September 18, 2018

In this new bimonthly feature, HPCwire will highlight newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From exascale Read more…

April 29, 2014

There is little point to building expensive exaflop-class computing machines if applications are not available to exploit the tremendous scale and parallelism. Read more…

January 29, 2013

Noted HPC pioneers weigh in on the coming class of exascale systems. Read more…

June 6, 2012

As we move down the road toward exascale computing and engage in discussion of zettascale, one issue becomes increasingly obvious: we are leaving a large part of the HPC community behind. But it needn't be so. If we developed compact, power efficient petascale computers, not only could we help broaden the base of high-end users, but we could also provide a foundation for future bleeding-edge supercomputers. Read more…

March 31, 2011

Is the HPC community too focused on the 10-year milestone? Read more…

March 28, 2011

In Michael Wolfe's second column on programming for exascale systems, he underscores the importance of exposing parallelism at all levels of design, either explicitly in the program, or implicitly within the compiler. Wolfe calls on developers to express this parallelism, in a language and in the generated code, and to exploit the parallelism, efficiently and effectively, at runtime on the target machine. He reminds the community that the only reason to pursue parallelism is for higher performance. Read more…

March 8, 2011

There are at least two ways exascale computing can go, as exemplified by the top two systems on the latest TOP500 list: Tianhe-1A and Jaguar. The Chinese Tianhe-1A uses 14,000 Intel multicore processors with 7,000 NVIDIA Fermi GPUs as compute accelerators, whereas the American Jaguar Cray XT-5 uses 35,000 AMD 6-core processors. Read more…

February 2, 2011

With exascale predictions all the rage, here's a more sobering look at the next big thing in supercomputing. Read more…