SC13 in Review: The Week’s Top Newsmakers

This year at SC13 we counted over 100 HPC-specific announcements that hit the wires over the course of the week, many of which were from vendors, organizations and users that we were within a sho

By Nicole Hemsoth

SC13 Wrapup: Supercomputing’s Top Themes

For those of us who traveled to Denver for SC13, it's now back to "normal" as the year in high performance computing begins its slow descent into relative silence before a fresh start in 2014.

By Nicole Hemsoth

Intel Brings Knights to the Roundtable at SC13

This week during SC13, Intel hosted a roundtable session to discuss the future of its upcoming Knights Landing product, hitting on where the key benefits are expected for technical computing user

By Nicole Hemsoth

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Big Data Begets Big Storage Announcements; SC13 Winds Down

November 25, 2013

This week's podcast discusses big announcements from NetApp, Xyratex, and DataDirect Networks. It also delves into what impressed at SC13 and what was missing f Read more…

Micron Exposes the Double Life of Memory with Automata Processor

November 22, 2013

If we had to take a pick from some of the most compelling announcements from SC13, the news from memory vendor (although that narrow distinction may soon change Read more…

Gordon Bell Prize Bubbles from Sequoia

November 22, 2013

Each year at SC, the ACM hands out one of the most coveted awards, the Gordon Bell Prize. The award, which became a regular feature of SC, began in 1987 and now Read more…

Mont Blanc Forges Cluster from Smartphone Chips

November 22, 2013

The Mont Blanc project, an effort by a number of European supercomputing centers and vendors that seeks to create an energy-efficient supercomputer based on ARM Read more…

NVIDIA Kepler Parts Top Green500

November 22, 2013

Twice a year, in step with the biannual TOP500 list, the Green500 list ranks the most powerful systems in the world based on energy-efficiency. Published Wednes Read more…

SC Launches HPC Matters Video Challenge

November 21, 2013

With SC13 in Denver, Colorado, starting to wind down, this mostly-volunteer organization is looking ahead to SC14, where the conference will reprise its SC10 ve Read more…

TOP500 Treads Water; New Chips Look to the Future

November 20, 2013

This week’s podcast discusses the TOP500 list, including a new member to that list, the Piz Daint system. It also covers news from the RSC Group, NVIDIA’s l Read more…

HPC Power Efficiency and the Green500

November 20, 2013

The first Green500 List was launched in November 2007 ranking the energy efficiency of supercomputers. Co-founder Kirk W. Cameron discusses the events that led Read more…

HPC Quiz: How Do Your SC Credentials Stack Up?

November 19, 2013

How do your SC skills stack up? Take this quiz and share the results with its author, Andrew Jones, aka @HPCnotes on Twitter or (maybe not) with your boss... Read more…

SC13 Talk Pushes HPC in New Educational Directions

November 19, 2013

According to Dr. Thom Dunning from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, science and engineering research has been revolutionized by computation but, to d Read more…

Top 500 Interconnect History Highlights Ethernet Trends

November 19, 2013

As we related earlier when the news of the Top 500 rankings broke this morning, this November’s SC list was a rather static one in terms of the top ten system Read more…

LINPACK Creator Sheds Light on Emerging HPC Benchmark

November 18, 2013

Back in June during the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), we discussed the need for a potential alternative to the current LINPACK benchmark, which Read more…

Extreme Computational Biology at SC13: An Interview with Dr. Klaus Schulten

November 18, 2013

According to Dr. Klaus Schulten from the University of Illinois, the molecular dynamics and visualization programs NAMD and VMD, which serve over 300,000 regist Read more…

Tesla GPU Accelerators Hit the Gas with GPU Boost

November 18, 2013

Nvidia is rolling out a new top-end GPU accelerator, called the Tesla K40, that has both more processing capacity and more memory than the current K20X accelera Read more…

Breaking: Results in for this Year’s Top500 Supercomputer List

November 18, 2013

While we hope you'll stay tuned this morning for a detailed analysis of major trends on this year's Top500 list, for now, we wanted to deliver the breaking resu Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: Dynamic Electric Pricing for Energy Aware Scheduling

November 16, 2013

As supercomputers continue to grow, so do the associated electricity bills. These costs are now a leading component of total cost of ownership (TCO) of HPC syst Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: Large Graph Processing Without the Overhead

November 16, 2013

Many real world information networks consist of millions or billions of vertices representing heterogeneous entities and billions or trillions of edges represen Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: Extreme Scale Plasma Turbulence Simulation

November 16, 2013

As the global energy economy makes the transition from fossil fuels toward cleaner alternatives, fusion becomes an attractive potential solution for satisfying Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: COCA Targets Datacenter Costs, Carbon Neutrality

November 16, 2013

The rapid growth of high performance computing and cloud computing services in recent years has contributed to the dramatic increase in the number and scale of Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: There Goes the Performance Neighborhood…

November 16, 2013

Message passing can take up a significant fraction of the run time for massively parallel science simulation codes. Consistently high message passing rates are Read more…

Big Data and Exascale Go a Mile High; Looking Ahead to SC13

November 16, 2013

This week’s podcast discusses NEC’s release of the SX-ACE supercomputer and NVIDIA’s CUDA 6. The podcast also delves into some of the sessions that will t Read more…

SC13 Research Highlight: Petascale DNS of Turbulent Channel Flow

November 15, 2013

Whether a car on the highway, a plane flying through the air, or a ship in the ocean, all of these transport systems move through fluids. And in nearly all case Read more…

