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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Michael Feldman New Chinese GPGPU Super Outruns Jaguar
Post Date: October 28, 2010 @ 12:40 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Tianhe-1A sets Linpack mark of 2.5 petaflops.

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Tiffany Trader Will Multicore Save the Day?
Post Date: October 22, 2010 @ 5:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Muticore processors may extend the viability of Moore's Law, but present their own challenges.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Lustre Gets Another Backer; Notes from HPC Biomed 2010
Post Date: October 22, 2010 @ 1:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the launch of OpenSFS, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting Lustre for HPC. They also talk about the major themes of this week's Biomed HPC 2010 Conference at Harvard.

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Michael Feldman Supercomputing Meets Social Media
Post Date: October 21, 2010 @ 7:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HPC at Georgia Tech, PNNL is all atwitter.

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Tiffany Trader The State of Quantum
Post Date: October 18, 2010 @ 4:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Despite numerous advances, practical quantum computing still five decades out.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Appro Goes After Risky Business; Nimbis Opens Cloud Portal for Desktop Users
Post Date: October 15, 2010 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the new Appro server aimed at high frequency trading. HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth reviews the HPC on-demand offerings from Nimbis Services.

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Michael Feldman For Proprietary HPC, Hope Springs Eternal
Post Date: October 14, 2010 @ 6:32 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The tension between custom and commodity high performance computing has shaped both market approaches.

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Tiffany Trader Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Kicking It Old School
Post Date: October 12, 2010 @ 4:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPC Matters

Like the iconic blacklight, PSC's new shared memory system is a blast from the past.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HP Joins GPGPU Party; Rogue Wave Adds Acumen to Portfolio
Post Date: October 08, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss HP's new GPU-equipped server and offer their thoughts on Rogue Wave's continuing buying spree of HPC tool makers.

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Michael Feldman Three Years On, GPU Computing Is Coming of Age
Post Date: October 07, 2010 @ 5:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Nvidian Andy Keane talks about the company's Tesla GPU business.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: A Strategy for Revitalizing US Manufacturing; Tales from HPC 360
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 12:51 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to discuss the happenings at the HPC 360 Conference in Champaign, Illinois.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Industry Events Target HPC in Financial Services
Post Date: September 30, 2010 @ 10:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison, Michael, and special guest Sue Korn discuss the recent conferences that focused on HPC technologies in the financial services industry.

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Michael Feldman The iTunes of Algorithms
Post Date: September 30, 2010 @ 6:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Massively Parallel Technologies takes aim at the software business model.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: GPU Computing Hits the Mainstream; Microsoft Launches New Windows HPC Server
Post Date: September 24, 2010 @ 1:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Microsoft's new HPC Server and recap the highlights of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference.

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Michael Feldman GPU Tech Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: September 23, 2010 @ 7:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

NVIDIA builds its case for GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman NVIDIA Reveals CUDA GPU Roadmap
Post Date: September 22, 2010 @ 1:39 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

GPU maker talks about life after Fermi.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Notes from the Intel Developer Forum; Sandy Bridge, Cloud Computing, Graphics and More
Post Date: September 18, 2010 @ 7:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the news and happenings from IDF.

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Michael Feldman Supercomputer-on-a-Chip Delivers Synthetic Vision
Post Date: September 16, 2010 @ 3:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

FPGA-based system could make driver licenses obsolete.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Chips are Hot at Hot Chips; Bidding War for 3PAR Heats Up
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison recap some of news from AMD, Intel, and IBM at the Hot Chips conference and offer some perspective on Dell's and HP's pursuit of 3PAR.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Conference Season Kickoff
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison offer their perspectives on the upcoming conferences of interest to the HPC community.

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Michael Feldman The Seduction of Ultra Low-Power Servers
Post Date: September 09, 2010 @ 5:56 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The roadmap less traveled.

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Michael Feldman Servers Take a Bath; A Pilot to Energize US Manufacturing
Post Date: September 03, 2010 @ 12:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the immersive liquid cooling offering from startup Green Revolution Cooling. Then Addison speaks with Jon Riley from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences about HPC in manufacturing.

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Michael Feldman Hobbyist Crafts Desktop Cray-1
Post Date: September 02, 2010 @ 3:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Iconic supercomputer implemented with an FPGA kit.

