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Podcast: Energy Department Kickstarts Exascale Effort; DOE Presses Fastforward for Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud
Post Date: July 13, 2012 @ 12:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
The Department of Energy signs up Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud for exascale research under its "FastForward" program. Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications.
Podcast: Google Takes on Amazon EC2; NASA Reworks Cloud Strategy
Post Date: July 06, 2012 @ 11:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Google jumps into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service business and NASA backs away from OpenStack development. HPC in the Cloud Editor Tiffany Trader catches us up on the latest news.
Podcast: Lawrence Livermore and IBM Team Up Again; Cray Pre-Sells Another Cascade Supercomputer
Post Date: June 29, 2012 @ 1:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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HPCwire Soundbite
Lawrence Livermore is installing a 5-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q for use by industry partners and NERSC signs up for a 2-petaflop Cray Cascade super for 2013.
Podcast: InfiniBand Hits 100G; Winners and Losers at ISC'12
Post Date: June 21, 2012 @ 10:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael wrap up the news from ISC'12 and pick the event's winners and losers.
Podcast: US Recaptures TOP500 Title; Intel MIC Gets Its Own Brand
Post Date: June 20, 2012 @ 6:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
At ISC'12 in Hamburg, Addison and Michael review the new TOP500 results and discuss Intel's latest MIC moves.
Podcast: TOP500 Brain Trust Gathers for 20th Anniversary of List
Post Date: June 17, 2012 @ 8:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
In this exclusive interview, Hans Meuer, Erich Strohmaier, Jack Dongarra, and Horst Simon discuss why performance of the world's top 500 supercomputers has increased so rapidly and so constantly over the years, and consider whether this will continue to be the case through the current petascale era and beyond.
Podcast: SGI, Xyratex Refresh HPC Offerings; ISC'12 Preview
Post Date: June 15, 2012 @ 11:10 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael review SGI's new UV 2 supercomputer and Xyratex' second-generation Lustre storage platform. They also preview next week's happenings at ISC'12 in Hamburg.
Podcast: AMD Revs Up Bulldozer; New HPC User Site Survey
Post Date: June 08, 2012 @ 12:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about AMD's latest Opterons and Intersect360's new HPC user site survey.
Podcast: ARM Charts Path Into Big Data; A Tragic Loss for the HPC Community
Post Date: June 01, 2012 @ 12:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
ARM servers in the news and HPC loses one of its own.
Podcast: HP Downsizes; Fujitsu Gears Up for Growth
Post Date: May 25, 2012 @ 12:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
HP announces plans to shed 8 percent of its workforce, while Fujitsu looks to expand its HPC presence in Europe and elsewhere.
Podcast: NVIDIA's Kepler Debuts in HPC; Intel Adds to Chip Count
Post Date: May 18, 2012 @ 10:56 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
NVIDIA pushes Kepler into HPC and beyond. And Intel adds three new families of Xeon chips.
Podcast: The Zettaflops Dilemma; Emulex, Myricom Takes Aim at InfiniBand
Post Date: May 11, 2012 @ 12:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Chris Willard and Michael discuss Thomas Sterling prediction that conventional HPC will probably reach the end of the line in the exascale era. Plus Emulex and Myricom team up for a high performance networking play.
Podcast: Convey Hybrid-Core 2.0; Software Updates for Multicore and Cloud
Post Date: May 04, 2012 @ 11:46 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison talk about the recent upgrade of Convey's "Hybrid-Core" offering, and review a couple of middleware developments from eXludus Technologies and Bright Computing.
Podcast: Cray and Intel Make $140M Interconnect; An Interview with CEO Peter Ungaro
Post Date: April 27, 2012 @ 2:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro about the impending sale of his company's interconnect hardware technology to Intel.
Podcast: Cray Names New CTO; A Cloudy Week in HPC
Post Date: April 20, 2012 @ 1:37 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Cray's new CTO, the latest HPC cloud provider, and a big HPC cloud use case tops this week's news.
Podcast: Petascale Plays Processor Derby; Glacial Advancement in Energy Efficiency
Post Date: April 13, 2012 @ 11:34 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael review the processor jungle in petascale supercomputing and discuss why advancements in energy efficiency aren't keeping pace with HPC.
Podcast: NVIDIA Heckles Intel Over MIC; April Fools News
Post Date: April 06, 2012 @ 11:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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HPCwire Soundbite
NVIDIA takes Intel to task for its manycore programming story. And some HPC stories only an April Fool would believe.
