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Michael Feldman
Facebook Dreams of Terabit Ethernet
Post Date: February 03, 2010 @ 6:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The slow road to fast networks.
Michael Feldman
No Sign of HPC on Sun-Oracle Roadmap
Post Date: January 28, 2010 @ 5:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Ellison and company is all about business computing.
Michael Feldman
CHREC Is Doubling FPGAs in Novo-G Super
Post Date: January 21, 2010 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Upgraded machine will sport 192 FPGAs and nearly a terabyte of memory.
Michael Feldman
Verari Reboot Paves Way for New HPC Strategy
Post Date: January 21, 2010 @ 5:20 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
New CEO takes company back to the future.
Michael Feldman
Petascale Supers Poised for Debut in Asia
Post Date: January 19, 2010 @ 2:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
China and Singapore gear up petascale efforts.
Michael Feldman
Analysts Talk Up IT Recovery
Post Date: January 14, 2010 @ 5:13 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Will the computer industry lead us out of the economic wilderness?
Michael Feldman
Some Thoughts on the Decade Ahead
Post Date: January 07, 2010 @ 5:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
A new beginning? Not exactly.
Michael Feldman
The Beat Goes On
Post Date: January 04, 2010 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Verari and TotalView Technologies: HPC vendor churn continues.
Michael Feldman
Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2009
Post Date: December 18, 2009 @ 10:02 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Highlights and lowlights of the year in HPC.
Michael Feldman
Japan Looks to Reinstate Supercomputer Funding
Post Date: December 16, 2009 @ 10:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Next-generation supercomputer project gets a reprieve.
Michael Feldman
Verari Systems in Limbo
Post Date: December 14, 2009 @ 1:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Server maker looking to "restructure the business."
Michael Feldman
Analysts Speculate on Larrabee Flap
Post Date: December 11, 2009 @ 7:35 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Intel's GPU work stoppage gets scrutinized.
Michael Feldman
Exaflops Needed to Solve Climate Crisis?
Post Date: December 10, 2009 @ 2:04 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Exascale computing. What is it good for? Certainly not to solve problems that need solving today.
Michael Feldman
IBM Cat Brain Simulation Research Called a "PR Stunt"
Post Date: November 24, 2009 @ 3:20 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Has Big Blue coughed up a hair ball?
Michael Feldman
IBM Cuts Cell Loose
Post Date: November 24, 2009 @ 9:56 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The roadmap not taken.
Michael Feldman
A Pervasive GPU Computing Strategy
Post Date: November 23, 2009 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA connects the GPGPU dots.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SC09 Special Edition from Portland #1
Post Date: November 18, 2009 @ 6:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Addison and Michael discuss the new TOP500 list. They also cover Justin Rattner's discussion on Larrabee and the new systems announced by Cray and SGI.
Michael Feldman
Tokyo Tech Aims for 3 Petaflop Super in 2010
Post Date: November 18, 2009 @ 12:12 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Buying Teslas by the bushel.
Michael Feldman
SC09 Ready Or Not
Post Date: November 13, 2009 @ 2:09 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Once more unto the breach.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Pre-SC09 News
Post Date: November 13, 2009 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Addison and Michael discuss the new Cray and Spectra Logic products unveiled this week. They also offers their thoughts on Intel's $1.25B settlement with AMD and Japan's big pull-back in supercomputer funding.
Michael Feldman
Clouds Envelop HPC
Post Date: November 05, 2009 @ 4:13 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Cloud computing is swallowing the world and taking HPC with it.
Michael Feldman
China Joins Petaflop Club
Post Date: October 29, 2009 @ 6:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Latest GPU-equipped super hits 1.2 peak petaflops.
Michael Feldman
In Fermi's Wake, a Place for FPGAs?
Post Date: October 15, 2009 @ 6:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As HPC embraces GPUs, will reconfigurable computing fade away?
