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For your convenience, HPCwire offers a complete collection of direct links to our special issue supplements and HPC industry events archives.

ISC'12 - Feature articles and news coverage from the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany

People to Watch 2012 - HPCwire reveals its 2012 People to Watch List, this year's world-class collection of community leaders whose hard work, dedication, and discoveries we believe will reach beyond the spectrum of high performance computing and influence the direction technology will take in 2012 and in the years ahead. Read more...

2011 Readers' Choice Awards - The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2011 Supercomputing Conference, held in Seattle, Wash. The annual awards are highly coveted as prestigious recognition of achievement by the HPC community. HPCwire extends its congratulations to this year's winners.

SC'11 - Feature articles and news coverage from Supercomputing 2011 conference in Seattle, WA. Includes the 2011 HPCwire Readers' and Editor's Choice Awards.

ISC'11 - Feature articles and news coverage from the 2011 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany

People to Watch 2011 - HPCwire unveils its 2011 People to Watch List, this year's select group of talented thought leaders whose contributions we believe will impact the future of High Performance Computing over the course of 2011 and beyond. Read more...

HPCwire Photo Gallery - HPCwire welcomes readers to visit, explore and enjoy our photos and experiences from SC â€™10 and future events in our all-new photo library. Read moreâ€¦

2010 Readers' Choice Awards - The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2010 Supercomputing Conference, held in New Orleans, La. The annual awards are highly coveted as prestigious recognition of achievement by the HPC community. HPCwire extends its congratulations to this year's winners.

SC10 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the Supercomputing 2010 conference in New Orleans, LA. Includes the SC10 Virtual Booth Videos and the 2010 HPCwire Readers' and Editor's Choice Awards.

ISC'10 - Feature articles and news coverage from the 2010 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany

People to Watch 2010 - The calendar has flipped, and the time to reflect on the past, present, and future presents itself. In that spirit, The HPCwire team presents the People to Watch 2010 list of industry luminaries who are making a difference in HPC. The HPCwire People to Watch list is a semi-annual listing of individuals who are either contributing to the practical advancements of HPC technology and usage, or are serving, in some capacity as an ambassador for the HPC community at large. The selections are made through discussions with the HPCwire Editorial/Publishing team, with input garnered from luminaries in the HPC community ecosystem, including nominations and feedback from past recipients. This list is by no means a complete list, but after rigorous discussion, it's an honor for us to present twelve people who we believe are making a difference in HPC in 2010.

Supercomputing 2009 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the Supercomputing 2009 conference in Portland, Oregon. Includes the SC09 Virtual Booth Videos and the 2009 HPCwire Readers' and Editor's Choice Awards.

HPC in the Cloud - Despite the pervasiveness of cloud computing in the broader IT industry, the challenges of using this model for high performance computing are unique to the HPC paradigm. In an effort to help demystify and illuminate this important subject, HPCwire offers a two-part supplement series that will put the high performance cloud computing paradigm in the spotlight and assess its use in current implementations and deployments. In Part One, we focused on cloud computing opportunities in HPC and what's required to serve this market today. In this supplement, we highlight security and the impact of cloud computing on IT governance.

High Performance on Wall Street 2009 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the 2009 HPC on Wall Street conference in New York, NY

International Supercomputing 2009 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany

Supercomputing 2008 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas. Includes the 2008 HPCwire Readers' and Editor's Choice Awards.

High Performance on Wall Street 2008 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the 2008 HPC on Wall Street conference in New York, NY

International Supercomputing 2008 - Complete archives for feature articles and news coverage from the 2008 International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany

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Feature Articles

DOE Primes Pump for Exascale Supercomputers

Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud have been awarded tens of millions of dollars by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to kick-start research and development required to build exascale supercomputers. The work will be performed under the FastForward program, a joint effort run by the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that will focus on developing future hardware and software technologies capable of supporting such machines.
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Hybrid Memory Cube Angles for Exascale

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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Green500 Turns Blue

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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Around the Web

New Mexico to Pull Plug on Encanto, Former Top 5 Supercomputer

Jul 12, 2012 | State says supercomputing center can’t pay bills to keep machine running.
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Computer Program Learns Games by Watching People

Jul 11, 2012 | Computer scientist builds intelligent machine with single-core laptop and some slick algorithms.
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Helix Nebula Cloud Contributes to Higgs Particle Discovery

Jul 10, 2012 | Science cloud crunched data that helped build the case for the historic announcement.
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Plug In and Power Down

Jul 09, 2012 | EU project offers software that makes datacenters more energy-efficient.
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Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

Jul 05, 2012 | Processor speed and power consumption are now at odds, which will force chipmakers to rethink their designs..
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Tackling the Data Deluge: File Systems and Storage Technologies

06/25/2012 | NetApp | A single hour of data collection can result in 7+ million files from just one camera. Collection opportunities are limited and must be successful every time. As defense and intelligence agencies seek to use the data collected to make mission-critical battlefield decisions, there’s greater emphasis on smart data and imagery collection, capture, storage and analysis to drive real-time intelligence. The data gathered must accurately and systematically be analyzed, integrated and disseminated to those who need it – troops on the ground. This reality leads to an inevitable challenge – warfighters swimming in sensors, drowning in data. With the millions, if not billions, of sensors providing all-seeing reports of the combat environment, managing the overload demands a file system and storage infrastructure that scales and performs while protecting the data collected. Part II of our whitepaper series highlights NetApp’s scalable, modular, and flexible storage solution to handle the demanding requirements of sophisticated ISR environments.

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Michael Wolfe Webinar: PGI Accelerator with OpenACC

Join Michael for a look at the first PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers to include comprehensive support for OpenACC, the new open standard for programming accelerators using compiler directives.