Michael Feldman Powering Up Exascale
Post Date: September 01, 2011 @ 8:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

It's not just about the megawatts.

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Michael Feldman The Rise of the Thinking Machine
Post Date: August 25, 2011 @ 7:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Brain-centric computing is having a pretty good year.

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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.

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Michael Feldman IBM Reveals Cognitive Computing Chips
Post Date: August 18, 2011 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Researchers build circuitry based on workings of human brain.

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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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Michael Feldman Raining on the Innovation Parade
Post Date: August 11, 2011 @ 6:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The "dismal science" tells us innovation is on the wane.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Digital Manufacturing Takes Off; Special Guest Editor John Kirkley
Post Date: August 05, 2011 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

We speak with John Kirkley, managing editor of Digital Manufacturing Report, to bring us up to date on recent news in advanced manufacturing and high performance computing.

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Michael Feldman Debt Deal Casts Shadow on US Research Funding
Post Date: August 04, 2011 @ 5:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Federal R&D money could be an easy target for cost-cutting with latest legislation.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: TeraGrid 2.0; Microsoft's HPC Reorg
Post Date: July 29, 2011 @ 4:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The end of the TeraGrid project marks the launch of its replacement: XSEDE; and Microsoft reshuffles its HPC deck.

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Michael Feldman Life After TeraGrid
Post Date: July 28, 2011 @ 7:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

XSEDE takes up NSF's cyberinfrastructure mission with a broader mandate.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel, Dell Buy Into Ethernet; Sergio Novaes Talks About HPC in Brazil
Post Date: July 22, 2011 @ 12:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Intel's and Dell's plans to acquire two premier Ethernet vendors; and Sergio Novaes, Professor of Physics at São Paulo State University talks about his experiences with HPC in Brazil.

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Michael Feldman IBM Demos Record-Breaking Parallel File System Performance
Post Date: July 21, 2011 @ 9:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

GPFS gobbles 10 billion files in less than an hour using Violin Memory's solid-state storage.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: FPGA Supercomputing in the Money; SGI Preps New ICE Machines
Post Date: July 15, 2011 @ 3:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

JP Morgan speeds up its risk models with FPGAs and SGI redesigns Altix ICE hardware. Plus a question of the week.

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Michael Feldman GPU Computing Wades Into the Mainstream
Post Date: July 14, 2011 @ 6:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

No longer the "Next Big Thing" in HPC, GPUs are becoming conventional.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Brain Simulation Super From the UK; An Interview with NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici
Post Date: July 08, 2011 @ 3:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the latest news about a brain simulation project in the UK and then talk with NetApp's Val Bercovici about his company's recent acquisition of Engenio.

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Michael Feldman Researchers Spin Up Supercomputer for Brain Simulation
Post Date: July 07, 2011 @ 7:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

SpiNNaker project will employ ARM processors to map virtual brain.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Trends, Ups and Downs in 2011
Post Date: July 01, 2011 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the biggest HPC stories and trends for the first half of the year.

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Michael Feldman Supercomputer Defend Thyself
Post Date: June 30, 2011 @ 5:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPC takes a hit from latest spate of natural disasters.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: ISC'11 Wrapup- Trends, Winners, Losers
Post Date: June 24, 2011 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss conference highlights and try to pick out some trends at the show.

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Michael Feldman What I Learned at the International Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: June 23, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPC accelerator competition is heating up and Japanese supers are scrambling for watts.

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Tom Tabor IDC Shares HPC Market Figures, Trends, Predictions at ISC
Post Date: June 21, 2011 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

IDC presented its overview of the market for high performance computing at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany this week. Tom Tabor reflects on these trends and predictions in this post from Hamburg.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
Post Date: June 20, 2011 @ 4:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

At the International Supercomputing Conference, Michael and Addison talk about Japan's surprising recapture of the number one system on the TOP500, and discuss how Intel is moving forward on its MIC coprocessor plans.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Vendors, Users Prep for ISC'11; HPC Faithful Head to Hamburg
Post Date: June 17, 2011 @ 10:54 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison cover this week's top stories in the lead-up to the International Supercomputing Conference, and preview some of the happenings at the Hamburg event.

