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Thoughts on Memory Trends from Micron’s Dean Klein
With all the focus on more powerful microprocessors, sometimes it's easy to forget that speedier chips do no good if memory is your bottleneck. In the final ISC'11 keynote of the week, Micron Tec …
Practicalities and Challenges in the Petaflops Era
Every year at ISC we stop and look back at the field of HPC, which has consistently exhibited the greatest rate of change of any technology in the history of mankind. This year is particularly im …
GPU Challenges: A Q&A with NVIDIA’s David Kirk
At ISC this year, there are plenty of sessions devoted to manycore processors, especially in the role of HPC accelerators. Not surprisingly, a lot of these are centered on the current sweetheart …
ISC’11 Wrapup- Trends, Winners, Losers
June 24, 2011
Addison and Michael discuss conference highlights and try to pick out some trends at the show. Read more…
What I Learned at the International Supercomputing Conference
June 23, 2011
HPC accelerator competition is heating up and Japanese supers are scrambling for watts. Read more…
Cray CEO and VP-EMEA Talk Europe, China, GPUs and More
June 21, 2011
Cray enters the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) with a new generation of its flagship and midrange supercomputer lines, renewed momentum in Europe, and fresh perspectives on HPC market trends and technologies. HPCwire talked with Cray CEO Pete Ungaro and Ulla Thiel, vice president, EMEA to get their perspective on the company's successes, challenges, and future plans. Read more…
IDC Shares HPC Market Figures, Trends, Predictions at ISC
June 21, 2011
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. Read more…
Japanese Supercomputer Is New TOP500 Champ
June 20, 2011
A Japanese supercomputer took the world title for the fastest computer in the world after the latest TOP500 list was announced Monday morning at ISC'11. Fujitsu's K Computer delivered a world beating 8.162 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark, vaulting over the now second-place 2.57 petaflop Tianhe-1A supercomputer in China and third-place 1.76 petaflop Jaguar supercomputer in the US. Read more…
Intel Touts Manycore Coprocessor at Supercomputing Conference
June 20, 2011
Today at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, Intel outlined the progress it has made over the last year toward bringing its Many Integrated Core (MIC) coprocessor platform to market. MIC is Intel's answer to general-purpose GPU computing, and like the latter technology, Intel believes it can parlay the its manycore design into future exascale systems. Read more…
The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
June 20, 2011
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. Read more…
Heterogeneous Computing and HPC Accelerators, Disruptive Technologies in the Making
June 18, 2011
At this week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, two of the biggest topics on the agenda are heterogeneous architectures and GPU/accelerator computing. Those emerging trends are joined at the hip, thanks mostly to the efforts of NVIDIA and their industry partners. Intel's ongoing plans for its Many Integrated Core (MIC) co-processor and AMD's introduction of its CPU-GPU "Fusion" processors are yet additional indications that the industry is moving to an architecture where CPUs married to accelerators will provide the next big seismic shift in high performance computing. Read more…
Vendors, Users Prep for ISC’11; HPC Faithful Head to Hamburg
June 17, 2011
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. Read more…
Supercomputing in Transition
June 16, 2011
ISC to shine spotlight on heterogeneous computing. Read more…
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