Podcast: Missing Middle, Global HPC, and Exascale at HPCC
Post Date: March 30, 2012 @ 1:02 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael wrap up the happenings at the High Performance Computer and Communications Council (HPCC) Conference in Newport, Rhode Island.
Podcast: NVIDIA's Got Game with Kepler; NSA Finds There are No Secrets in Supercomputing
Post Date: March 23, 2012 @ 11:52 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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HPCwire Soundbite
NVIDIA launches its first "Kepler" GPUs and the NSA supercomputing gets some unwanted attention.
Podcast: HP Has a Corona; Moab Takes Aim at Commercial HPC
Post Date: March 16, 2012 @ 11:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael take a look at HP Labs' 10-teraflop manycore processor and discuss the latest Moab release from Adaptive Computing.
Podcast: Intel Makes Sandy Bridge Chips Street Legal; IBM Closes Super NOAA Deal
Post Date: March 09, 2012 @ 11:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Intel launches the new 8-core Xeon CPUs and IBM nabs a huge win at NOAA for HPC hardware and support.
Podcast: Cray Pivots to Big Data; AMD Wades Into SeaMicro Acquisition
Post Date: March 02, 2012 @ 12:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Cray launches its first supercomputer-powered big data applicance and AMD buys microserver maker SeaMicro.
Podcast: Platform Computing Turns Blue; Cray Makes China Connection
Post Date: February 24, 2012 @ 1:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Platform Computing GM Peter Nichol talks about life under IBM and Cray opens up new subsidiary in China.
Podcast: Europe Doubles Down on HPC; HP Loads Up for Sandy Bridge
Post Date: February 17, 2012 @ 11:48 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
The European Commission put forth a plan to double HPC funding during a week that saw a raft of top-end supercomputers announcements around the world.
Podcast: Cray Bites Into Big Data; AMD Commits to Open Hetero Standard
Post Date: February 10, 2012 @ 12:11 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Cray launches a new division targeting big data apps and AMD offers a heterogeneous computing standard for the masses.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Cray Revamps Mini-Super Offerings; A Peek at AMD's New Roadmap
Post Date: February 03, 2012 @ 11:14 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Cray offers a new mini-supercomputer configuration based on its XE6/XK6 line, while AMD forges ahead with its CPU-GPU-APU strategy.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Intel Buys Into InfiniBand; What it Means for QLogic, Mellanox and HPC
Post Date: January 27, 2012 @ 1:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications of Intel's plans to acquire QLogic's InfiniBand business.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: The Shining Stars of HPC; People to Watch in 2012
Post Date: January 24, 2012 @ 12:32 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael are joined by HPCwire publisher Jeff Hyman to talk about the publication's 2012 People to Watch list.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Fish and Chips; Chinese Takeout
Post Date: January 20, 2012 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss Russell Fish's CPU-DRAM chip and China's latest FeiTeng microprocessor for HPC.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputing with a Social Conscience; The $1,000 Genome
Post Date: January 13, 2012 @ 11:29 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss a new volunteer computing grid with a mission to support charities, and talk about the impact of the latest DNA sequencing machines.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: More Petaflops in 2012; Is it Sustainable?
Post Date: January 06, 2012 @ 1:56 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael look ahead to some of the top double-digit petaflops supercomputers scheduled for deployment in 2012. They also look at how the troubling state of the world economy might impact the prospects of HPC growth in the coming year.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: A Look Back at the Year in HPC; A Look Ahead to 2012
Post Date: December 26, 2011 @ 10:06 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: GPU Technology in the Far East; HPC 360 in the Midwest; SGI CEO Heads North
Post Date: December 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the GTC Asia and HPC 360 events and offer their perspectives on the resignation of SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputing Welcomes Flash Gordon; Possible Q4 Slump in HPC
Post Date: December 09, 2011 @ 10:22 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the launch of Gordon, SDSC's new data-intensive supercomputer. Also, Addison offers some guidance on why HPC revenue might take a hit in Q4.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Adds New Dimension to Computer Memory; Supercomputing for Home Heating
Post Date: December 02, 2011 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
IBM's 3D chipmaking technology to debut in memory devices. Also, a novel use for servers: data furnaces.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Top Products, Technologies and Vendors in HPC; The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Post Date: November 23, 2011 @ 7:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss some of the standout HPC companies, products, and technologies selected by the readers and editors of HPCwire.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Big Data Rains Down on Seattle; Green500 Goes Blue; SC11 Winners and Losers
Post Date: November 18, 2011 @ 12:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
The weekly wrap-up of SC11 highlights the rise of big data, the latest Green500 results, and winners and losers from the show.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Blue Waters 2.0; Chip Wars at SC11
Post Date: November 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Conference kicks off with news about NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer project, the TOP500, and a flurry of processor-related announcements.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Vendors Open New Bag of Supercomputing Toys; A Look Ahead to SC11
Post Date: November 11, 2011 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Fujitsu, Bull, DataDirect Networks, and Bright Computing make some big news in the lead up to the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Supercomputer Tops 10 Petaflops; Good News/Bad News for AMD
Post Date: November 04, 2011 @ 12:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
The "K Computer" in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier and AMD Fusion debuts in HPC.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Texas Instruments Makes HPC Play; ARM Flexes 64-Bit Muscle
Post Date: October 28, 2011 @ 3:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
TI is looking to push its latest DSP chips into the HPC realm and ARM will soon have 64-bit processors. Also, China has announced a new petaflop supercomputer with homegrown microprocessors.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Airbus Embraces HPC-as-a-Service; HPC Vendors Take On Big Data
Post Date: October 21, 2011 @ 12:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Airbus is leasing HPC for its engineering design work. And big data is getting more attention from HPC vendors.
