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Michael Feldman
Podcast: Top HPC Trends in 2010; Seeds Planted for 2011
Post Date: December 17, 2010 @ 3:43 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael wrap up the year in HPC and take a peek at developing trends for 2011. Plus, the stat of the year.
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.
Tiffany Trader
Exascale's Energy Concerns
Post Date: December 14, 2010 @ 3:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Getting to exascale will require serious power, 14 nuclear reactors' worth.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: DoD Cuts Off Supercomputing Center; Gathering Storm, Revisited
Post Date: December 10, 2010 @ 3:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss the Department of Defense's abandonment of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and provide some analysis on a new report about US science and technology competitiveness.
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.
Tiffany Trader
Air Force's PS3 Condor Cluster Takes Flight
Post Date: December 03, 2010 @ 4:47 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Where else can you get a half a petaflop of computing power for around $2 million?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Mellanox Proposes to Voltaire; First Petaflop Supercomputer in Russia
Post Date: December 03, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the ramifications of Mellanox's plans to buy Voltaire and discuss Russia's upcoming petaflop supercomputer.
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
Mellanox and QLogic Play Duopoly
Post Date: December 01, 2010 @ 12:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
With the Voltaire acquisition in the works, Mellanox is set to deliver a serious blow to its only other InfiniBand competitor.
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
Podcast: More GPUs On Demand; Fledgling Graph 500 List
Post Date: November 23, 2010 @ 3:05 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael revisit some news items from last week's Supercomputing Conference.
Michael Feldman
Conference Highlights Dividing Lines Across GPGPUs
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:41 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
If there was a dominating theme at the Supercomputing Conference this year, it had to be GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Highlights from SC10
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:01 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael consider the results of the TOP500 and Green500, pick the winners and losers of SC10, and discuss the biggest news of the week.
Michael Feldman
InfiniBand Continues Upward Climb in Top Supers
Post Date: November 17, 2010 @ 5:51 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
Lost in the hoopla about the ascendency of China and GPGPUs in the TOP500 is the continuing saga of the InfiniBand-Ethernet interconnect rivalry.
Michael Feldman
GPGPUs, China Take the Lead in TOP500
Post Date: November 15, 2010 @ 12:41 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
Top seven supercomputers make it into the petaflop club.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC Vendors Gear Up for SC; Supercomputing Heads to the Big Easy
Post Date: November 12, 2010 @ 3:28 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss this week's vendor announcements in the run-up to the Supercomputing Conference and look ahead to the big event.
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
Podcast: IBM Aims for Mainstream; T-Platforms Heads Upstream
Post Date: November 05, 2010 @ 12:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael offer some perspective on IBM's latest HPC business strategy and discuss T-Platforms' plans to bring a new supercomputing interconnect to market.
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
Podcast: Chinese Supercomputer Sets Linpack Record; Wrap-up of First HPC Cloud Conference
Post Date: October 29, 2010 @ 5:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Nicole talk about the record-setting GPGPU supercomputer from China and offer some perspective on the happenings at the first ISC Cloud conference.
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.
Tiffany Trader
Will Multicore Save the Day?
Post Date: October 22, 2010 @ 5:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Muticore processors may extend the viability of Moore's Law, but present their own challenges.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Lustre Gets Another Backer; Notes from HPC Biomed 2010
Post Date: October 22, 2010 @ 1:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the launch of OpenSFS, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting Lustre for HPC. They also talk about the major themes of this week's Biomed HPC 2010 Conference at Harvard.
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.
Tiffany Trader
The State of Quantum
Post Date: October 18, 2010 @ 4:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Despite numerous advances, practical quantum computing still five decades out.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Appro Goes After Risky Business; Nimbis Opens Cloud Portal for Desktop Users
Post Date: October 15, 2010 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss the new Appro server aimed at high frequency trading. HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth reviews the HPC on-demand offerings from Nimbis Services.
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.
Tiffany Trader
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Kicking It Old School
Post Date: October 12, 2010 @ 4:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters
Like the iconic blacklight, PSC's new shared memory system is a blast from the past.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HP Joins GPGPU Party; Rogue Wave Adds Acumen to Portfolio
Post Date: October 08, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss HP's new GPU-equipped server and offer their thoughts on Rogue Wave's continuing buying spree of HPC tool makers.
