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Michael Feldman
Podcast: A Look Back at the Year in HPC; A Look Ahead to 2012
Post Date: December 26, 2011 @ 10:06 PM, Pacific Standard Time
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Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: GPU Technology in the Far East; HPC 360 in the Midwest; SGI CEO Heads North
Post Date: December 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the GTC Asia and HPC 360 events and offer their perspectives on the resignation of SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputing Welcomes Flash Gordon; Possible Q4 Slump in HPC
Post Date: December 09, 2011 @ 10:22 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the launch of Gordon, SDSC's new data-intensive supercomputer. Also, Addison offers some guidance on why HPC revenue might take a hit in Q4.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Adds New Dimension to Computer Memory; Supercomputing for Home Heating
Post Date: December 02, 2011 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
IBM's 3D chipmaking technology to debut in memory devices. Also, a novel use for servers: data furnaces.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Top Products, Technologies and Vendors in HPC; The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Post Date: November 23, 2011 @ 7:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss some of the standout HPC companies, products, and technologies selected by the readers and editors of HPCwire.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Big Data Rains Down on Seattle; Green500 Goes Blue; SC11 Winners and Losers
Post Date: November 18, 2011 @ 12:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
The weekly wrap-up of SC11 highlights the rise of big data, the latest Green500 results, and winners and losers from the show.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Blue Waters 2.0; Chip Wars at SC11
Post Date: November 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Conference kicks off with news about NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer project, the TOP500, and a flurry of processor-related announcements.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Vendors Open New Bag of Supercomputing Toys; A Look Ahead to SC11
Post Date: November 11, 2011 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Fujitsu, Bull, DataDirect Networks, and Bright Computing make some big news in the lead up to the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputer Tops 10 Petaflops; Good News/Bad News for AMD
Post Date: November 04, 2011 @ 12:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
The "K Computer" in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier and AMD Fusion debuts in HPC.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Texas Instruments Makes HPC Play; ARM Flexes 64-Bit Muscle
Post Date: October 28, 2011 @ 3:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
TI is looking to push its latest DSP chips into the HPC realm and ARM will soon have 64-bit processors. Also, China has announced a new petaflop supercomputer with homegrown microprocessors.
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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Jun 13, 2013 |
Titan, the Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge National Lab that debuted last fall as the fastest supercomputer in the world with 17.59 petaflops of sustained computing power, will rely on its previous LINPACK test for the upcoming edition of the Top 500 list.
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Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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