Supercomputing Transforms Data into Knowledge

Apr 17, 2013 | Advances in data-intensive supercomputing increase understanding of autism and related disorders, set the stage for future treatments.
Read more...

When Is the Cloud Right for HPC?

Apr 16, 2013 | For a growing number of non-traditional HPC workloads, the cloud is the place to be.
Read more...

Debugging at Titan Scale

Apr 15, 2013 | Oak Ridge Leadership Computing | Getting scientific applications to scale across Titan's 300,000 compute cores means there will be bugs. Finding those bugs is where Allinea DDT comes in.
Read more...

Rockhopper POD Cluster Beats Amazon

Apr 11, 2013 | The Rockhopper cluster has been in production for over a year now, long enough for additional details to emerge on this interesting HPC cloud use case.
Read more...

SDSC's Gordon to Help Guide Future of Particle Physics

Apr 11, 2013 | Gordon, a supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputing Center on the campus of the University of California at San Diego is helping point the direction of the Large Hadron Collider's next research project.
Read more...

Is Amazon's 'Fast' Interconnect Fast Enough for MPI?

Apr 10, 2013 | Amazon's EC2 Cluster Compute instance goes head-to-head with Myrinet 10GigE cluster.
Read more...

Coursera Offers HPC Techniques to Scientific Computing

Apr 10, 2013 | Randall J. Leveque, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, will be conducting a free course that brings the principles of parallelism in high performance computers to those in scientific computing.
Read more...

Supercomputing’s Criminal Secrets?

Apr 10, 2013 | Before the annual SC conference last year, Russian HPC vendor, T-Platforms delivered the first supercomputer from the nation. Not long before that, it completed an installation for PRACE and worked on complex software challenges via a partnership with the Juelich Supercomputer Center. From the outside, the company appears to have done bang-up business in 2012, but they’ve gone into radio silence since.
Read more...

To Unify or Not to Unify? The Question for Datacenters

Apr 09, 2013 | The Top500 list is dominated each year by unified systems. That is, the same vendor provides most of the hardware, the same CPUs are used across the system, etc. If HPC systems are built this way, why aren’t many datacenters?
Read more...

Long-Term Funding Essential for Supercomputers

Apr 08, 2013 | Financial Review | Chief executive of the NSW (University of New South Wales) university consortium Intersect makes the case for a holistic funding strategy.
Read more...

Releasing the Kraken on Protoplanetary Disks

Apr 02, 2013 | The large-scale classical physics problems that remain unsolved must for the most part be run in parallel by high-performance machines like the Kraken supercomputer. Literally millions of variables culled from billions of particles combine to make this type of research unreasonable for ordinary computational physics.
Read more...

Intel Seeks Exascale Program Lead

Mar 29, 2013 | Intel has put out feelers for a well-connected champion of exascale technologies to bolster its role around the new efforts and funding that....
Read more...

Yellowstone Helps Predict Air Pollution

Mar 28, 2013 | The Yellowstone supercomputer has a 1.5-petaflop I-data plex system at peak. The machine was first tasked with 11 compute-intensive projects as part of the Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) initiative.
Read more...

UCLA Uses Big Data to Prevent Brain Injuries

Mar 27, 2013 | One of the biggest areas of concern with brain trauma is swelling, which can become life threatening if it’s not caught in time. UCLA, with the help of Excel Medical Electronics and IBM, is turning to big data to proactively prevent this problem.
Read more...

Setting Up CUDA in the Cloud

Mar 26, 2013 | Tutorial describes how to implement CUDA and parallel programming in the AWS Cloud.
Read more...

Post Office Mines Data to Fight Fraud

Mar 26, 2013 | Federal Computer Week | The US Postal Service relies on the power of big data to analyze over 528 million mail pieces per day for signs of fraud.
Read more...

IDC: Supercomputing Spending Jumps 30 Percent

Mar 25, 2013 | IDC report highlights the continued shift to large system sales.
Read more...

Hopper Lights Up the Cosmos

Mar 25, 2013 | Hooper, the Opteron-powered Cray system at NERSC has been tasked with helping scientists on the Planck space telescope project filter ancient light against sensor signals to help astronomers understand the....
Read more...

Quantum Computing Nears Commercial Adoption

Mar 22, 2013 | The New York Times | Lockheed Martin puts D-Wave quantum computer to work manufacturing aircraft systems.
Read more...

Supercomputing Benchmarked at Elementary Science Fair

Mar 22, 2013 | Sixth grade science project asks "How Super Is Your Computer?"
Read more...

UCSD's Big Data Freeway

Mar 21, 2013 | The New York Times | UCSD rolls out a next-generation bypass network across its La Jolla, Calif., campus.
Read more...

Sequoia Goes Core-AZY

Mar 20, 2013 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | LLNL researchers have successfully harnessed all 1,572,864 of Sequoia's cores for one impressive simulation.
Read more...

Assembling Blue Waters

Mar 20, 2013 | As NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer approaches full service status, we thought it would be appropriate to see how the machine was built.
Read more...

QMachine Combines HPC with WWW

Mar 14, 2013 | QMachine leverages the processing power of Web browsers to create a commodity supercomputer.
Read more...

Computing for a Cure

Mar 13, 2013 | Quantum Cures wants your help identifying drug candidates for orphan and rare diseases.
Read more...