HPC
Big deals push Mellanox sales and profits in Q3
Ready to cooperate or compete with Chipzilla
US weather boffins fire up 'Yellowstone' 1.5 petaflopper
Don't expect the short-term forecast to improve
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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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
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
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
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?
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
The US Department of Energy used its massive budget to push supercomputers to gigaflops, teraflops, and petaflops in the prior three decades and it is being tasked to put the pedal to the exaflops metal before the end of this decade.
Finland beefs up HPC oomph with Cray 'Cascade' super
Finland's main academic supercomputing center, the IT Center for Science (CSC), has been embiggening its number-crunching and data storage capacity throughout 2012, and is at it again this week with the acquisition of a future "Cascade" supercomputer from Cray.
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.
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