Cosmic Supercomputing Code Selected as Gordon Bell Finalist

November 13, 2013

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Beowulf Community Comes Together at SC13

November 9, 2013

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University of Reims Supercomputer Ranked 5th on Green500 List - (11/21/2013)

Heterogeneous Systems Dominate the Green500 - (11/20/2013)

Mellanox InfiniBand Adoption Grows Across TOP500 Systems - (11/20/2013)

Molex Introduces New Active Optical Cables at SC13 - (11/20/2013)

IBM Supercomputers Take Top Spots on Graph500 List - (11/20/2013)

University of Oslo Utilizing NumaConnect Cluster - (11/20/2013)

ATTO Technology Presents High Performance Products at SC13 - (11/20/2013)

AppliedMicro to Demonstrate Scale-Out Solution at SC13 - (11/20/2013)

CAPS Engineering Created to Provide Parallel Consulting Services - (11/20/2013)

Scalable Informatics Releases Unison Storage Cloud Appliance - (11/19/2013)

Huawei Unveils Enterprise Storage for the HPC Cloud - (11/19/2013)

NAG Awarded for HPC Innovation at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

Huawei Introduces Blade Servers for the HPC Cloud at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

Intel Unveils HPC Innovations and New Software Tools - (11/19/2013)

Finisar Broadens Optical Interconnect Portfolio at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

Convey Computer Announces Deal with Dell - (11/19/2013)

Xyratex Announces ClusterStor 9000 - (11/19/2013)

Terascala Announces the Release of TeraOS 5 at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

Brocade ICX 7750 Network Switch Launched - (11/19/2013)

Mellanox InfiniBand Adapter Performance Revealed - (11/19/2013)

MetaFlows Secures Network at SC13 with MSS - (11/19/2013)

Adaptive Computing Introduces Moab Task Manager - (11/19/2013)

Xyratex to Exhibit at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

Quantum Selects Mellanox as InfiniBand Partner - (11/19/2013)

Molex Showcases New EMI Cages at SC13 - (11/19/2013)

OpenMP 4.0 Released by Consortium - (11/19/2013)

Supermicro Debuts SuperServer Optimized for NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU - (11/18/2013)

Intel Selects CoolIT Systems to Liquid Cool Top500 Cluster - (11/18/2013)

Eurotech Introduces New HPC Systems at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Boston Limited to Offer NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU Accelerators in Venom Server Line - (11/18/2013)

OSS Unveils Latest Appliances for HPC Market at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

PLX to Demonstrate ExpressFabric Technology at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Solarflare to Host “TechTalks” at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Dot Hill Showcases AssuredSAN Storage Solutions at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Molex and CALIENT Demo HPC Networking Solution at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Imation Introduces New Storage Array Product Line - (11/18/2013)

Penguin Computing Introduces Tundra Open HPC - (11/18/2013)

Huawei to Showcase HPC Offerings at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

HP Servers Support TOP500 Supercomputers - (11/18/2013)

Altair Announces Availability of Display Manager - (11/18/2013)

Altera’s SDK for OpenCL Supports IBM Servers - (11/18/2013)

Dell Renews Commitment to HPC in Research - (11/18/2013)

InMon Demonstrates Network Analytics at SCinet - (11/18/2013)

Purdue Supercomputer Utilizes Mellanox InfiniBand Adapters - (11/18/2013)

Mindspeed Introduces New Device Targeted at 100Gbps Applications - (11/18/2013)

Xilinx to Showcase Datacenter Solutions at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

Super Micro Exhibits Latest HPC Solutions at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

IBM, LLNL, ETH and the Technical University of Munich Set New Record - (11/18/2013)

Extreme Networks Showcases High Performance Networking Portfolio at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

3M and Allied Control Debut Immersion Cooling Datacenter at SC13 - (11/18/2013)

SCinet to Utilize Spirent Ethernet Solutions - (11/18/2013)

Zayo to Deliver Terabit Capacity for SC13 with Infinera DTN-X - (11/18/2013)

ADVA, Juniper and University of Michigan Announce Demo for SC13 - (11/18/2013)

SysFera-DS Version 4.0 for HPC Management Released - (11/18/2013)

SC13 Launches with Weeklong Look at New Research and Technologies - (11/18/2013)

SCinet NRE Showcases Internet Innovations - (11/18/2013)

Bright Computing Previews Next-Generation Bright Cluster Manager at SC13 - (11/15/2013)

TACC to Test Pilot Toopher Authentication Technology at SC13 - (11/15/2013)

NASA to Showcase Computational Achievements at SC13 - (11/15/2013)

Ace Computers to Showcase HPC Products at SC13 - (11/15/2013)

Indiana University Innovations on Display at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Asetek to Demonstrate RackCDU Liquid Cooled HPC Cluster at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Silicon Mechanics to Highlight Saint Louis University’s Accomplishments at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Intel Invites Fovia to Present at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

ScaleMP Announces Participation at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Kitware to Exhibit Advancements in HPC at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Fusion-io to Showcase Alliance Partner Solutions at SC13 - (11/14/2013)

Fujitsu to Deploy Packet ONP at SC13 - (11/13/2013)

SC13 to Hold Opening Press Conference Followed by Private Media Tour - (11/13/2013)

DDN to Preview New Technology at SC13 - (11/12/2013)

Ciena Solutions to Support SCinet at SC13 - (11/11/2013)

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