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Michael FeldmanMichael 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
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.

Michael FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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 FeldmanMichael 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.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Airbus Embraces HPC-as-a-Service; HPC Vendors Take On Big Data
Post Date: October 21, 2011 @ 12:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Airbus is leasing HPC for its engineering design work. And big data is getting more attention from HPC vendors.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
Post Date: October 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Research project uses DRAM as the basis of datacenter storage..

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Oak Ridge Makes Jaguar Into a Titan; A New Platform for IBM
Post Date: October 14, 2011 @ 1:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Oak Ridge's Buddy Bland and Jim Hack join the show to discuss ORNL's upcoming Titan supercomputer. Plus Addison and Michael talk about the significance of IBM's plans to acquire of Platform Computing

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Another Computer Legend Passes Into the History Books
Post Date: October 13, 2011 @ 5:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Startup Builds 64-core FP Accelerator; Gluster Puts Big Data in Red Hat
Post Date: October 07, 2011 @ 2:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Adapteva's latest manycore design and discuss the significance of Red Hat's plans to buy Gluster. Also, a look back at Steve Jobs.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Steve Jobs: The Seymour Cray of Personal Computing
Post Date: October 06, 2011 @ 5:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

As these two computing pioneers demonstrated, one person can shape an entire industry.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: NetApp Adds Lustre to Sequoia Super; HPC Clouds Over Europe
Post Date: September 30, 2011 @ 1:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NetApp wins its first big storage contract in supercomputing, while Europeans gather for the latest developments in HPC cloud and grid computing. Plus Russia puts its exaflop stake in the ground.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Flash Forward
Post Date: September 29, 2011 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Solid state storage vendors are making a frontal assault on the hard disk establishment in the datacenter.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Texas Super Gives Dell and Intel Big Win; ScaleMP Brings AMD On Board
Post Date: September 23, 2011 @ 4:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about TACC's upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer, which will be equipped with Intel's manycore accelerators. Also, ScaleMP adds Opteron support and a wrapup of the HPC Financial Markets event.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Intel Takes a Bite Out of NVIDIA's HPC Business
Post Date: September 22, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Manycore MIC coprocessors beat out GPUs in future NSF-funded supercomputer.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Addison's Report Card for Digital Manufacturing; WellPoint Pages Dr. Watson
Post Date: September 16, 2011 @ 12:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

A discussion of the various initiative to bring HPC into US manufacturing, and IBM Watson lands a job in health care.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Can Supercomputing Help Cure Health Care?
Post Date: September 15, 2011 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

IBM Watson to start new job as WellPoint analyst.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Hitachi Data Systems Buys BlueArc; An Interview with CEO Mike Gustafson
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 3:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael speak with BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson and the company's director of HPC, Bjorn Andersson, about their company's acquisition. Also a look at how 9/11 impacted high performance computing.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Newest Opteron CPU Headed for Big Supers
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 1:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

AMD starts shipping Interlagos chips in volume.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: IBM Goes Big in Storage; Plus Blue Waters and Black Skies
Post Date: September 02, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison speculate on NCSA's replacement for the Blue Waters supercomputer. Also, IBM comes up with a 120 PB storage array for an unknown customer, and HPC startup Black Sky Computing preps for its cloud computing play.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Powering Up Exascale
Post Date: September 01, 2011 @ 8:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

It's not just about the megawatts.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman The Rise of the Thinking Machine
Post Date: August 25, 2011 @ 7:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Brain-centric computing is having a pretty good year.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: SGI Makes Software Buy; Brainy Chips for a Smarter Planet
Post Date: August 19, 2011 @ 1:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

SGI acquires OpenCFD and IBM unveils cognitive computing chips. Addison and Michael give us the low down on what it all means.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman IBM Reveals Cognitive Computing Chips
Post Date: August 18, 2011 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Researchers build circuitry based on workings of human brain.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: IBM Dumps Blue Waters; Steve Scott Joins NVIDIA
Post Date: August 12, 2011 @ 2:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

IBM terminates its multi-million dollar contract to build the Blue Waters supercomputer and Cray CTO Steve Scott joins NVIDIA.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Raining on the Innovation Parade
Post Date: August 11, 2011 @ 6:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The "dismal science" tells us innovation is on the wane.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Digital Manufacturing Takes Off; Special Guest Editor John Kirkley
Post Date: August 05, 2011 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