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Michael Feldman Halfway to the Cloud: Cluster Management as a Service
Post Date: August 26, 2010 @ 5:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

X-ISS offers remote support for in-house HPC clusters.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Startup Tries to Beat Odds with Probability Processor; Cray, SGI Spin Their Wheels
Post Date: August 20, 2010 @ 11:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss startup Lyric Semiconductor, who emerged from stealth mode this week to unveil a novel processor technology. They also review some of the recent financial struggles of Cray and SGI.

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Michael Feldman A GPU on Every Chip
Post Date: August 19, 2010 @ 2:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The general-purpose processor, redefined.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: DARPA Gears Up Ubiquitous HPC Program; Oracle Makes Quiet Exit From HPC
Post Date: August 13, 2010 @ 2:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review DARPA's selections for its UHPC program and discuss why they think Oracle will not be a force in HPC anytime soon.

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Michael Feldman Oracle Setting HPC Adrift
Post Date: August 12, 2010 @ 5:48 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Layoffs, a missing product roadmap, and an SC10 no-show all point to company's exit from the high performance computing business.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: High Frequency Trading Shenanigans; Intel Settles Up with FTC
Post Date: August 06, 2010 @ 12:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss some recent stories about how high frequency trading may have had a direct hand in the May stock market plunge. They also ponder the significance of Intel's settlement with the FTC.

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Michael Feldman Algorithmic Terrorism on Wall Street
Post Date: August 05, 2010 @ 8:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Analysts uncover evidence of high frequency trading shenanigans.

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Michael Feldman Postcards From the Edge of Parallel Computing
Post Date: July 30, 2010 @ 3:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

HotPar workshop spotlights latest work in parallelism.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Lustre Gets a New Champion; GPGPU Gets Its Own Cloud
Post Date: July 30, 2010 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Whamcloud, a startup that plans to provide Lustre file system development for the HPC community. They also discuss PEER 1's GPU computing cloud, launched this week at SIGGRAPH.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Flash Storage Startup Makes Play for HPC; Intel, AMD Power Up Earnings
Post Date: July 29, 2010 @ 3:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review the latest good earnings reports from Intel and AMD. They also discuss flash storage vendor Nimbus Data Systems, a newcomer to the HPC space.

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Michael Feldman NVIDIA Launches GPGPU Plug-In for Visual Studio
Post Date: July 22, 2010 @ 3:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

GPU programming comes to Microsoft's popular IDE.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Amazon Breaks Into HPC
Post Date: July 21, 2010 @ 4:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor, Nicole Hemsoth, to discuss Amazon's launch of its HPC capability for EC2.

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Michael Feldman Information Technology Is Not the Savior of the Unemployed
Post Date: July 15, 2010 @ 9:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The IT recovery is underway, but it left the jobs behind.

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Michael Feldman Supercomputers When They Sizzle
Post Date: July 15, 2010 @ 9:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Beating the heat with liquid cooling.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Market Rebound Forecast; CTOs Talk Open Standards for GPGPU
Post Date: July 09, 2010 @ 4:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Addison and Michael talk about the latest HPC market forecast from InterSect360 Research. The CTOs from PathScale and CAPS discuss the new HMPP open standard for GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman Accelerator Adoption Picks Up Speed
Post Date: July 01, 2010 @ 7:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The move to coprocessor accelerators is, umm, accelerating.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Half-Year Retrospective in HPC
Post Date: July 01, 2010 @ 1:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about some of the big high performance computing stories and trends over the last six months.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: AMD Fires Up GPU Accelerators; PathScale Takes On CUDA
Post Date: June 25, 2010 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Michael and Addison discuss this week's GPGPU-related news from AMD and PathScale.

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Michael Feldman GPU Computing II: Where the Truth Lies
Post Date: June 24, 2010 @ 8:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Revisiting the "Inevitable Transition."

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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.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Flash Memory Takes Another Run at Supercomputing
Post Date: June 18, 2010 @ 2:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

This week Michael and Chris Willard talk about the latest deployment of flash memory for a new supercomputing cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and discuss some of the larger issues surrounding SSD and flash technology in HPC.