Michael Feldman
High Performance Storage Getting More Flashy
Post Date: October 14, 2009 @ 4:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Solid state storage gets its second wind.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Bright Computing Debut; Kraken Super Hits a Petaflop; Obama Awards IBM Blue Gene
Post Date: October 09, 2009 @ 2:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Michael and Addison talk about the latest supercomputer to reach a petaflop and discuss how the IBM Blue Gene garnered a presidential award. In addition, ClusterVision co-founder Matthijs van Leeuwen tells us what's behind the launch of Bright Computing, a new cluster management software vendor.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputing for a More Civil Society
Post Date: October 08, 2009 @ 4:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Can Islamic Law, supercomputers, and a co-ed university peacefully coexist?
Michael Feldman
GPU Debugging Grows Up
Post Date: October 01, 2009 @ 7:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA toolset latches onto Visual Studio.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Changes the Calculation with 'Fermi' GPU
Post Date: September 30, 2009 @ 10:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Company pushes the envelope for GPU computing.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA Gears Up for GPU Computing Event
Post Date: September 29, 2009 @ 10:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Chipmaker is cooking up something big.
Michael Feldman
The Shape of Chips to Come
Post Date: September 24, 2009 @ 5:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Larrabee, Westmere, and "microserver" chips: Intel talks up its future silicon at IDF.
Michael Feldman
Microsoft Snaps Up Interactive Supercomputing
Post Date: September 22, 2009 @ 10:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Star-P technology to be folded into Microsoft's HPC effort.
Michael Feldman
Inhuman Models
Post Date: September 17, 2009 @ 7:14 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The perils of ignoring human behavior when modeling reality.
Michael Feldman
Low Latency 10 GigE Looks to Build HPC Cred
Post Date: September 10, 2009 @ 5:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A focus on low latency is giving a new breed of Ethernet switch vendors a leg up on their competition.
Michael Feldman
SSDs Make Entrance into HPC... Finally
Post Date: September 03, 2009 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Got flash?
Michael Feldman
Chipmakers Keep Pouring on the Cores
Post Date: August 27, 2009 @ 5:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
With a new generation of server processors in the offing, 2010 promises to be chockful of multicore goodness.
Michael Feldman
Platform MPI, Take Two
Post Date: August 26, 2009 @ 3:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Platform Computing continues in its quest to be a one-stop shop for cluster middleware.
Michael Feldman
RapidMind Gets Swallowed by Intel
Post Date: August 20, 2009 @ 6:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Another one bites the dust.
Michael Feldman
SGI Rumored to Dump Graphics Visualization Group
Post Date: August 20, 2009 @ 6:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The SGI rumor mill keeps grinding along.
Michael Feldman
Green Computing, TCO By Any Other Name
Post Date: August 18, 2009 @ 6:13 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Green computing is about the economics of computing, not the environment.
Michael Feldman
Russia Aspires To Be a Supercomputing Power
Post Date: August 13, 2009 @ 5:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Medvedev makes a personal pitch for more HPC.
Michael Feldman
Slow Moving Clouds Fast Enough for HPC
Post Date: August 10, 2009 @ 4:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Ian Foster says supercomputers may be faster, but clouds may be nimbler.
Michael Feldman
Surveys Says: Cloud Computing Is Awesome
Post Date: August 04, 2009 @ 5:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A recent Platform Computing survey gladdens the hearts of cloud computing proponents.
Michael Feldman
Pump Up the Volume
Post Date: July 30, 2009 @ 5:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
More angst about high frequency trading.
Michael Feldman
Is Supercomputing Cheating the Small Investor?
Post Date: July 27, 2009 @ 5:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
High frequency trading comes under scrutiny.
Michael Feldman
Big Ideas in HPC
Post Date: July 23, 2009 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
HPC drives some of the most cutting-edge science and engineering in the world, but for the most part, anonymously.
Michael Feldman
Fujitsu Gets Nod for 10 Petaflop Super
Post Date: July 21, 2009 @ 12:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Next-generation Japanese supercomputer will rely on Fujitsu SPARC chips.
