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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.
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.
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.
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.
Isaac Lopez
HPCwire Market Watch Stocks Rebounding After Tough March Downward
Post Date: May 07, 2009 @ 4:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
A year ago, when HPCwire was launching our fabulous new design and site infrastructure, we added a feature that was new to the site: The HPCwire Market Watch.
Deb Walsh
HPC in the Life Sciences
Post Date: April 30, 2009 @ 4:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Sometimes there are great stories to be told about how HPC can change our lives, and this just might be one of them.
Addison Snell
Court Approves SGI Sale to Rackable
Post Date: April 30, 2009 @ 1:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
A source within the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, confirmed that Judge Martin Glenn ruled today to approve the sale of assets of Silicon Graphics, Inc. to Rackable.
Addison Snell
How It All Went Wrong for SGI in HPC
Post Date: April 10, 2009 @ 9:54 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
It’s been a long ride down for SGI, but it’s finally over.
Isaac Lopez
Energy Revolution Brewing or Vaporware in the (un)Making?
Post Date: February 27, 2009 @ 9:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
It seems like since 1993, when the Internet got such a foothold on the imagination of the world, that there's always been the rumor of the next great disruptive technology lurking right around the corner.
Chris Willard
A Stimulus Package for HPC
Post Date: February 19, 2009 @ 10:52 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
A long-standing concern in HPC is the graying of the industry. That is, new people are not coming in at the skilled positions as older ones retire.
Debbie Walsh
HPC Horizons Community Member Spotlight: Don Paul
Post Date: February 12, 2009 @ 3:47 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Congratulations are in order for a new member of the HPC Horizons Online Community! Donald L. Paul. PhD, former CTO of Chevron, has been named Executive Director of the University of Southern California Energy Institute (EI).
Addison Snell
No Really, It's Good Kool-Aid
Post Date: January 15, 2009 @ 6:19 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
I loved Kool-Aid when I was a kid. Not only were the commercials fantastic -- admit it, if you were a kid in the 1970s, at some point you crashed through a homemade barrier singing "Oh yeah!"
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Exascale Advocates Stand on Nuclear Stockpiles
In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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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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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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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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