Michael Feldman
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
Post Date: October 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Research project uses DRAM as the basis of datacenter storage..
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Oak Ridge Makes Jaguar Into a Titan; A New Platform for IBM
Post Date: October 14, 2011 @ 1:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Oak Ridge's Buddy Bland and Jim Hack join the show to discuss ORNL's upcoming Titan supercomputer. Plus Addison and Michael talk about the significance of IBM's plans to acquire of Platform Computing
Michael Feldman
Another Computer Legend Passes Into the History Books
Post Date: October 13, 2011 @ 5:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Startup Builds 64-core FP Accelerator; Gluster Puts Big Data in Red Hat
Post Date: October 07, 2011 @ 2:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about Adapteva's latest manycore design and discuss the significance of Red Hat's plans to buy Gluster. Also, a look back at Steve Jobs.
Michael Feldman
Steve Jobs: The Seymour Cray of Personal Computing
Post Date: October 06, 2011 @ 5:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
As these two computing pioneers demonstrated, one person can shape an entire industry.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: NetApp Adds Lustre to Sequoia Super; HPC Clouds Over Europe
Post Date: September 30, 2011 @ 1:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
NetApp wins its first big storage contract in supercomputing, while Europeans gather for the latest developments in HPC cloud and grid computing. Plus Russia puts its exaflop stake in the ground.
Michael Feldman
Flash Forward
Post Date: September 29, 2011 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Solid state storage vendors are making a frontal assault on the hard disk establishment in the datacenter.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Texas Super Gives Dell and Intel Big Win; ScaleMP Brings AMD On Board
Post Date: September 23, 2011 @ 4:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael talk about TACC's upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer, which will be equipped with Intel's manycore accelerators. Also, ScaleMP adds Opteron support and a wrapup of the HPC Financial Markets event.
Michael Feldman
Intel Takes a Bite Out of NVIDIA's HPC Business
Post Date: September 22, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Manycore MIC coprocessors beat out GPUs in future NSF-funded supercomputer.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Addison's Report Card for Digital Manufacturing; WellPoint Pages Dr. Watson
Post Date: September 16, 2011 @ 12:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
A discussion of the various initiative to bring HPC into US manufacturing, and IBM Watson lands a job in health care.
Michael Feldman
Can Supercomputing Help Cure Health Care?
Post Date: September 15, 2011 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
IBM Watson to start new job as WellPoint analyst.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Hitachi Data Systems Buys BlueArc; An Interview with CEO Mike Gustafson
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 3:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael speak with BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson and the company's director of HPC, Bjorn Andersson, about their company's acquisition. Also a look at how 9/11 impacted high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Newest Opteron CPU Headed for Big Supers
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 1:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
AMD starts shipping Interlagos chips in volume.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Goes Big in Storage; Plus Blue Waters and Black Skies
Post Date: September 02, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison speculate on NCSA's replacement for the Blue Waters supercomputer. Also, IBM comes up with a 120 PB storage array for an unknown customer, and HPC startup Black Sky Computing preps for its cloud computing play.
Michael Feldman
Powering Up Exascale
Post Date: September 01, 2011 @ 8:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
It's not just about the megawatts.
