SC09
Full Coverage
Every year 10,000 or so vendors, users, academics, students and scientists gather for SC, the conference for the High Performance Computing community. It was Portland, Oregon's turn this year. And The Register was there. Here is our show wrap.
Big Iron, big data, big networks, big problems

SC09 chair Dr. Wilf Pinfold runs through us the SC09 plugfest, the main scientific themes, papers and speakers.
Japan gov poised to cancel 10 petaflops Keisoku super
SC09 Fujitsu has to do some financial jujitsu
HPC 17 Nov 16:11
So how do you pronounce 'Nehalem'?
SGI previews UltraViolet Nehalem EX blade clusters
SC09 Taking orders now for next summer ships
HPC 16 Nov 23:03
Mellanox pushes InfiniBand to 120Gb/s
SC09 Offloading IB processing from CPUs to ConnectX-2s
HPC 18 Nov 09:58
Popular Whitepapers
- The Register guide to unified communications
A primer on the implications of unified communications for enterprise IT - The Register Guide to Web Security
Nail the issues and make informed infrastructure decisions - The BI Inflexion Point
Information is a right, not a privilege - Risk and Resilience
The application availability gamble - The Register Webcast: Storage Virtualization
An introduction to the implications for enterprise IT - The Register Green Computing Report
The role of IT in the push towards environmental sustainability

Nvidia previews next-gen Fermi GPUs
Appro: HPC's all about the GPUs