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Nvidia to stack up DRAM on future 'Volta' GPUs

GTC 2013 Over 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth can definitely play Crysis
The Tesla K20 GPU coprocessor card

Nvidia stretches Tesla GPU coprocessors from HPC to big data

GTC 2013 'Anything a CPU can do, a GPU can do better'
Open-mouthed Burmese python

Nvidia, Continuum team up to sling Python at GPU coprocessors

GTC 2013 Teaching snakes to speak CUDA with forked tongue, but not forked code
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Opinion

It's a CLUSTER-OFF: Asian students prep for tense, live HPC smackdown

HPC blog The first annual Asia Student Cluster Challenge (ASCC) culminates this week with a final round of competition that brings 10 university teams to Shanghai for a live cluster-off. The teams traveling to Shanghai made it past 32 other universities vying to compete in the live finale.
Stacking up chips to make tiny Daleks for the data center
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Power-mad HPC fans told: No exascale for you - for at least 8 years

I recently stumbled upon a transcript from a very recent interview with HPC luminaries Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, Top500 list) and Horst Simon (deputy director at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.) The topic? Nothing less than the future of supercomputers. These are pretty good guys to ask, since they’re both intimately involved with designing, building, and using some of the largest supercomputers to ever walk the earth.

FINAL NIGHT: Boston kids power down cluster compo systems

SC12 Early on the last day of the SC12 Student Cluster Competition, I hit a couple of morning meetings and then went wandering around the competition area. Most of the teams had at least two or three reps in the booths monitoring the systems and just sort of hanging around. They had turned in their final scientific results the night before, so all that was left to do was wait for the results and then tear down their systems in preparation for the trip back home.

News

Dell: Shhh, don't tell a soul, but the PC sector ISN'T doomed...

HPC blog Let's ditch these shareholders, shall we?

World's 'most green' supercomputer in red-hot battle between Intel, Nvidia

Analysis Uni boffins demand more bang for their watt
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Terminators

Euro boffins plan supercomputer to SIMULATE HUMAN BRAIN

€1.19b for in-silico experiments to build robots driven by simulated people
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The Eurora supercomputer built by Eurotech and Nvidia

Italian 'Eurora' supercomputer pushes the green envelope

Besting Cray and IBM in the energy efficiency game
An Atipa tech builds a supercomputer cluster in Kansas

Company you never heard of builds 3.4 petaflops super for DOE

Nature abhors a vacuum as well as an oligopoly, which is why upstart supercomputer maker Atipa Technologies may find itself having an easier time getting its foot into the data center door now that Cray has eaten supercomputer-maker Appro International.
Stanford's jet-noise simulation needed a milliion cores
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Researchers break records with MILLION-CORE calculation

HPC blog Stanford’s Engineering Center for Turbulence Research (SECTR) has claimed a new record in computer science by running a fluid dynamics problem using a code named CharLES that utilised more than one million cores in the hulking great IBM Sequoia at once.
Stanford's jet-noise simulation needed a milliion cores
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Stanford super runs million-core calculation

Stanford University engineers are claiming a record for the year-old Sequoia supercomputer, after running up a calculation that used more than a million of the machine’s cores at once.