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
Podcast: A Strategy for Revitalizing US Manufacturing; Tales from HPC 360
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 12:51 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to discuss the happenings at the HPC 360 Conference in Champaign, Illinois.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Industry Events Target HPC in Financial Services
Post Date: September 30, 2010 @ 10:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison, Michael, and special guest Sue Korn discuss the recent conferences that focused on HPC technologies in the financial services industry.
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
Podcast: GPU Computing Hits the Mainstream; Microsoft Launches New Windows HPC Server
Post Date: September 24, 2010 @ 1:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about Microsoft's new HPC Server and recap the highlights of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference.
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
Podcast: Notes from the Intel Developer Forum; Sandy Bridge, Cloud Computing, Graphics and More
Post Date: September 18, 2010 @ 7:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael recap the news and happenings from IDF.
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
Podcast: Chips are Hot at Hot Chips; Bidding War for 3PAR Heats Up
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison recap some of news from AMD, Intel, and IBM at the Hot Chips conference and offer some perspective on Dell's and HP's pursuit of 3PAR.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC Conference Season Kickoff
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison offer their perspectives on the upcoming conferences of interest to the HPC community.
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
Servers Take a Bath; A Pilot to Energize US Manufacturing
Post Date: September 03, 2010 @ 12:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss the immersive liquid cooling offering from startup Green Revolution Cooling. Then Addison speaks with Jon Riley from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences about HPC in manufacturing.
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
Podcast: Startup Tries to Beat Odds with Probability Processor; Cray, SGI Spin Their Wheels
Post Date: August 20, 2010 @ 11:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss startup Lyric Semiconductor, who emerged from stealth mode this week to unveil a novel processor technology. They also review some of the recent financial struggles of Cray and SGI.
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
Podcast: DARPA Gears Up Ubiquitous HPC Program; Oracle Makes Quiet Exit From HPC
Post Date: August 13, 2010 @ 2:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael review DARPA's selections for its UHPC program and discuss why they think Oracle will not be a force in HPC anytime soon.
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
Podcast: High Frequency Trading Shenanigans; Intel Settles Up with FTC
Post Date: August 06, 2010 @ 12:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss some recent stories about how high frequency trading may have had a direct hand in the May stock market plunge. They also ponder the significance of Intel's settlement with the FTC.
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
Podcast: Lustre Gets a New Champion; GPGPU Gets Its Own Cloud
Post Date: July 30, 2010 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about Whamcloud, a startup that plans to provide Lustre file system development for the HPC community. They also discuss PEER 1's GPU computing cloud, launched this week at SIGGRAPH.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Flash Storage Startup Makes Play for HPC; Intel, AMD Power Up Earnings
Post Date: July 29, 2010 @ 3:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael review the latest good earnings reports from Intel and AMD. They also discuss flash storage vendor Nimbus Data Systems, a newcomer to the HPC space.
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
Podcast: Amazon Breaks Into HPC
Post Date: July 21, 2010 @ 4:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor, Nicole Hemsoth, to discuss Amazon's launch of its HPC capability for EC2.
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: Half-Year Retrospective in HPC
Post Date: July 01, 2010 @ 1:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about some of the big high performance computing stories and trends over the last six months.
Tom Tabor
Singing Exascale
Post Date: June 26, 2010 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
HPC luminary Charlie Catlett rocks out at the International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC, Grids and Clouds in Cetraro, Italy.
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."
Tom Tabor
Singing Exascale in Italy
Post Date: June 23, 2010 @ 4:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
HPC luminary Charlie Catlett rocks out at the International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC, Grids and Clouds in Cetraro, Italy.
Charlie Catlett
Charlie Catlett Recaps Italian HPC Workshop
Post Date: June 23, 2010 @ 1:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Argonne's Charlie Catlett provides an overview of the tenth biennial International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing, HPC2010, taking place this week at the Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro, Italy.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Flash Memory Takes Another Run at Supercomputing
Post Date: June 18, 2010 @ 2:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
This week Michael and Chris Willard talk about the latest deployment of flash memory for a new supercomputing cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and discuss some of the larger issues surrounding SSD and flash technology in HPC.
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
Podcast: HPC Community Weighs in On Exascale; InfiniBand Pumps Up the Volume
Post Date: June 11, 2010 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about why exascale computing is becoming such a hot topic and offer their perspective on the new InfiniBand roadmap announced last week.
Tom Tabor
A Week at the International Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: June 11, 2010 @ 11:18 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and HPC in the Cloud, gives his perspective on SC'10, which just celebrated its 25th year with the biggest turnout yet.