Michael Feldman
Business as Unusual
Post Date: July 16, 2009 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
SGI's willingness to dump the NSF petaflop deal would be a return to sane business practices.
Michael Feldman
QLogic Makes Push with Cluster Test Drive Center
Post Date: July 14, 2009 @ 11:25 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Now that QLogic has a fully populated InfiniBand product line, the company is looking to make up for lost time against the competition.
Michael Feldman
The Secret Life of Supercomputers
Post Date: July 08, 2009 @ 5:37 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
There were a couple of stories floating around the Intertubes in the past week or so that reminded me of how little we know about large classes of HPC applications.
Michael Feldman
European Vendors Offer Home-Grown Petascale Supers
Post Date: July 02, 2009 @ 6:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
As American HPC companies retrench, a new crop of European-based vendors is emerging.
Michael Feldman
Nehalem Bests Istanbul on STREAM Benchmark
Post Date: June 30, 2009 @ 10:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The STREAM benchmark plays to one of the big strength of Intel's Nehalem architecture -- its memory performance.
Michael Feldman
The Essential ISC
Post Date: June 18, 2009 @ 3:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Wondering what the can't-miss activities will be at ISC? Here is one man's opinion.
Michael Feldman
Benchmark Challenge: Nehalem Versus Istanbul
Post Date: June 18, 2009 @ 3:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Intel's Nehalem gets Linpunked.
Michael Feldman
The End of Moore's Law in Five Years?
Post Date: June 17, 2009 @ 4:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
According to market research and consulting firm iSuppli, Moore's Law is going to run out of money before it runs out of technology.
Michael Feldman
Rumors of NVIDIA's Next GPU
Post Date: June 11, 2009 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA's next-generation GPU design, the G300, may turn out to be the biggest architectural leap the graphics chip maker has ever attempted.
Michael Feldman
Biotech HPC in the Cloud
Post Date: June 04, 2009 @ 3:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Amazon EC2 is still the platform of choice, but there are more clouds on the horizon.
Michael Feldman
SiCortex Meets an Untimely End
Post Date: May 28, 2009 @ 3:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Leaves HPC customers clutching at cores.
Michael Feldman
Don't Throw Wolfram's Baby Out with Google's Bath Water
Post Date: May 21, 2009 @ 5:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Time to break out of the search engine mindset. Wolfram Alpha is not a Google wannabe.
Michael Feldman
NEC, Hitachi Bail on 10-Petaflop Supercomputing Project
Post Date: May 14, 2009 @ 5:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Depressed economy undercuts Japan's petascale ambitions.
Michael Feldman
Rackable Closes Deal, Keeps SGI Brand Alive
Post Date: May 12, 2009 @ 3:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The legacy of Silicon Graphics lives on under new management.
Michael Feldman
Simulation Angst
Post Date: May 07, 2009 @ 6:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A new NSF-funded report on computer simulation R&D worries that the US is losing its mojo in this important technology.
Michael Feldman
French Bank Takes On GPU Computing
Post Date: May 06, 2009 @ 12:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The quants at Paris-based bank BNP Paribas march to a different drummer.
Michael Feldman
Obama Pushes Science Agenda
Post Date: April 30, 2009 @ 5:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
After eight years in the wilderness, the R&D community finally has an advocate in the White House.
Michael Feldman
Alex, I'll Take Supercomputing for $1000
Post Date: April 29, 2009 @ 8:14 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
An IBM supercomputer is getting ready to beat trivia masters at their own game.
Michael Feldman
Oracle Grabs Sun on the Rebound
Post Date: April 21, 2009 @ 4:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Jilted by IBM, Sun Microsystems has found a new suitor and this one doesn't seem to have commitment issues. But what does this relationship mean for Sun's HPC presence?
Michael Feldman
In a 24/7 World, There's No Stopping the Data
Post Date: April 16, 2009 @ 4:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Complex event processing may be a technology whose time has come.