We speak with John Kirkley, managing editor of Digital Manufacturing Report, to bring us up to date on recent news in advanced manufacturing and high performance computing.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Debt Deal Casts Shadow on US Research Funding
Post Date: August 04, 2011 @ 5:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Federal R&D money could be an easy target for cost-cutting with latest legislation.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: TeraGrid 2.0; Microsoft's HPC Reorg
Post Date: July 29, 2011 @ 4:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The end of the TeraGrid project marks the launch of its replacement: XSEDE; and Microsoft reshuffles its HPC deck.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Life After TeraGrid
Post Date: July 28, 2011 @ 7:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

XSEDE takes up NSF's cyberinfrastructure mission with a broader mandate.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Intel, Dell Buy Into Ethernet; Sergio Novaes Talks About HPC in Brazil
Post Date: July 22, 2011 @ 12:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Intel's and Dell's plans to acquire two premier Ethernet vendors; and Sergio Novaes, Professor of Physics at São Paulo State University talks about his experiences with HPC in Brazil.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman IBM Demos Record-Breaking Parallel File System Performance
Post Date: July 21, 2011 @ 9:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

GPFS gobbles 10 billion files in less than an hour using Violin Memory's solid-state storage.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: FPGA Supercomputing in the Money; SGI Preps New ICE Machines
Post Date: July 15, 2011 @ 3:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

JP Morgan speeds up its risk models with FPGAs and SGI redesigns Altix ICE hardware. Plus a question of the week.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman GPU Computing Wades Into the Mainstream
Post Date: July 14, 2011 @ 6:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

No longer the "Next Big Thing" in HPC, GPUs are becoming conventional.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Brain Simulation Super From the UK; An Interview with NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici
Post Date: July 08, 2011 @ 3:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the latest news about a brain simulation project in the UK and then talk with NetApp's Val Bercovici about his company's recent acquisition of Engenio.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Researchers Spin Up Supercomputer for Brain Simulation
Post Date: July 07, 2011 @ 7:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

SpiNNaker project will employ ARM processors to map virtual brain.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: HPC Trends, Ups and Downs in 2011
Post Date: July 01, 2011 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the biggest HPC stories and trends for the first half of the year.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Supercomputer Defend Thyself
Post Date: June 30, 2011 @ 5:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPC takes a hit from latest spate of natural disasters.

Caroline ConnorCaroline Connor Introducing the First ISC Think Tank Series, Sponsored by HPCwire
Post Date: June 28, 2011 @ 6:36 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices

Caroline shares her experience filming the first 'ISC Think Tank Series, hosted by HPCwire' live at ISC '11 and her thoughts on why capturing an annual "meeting of the minds" between the best and brightest in the industry is important for the HPC community.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: ISC'11 Wrapup- Trends, Winners, Losers
Post Date: June 24, 2011 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss conference highlights and try to pick out some trends at the show.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman What I Learned at the International Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: June 23, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPC accelerator competition is heating up and Japanese supers are scrambling for watts.

Tom TaborTom Tabor IDC Shares HPC Market Figures, Trends, Predictions at ISC
Post Date: June 21, 2011 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

IDC presented its overview of the market for high performance computing at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany this week. Tom Tabor reflects on these trends and predictions in this post from Hamburg.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
Post Date: June 20, 2011 @ 4:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

At the International Supercomputing Conference, Michael and Addison talk about Japan's surprising recapture of the number one system on the TOP500, and discuss how Intel is moving forward on its MIC coprocessor plans.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Vendors, Users Prep for ISC'11; HPC Faithful Head to Hamburg
Post Date: June 17, 2011 @ 10:54 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison cover this week's top stories in the lead-up to the International Supercomputing Conference, and preview some of the happenings at the Hamburg event.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Supercomputing in Transition
Post Date: June 16, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

ISC to shine spotlight on heterogeneous computing.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: IBM Gathers HPC Clouds; Real Applications on GPUs; NNSA Makes Appro a Winner
Post Date: June 10, 2011 @ 1:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to talk about IBM's latest push into high performance computing for private clouds.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Chinese Super Breaks World Record in Application Performance
Post Date: June 09, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Science code hits 1.87 petaflops on top-ranked Tianhe-1A.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Whatever Happened to Personal Genomics? and How High is the High in HPC?
Post Date: June 03, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer their thoughts on the hype cycle of personal genomics and discuss the results of a recent survey about HPC application scalability.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman A Healthy Dose of Analytics: From IBM Watson to Tricorders
Post Date: June 02, 2011 @ 7:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Advanced analytics sets its sights on health care.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Quantum Computing Goes Commercial; Cray Unveils GPU Super
Post Date: May 27, 2011 @ 2:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

D-Wave sells a quantum computer to Lockheed Martin and Cray pitches its new GPU-equipped supercomputer, the XK6.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman A Tale of Two GPU Computing Models
Post Date: May 26, 2011 @ 7:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

CUDA versus OpenMP for GPUs. What's a developer to do?

