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Michael 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede
The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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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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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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