Michael Feldman
The Rise of the Thinking Machine
Post Date: August 25, 2011 @ 7:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Brain-centric computing is having a pretty good year.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SGI Makes Software Buy; Brainy Chips for a Smarter Planet
Post Date: August 19, 2011 @ 1:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
SGI acquires OpenCFD and IBM unveils cognitive computing chips. Addison and Michael give us the low down on what it all means.
Michael Feldman
IBM Reveals Cognitive Computing Chips
Post Date: August 18, 2011 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Researchers build circuitry based on workings of human brain.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Dumps Blue Waters; Steve Scott Joins NVIDIA
Post Date: August 12, 2011 @ 2:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
IBM terminates its multi-million dollar contract to build the Blue Waters supercomputer and Cray CTO Steve Scott joins NVIDIA.
Michael Feldman
Raining on the Innovation Parade
Post Date: August 11, 2011 @ 6:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
The "dismal science" tells us innovation is on the wane.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Digital Manufacturing Takes Off; Special Guest Editor John Kirkley
Post Date: August 05, 2011 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
We speak with John Kirkley, managing editor of Digital Manufacturing Report, to bring us up to date on recent news in advanced manufacturing and high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Debt Deal Casts Shadow on US Research Funding
Post Date: August 04, 2011 @ 5:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Federal R&D; money could be an easy target for cost-cutting with latest legislation.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: TeraGrid 2.0; Microsoft's HPC Reorg
Post Date: July 29, 2011 @ 4:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
The end of the TeraGrid project marks the launch of its replacement: XSEDE; and Microsoft reshuffles its HPC deck.
Michael Feldman
Life After TeraGrid
Post Date: July 28, 2011 @ 7:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
XSEDE takes up NSF's cyberinfrastructure mission with a broader mandate.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Intel, Dell Buy Into Ethernet; Sergio Novaes Talks About HPC in Brazil
Post Date: July 22, 2011 @ 12:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss Intel's and Dell's plans to acquire two premier Ethernet vendors; and Sergio Novaes, Professor of Physics at São Paulo State University talks about his experiences with HPC in Brazil.
Michael Feldman
IBM Demos Record-Breaking Parallel File System Performance
Post Date: July 21, 2011 @ 9:05 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
GPFS gobbles 10 billion files in less than an hour using Violin Memory's solid-state storage.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: FPGA Supercomputing in the Money; SGI Preps New ICE Machines
Post Date: July 15, 2011 @ 3:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
JP Morgan speeds up its risk models with FPGAs and SGI redesigns Altix ICE hardware. Plus a question of the week.
Michael Feldman
GPU Computing Wades Into the Mainstream
Post Date: July 14, 2011 @ 6:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
No longer the "Next Big Thing" in HPC, GPUs are becoming conventional.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Brain Simulation Super From the UK; An Interview with NetApp Cloud Czar Val Bercovici
Post Date: July 08, 2011 @ 3:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the latest news about a brain simulation project in the UK and then talk with NetApp's Val Bercovici about his company's recent acquisition of Engenio.
Michael Feldman
Researchers Spin Up Supercomputer for Brain Simulation
Post Date: July 07, 2011 @ 7:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
SpiNNaker project will employ ARM processors to map virtual brain.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: HPC Trends, Ups and Downs in 2011
Post Date: July 01, 2011 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael recap the biggest HPC stories and trends for the first half of the year.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputer Defend Thyself
Post Date: June 30, 2011 @ 5:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
HPC takes a hit from latest spate of natural disasters.
Caroline Connor
Introducing the First ISC Think Tank Series, Sponsored by HPCwire
Post Date: June 28, 2011 @ 6:36 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPC Community Voices
Caroline shares her experience filming the first 'ISC Think Tank Series, hosted by HPCwire' live at ISC '11 and her thoughts on why capturing an annual "meeting of the minds" between the best and brightest in the industry is important for the HPC community.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: ISC'11 Wrapup- Trends, Winners, Losers
Post Date: June 24, 2011 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss conference highlights and try to pick out some trends at the show.
Michael Feldman
What I Learned at the International Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: June 23, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
HPC accelerator competition is heating up and Japanese supers are scrambling for watts.
Tom Tabor
IDC Shares HPC Market Figures, Trends, Predictions at ISC
Post Date: June 21, 2011 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
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.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
Post Date: June 20, 2011 @ 4:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
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.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Vendors, Users Prep for ISC'11; HPC Faithful Head to Hamburg
Post Date: June 17, 2011 @ 10:54 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
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.