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA Speeds Up Its GPUs; Adoption Could Follow Suit
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 1:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA launches a new and improved Fermi Tesla GPU, while AMD introduces a FirePro graphics card for servers. Addison and Michael discuss the prospects for GPU adoption in HPC.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Dual-Use GPUs for Servers -- AMD and NVIDIA Mind Their P's and Q's
Post Date: May 19, 2011 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

AMD pitches FirePro V7800P against NVIDIA's Tesla M2070Q.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Government Supercomputing Ups and Downs; iPad Supercomputing, No Joke
Post Date: May 13, 2011 @ 7:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray reports a decent first quarter despite US government spending delays, while European HPC brightens. Also, iPad-based HPC clusters on the drawing board?

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman The Prisoner's Dilemma
Post Date: May 12, 2011 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The challenge of climate change brings out the worst in us.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Intel Intros 3D Transistors; HPC Market Rebounds
Post Date: May 06, 2011 @ 2:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Encouraging news for the high performance computing market and Intel prepares to bring 3D transistors into production.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Intel Adds New Dimension to Transistor Making
Post Date: May 05, 2011 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker to use 3D transistors in next-generation 22nm processors.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Mellanox Brings Up Switch Hitter; ARM Wrestling with x86
Post Date: April 29, 2011 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the new InfiniBand-Ethernet switch silicon from Mellanox and speculate on the adoption of ARM technology by AMD.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Will AMD ARM Itself?
Post Date: April 28, 2011 @ 2:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Adopting the ARM architecture would be a leap of faith for the x86 chip vendor, but perhaps a necessary one.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: TACC Looks to Intel for Acceleration; SAS Ups Its Analytics Game
Post Date: April 25, 2011 @ 7:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss TACC's new interest in Intel's Many Integrated Core accelerator and recap the latest analytics news from SAS Insitute.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman TACC Steps Up to the MIC
Post Date: April 21, 2011 @ 8:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Supercomputing center starts coding to Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) chip.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: IBM's Power Boost; DDN Moves Into NAS
Post Date: April 15, 2011 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss IBM's refresh of its Power7 servers and DataDirect Networks' entry into the NAS market.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Diversifying the Tech Workforce
Post Date: April 14, 2011 @ 9:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

White men's guilt or a cause with a purpose?

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: High Performance Computing on Wall Street; HPC and Clouds Collide
Post Date: April 12, 2011 @ 11:26 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and guest Peter ffoulkes review last week's HPC Linux on Wall Street Conference

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: HPC Conference Catch-Up; Intel Scales Up
Post Date: April 08, 2011 @ 2:14 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael look back at the recent HPCC Conference and OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop. They also discuss the latest Westmere chips launched by Intel this week.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Watson Takes a Turn on Wall Street
Post Date: April 07, 2011 @ 7:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

IBM takes its Jeopardy-winning supercomputing technology on the road.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: TOP500 -- There's an App for That; Watson Back in Prime Time
Post Date: April 01, 2011 @ 8:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison look into an iPhone-based supercomputer that could end up on the TOP500. Also, the latest exploits of IBM's Watson supercomputer.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Preoccupied with Exascale
Post Date: March 31, 2011 @ 3:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Is the HPC community too focused on the 10-year milestone?

