HPC
Power and cooling: The Oak Ridge way
Video 25 Megawatts, 6.6 tons of cooling, more on the way
Mellanox etches software-defined networking onto SwitchX-2 chips
Working on OpenFlow controller for fabric manager
Hoosiers to get the world's fastest academic super
Alley-oop for privately paid for petaflops
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
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This supercomputing board can be yours for $99. Here's how
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Tizard super goes live in South Oz
State gets boost in computing power
Swiss boffins jump in Lake Lugano for Cray super
Pumping water uphill to cool a 750 teraflops Cascade
Nvidia puts Tesla K20 GPU coprocessor through its paces
Early results on Hyper-Q, Dynamic Parallelism speedup
Opinion
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
HPC blog While at IBM’s Smarter Computing Summit last week, I had the great pleasure of hearing Big Blue's Bernie Meyerson talk about limits to today’s tech, and the associated implications.
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.
News
US energy lab's pump-happy petaflopper goes green
Shiny new Xeon–Xeon Phi hybrid splashes into water-cooled data center
Supercomputing takes a slight pause in Q2
Big systems drive HPC sales
Fujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
Hot Chips So is this the Sparc M4 on Oracle's roadmaps?
Mellanox rips covers off virt-SAN beast, claims Fibre Channel vanquish
Preparing a whuppening for VNX ass, one might think
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
Finland beefs up HPC oomph with Cray 'Cascade' super
Stuffs old paper warehouse with gobs o' flops and bushels o' bytes
Rutherford Appleton Lab fires up ceepie-geepie hybrid
A consortium of universities in Oxfordshire and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has finished building two new supercomputer clusters for academic and corporate researchers to let their codes loose upon.
Tsinghua, NUDT flatten rivals in ISC cluster smackdown
ISC 2012 The 2012 ISC Student Cluster Challenge ended last week, and it’s high time we take a look at the winners, the awards and some of the results.
Berkeley Lab to air-cool Cray Cascade super
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which runs the big and unclassified science projects for the US Department of Energy, is sticking with Cray for its next-generation supercomputer, tentatively called NERSC-7.
Spotlight
HPC blog You cannae break the laws of physics - and 7nm is the limit
Feature Adapteva's parallel dash for community cash
Sysadmin blog I'm not ashamed to admit I was drooling over those racks
HPC blog US gov travel caps: Agency bods may have to skip supercomputing shows
Webcast Can’t fix it unless you can quantify it
GTC 2012 Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism make GPUs sweat
HPC blog Why I geek out for GTC
HPC blog But what’s Cray going to do with the Intel cash?
ISSCC 'I have seen the future, and it is stacked'
HECToR and BlueGene/Q to help look at climate data, sniff out Higgs boson