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Michael Feldman GPU Computing: The Inevitable Transition?
Post Date: June 17, 2010 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

General-purpose GPUs may soon be at the computational center of the HPC universe.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Community Weighs in On Exascale; InfiniBand Pumps Up the Volume
Post Date: June 11, 2010 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about why exascale computing is becoming such a hot topic and offer their perspective on the new InfiniBand roadmap announced last week.

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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.

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Michael Feldman The Other Exascale Challenge
Post Date: June 10, 2010 @ 6:34 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Supercomputing apps may have to ditch the checkpoint-restart model.

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Michael Feldman Videocast: ISC'10 Winners and Losers, Show Wrap-Up
Post Date: June 07, 2010 @ 6:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by Nicole Hemsoth, editor of HPC in the Cloud, to offer their impressions of ISC'10.

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Chris Willard Impressions of ISC 2010
Post Date: June 03, 2010 @ 5:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:

Returning to ISC after a hiatus of several years and viewing the event from the vantage point of an industry analyst, the show appears to have made a quantum leap in terms of size and sophistication of the exhibit, and degree and intensity of business activity.

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Michael Feldman ISC'10 Videoblog: Wednesday, June 2
Post Date: June 03, 2010 @ 2:20 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:

University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra, NCSA's Thom Dunning, and Stuttgart HPC Chief Michael Resch share some thoughts on day 3 of ISC.

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Michael Feldman ISC'10 Videoblog: Tuesday, June 1
Post Date: June 02, 2010 @ 5:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:

Heike Jagode, of the University of Tennessee, takes us through some of the exhibits and sessions on day 2 of the conference.

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Michael Feldman ISC'10 Videoblog: Opening Day, May 31
Post Date: June 01, 2010 @ 10:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:

Berkeley Lab's John Shalf and LSU's Thomas Sterling give a rundown on some of the events that took place the first day of the conference.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Highlights from ISC'10 in Hamburg - Intel Gives a Surprise Keynote; GPU Supers Save a Lackluster TOP500
Post Date: June 01, 2010 @ 5:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the biggest news coming out of ISC'10, live from Hamburg.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Names Baker Super, Mellanox, NVIDIA Intro GPUDirect, and T-Platforms Manages RUSNANO
Post Date: May 28, 2010 @ 2:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the upcoming International Supercomputing Conference and a few of the more important news items of the week.

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Michael Feldman ISC'10 Preview
Post Date: May 27, 2010 @ 5:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Hamburg, Germany, will soon become the center of the HPC universe -- at least for a week.

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Michael Feldman Men Who Stare at Servers
Post Date: May 26, 2010 @ 9:47 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The TOP500 list is getting ready for another round of petafloppery

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Microsoft Broadens Technical Computing Vision; QLogic Intros Intelligent Fabric Management; IBM Signs On for GPU Computing
Post Date: May 24, 2010 @ 9:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk over the top HPC stories of the week, including Microsoft's new technical computing initiative, QLogic's latest InfiniBand fabric management software, and IBM's entry into GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman GOP Blocks Federal Funding for Science and Technology
Post Date: May 20, 2010 @ 6:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Repubs play partisan politics with COMPETES Reauthorization Bill.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Appro Debuts New GPU Offerings; Battery Research Gets Supercharged
Post Date: May 14, 2010 @ 11:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Appro's latest GPU options and also talk about how HPC is helping to put Lithium-air battery research on the fast track.

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Michael Feldman Market Meltdown Still Does Not Compute
Post Date: May 13, 2010 @ 6:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Investigators struggle to ascertain role of computerized trading in stock market plunge.

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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?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Algorithmic Trading Whiplashes Markets; SGI Launches New ICE Machine
Post Date: May 07, 2010 @ 12:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about what happens when a algorithmic trading hits a nervous stock market. They also review the latest Altix ICE offering from SGI.

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Michael Feldman Dally Disses Multicore
Post Date: May 06, 2010 @ 7:02 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

CPU performance has hit a wall, says NVIDIA chief scientist.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Archives Get Active
Post Date: May 02, 2010 @ 10:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the newly launched Active Archive Alliance and review last week's announcement of Panasas' high capacity storage product.

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Michael Feldman A CEO's Take on US Competitiveness
Post Date: April 29, 2010 @ 7:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Even multinationals get the blues.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Conference Trio -- Wall Street, Clouds, and Bio IT
Post Date: April 23, 2010 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael provide a recap of three HPC-related shows: HPC Linux Financial Markets, Cloud Expo, and Bio-IT World.

