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Podcast: Teraflop GPUs Aplenty; High Frequency Trading Goes Haywire
Post Date: August 10, 2012 @ 11:49 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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NVIDIA and AMD offer up teraflop GPUs for workstations. And high frequency trading gets another black eye.

Podcast: Supercomputing without Side Effects; Israel Welcomes a Baby Super
Post Date: August 03, 2012 @ 11:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Addison and Michael discuss a new way supercomputing can speed up drug discovery. Also, a new SGI cluster at an Israeli research institute underscores the nation's small HPC footprint.

Podcast: Supercomputers Moving Up Down Under; Mellanox Rises on InfiniBand Gains
Post Date: July 27, 2012 @ 12:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Addison and Michael talk about a trio of new supercomputers for Australia and the latest surge in InfiniBand's prospects.

Podcast: Whamcloud Under New Ownership; Intel Adds to Exascale Portfolio
Post Date: July 20, 2012 @ 12:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Brent Gorda and Boyd Davis talk about Intel's Whamcloud acquisition; Addison and Michael discuss the ramification of the deal.

Podcast: Energy Department Kickstarts Exascale Effort; DOE Presses Fastforward for Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud
Post Date: July 13, 2012 @ 12:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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The Department of Energy signs up Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud for exascale research under its "FastForward" program. Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications.

Podcast: Google Takes on Amazon EC2; NASA Reworks Cloud Strategy
Post Date: July 06, 2012 @ 11:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Google jumps into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service business and NASA backs away from OpenStack development. HPC in the Cloud Editor Tiffany Trader catches us up on the latest news.

Podcast: Lawrence Livermore and IBM Team Up Again; Cray Pre-Sells Another Cascade Supercomputer
Post Date: June 29, 2012 @ 1:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Lawrence Livermore is installing a 5-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q for use by industry partners and NERSC signs up for a 2-petaflop Cray Cascade super for 2013.

Podcast: InfiniBand Hits 100G; Winners and Losers at ISC'12
Post Date: June 21, 2012 @ 10:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Addison and Michael wrap up the news from ISC'12 and pick the event's winners and losers.

Podcast: US Recaptures TOP500 Title; Intel MIC Gets Its Own Brand
Post Date: June 20, 2012 @ 6:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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At ISC'12 in Hamburg, Addison and Michael review the new TOP500 results and discuss Intel's latest MIC moves.

Podcast: TOP500 Brain Trust Gathers for 20th Anniversary of List
Post Date: June 17, 2012 @ 8:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In this exclusive interview, Hans Meuer, Erich Strohmaier, Jack Dongarra, and Horst Simon discuss why performance of the world's top 500 supercomputers has increased so rapidly and so constantly over the years, and consider whether this will continue to be the case through the current petascale era and beyond.

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My Supercomputer is Bigger Than Yours!

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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Alternatives Emerge as Linpack Loses Ground

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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Intel Snaps New Grips to HPC Hook

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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Short Takes

Supercomputers: Not Always the Best for Big Data

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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Gordon Flashes Its Versatility in HPC Workloads

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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Supercomputers: Still the King of the HPC Hill

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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TACC Longhorn Takes On Natural Language Processing

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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Titan Didn't Redo LINPACK for June Top 500 List

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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HPCwire Live! Atlanta's Big Data Kick Off Week Meets HPC

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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