NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries

May 22, 2013 | At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Computing the Physics of Bubbles

May 15, 2013 | Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island

May 09, 2013 | The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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World's Smallest Movie Has Big (Data) Implications

May 08, 2013 | A team of IBM researchers created the world's smallest movie using the essential building-blocks of matter, atoms.
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Speaking Many Languages into the MIC

May 08, 2013 | Traditional HPC languages, Fortran, C and C++, have little native control over hardware capabilities such as SIMD operations, multi-core availability and prefetch instructions. The burden of optimization is therefore...
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University of Florida Opens HiPerGator Jaws

May 07, 2013 | UF formally introduced their newest teraflopper, a Dell-built and Opteron-powered cluster of 256 nodes. We talked with Dell's Tim Carroll briefly to track the....
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Sequoia Hits Warp Speed

May 06, 2013 | Chalk up another win for Sequoia and high-performance computing. The IBM Blue Gene breaks two more records.
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New Tome Tells Modern History of Supercomputing

May 06, 2013 | CRC Press | A new book for the shelves of supercomputing aficionados has emerged, which covers a rather impressive swath of topic areas—from analyses of current top systems like Sequoia and...
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Blue Waters: Security at Scale

May 03, 2013 | For the largest computer systems in the world, keeping IT assets safe presents a unique set of challenges.
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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gender Divide

May 01, 2013 | What can be done to address gender inequality in computer science?
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CUDA-Designed Robot: It's a Hit!

Apr 30, 2013 | NVIDIA Blog | Japanese project marries brain research and robotics for big-time implications.
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Finnish Researchers Welcome New Cray Super

Apr 29, 2013 | Meet Sisu. The flagship of Finnish supercomputing is now in production.
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HPC Center Meets Green Mandate

Apr 24, 2013 | For HPC centers all over the world, providing high-levels of compute power is job number one, but they also must be as energy-efficient as possible.
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Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction

Apr 23, 2013 | University of Oklahoma researcher zeros in on why some storms generate tornadoes while others don't.
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Supercomputing's Golden Age?

Apr 22, 2013 | Compared to overall IT spending, the supercomputing market is quite healthy. Is this the expected evolution of Moore's Law or is it something else entirely?
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Supercomputing Transforms Data into Knowledge

Apr 17, 2013 | Advances in data-intensive supercomputing increase understanding of autism and related disorders, set the stage for future treatments.
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When Is the Cloud Right for HPC?

Apr 16, 2013 | For a growing number of non-traditional HPC workloads, the cloud is the place to be.
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Debugging at Titan Scale

Apr 15, 2013 | Oak Ridge Leadership Computing | Getting scientific applications to scale across Titan's 300,000 compute cores means there will be bugs. Finding those bugs is where Allinea DDT comes in.
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Rockhopper POD Cluster Beats Amazon

Apr 11, 2013 | The Rockhopper cluster has been in production for over a year now, long enough for additional details to emerge on this interesting HPC cloud use case.
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SDSC's Gordon to Help Guide Future of Particle Physics

Apr 11, 2013 | Gordon, a supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputing Center on the campus of the University of California at San Diego is helping point the direction of the Large Hadron Collider's next research project.
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Is Amazon's 'Fast' Interconnect Fast Enough for MPI?

Apr 10, 2013 | Amazon's EC2 Cluster Compute instance goes head-to-head with Myrinet 10GigE cluster.
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