Michael Feldman
Supercomputing in Transition
Post Date: June 16, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
ISC to shine spotlight on heterogeneous computing.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Gathers HPC Clouds; Real Applications on GPUs; NNSA Makes Appro a Winner
Post Date: June 10, 2011 @ 1:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to talk about IBM's latest push into high performance computing for private clouds.
Michael Feldman
Chinese Super Breaks World Record in Application Performance
Post Date: June 09, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Science code hits 1.87 petaflops on top-ranked Tianhe-1A.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Whatever Happened to Personal Genomics? and How High is the High in HPC?
Post Date: June 03, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael offer their thoughts on the hype cycle of personal genomics and discuss the results of a recent survey about HPC application scalability.
Michael Feldman
A Healthy Dose of Analytics: From IBM Watson to Tricorders
Post Date: June 02, 2011 @ 7:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Advanced analytics sets its sights on health care.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Quantum Computing Goes Commercial; Cray Unveils GPU Super
Post Date: May 27, 2011 @ 2:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
D-Wave sells a quantum computer to Lockheed Martin and Cray pitches its new GPU-equipped supercomputer, the XK6.
Michael Feldman
A Tale of Two GPU Computing Models
Post Date: May 26, 2011 @ 7:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
CUDA versus OpenMP for GPUs. What's a developer to do?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: NVIDIA Speeds Up Its GPUs; Adoption Could Follow Suit
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 1:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
NVIDIA launches a new and improved Fermi Tesla GPU, while AMD introduces a FirePro graphics card for servers. Addison and Michael discuss the prospects for GPU adoption in HPC.
Michael Feldman
Dual-Use GPUs for Servers -- AMD and NVIDIA Mind Their P's and Q's
Post Date: May 19, 2011 @ 6:53 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
AMD pitches FirePro V7800P against NVIDIA's Tesla M2070Q.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Government Supercomputing Ups and Downs; iPad Supercomputing, No Joke
Post Date: May 13, 2011 @ 7:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Cray reports a decent first quarter despite US government spending delays, while European HPC brightens. Also, iPad-based HPC clusters on the drawing board?
Michael Feldman
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Post Date: May 12, 2011 @ 5:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
The challenge of climate change brings out the worst in us.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Intel Intros 3D Transistors; HPC Market Rebounds
Post Date: May 06, 2011 @ 2:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Encouraging news for the high performance computing market and Intel prepares to bring 3D transistors into production.
Michael Feldman
Intel Adds New Dimension to Transistor Making
Post Date: May 05, 2011 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Chipmaker to use 3D transistors in next-generation 22nm processors.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Mellanox Brings Up Switch Hitter; ARM Wrestling with x86
Post Date: April 29, 2011 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss the new InfiniBand-Ethernet switch silicon from Mellanox and speculate on the adoption of ARM technology by AMD.
Michael Feldman
Will AMD ARM Itself?
Post Date: April 28, 2011 @ 2:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Adopting the ARM architecture would be a leap of faith for the x86 chip vendor, but perhaps a necessary one.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: TACC Looks to Intel for Acceleration; SAS Ups Its Analytics Game
Post Date: April 25, 2011 @ 7:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison discuss TACC's new interest in Intel's Many Integrated Core accelerator and recap the latest analytics news from SAS Insitute.
Michael Feldman
TACC Steps Up to the MIC
Post Date: April 21, 2011 @ 8:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
Supercomputing center starts coding to Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) chip.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM's Power Boost; DDN Moves Into NAS
Post Date: April 15, 2011 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss IBM's refresh of its Power7 servers and DataDirect Networks' entry into the NAS market.
Michael Feldman
Diversifying the Tech Workforce
Post Date: April 14, 2011 @ 9:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog:
From the Editor
White men's guilt or a cause with a purpose?
Michael Feldman
Podcast: High Performance Computing on Wall Street; HPC and Clouds Collide
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Computer memory is currently undergoing something of an identity crisis. For the past 8 years, multicore microprocessors have been creating a performance discontinuity, the so-called memory wall. It's now fairly clear that this widening gap between compute and memory performance will not be solved with conventional DRAM products. But there is one technology under development that aims to close that gap, and its first use case will likely be in the ethereal realm of supercomputing.
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The latest Green500 rankings were announced last week, revealing that top performance and power efficiency can indeed go hand in hand. According to the latest list, the greenest machines, in fact the top 20 systems, were all IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputers. Blue Gene/Q, of course, is the platform that captured the number one spot on the latest TOP500 list, and is represented by four of the ten fastest supercomputers in the world.
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