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Minding the Missing Middle
Post Date: March 31, 2011 @ 9:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPCC Conference speakers talk up HPC democratization.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Fujitsu Back in the UK; Oracle Dumps Itanium
Post Date: March 25, 2011 @ 11:49 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Fujitsu's return to the UK as an HPC provider. They also discuss the Oracle-Itanium dust-up and the Spectra Logic's latest tape archive upgrade.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Oracle Forsakes Itanium Support
Post Date: March 23, 2011 @ 7:47 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Database maker says chip is "nearing the end of its life;" sets off war of words with HP, Intel.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputing Through the Japanese Disaster; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Post Date: March 18, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Chris Willard talk about the computer simulation efforts going on behind the scenes during the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Intel Charts Path to Microserver Business
Post Date: March 17, 2011 @ 7:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker unveils roadmap with Atom server chip.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: NetApp Returns to HPC; NVIDIA Tesla GPU Sales Accelerate
Post Date: March 11, 2011 @ 1:17 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison comment on NetApp's re-entry into HPC storage and provide an update on NVIDIA's GPU computing momentum.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman NetApp Moves Into HPC Storage with Engenio Acquisition
Post Date: March 10, 2011 @ 4:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Shake-up for HPC OEMs or business as usual?

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Commerce Department Gets Behind HPC; Digital Manufacturing Programs Roll Out
Post Date: March 04, 2011 @ 11:59 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison catch up on the latest developments around HPC in manufacturing. Plus the quote of the week.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Attack of the Killer Micros Redux
Post Date: March 03, 2011 @ 6:16 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Will ARM's ubiquity in the consumer market doom the x86 in HPC?

Tiffany TraderTiffany Trader Watson Goes to Washington
Post Date: March 02, 2011 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt beat IBM's AI darling.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: America's HPC Gap; The Case for Digital Manufacturing
Post Date: February 25, 2011 @ 1:03 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about the latest InterSect360 study about HPC adoption by manufacturers and preview some announcements in this area expected next week.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman China Preps Godson Chip for Supercomputing Duty
Post Date: February 24, 2011 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Impressive processor could find its way into places where US chips cannot follow.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputer Beats Humans at Their Own Game; HPC Vendors on the Comeback
Post Date: February 18, 2011 @ 12:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Watson's big Jeopardy win and talk about two premier HPC vendors that recently reported encouraging financial results.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Watson Goes Undefeated in Three-Night Jeopardy Series
Post Date: February 17, 2011 @ 12:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

IBM super beats humans at their own game. Next up: calling Doctor Watson.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Supercomputer Pummels Jeopardy Champs
Post Date: February 16, 2011 @ 11:37 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Watson humbles humans on match's second night.

Tiffany TraderTiffany Trader Watson's Debut Sparks Intelligent Conversation
Post Date: February 15, 2011 @ 8:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Jeopardy's first ever "man-versus-machine" contest has us all wondering about the future of artificial intelligence.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Watson Supercomputer Draws to a Tie in First Round of Jeopardy Match
Post Date: February 15, 2011 @ 12:11 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Computer's deafness costs it a decisive win.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Man Versus Machine, Jeopardy Champs Take on IBM Super
Post Date: February 11, 2011 @ 2:02 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the upcoming Jeopardy match with IBM Watson and what will make this such a compelling spectacle.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman The Curse of Smarter Machines
Post Date: February 10, 2011 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

The displacement of jobs by computers is just getting started.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Obama Cheerleads Science and Innovation at State of the Union; The Politics of HPC
Post Date: February 04, 2011 @ 12:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the science and innovation themes at last week's State of the Union address, and discuss the significance of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act signed into law in December.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Carbon Sequestration Gets Supercomputing Boost
Post Date: February 03, 2011 @ 7:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Berkeley Lab models underground CO2 storage.

Tiffany TraderTiffany Trader On the Road to Exascale, Expect Delays
Post Date: February 02, 2011 @ 3:40 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

With exascale predictions all the rage, here's a more sobering look at the next big thing in supercomputing.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: Univa Hotwires Grid Engine; Interview with HP's Marc Hamilton
Post Date: January 21, 2011 @ 12:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the latest wanderings of Grid Engine and then speak with Marc Hamilton, HP's vice president of HPC.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman AMD's Next GPU Computing Move
Post Date: January 20, 2011 @ 4:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker's Cayman GPU architecture adds more general-purpose capabilities.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Algorithms Engulf Wall Street
Post Date: January 19, 2011 @ 6:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Automated trading software runs amok.

Tiffany TraderTiffany Trader PCAST Report Calls for HPC Overhaul
Post Date: January 18, 2011 @ 4:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Analysis of PCAST report turns into call to action.

Michael FeldmanMichael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA, Intel Take the Chips Off Their Shoulders; An Interview with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda
Post Date: January 14, 2011 @ 5:04 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael dissect the Intel-NVIDIA cross-licensing settlement and chat with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda about some news on the Lustre front.

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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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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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Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

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