Michael Feldman
Green Cred
Post Date: April 09, 2009 @ 5:47 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
For most IT firms, energy efficient computing is just one more piece of the marketing pitch, but for SiCortex, it's a religion.
Michael Feldman
Rackable Makes Bid to Swallow Up Silicon Graphics
Post Date: April 02, 2009 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
The SGI deathwatch is over.
Michael Feldman
Still on the InfiniBandwagon
Post Date: March 26, 2009 @ 6:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
While 10 Gigabit Ethernet is getting all the press, InfiniBand keeps chugging along.
Michael Feldman
NVIDIA's Lock on GPU Computing Can Be Picked
Post Date: March 25, 2009 @ 5:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
NVIDIA rules the GPU computing landscape today, but the lack of a home-grown CPU companion could eventually spell trouble.
Michael Feldman
Money Talks
Post Date: March 20, 2009 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
A couple of random items this week connected only by the inscrutable nature of research funding.
Michael Feldman
Silicon Valley Churn
Post Date: March 19, 2009 @ 5:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
In a week when Cisco, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Intel and AMD were all featured prominently in the news cycle, I got the feeling that the whole industry might be on the cusp of a realignment.
Michael Feldman
Another Company Takes Up Reconfigurable Computing
Post Date: March 12, 2009 @ 6:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
In the history of HPC, commercial FPGA-based systems have been few and far between. Kuberre Systems offers up its contribution.
Michael Feldman
Gird Your Loins Google, Here Comes Wolfram Alpha
Post Date: March 11, 2009 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor
Last week, Mathematica inventor Stephen Wolfram announced that he would be launching a new kind of Internet search engine in May, with the not-so-modest name of Wolfram Alpha.
Michael Feldman
Yes Indeed, NVIDIA Has x86 Ambitions
Post Date: March 05, 2009 @ 4:38 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Although rumors of NVIDIA developing its own x86 products have been circulating for years, a comment this week by Michael Hara, the company's senior VP of investor relations, all but confirmed the GPU maker's intention to bring x86 silicon to market.
Michael Feldman
As the Paradigm Shifts
Post Date: March 03, 2009 @ 5:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The industry's headlong rush into cloud computing is shaking up the old order, sometimes in ways even the biggest IT firms can't anticipate.
Michael Feldman
Quants Gone Wild
Post Date: February 26, 2009 @ 4:55 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
It's fascinating to read the post-mortem analysis of the economic meltdown, especially as it relates to the role quantitative analysts and their high-tech financial models played in pushing the industry off a cliff.
Michael Feldman
Folding@home Tops 5 Petaflops
Post Date: February 24, 2009 @ 6:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Last week, the Folding@home team reported that they achieved five petaflops of processing power for their popular protein folding research project.
Michael Feldman
Revisiting the Memory Wall
Post Date: February 19, 2009 @ 5:43 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The new Nehalem processors will push the memory wall back a bit...at least for a while.
Michael Feldman
Programming in the Cloud
Post Date: February 17, 2009 @ 4:47 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Editing source code in the cloud may be an idea whose time has come.
Michael Feldman
Intel Buys American
Post Date: February 10, 2009 @ 5:16 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
In what looks like a one-company stimulus package, Intel announced that it is going to invest $7 billion in US-based chip manufacturing plants.
Michael Feldman
High-Tech Anxiety
Post Date: February 05, 2009 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
In case you hadn't noticed, the global economic collapse is causing more churning in the tech workforce than we've seen since the dot-com bust.
Michael Feldman
Recession Takes a Bite Out of Supercomputing
Post Date: January 29, 2009 @ 4:51 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
According to new reports released this month from analyst firms IDC and Tabor Research, HPC server revenue contracted in 2008, and 2009 doesn't look any better.
Michael Feldman
AMD Flexes Its Quads
Post Date: January 27, 2009 @ 3:46 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
As promised, AMD has added a raft of new 45nm quad-core "Shanghai" Opterons to its product line. The new chips include five energy-sipping HE processors, with speeds ranging from 2.1 to 2.3 GHz, and which draw just 55 watts.
