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Michael Feldman
Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2010
Post Date: December 16, 2010 @ 5:48 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
From the surge of GPU computing to Oracle's withdrawl from HPC, we recap the notable highlights and lowlights of the year.
Michael Feldman
The Gathering Storm, Five Years On
Post Date: December 09, 2010 @ 12:57 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Latest National Academy of Sciences report describes continuing decline of US science and technology leadership.
Michael Feldman
CERN Taps Brocade For Network Refresh
Post Date: December 02, 2010 @ 4:40 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Organization preps for 100GbE core network.
Michael Feldman
Exotics at SC10
Post Date: November 24, 2010 @ 3:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Yes, there is life beyond Xeons, Opterons and GPGPUs.
Michael Feldman
What to Look for at SC10
Post Date: November 11, 2010 @ 3:46 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
A short list of "can't miss" sessions at this year's Supercomputing conference.
Michael Feldman
Oracle Buys 10 Percent Share of Mellanox
Post Date: November 05, 2010 @ 9:18 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Ellison and company put some big bucks behind InfiniBand.
Michael Feldman
IBM Aims to Transform Its HPC Business
Post Date: November 04, 2010 @ 3:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Big Blue sees green in mainstream high performance computing market.
Michael Feldman
New Chinese GPGPU Super Outruns Jaguar
Post Date: October 28, 2010 @ 12:40 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Tianhe-1A sets Linpack mark of 2.5 petaflops.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputing Meets Social Media
Post Date: October 21, 2010 @ 7:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
HPC at Georgia Tech, PNNL is all atwitter.
Michael Feldman
For Proprietary HPC, Hope Springs Eternal
Post Date: October 14, 2010 @ 6:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The tension between custom and commodity high performance computing has shaped both market approaches.
Michael Feldman
Three Years On, GPU Computing Is Coming of Age
Post Date: October 07, 2010 @ 5:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Nvidian Andy Keane talks about the company's Tesla GPU business.
Michael Feldman
The iTunes of Algorithms
Post Date: September 30, 2010 @ 6:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Massively Parallel Technologies takes aim at the software business model.
Michael Feldman
GPU Tech Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: September 23, 2010 @ 7:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA builds its case for GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Reveals CUDA GPU Roadmap
Post Date: September 22, 2010 @ 1:39 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
GPU maker talks about life after Fermi.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputer-on-a-Chip Delivers Synthetic Vision
Post Date: September 16, 2010 @ 3:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
FPGA-based system could make driver licenses obsolete.
Michael Feldman
The Seduction of Ultra Low-Power Servers
Post Date: September 09, 2010 @ 5:56 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The roadmap less traveled.
Michael Feldman
Hobbyist Crafts Desktop Cray-1
Post Date: September 02, 2010 @ 3:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Iconic supercomputer implemented with an FPGA kit.
Michael Feldman
Halfway to the Cloud: Cluster Management as a Service
Post Date: August 26, 2010 @ 5:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
X-ISS offers remote support for in-house HPC clusters.
Michael Feldman
A GPU on Every Chip
Post Date: August 19, 2010 @ 2:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The general-purpose processor, redefined.
Michael Feldman
Oracle Setting HPC Adrift
Post Date: August 12, 2010 @ 5:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Layoffs, a missing product roadmap, and an SC10 no-show all point to company's exit from the high performance computing business.
Michael Feldman
Algorithmic Terrorism on Wall Street
Post Date: August 05, 2010 @ 8:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Analysts uncover evidence of high frequency trading shenanigans.
Michael Feldman
Postcards From the Edge of Parallel Computing
Post Date: July 30, 2010 @ 3:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
HotPar workshop spotlights latest work in parallelism.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Launches GPGPU Plug-In for Visual Studio
Post Date: July 22, 2010 @ 3:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
GPU programming comes to Microsoft's popular IDE.
Michael Feldman
Information Technology Is Not the Savior of the Unemployed
Post Date: July 15, 2010 @ 9:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The IT recovery is underway, but it left the jobs behind.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputers When They Sizzle
Post Date: July 15, 2010 @ 9:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Beating the heat with liquid cooling.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC Market Rebound Forecast; CTOs Talk Open Standards for GPGPU
Post Date: July 09, 2010 @ 4:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Addison and Michael talk about the latest HPC market forecast from InterSect360 Research. The CTOs from PathScale and CAPS discuss the new HMPP open standard for GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
Accelerator Adoption Picks Up Speed
Post Date: July 01, 2010 @ 7:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The move to coprocessor accelerators is, umm, accelerating.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: AMD Fires Up GPU Accelerators; PathScale Takes On CUDA
Post Date: June 25, 2010 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Michael and Addison discuss this week's GPGPU-related news from AMD and PathScale.
Michael Feldman
GPU Computing II: Where the Truth Lies
Post Date: June 24, 2010 @ 8:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Revisiting the "Inevitable Transition."
Michael Feldman
GPU Computing: The Inevitable Transition?
Post Date: June 17, 2010 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
General-purpose GPUs may soon be at the computational center of the HPC universe.