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Michael Feldman RoCE: An Ethernet-InfiniBand Love Story
Post Date: April 22, 2010 @ 8:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

The "Rocky" road to low-latency Ethernet.

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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.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC in the Cloud; Cray Cozies Up To ISVs
Post Date: April 16, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael welcome Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of HPC in the Cloud, and also chew over the latest news from Cray.

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Michael Feldman Unleashing the Memristor
Post Date: April 15, 2010 @ 6:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Artificial synapses, non-volatile RAM, processor-in-memory -- the memristor does it all.

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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?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Microsoft Embellishes Windows HPC; Itanium's Long Goodbye
Post Date: April 09, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the latest additions in Windows HPC Server 2008 and rehash the fate of the Itanium CPU.

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Michael Feldman Microsoft Injects More Goodies into Windows HPC
Post Date: April 08, 2010 @ 6:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Software maker releases second beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel and AMD Put Their Chips on the Table
Post Date: April 05, 2010 @ 11:05 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael chew over the big CPU news this week and discuss its significance to the HPC server market.

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Michael Feldman Chipmakers Look to Rock High-End Server Biz
Post Date: April 01, 2010 @ 6:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Intel and AMD ante up new server chips, place their bets.

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Michael Feldman AMD Splits Server Platform
Post Date: March 29, 2010 @ 1:47 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

A fork in the roadmap.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Oracle Ties the Knot with Sun
Post Date: March 27, 2010 @ 9:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the finalization Oracle-Sun merger, the new Volaire InfiniBand-Ethernet bridge, and the INCITE supercomputing awards for 2010.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Adds New Product Line; Increasing Focus on HPC Mid-range
Post Date: March 26, 2010 @ 2:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael take look at Cray's new CX1000 offering and discuss the state of the entry-level/mid-range HPC market segment.

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Michael Feldman A Couple of New InfiniBand Songs
Post Date: March 25, 2010 @ 6:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

QLogic intros new pass-through module; Voltaire debuts MPI offload technology.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Puts Its Chips on the Table
Post Date: March 19, 2010 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The team discuss the Intel Westmere EP launch and Addison reviews the HPCC Conference in Newport.

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Michael Feldman Westmere Ushers in the Second Coming of Multicore
Post Date: March 18, 2010 @ 5:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Latest silicon from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA will change the workstation-cluster dynamic.

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Michael Feldman AMD Touts Core Competency
Post Date: March 16, 2010 @ 5:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Chipmaker takes swipe at Intel HyperThreading.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Strikes Olympic Gold; 3Leaf Gets Start at Florida State
Post Date: March 12, 2010 @ 12:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the role of Exa's CFD software in the US bobsled team's gold medal. They also discuss the significance of 3Leaf's new virtual SMP system at FSU.

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Michael Feldman The Real Health Care Revolution Awaits
Post Date: March 11, 2010 @ 4:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

US health care is sick, but help may be on the way, says Leroy Hood.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: A Trio of HPC Apps
Post Date: March 05, 2010 @ 2:15 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss three HPC-enabled applications that made the news this week: cancer research at Rice University, earthquake impact prediction at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and brake pedal design at Pratt & Miller.

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Michael Feldman Multicore Watershed
Post Date: March 04, 2010 @ 4:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Six, eight and twelve cores. The true multicore era for x86 is just around the corner.

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Michael Feldman Venture Capital Drought? Not So Much.
Post Date: March 03, 2010 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Looking for a few good innovators.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Awarded Defense Deal; SGI Makes Storage Buy; IBM Invents New Algorithm
Post Date: February 26, 2010 @ 1:48 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the Cray DoD contract win, the SGI acquisition of storage vendor COPAN Systems, and a breakthrough algorithm from IBM Research.

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Michael Feldman Cray Corrals Big Defense Deal
Post Date: February 25, 2010 @ 4:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Supercomputer maker off to a running start in 2010.

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Michael Feldman AMD Confirms 12-Core Opteron Production
Post Date: February 23, 2010 @ 5:14 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: From the Editor

Magny-Cours siting on eBay forces chipmaker to respond.

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