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Caroline 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.
Nicole Hemsoth
IBM's Watson Goes Where No Machine Has Gone Before
Post Date: January 13, 2011 @ 5:02 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Supercomputer brings AI to primetime television -- and it's not science fiction.
Michael Feldman
Mellanox and QLogic Play Duopoly
Post Date: December 01, 2010 @ 12:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
With the Voltaire acquisition in the works, Mellanox is set to deliver a serious blow to its only other InfiniBand competitor.
Tom Tabor
Singing Exascale
Post Date: June 26, 2010 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
HPC luminary Charlie Catlett rocks out at the International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC, Grids and Clouds in Cetraro, Italy.
Tom Tabor
Singing Exascale in Italy
Post Date: June 23, 2010 @ 4:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
HPC luminary Charlie Catlett rocks out at the International Advanced Research Workshop on HPC, Grids and Clouds in Cetraro, Italy.
Charlie Catlett
Charlie Catlett Recaps Italian HPC Workshop
Post Date: June 23, 2010 @ 1:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Argonne's Charlie Catlett provides an overview of the tenth biennial International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing, HPC2010, taking place this week at the Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro, Italy.
Tom Tabor
A Week at the International Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: June 11, 2010 @ 11:18 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire and HPC in the Cloud, gives his perspective on SC'10, which just celebrated its 25th year with the biggest turnout yet.
Dan Gatti
Containerized Datacenters = Green IT
Post Date: May 10, 2010 @ 4:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Why are green IT initiatives so hot?
William Lu
All-In-One or Build-Your–Own? Modernizing Your HPC Management Platform
Post Date: April 26, 2010 @ 4:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Just asking a few pointed questions should help determine which type of HPC management platform is right for a particular HPC scenario.
Cathy Davidson
A Virtual Conference for a Volatile World
Post Date: April 22, 2010 @ 11:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
This week HASTAC, a network of networks now 4,500 strong, put on Virtual HASTAC, one of the first international all-virtual conferences to use just about all of the virtual technologies available to us in 2010.
Dan Gatti
Green IT Is for Real
Post Date: April 14, 2010 @ 4:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
When I think about all the hype for Green IT, I always ask myself, where is the beef? Or where is the real green as in greenbacks?
Mark Thiele
Designing your Data Center for the Future
Post Date: July 14, 2009 @ 2:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Modularity in datacenter design coupled with portability of environments via virtualization and cloud mean that we have more options than at any time in datacenter history to affect change with minimal disruption.
Debbie Walsh
TeraGrid, the Social Experiment Continues
Post Date: June 29, 2009 @ 10:25 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
Deep, wide and open: these three simple words have endured as shorthand for TeraGrid's enabling vision.
by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Wild World of Global Grids
Post Date: June 25, 2009 @ 11:47 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
From Teragrid '09: Tuesday morning’s panel on “Global Grid Perspectives” gave a taste of the future while, at the same time, acknowledging some of the obstacles, such as the importance of standardization and the difficulties of funding.
Debbie Walsh
Anticipating TeraGrid
Post Date: June 22, 2009 @ 4:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Community Voices
After more than a year of planning and preparations we are finally nearing the TeraGrid ‘09 event! As chair, John Towns, is amazed by the amount of effort and enthusiasm that has gone into the development of the program and activities of the conference.
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CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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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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