Michael Feldman
Economy Batters Tech Companies
Post Date: January 22, 2009 @ 5:24 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
While much of the U.S. was experiencing presidential inauguration euphoria this week, most of the economic news was dismal. In particular, a lot of the big tech companies were announcing bleak quarterly financial results amid plans to scale back their operations.
Michael Feldman
Changing the Game
Post Date: January 15, 2009 @ 5:24 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
If AMD's new "Fusion Render Cloud" supercomputer is going to be doing all the heavy lifting for games and HD rendering in the server, why do you need GPUs in the client?
Michael Feldman
AMD Expands Fusion Strategy with Petaflop Supercomputer
Post Date: January 13, 2009 @ 4:38 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Back in June 2008, I suggested Sun Microsystems could accelerate its Network.com compute grid with GPU-based nodes. Sun never did, but it looks like AMD is going to give this idea a whirl.
Michael Feldman
Will Multicore Kill the x86?
Post Date: January 08, 2009 @ 4:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The hardware and software challenges of multicore/manycore CPUs have been flogged in this publication for a number of years. The assumption was that geek ingenuity would eventually power through the roadblocks. But what if that doesn't happen?
Michael Feldman
New Year's Foreboding
Post Date: January 07, 2009 @ 11:22 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
As is usual for the supercomputing world in early January, news is hard to come by. With so many academics in the community, a lot of HPC practitioners are still on their extended winter breaks. As for commercial HPC companies, they may not be so eager to return to work to confront the new economic realities they'll be facing in 2009.
Michael Feldman
Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2008
Post Date: December 18, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Petaflops supercomputing dominated much of the HPC news in 2008, but the year also witnessed the rise of GPU-accelerated computing and the fall of Linux Networx.
Michael Feldman
Larrabee for HPC: Not So Fast
Post Date: December 16, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
For those of you who thought Intel was angling for an HPC play with its upcoming Larrabee processor family, think again.
Michael Feldman
A Moment of Truth for SGI
Post Date: December 14, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Vendors in the HPC market might fare better in the recession than other IT sectors, but they're not immune to economic gravity.
Michael Feldman
Up Against the Memory Wall
Post Date: December 10, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Nevermind the cores. Just hand over the cache.
Michael Feldman
OpenCL Makes It Official
Post Date: December 08, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The GPGPU contingent of the high performance computing crowd got another big boost on Tuesday with the release of the first version of the OpenCL standard.
Michael Feldman
Decoupling HPC From the Datacenter
Post Date: December 03, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The democratization of HPC is unlikely to happen if every company and institution is forced to build and maintain multi-million dollar datacenters to house supercomputers. But there are alternatives.
Michael Feldman
The Undervalued Tech Worker
Post Date: November 26, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
In our supposedly tech-driven economy, it's common to hear about computer professionals who have lost their jobs and are unable to find new work in their field. Is the IT industry really that much at odds with its own labor market? Surprisingly, yes.
Michael Feldman
QLogic Completes Home-Grown InfiniBand Strategy
Post Date: November 24, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
QLogic Corp. has decided to follow its own path with Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand.
Michael Feldman
AMD Pulls the Trigger on Its 45
Post Date: November 12, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
Barcelona, we hardly knew ye. Today AMD launched its 45nm "Shanghai" quad-core Opterons, sending the ill-fated 65nm Barcelona chips into the microprocessor history books.
Michael Feldman
ORNL's 'Jaguar' Leaps Past Petaflop
Post Date: November 10, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
The petascale era is in full swing. Yesterday, the DOE announced that the Cray XT 'Jaguar' supercomputer at Oak Ridge has been upgraded to 1.64 peak petaflops.
Michael Feldman
Increasing Clouds
Post Date: November 05, 2008 @ 9:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor
It seems hardly a week passes without some news of HPC being delivered as an on-demand service. That topic includes everything from in-house grids to commercial clouds, but it's the cloud element that's grabbing the attention of the supercomputing crowd.
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