michael Feldman
Big Ideas in HPC
Post Date: July 23, 2009 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
HPC drives some of the most cutting-edge science and engineering in the world, but for the most part, anonymously.
Michael Feldman
Fujitsu Gets Nod for 10 Petaflop Super
Post Date: July 21, 2009 @ 12:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Next-generation Japanese supercomputer will rely on Fujitsu SPARC chips.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Cray's New Mini-Super; Half-Year Retrospective
Post Date: July 17, 2009 @ 10:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael talk with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro about the company's new CX1-LC deskside supercomputer and discuss the top HPC stories for the first half of 2009.
Michael Feldman
Business as Unusual
Post Date: July 16, 2009 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
SGI's willingness to dump the NSF petaflop deal would be a return to sane business practices.
Mark Thiele
Designing your Data Center for the Future
Post Date: July 14, 2009 @ 2:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Modularity in datacenter design coupled with portability of environments via virtualization and cloud mean that we have more options than at any time in datacenter history to affect change with minimal disruption.
Michael Feldman
QLogic Makes Push with Cluster Test Drive Center
Post Date: July 14, 2009 @ 11:25 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Now that QLogic has a fully populated InfiniBand product line, the company is looking to make up for lost time against the competition.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputing's High-Powered Future; Israeli HPC; Tabor Research Becomes InterSect360 Research
Post Date: July 10, 2009 @ 1:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss supercomputing megawattage and Israeli HPC. They also bring in Tabor Communications CEO Tom Tabor to talk about the deal that split HPC analyst firm Tabor Research from the parent company.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: ISC'09 Vendor Spotlight: DataDirect, Mellanox and PGI
Post Date: July 09, 2009 @ 4:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss what DataDirect Networks (DDN), Mellanox, and PGI (The Portland Group) were talking about at last week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.
Michael Feldman
The Secret Life of Supercomputers
Post Date: July 08, 2009 @ 5:37 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
There were a couple of stories floating around the Intertubes in the past week or so that reminded me of how little we know about large classes of HPC applications.
Michael Feldman
European Vendors Offer Home-Grown Petascale Supers
Post Date: July 02, 2009 @ 6:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As American HPC companies retrench, a new crop of European-based vendors is emerging.
Michael Feldman
Nehalem Bests Istanbul on STREAM Benchmark
Post Date: June 30, 2009 @ 10:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The STREAM benchmark plays to one of the big strength of Intel's Nehalem architecture -- its memory performance.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Bull Intros Extreme Computing; Looking Ahead to ISC'09
Post Date: June 30, 2009 @ 7:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael talk about European computer maker Bull and its new push into HPC. They also look ahead to next week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
Debbie Walsh
TeraGrid, the Social Experiment Continues
Post Date: June 29, 2009 @ 10:25 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Deep, wide and open: these three simple words have endured as shorthand for TeraGrid's enabling vision.
Michael Feldman
High Performance Cloud Computing Still an Oxymoron
Post Date: June 25, 2009 @ 2:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
The grand unification of supercomputing and cloud computing still has a ways to go.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: ISC Impressions, Nehalem Shining Star, NVIDIA Owns GPU Computing, Euro HPC
Post Date: June 25, 2009 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison give their impressions on the news surrounding ISC and the buzz on the show floor.
by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Wild World of Global Grids
Post Date: June 25, 2009 @ 11:47 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
From Teragrid '09: Tuesday morning’s panel on “Global Grid Perspectives” gave a taste of the future while, at the same time, acknowledging some of the obstacles, such as the importance of standardization and the difficulties of funding.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: ISC Special Edition - TOP500; InfiniBand vs. Ethernet, Getting to Exaflops by 2020
Post Date: June 23, 2009 @ 4:13 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
ISC Special Episode 1 of 2! Michael and Addison on location at International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, discuss the TOP500, InfiniBand vs. Ethernet, the road to Exaflops, and more...
Michael Feldman
IBM Stays Atop TOP500 By Sitting Tight
Post Date: June 23, 2009 @ 3:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
A rare event occurred in the TOP500 saga today at the International Supercomputing Conference.
Debbie Walsh
Anticipating TeraGrid
Post Date: June 22, 2009 @ 4:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
After more than a year of planning and preparations we are finally nearing the TeraGrid ‘09 event! As chair, John Towns, is amazed by the amount of effort and enthusiasm that has gone into the development of the program and activities of the conference.