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Michael Feldman Supercomputing in Transition
Post Date: June 16, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

ISC to shine spotlight on heterogeneous computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM Gathers HPC Clouds; Real Applications on GPUs; NNSA Makes Appro a Winner
Post Date: June 10, 2011 @ 1:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to talk about IBM's latest push into high performance computing for private clouds.

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Michael Feldman Chinese Super Breaks World Record in Application Performance
Post Date: June 09, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Science code hits 1.87 petaflops on top-ranked Tianhe-1A.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Whatever Happened to Personal Genomics? and How High is the High in HPC?
Post Date: June 03, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer their thoughts on the hype cycle of personal genomics and discuss the results of a recent survey about HPC application scalability.

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Michael Feldman A Healthy Dose of Analytics: From IBM Watson to Tricorders
Post Date: June 02, 2011 @ 7:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Advanced analytics sets its sights on health care.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Quantum Computing Goes Commercial; Cray Unveils GPU Super
Post Date: May 27, 2011 @ 2:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

D-Wave sells a quantum computer to Lockheed Martin and Cray pitches its new GPU-equipped supercomputer, the XK6.

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Michael Feldman A Tale of Two GPU Computing Models
Post Date: May 26, 2011 @ 7:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

CUDA versus OpenMP for GPUs. What's a developer to do?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA Speeds Up Its GPUs; Adoption Could Follow Suit
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 1:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA launches a new and improved Fermi Tesla GPU, while AMD introduces a FirePro graphics card for servers. Addison and Michael discuss the prospects for GPU adoption in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Dual-Use GPUs for Servers -- AMD and NVIDIA Mind Their P's and Q's
Post Date: May 19, 2011 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

AMD pitches FirePro V7800P against NVIDIA's Tesla M2070Q.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Government Supercomputing Ups and Downs; iPad Supercomputing, No Joke
Post Date: May 13, 2011 @ 7:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray reports a decent first quarter despite US government spending delays, while European HPC brightens. Also, iPad-based HPC clusters on the drawing board?

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Michael Feldman The Prisoner's Dilemma
Post Date: May 12, 2011 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The challenge of climate change brings out the worst in us.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Intros 3D Transistors; HPC Market Rebounds
Post Date: May 06, 2011 @ 2:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Encouraging news for the high performance computing market and Intel prepares to bring 3D transistors into production.

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Michael Feldman Intel Adds New Dimension to Transistor Making
Post Date: May 05, 2011 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker to use 3D transistors in next-generation 22nm processors.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Mellanox Brings Up Switch Hitter; ARM Wrestling with x86
Post Date: April 29, 2011 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the new InfiniBand-Ethernet switch silicon from Mellanox and speculate on the adoption of ARM technology by AMD.

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Michael Feldman Will AMD ARM Itself?
Post Date: April 28, 2011 @ 2:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Adopting the ARM architecture would be a leap of faith for the x86 chip vendor, but perhaps a necessary one.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: TACC Looks to Intel for Acceleration; SAS Ups Its Analytics Game
Post Date: April 25, 2011 @ 7:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss TACC's new interest in Intel's Many Integrated Core accelerator and recap the latest analytics news from SAS Insitute.

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Michael Feldman TACC Steps Up to the MIC
Post Date: April 21, 2011 @ 8:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Supercomputing center starts coding to Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) chip.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM's Power Boost; DDN Moves Into NAS
Post Date: April 15, 2011 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss IBM's refresh of its Power7 servers and DataDirect Networks' entry into the NAS market.

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Michael Feldman Diversifying the Tech Workforce
Post Date: April 14, 2011 @ 9:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

White men's guilt or a cause with a purpose?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: High Performance Computing on Wall Street; HPC and Clouds Collide
Post Date: April 12, 2011 @ 11:26 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and guest Peter ffoulkes review last week's HPC Linux on Wall Street Conference

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Conference Catch-Up; Intel Scales Up
Post Date: April 08, 2011 @ 2:14 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael look back at the recent HPCC Conference and OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop. They also discuss the latest Westmere chips launched by Intel this week.