Michael Feldman
The Other Exascale Challenge
Post Date: June 10, 2010 @ 6:34 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Supercomputing apps may have to ditch the checkpoint-restart model.
Michael Feldman
ISC'10 Preview
Post Date: May 27, 2010 @ 5:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Hamburg, Germany, will soon become the center of the HPC universe -- at least for a week.
Michael Feldman
Men Who Stare at Servers
Post Date: May 26, 2010 @ 9:47 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The TOP500 list is getting ready for another round of petafloppery
Michael Feldman
GOP Blocks Federal Funding for Science and Technology
Post Date: May 20, 2010 @ 6:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Repubs play partisan politics with COMPETES Reauthorization Bill.
Michael Feldman
Market Meltdown Still Does Not Compute
Post Date: May 13, 2010 @ 6:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Investigators struggle to ascertain role of computerized trading in stock market plunge.
Michael Feldman
Dally Disses Multicore
Post Date: May 06, 2010 @ 7:02 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
CPU performance has hit a wall, says NVIDIA chief scientist.
Michael Feldman
A CEO's Take on US Competitiveness
Post Date: April 29, 2010 @ 7:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Even multinationals get the blues.
Michael Feldman
RoCE: An Ethernet-InfiniBand Love Story
Post Date: April 22, 2010 @ 8:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The "Rocky" road to low-latency Ethernet.
Michael Feldman
Unleashing the Memristor
Post Date: April 15, 2010 @ 6:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Artificial synapses, non-volatile RAM, processor-in-memory -- the memristor does it all.
Michael Feldman
Microsoft Injects More Goodies into Windows HPC
Post Date: April 08, 2010 @ 6:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Software maker releases second beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.
Michael Feldman
Chipmakers Look to Rock High-End Server Biz
Post Date: April 01, 2010 @ 6:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Intel and AMD ante up new server chips, place their bets.
Michael Feldman
AMD Splits Server Platform
Post Date: March 29, 2010 @ 1:47 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A fork in the roadmap.
Michael Feldman
A Couple of New InfiniBand Songs
Post Date: March 25, 2010 @ 6:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
QLogic intros new pass-through module; Voltaire debuts MPI offload technology.
Michael Feldman
Westmere Ushers in the Second Coming of Multicore
Post Date: March 18, 2010 @ 5:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Latest silicon from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA will change the workstation-cluster dynamic.
Michael Feldman
AMD Touts Core Competency
Post Date: March 16, 2010 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Chipmaker takes swipe at Intel HyperThreading.
Michael Feldman
The Real Health Care Revolution Awaits
Post Date: March 11, 2010 @ 4:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
US health care is sick, but help may be on the way, says Leroy Hood.
Michael Feldman
Multicore Watershed
Post Date: March 04, 2010 @ 4:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Six, eight and twelve cores. The true multicore era for x86 is just around the corner.
Michael Feldman
Venture Capital Drought? Not So Much.
Post Date: March 03, 2010 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Looking for a few good innovators.
Michael Feldman
Cray Corrals Big Defense Deal
Post Date: February 25, 2010 @ 4:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Supercomputer maker off to a running start in 2010.
Michael Feldman
AMD Confirms 12-Core Opteron Production
Post Date: February 23, 2010 @ 5:14 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Magny-Cours siting on eBay forces chipmaker to respond.
Michael Feldman
No Country for Old Men
Post Date: February 19, 2010 @ 8:38 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Why the IT industry is infatuated with younger workers.
Michael Feldman
Of Clouds and Chips
Post Date: February 11, 2010 @ 6:07 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
A few thoughts on two of my favorite topics.
Michael Feldman
SiCortex Co-founder John Mucci Dies
Post Date: February 09, 2010 @ 10:13 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
HPC entrepreneur succumbs to apparent heart attack.
Michael Feldman
NSF and Microsoft Buddy Up
Post Date: February 04, 2010 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
US researchers will get free access to Windows Azure cloud platform.
Michael Feldman
Facebook Dreams of Terabit Ethernet
Post Date: February 03, 2010 @ 6:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The slow road to fast networks.
Michael Feldman
No Sign of HPC on Sun-Oracle Roadmap
Post Date: January 28, 2010 @ 5:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Ellison and company is all about business computing.
Michael Feldman
CHREC Is Doubling FPGAs in Novo-G Super
Post Date: January 21, 2010 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Upgraded machine will sport 192 FPGAs and nearly a terabyte of memory.
Michael Feldman
Verari Reboot Paves Way for New HPC Strategy
Post Date: January 21, 2010 @ 5:20 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
New CEO takes company back to the future.
Michael Feldman
Petascale Supers Poised for Debut in Asia
Post Date: January 19, 2010 @ 2:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
China and Singapore gear up petascale efforts.
Michael Feldman
Analysts Talk Up IT Recovery
Post Date: January 14, 2010 @ 5:13 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Will the computer industry lead us out of the economic wilderness?
Michael Feldman
Some Thoughts on the Decade Ahead
Post Date: January 07, 2010 @ 5:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
A new beginning? Not exactly.
Michael Feldman
The Beat Goes On
Post Date: January 04, 2010 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Verari and TotalView Technologies: HPC vendor churn continues.
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