Michael Feldman
The Essential ISC
Post Date: June 18, 2009 @ 3:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Wondering what the can't-miss activities will be at ISC? Here is one man's opinion.
Michael Feldman
Benchmark Challenge: Nehalem Versus Istanbul
Post Date: June 18, 2009 @ 3:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Intel's Nehalem gets Linpunked.
Michael Feldman
The End of Moore's Law in Five Years?
Post Date: June 17, 2009 @ 4:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
According to market research and consulting firm iSuppli, Moore's Law is going to run out of money before it runs out of technology.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HP's Extreme Scale-Out; DRC Computer Corp Acquisition; NM Supercomputer Under Fire
Post Date: June 12, 2009 @ 12:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss HP's new focus on extreme-scale computing, how DRC Computer Corporation survived the VC crisis, and why not everyone is happy with New Mexico's 'Encanto' supercomputer.
Michael Feldman
Rumors of NVIDIA's Next GPU
Post Date: June 11, 2009 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA's next-generation GPU design, the G300, may turn out to be the biggest architectural leap the graphics chip maker has ever attempted.
Tiffany Trader (HPC)
HPC Trends
Post Date: June 11, 2009 @ 3:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
With ISC '09 right around the corner, the Web is buzzing with lots of discussions about current trends in high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Wolfram Alpha Debut; Lossless Ethernet; InfiniBand Growth
Post Date: June 11, 2009 @ 10:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss the new Wolfram Alpha computational engine and what it may mean for HPC in the cloud. They also talk about the how InfiniBand vendors are entering the 10 GigE market, while seeing InfiniBand itself continue to expand in HPC and elsewhere.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SGI Reborn Under New Management; Japanese Supercomputing Project in Peril; Europe Slaps Down Intel
Post Date: June 11, 2009 @ 10:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss the resurrection of the SGI brand, a setback for Japan's next-generation supercomputer project, and the European Commission's devastating judgement against Intel.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: AMD's Six-Core Opteron Launch; SiCortex's Matt Reilly Speaks Out
Post Date: June 05, 2009 @ 12:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael discuss the new Istanbul server chip from AMD and speak to SiCortex co-founder Matt Reilly about his former company's recent demise.
Michael Feldman
Biotech HPC in the Cloud
Post Date: June 04, 2009 @ 3:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Amazon EC2 is still the platform of choice, but there are more clouds on the horizon.
Chris Willard
Musings on Economic Storms and Industry Consolidation
Post Date: June 02, 2009 @ 6:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
"Bad economic times lead to industry consolidation/ shake-out." That is one economic rule that actually makes intuitive sense, like small craft are the first to sink in a hurricane, or the speed of light is the same to all observers.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SiCortex, Woven Systems and Quadrics Succumb to Bad Economy
Post Date: May 29, 2009 @ 12:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
In this week's podcast Addison and Michael talk about the grim news surrounding three HPC vendors that became victims of a punishing economy.
Michael Feldman
SiCortex Meets an Untimely End
Post Date: May 28, 2009 @ 3:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Leaves HPC customers clutching at cores.
Michael Feldman
Don't Throw Wolfram's Baby Out with Google's Bath Water
Post Date: May 21, 2009 @ 5:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Time to break out of the search engine mindset. Wolfram Alpha is not a Google wannabe.
Addison Snell
Acquisitions of SGI, Sun Heading in Opposite Directions for HPC
Post Date: May 14, 2009 @ 7:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Sun and SGI have followed similar trajectories throughout much of their linked histories, but it seems that's about to change.
Michael Feldman
NEC, Hitachi Bail on 10-Petaflop Supercomputing Project
Post Date: May 14, 2009 @ 5:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Depressed economy undercuts Japan's petascale ambitions.
Michael Feldman
Rackable Closes Deal, Keeps SGI Brand Alive
Post Date: May 12, 2009 @ 3:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The legacy of Silicon Graphics lives on under new management.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: NVIDIA Clusters, Simulation-Based Science & Engineering, ANSYS-Autodesk Interoperability
Post Date: May 08, 2009 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss NVIDIA's latest foray into GPU clusters and a new NSF-funded report on how the US is losing ground in a critical HPC technology.
Michael Feldman
Simulation Angst
Post Date: May 07, 2009 @ 6:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A new NSF-funded report on computer simulation R&D worries that the US is losing its mojo in this important technology.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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