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Michael Feldman Watson Takes a Turn on Wall Street
Post Date: April 07, 2011 @ 7:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

IBM takes its Jeopardy-winning supercomputing technology on the road.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: TOP500 -- There's an App for That; Watson Back in Prime Time
Post Date: April 01, 2011 @ 8:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison look into an iPhone-based supercomputer that could end up on the TOP500. Also, the latest exploits of IBM's Watson supercomputer.

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Michael Feldman Preoccupied with Exascale
Post Date: March 31, 2011 @ 3:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Is the HPC community too focused on the 10-year milestone?

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Michael Feldman Minding the Missing Middle
Post Date: March 31, 2011 @ 9:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPCC Conference speakers talk up HPC democratization.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Fujitsu Back in the UK; Oracle Dumps Itanium
Post Date: March 25, 2011 @ 11:49 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Fujitsu's return to the UK as an HPC provider. They also discuss the Oracle-Itanium dust-up and the Spectra Logic's latest tape archive upgrade.

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Michael Feldman Oracle Forsakes Itanium Support
Post Date: March 23, 2011 @ 7:47 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Database maker says chip is "nearing the end of its life;" sets off war of words with HP, Intel.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputing Through the Japanese Disaster; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Post Date: March 18, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Chris Willard talk about the computer simulation efforts going on behind the scenes during the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake.

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Michael Feldman Intel Charts Path to Microserver Business
Post Date: March 17, 2011 @ 7:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker unveils roadmap with Atom server chip.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NetApp Returns to HPC; NVIDIA Tesla GPU Sales Accelerate
Post Date: March 11, 2011 @ 1:17 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison comment on NetApp's re-entry into HPC storage and provide an update on NVIDIA's GPU computing momentum.

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Michael Feldman NetApp Moves Into HPC Storage with Engenio Acquisition
Post Date: March 10, 2011 @ 4:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Shake-up for HPC OEMs or business as usual?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Commerce Department Gets Behind HPC; Digital Manufacturing Programs Roll Out
Post Date: March 04, 2011 @ 11:59 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison catch up on the latest developments around HPC in manufacturing. Plus the quote of the week.

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Michael Feldman Attack of the Killer Micros Redux
Post Date: March 03, 2011 @ 6:16 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Will ARM's ubiquity in the consumer market doom the x86 in HPC?

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Tiffany Trader Watson Goes to Washington
Post Date: March 02, 2011 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt beat IBM's AI darling.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: America's HPC Gap; The Case for Digital Manufacturing
Post Date: February 25, 2011 @ 1:03 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about the latest InterSect360 study about HPC adoption by manufacturers and preview some announcements in this area expected next week.

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Michael Feldman China Preps Godson Chip for Supercomputing Duty
Post Date: February 24, 2011 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Impressive processor could find its way into places where US chips cannot follow.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputer Beats Humans at Their Own Game; HPC Vendors on the Comeback
Post Date: February 18, 2011 @ 12:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Watson's big Jeopardy win and talk about two premier HPC vendors that recently reported encouraging financial results.

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Michael Feldman Watson Goes Undefeated in Three-Night Jeopardy Series
Post Date: February 17, 2011 @ 12:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

IBM super beats humans at their own game. Next up: calling Doctor Watson.

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Michael 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.

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Tiffany 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.

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Michael 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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Man Versus Machine, Jeopardy Champs Take on IBM Super
Post Date: February 11, 2011 @ 2:02 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the upcoming Jeopardy match with IBM Watson and what will make this such a compelling spectacle.

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Michael 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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Obama Cheerleads Science and Innovation at State of the Union; The Politics of HPC
Post Date: February 04, 2011 @ 12:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the science and innovation themes at last week's State of the Union address, and discuss the significance of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act signed into law in December.

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Michael 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.

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Tiffany 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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Univa Hotwires Grid Engine; Interview with HP's Marc Hamilton
Post Date: January 21, 2011 @ 12:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the latest wanderings of Grid Engine and then speak with Marc Hamilton, HP's vice president of HPC.

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Michael 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.

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Michael 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.

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Tiffany 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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA, Intel Take the Chips Off Their Shoulders; An Interview with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda
Post Date: January 14, 2011 @ 5:04 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael dissect the Intel-NVIDIA cross-licensing settlement and chat with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda about some news on the Lustre front.

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Michael 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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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA Announces CPU-GPU Strategy
Post Date: January 07, 2011 @ 2:36 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss NVIDIA's newly revealed heterogeneous computing vision and its impact on high performance computing.

