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Compilers and More: Accelerating High Performance

May 07, 2008 | Accelerators have been receiving a lot of attention lately from high performance computing users. PGI's Michael Wolfe thinks they should be getting even more. According to him, accelerators represent a more natural platform for HPC parallelism than either the current crop of general-purpose multicore chips or the ones on the drawing board. The trick is how to program them.
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Cray Brings Intel into the Fold

Apr 29, 2008 | The Intel-Everywhere narrative got a boost on Monday when Cray and Intel announced a multi-year deal intended to create advanced supercomputing technology. For the first time, two of most important HPC vendors will be engaged in joint research and product development. The alliance is designed to boost Cray's prospects in the supercomputing arena and accelerate Intel's HPC mindshare and technology strength in the high-end processor market.
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Allinea Tools Offer Path to Parallel Programming

Apr 18, 2008 | As multicore processors continue their push onto the desktop, commodity software developers everywhere are facing a new challenge: develop software that runs faster, and does more, through parallel implementations. At the same time high-end HPC users are facing new challenges in conceptualizing software that must run at concurrencies of 10s or 100s of thousands of cores. Allinea Software hopes to position its tools to satisfy the needs of both ends of the performance spectrum.
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Compilers and More: The Dangers of COTS Supercomputing

Apr 04, 2008 | Jack Dongarra (Univ. Tennessee and ORNL) says that the HPC ecosystem is out of balance; we've invested heavily in hardware development, and now we need to invest more heavily in software tools and methods to use the hardware. Rob Pennington (NCSA), said that the tools will appear when there are enough of these systems out there that the vendors can make money at it. PGI's Michael Wolfe disagrees with both these statements.
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Pay-Per-Use Becomes Mantra for Altair Engineering

Jan 18, 2008 | With the advent of multicore processing and utility computing, ISVs have been searching for a licensing model that makes sense in this new environment, for both vendor and customer. Altair Engineering thinks it has the model the industry's been looking for.
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MATLAB's Journey to Parallel Computing

Nov 15, 2007 | MATLAB has become the preeminent interactive programming environment for scientists and engineers around the world. Just prior to SC07, we spoke with The MathWorks co-founder and chief scientist Cleve Moler about the evolution of MATLAB and about how the product grew to include parallel programming support.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14, 2008 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm.
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Race Is On to Advance Software for Chips

May 01, 2008 | New York Times | In the computer world’s equivalent of "The Amazing Race," three rival teams of computer researchers are working on new types of software needed to better use computer chips that can process many tasks at the same time.
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Stanford, Chipmakers Team On Simplifying Multi-Core Apps

May 01, 2008 | InformationWeek | Stanford University is working with some of the biggest names in computer chips to launch a research lab designed to make parallel programming accessible to the average programmer.
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NVIDIA Changes the Game

Apr 30, 2008 | IT-Director.com | David Kirk, Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, has been promoting the message that GPGPU is dead and GPU Computing will be the future for affordable supercomputing.
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Multicore Parallel Programming: Can We Please do it Right This Time?

Apr 19, 2008 | EDN | Intel's Tim Mattson was the keynote speaker at last week’s IEEE DATC Electronic Design Processes Workshop held in Monterey, California, where he had a lot to say about programming parallel machines.
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Acceleware Speeds Up Search for Oil & Gas with GPUs

May 13, 2008 | Acceleware Corp. has announced the availability of Acceleware AxKTM, an application library that enables users of 3D Pre-Stack Time Migration solutions to access the performance benefits of GPUs.
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The MathWorks Simplifies Development of Parallel Applications in MATLAB

May 12, 2008 | The MathWorks announced the integration of its Parallel Computing Toolbox with its widely used MATLAB optimization toolboxes to help further simplify the development of parallel applications.
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National Instruments Intros Toolkit for Comparing Models

May 06, 2008 | National Instruments has announced the NI Graphical Differencing and User Interface Toolkit, a software solution that helps engineers and scientists identify differences between models built using The MathWorks' Simulink software.
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Acceleware Solution Used for Testing and Certifying Cellular Handsets

May 06, 2008 | Acceleware Corp., in conjunction with Schmid & Partner Engineering AG, announced that Korea's Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) is adopting their combined simulation solution to conduct the testing and certification of all cellular handsets in Korea.
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NCSA Offers Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors

May 05, 2008 | The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies will present a Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors on July 10, 2008, in Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
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RapidMind Garners Innovation Award

May 01, 2008 | RapidMind Inc. has been awarded the Start Up Company with the Best Innovation award as part of the 2007 Premier's Catalyst Awards that help build a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Ontario by recognizing excellence and leadership in innovation.
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The New Science of Visual Analytics

When Jim Thomas set out to find new ways to deal with the mountains of information our society generates, he didn't just create a new organization, he created a new science. In this article we'll take a look at how the National Visualization and Analytics Center is transforming the problem of finding needles in haystacks into an opportunity for a more secure future.
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The Week in Review

ORNL Jaguar doubles its performance; the SC08 Cluster Challenge is gearing up; the University of Central Florida uses Army dollars to purchase an IBM super; and IBM's RoadRunner prepares to break the petaflop barrier. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Revaluating FPGAs for 64-bit Floating-Point Calculations

We now have generally available 2.5 GHz quad-core Opterons and Virtex-5 LX330, SX95T and recently announced SX240T FPGAs. In addition to this, Xilinx is releasing a new version of their floating-point cores that reduces the amount of logic and DSP slices needed for building floating-point function units. Taken together it is time to revisit Opteron floating-point performance versus FPGA performance.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Read more...

IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Read more...

Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Read more...

2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12 | BusinessWeek | Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Read more...

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Podcast: Interview with Ben Bennett of ClearSpeed Technology

Today, HPC organizations are requiring substantially more floating point performance to solve real-world problems. In this podcast, Ben Bennett, ClearSpeed General Manager, discusses how acceleration technology can improve the overall performance of standard x86-based systems...