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
Videocast: ISC'10 Winners and Losers, Show Wrap-Up
Post Date: June 07, 2010 @ 6:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael are joined by Nicole Hemsoth, editor of HPC in the Cloud, to offer their impressions of ISC'10.
Chris Willard
Impressions of ISC 2010
Post Date: June 03, 2010 @ 5:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
Returning to ISC after a hiatus of several years and viewing the event from the vantage point of an industry analyst, the show appears to have made a quantum leap in terms of size and sophistication of the exhibit, and degree and intensity of business activity.
Michael Feldman
ISC'10 Videoblog: Wednesday, June 2
Post Date: June 03, 2010 @ 2:20 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra, NCSA's Thom Dunning, and Stuttgart HPC Chief Michael Resch share some thoughts on day 3 of ISC.
Michael Feldman
ISC'10 Videoblog: Tuesday, June 1
Post Date: June 02, 2010 @ 5:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
Heike Jagode, of the University of Tennessee, takes us through some of the exhibits and sessions on day 2 of the conference.
Michael Feldman
ISC'10 Videoblog: Opening Day, May 31
Post Date: June 01, 2010 @ 10:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
Berkeley Lab's John Shalf and LSU's Thomas Sterling give a rundown on some of the events that took place the first day of the conference.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Highlights from ISC'10 in Hamburg - Intel Gives a Surprise Keynote; GPU Supers Save a Lackluster TOP500
Post Date: June 01, 2010 @ 5:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the biggest news coming out of ISC'10, live from Hamburg.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Cray Names Baker Super, Mellanox, NVIDIA Intro GPUDirect, and T-Platforms Manages RUSNANO
Post Date: May 28, 2010 @ 2:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the upcoming International Supercomputing Conference and a few of the more important news items of the week.
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
Podcast: Microsoft Broadens Technical Computing Vision; QLogic Intros Intelligent Fabric Management; IBM Signs On for GPU Computing
Post Date: May 24, 2010 @ 9:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk over the top HPC stories of the week, including Microsoft's new technical computing initiative, QLogic's latest InfiniBand fabric management software, and IBM's entry into GPU computing.
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
Podcast: Appro Debuts New GPU Offerings; Battery Research Gets Supercharged
Post Date: May 14, 2010 @ 11:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss Appro's latest GPU options and also talk about how HPC is helping to put Lithium-air battery research on the fast track.
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.
Dan Gatti
Containerized Datacenters = Green IT
Post Date: May 10, 2010 @ 4:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Why are green IT initiatives so hot?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Algorithmic Trading Whiplashes Markets; SGI Launches New ICE Machine
Post Date: May 07, 2010 @ 12:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison talk about what happens when a algorithmic trading hits a nervous stock market. They also review the latest Altix ICE offering from SGI.
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
Podcast: Archives Get Active
Post Date: May 02, 2010 @ 10:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the newly launched Active Archive Alliance and review last week's announcement of Panasas' high capacity storage product.
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.
William Lu
All-In-One or Build-Your–Own? Modernizing Your HPC Management Platform
Post Date: April 26, 2010 @ 4:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Just asking a few pointed questions should help determine which type of HPC management platform is right for a particular HPC scenario.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Conference Trio -- Wall Street, Clouds, and Bio IT
Post Date: April 23, 2010 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael provide a recap of three HPC-related shows: HPC Linux Financial Markets, Cloud Expo, and Bio-IT World.
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.
Cathy Davidson
A Virtual Conference for a Volatile World
Post Date: April 22, 2010 @ 11:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
This week HASTAC, a network of networks now 4,500 strong, put on Virtual HASTAC, one of the first international all-virtual conferences to use just about all of the virtual technologies available to us in 2010.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC in the Cloud; Cray Cozies Up To ISVs
Post Date: April 16, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael welcome Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of HPC in the Cloud, and also chew over the latest news from Cray.
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.
Dan Gatti
Green IT Is for Real
Post Date: April 14, 2010 @ 4:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
When I think about all the hype for Green IT, I always ask myself, where is the beef? Or where is the real green as in greenbacks?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Microsoft Embellishes Windows HPC; Itanium's Long Goodbye
Post Date: April 09, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the latest additions in Windows HPC Server 2008 and rehash the fate of the Itanium CPU.
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
Podcast: Intel and AMD Put Their Chips on the Table
Post Date: April 05, 2010 @ 11:05 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael chew over the big CPU news this week and discuss its significance to the HPC server market.
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.
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Computing the Physics of Bubbles
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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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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.
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