HPC
EMC: I Have A Dream - of ABBA in every HPC setup
When you need to nuke an asteroid, take a chance on us
Swiss boffins jump in Lake Lugano for Cray super
Pumping water uphill to cool a 750 teraflops Cascade
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Nvidia puts Tesla K20 GPU coprocessor through its paces
Early results on Hyper-Q, Dynamic Parallelism speedup
AMD aims at big data crunchers with SeaMicro SM15000
'Petabytes are everywhere'
US energy lab's pump-happy petaflopper goes green
Shiny new Xeon–Xeon Phi hybrid splashes into water-cooled data center
Why gov labs presenting HPC tech ≠ officials wolfing overpriced sushi
HPC blog US gov travel caps: Agency bods may have to skip supercomputing shows
Opinion
Keep your Playboy mansion, Supermicro is my nerd vice palace
Sysadmin blog With several clients facing refresh cycles, I've decided to poke my nose back into the tier-2 space to see what’s going on.
Why gov labs presenting HPC tech ≠ officials wolfing overpriced sushi
HPC blog Our buddy Rich Brueckner over at insideHPC broke some news this week when he published a story about new conference and travel spending restrictions that might radically scale back US government agency participation in HPC industry events like the upcoming SC12 conference in Salt Lake City this November.
Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC
ISC12 Here at Hamburg's supercomputer fest, three merchants of flash were plying their wares. What did they think about the chances of 3-layer cell (TLC) NAND, the stuff that's cheaper than MLC but slower and with a drastically shorter working life? Cue shaking of heads and whole stack engagement.
News
Murchison adds astronomical cluster
Linux GPU lovin’ for WA’s widefield radiotelescope
Cray bags $21m Cascade super deal down under
Xeon, Xeon Phi hybrid to do radio astronomy
Intel gobbles Lustre file system expert Whamcloud
Chipzilla prepares to gorge itself on exascale pie
US Energy dept starts handing out cash for exaflop superputer quest
Need to get the 'leccy bill down below that of a city
DOE doles out cash to AMD, Whamcloud for exascale research
Pushing compute, memory, and I/O to the limits
ISC 2012: China's 'Pop Idols' seek Klusterkamph glory
ISC 2012 Intra-China winners look for win in Germany
China's NUDT students hope GPUs will grind down rivals
ISC 2012 GPU-heavy system surprised punters back in Seattle
T-shirt race stragglers aim for student cluster compo crown
ISC 2012 Colorado Buffaloes DID breeze through the supercomputing bits
Sequoia: Can anyone learn to wield this mighty HPC weapon?
Podcast Here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, I sat in on a podcast with Rich Brueckner of insideHPC and Dr Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top500 list. We talked about the 20-year evolution of the list and, of course, Sequoia, the BlueGene/Q system that topped the June 2012 rankings.
Supercomputer flash kings: TLC needs, er, TLC
ISC12 Here at Hamburg's supercomputer fest, three merchants of flash were plying their wares. What did they think about the chances of 3-layer cell (TLC) NAND, the stuff that's cheaper than MLC but slower and with a drastically shorter working life? Cue shaking of heads and whole stack engagement.
Samsung offers cool green RAM for the same cold hard greenbacks
ISC12 Samsung is promoting its green memory here at ISC 2012 in Hamburg, Germany, saying its 20nm-class DRAM uses less electricity than 50nm-class RAM and runs cooler too. Oh, and it costs the same.
Spotlight
Blocks and Files Storage line-up needs more than 3PAR and StoreOnce arrays
Oracle OpenWorld Big cheese tells a tale of real-time analysis
Oi, who's uploading all the source code?
Deep dive Enterprise automation software for the masses
Comment Stupidometer reading: 'Bad competitive analysis 101'
Interview Chris Mellor chats with Exagrid CEO Bill Andrews
Insiders claim former top dog Petersen wanted more control
Analysis IBM needs to swing both ways in server land
Spinning disks and squabbling sisters
Comment Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches