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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 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 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 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 Chipmakers Churn
Post Date: January 13, 2011 @ 7:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Intel settles with NVIDIA; AMD jettisons CEO.

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Feature Articles

Cray Cracks Commercial HPC Code

During a conversation this week with Cray CEO, Peter Ungaro, we learned that the company has managed to extend its reach into the enterprise HPC market quite dramatically--at least in supercomputing business terms. With steady growth into these markets, however, the focus on hardware versus the software side of certain problems for such users is....
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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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Short Takes

Developers Tout GPI Model for Exascale Computing

Jun 19, 2013 | Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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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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Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

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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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