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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
Podcast: Oracle Ties the Knot with Sun
Post Date: March 27, 2010 @ 9:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the finalization Oracle-Sun merger, the new Volaire InfiniBand-Ethernet bridge, and the INCITE supercomputing awards for 2010.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Cray Adds New Product Line; Increasing Focus on HPC Mid-range
Post Date: March 26, 2010 @ 2:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael take look at Cray's new CX1000 offering and discuss the state of the entry-level/mid-range HPC market segment.
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
Podcast: Intel Puts Its Chips on the Table
Post Date: March 19, 2010 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
The team discuss the Intel Westmere EP launch and Addison reviews the HPCC Conference in Newport.
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
Podcast: HPC Strikes Olympic Gold; 3Leaf Gets Start at Florida State
Post Date: March 12, 2010 @ 12:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the role of Exa's CFD software in the US bobsled team's gold medal. They also discuss the significance of 3Leaf's new virtual SMP system at FSU.
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
Podcast: A Trio of HPC Apps
Post Date: March 05, 2010 @ 2:15 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss three HPC-enabled applications that made the news this week: cancer research at Rice University, earthquake impact prediction at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and brake pedal design at Pratt & Miller.
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
Podcast: Cray Awarded Defense Deal; SGI Makes Storage Buy; IBM Invents New Algorithm
Post Date: February 26, 2010 @ 1:48 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss the Cray DoD contract win, the SGI acquisition of storage vendor COPAN Systems, and a breakthrough algorithm from IBM Research.
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
Podcast: Cray Closes the Books on 2009; Olympic Supercomputing
Post Date: February 19, 2010 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss Cray's year-end financial results and how the company looks for 2010. They also talk about a supercomputing app that may help an Olympic bobsled team capture the gold.
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
Podcast: SGI Builds HPC-Ready Cloud
Post Date: February 12, 2010 @ 12:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss SGI's entry into cloud computing and talk with company CEO Mark Barrenechea about their new "Cyclone" service.
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
Podcast: NASA and the NSF Take to the Clouds
Post Date: February 05, 2010 @ 1:23 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about how NASA and the NSF are working to bring science codes to cloud computing.
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
Podcast: Verari Redux; Oracle-Sun Merger Clears Hurdle; China's Next Supercomputer
Post Date: January 22, 2010 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the Verari's reemergence, the continuing saga of the Oracle-Sun merger, and China's latest effort to develop home-grown supercomputing.
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
Podcast: High Performance Health Care Reform; Dave Turek Interview
Post Date: January 15, 2010 @ 2:14 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss a proposal to reduce heath insurance fraud using ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer. They also talk with IBM's Dave Turek about the decade ahead in HPC.
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
Podcast: People to Watch in 2010
Post Date: January 11, 2010 @ 9:09 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael are joined by Tom Tabor to talk about the HPCwire People to Watch in 2010 list.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Better Times for HPC in 2010?
Post Date: January 08, 2010 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about the recent acquisition of TotalView Technologies and share their thoughts about how the HPC community will fare in 2010.
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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