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Michael Feldman NVIDIA ARMs Itself for Heterogeneous Computing Future
Post Date: January 06, 2011 @ 3:38 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

The days of PCI-attached discrete GPUs are numbered.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Top HPC Trends in 2010; Seeds Planted for 2011
Post Date: December 17, 2010 @ 3:43 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael wrap up the year in HPC and take a peek at developing trends for 2011. Plus, the stat of the year.

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Michael Feldman Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2010
Post Date: December 16, 2010 @ 5:48 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

From the surge of GPU computing to Oracle's withdrawl from HPC, we recap the notable highlights and lowlights of the year.

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Tiffany Trader Exascale's Energy Concerns
Post Date: December 14, 2010 @ 3:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Getting to exascale will require serious power, 14 nuclear reactors' worth.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: DoD Cuts Off Supercomputing Center; Gathering Storm, Revisited
Post Date: December 10, 2010 @ 3:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the Department of Defense's abandonment of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and provide some analysis on a new report about US science and technology competitiveness.

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Michael Feldman The Gathering Storm, Five Years On
Post Date: December 09, 2010 @ 12:57 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Latest National Academy of Sciences report describes continuing decline of US science and technology leadership.

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Tiffany Trader Air Force's PS3 Condor Cluster Takes Flight
Post Date: December 03, 2010 @ 4:47 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Where else can you get a half a petaflop of computing power for around $2 million?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Mellanox Proposes to Voltaire; First Petaflop Supercomputer in Russia
Post Date: December 03, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the ramifications of Mellanox's plans to buy Voltaire and discuss Russia's upcoming petaflop supercomputer.

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Michael Feldman CERN Taps Brocade For Network Refresh
Post Date: December 02, 2010 @ 4:40 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Organization preps for 100GbE core network.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Exotics at SC10
Post Date: November 24, 2010 @ 3:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Yes, there is life beyond Xeons, Opterons and GPGPUs.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: More GPUs On Demand; Fledgling Graph 500 List
Post Date: November 23, 2010 @ 3:05 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael revisit some news items from last week's Supercomputing Conference.

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Michael Feldman Conference Highlights Dividing Lines Across GPGPUs
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:41 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:

If there was a dominating theme at the Supercomputing Conference this year, it had to be GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Highlights from SC10
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:01 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael consider the results of the TOP500 and Green500, pick the winners and losers of SC10, and discuss the biggest news of the week.

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Michael Feldman InfiniBand Continues Upward Climb in Top Supers
Post Date: November 17, 2010 @ 5:51 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:

Lost in the hoopla about the ascendency of China and GPGPUs in the TOP500 is the continuing saga of the InfiniBand-Ethernet interconnect rivalry.

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Michael Feldman GPGPUs, China Take the Lead in TOP500
Post Date: November 15, 2010 @ 12:41 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:

Top seven supercomputers make it into the petaflop club.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Vendors Gear Up for SC; Supercomputing Heads to the Big Easy
Post Date: November 12, 2010 @ 3:28 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss this week's vendor announcements in the run-up to the Supercomputing Conference and look ahead to the big event.

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Michael Feldman What to Look for at SC10
Post Date: November 11, 2010 @ 3:46 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

A short list of "can't miss" sessions at this year's Supercomputing conference.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM Aims for Mainstream; T-Platforms Heads Upstream
Post Date: November 05, 2010 @ 12:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer some perspective on IBM's latest HPC business strategy and discuss T-Platforms' plans to bring a new supercomputing interconnect to market.

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Michael Feldman Oracle Buys 10 Percent Share of Mellanox
Post Date: November 05, 2010 @ 9:18 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Ellison and company put some big bucks behind InfiniBand.

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Michael Feldman IBM Aims to Transform Its HPC Business
Post Date: November 04, 2010 @ 3:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Big Blue sees green in mainstream high performance computing market.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Chinese Supercomputer Sets Linpack Record; Wrap-up of First HPC Cloud Conference
Post Date: October 29, 2010 @ 5:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Nicole talk about the record-setting GPGPU supercomputer from China and offer some perspective on the happenings at the first ISC Cloud conference.

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