HPC
Japan begins planning exascale super
Seeking funds for design project
ScaleMP: Use RAM plus vSMP, not flash, to boost server performance
Partners with Big Blue, chases SGI UV2 shared memory systems
Cray descends to midrange HPC shops with baby XC30 supers
An air-cooled chip off the relatively new 'Cascade' block
IBM considers System X surgery: Will it ruin its sexy HPC figure?
HPC blog A full X-ectomomy might, a partial could be OK
SGI tax bennies push bigger profit in Q1
Wraps up LMDs of profit destruction, shows decent sales growth
Cray peddles more iron than expected in Q1
Not enough to keep it from booking a loss, though
World's first petaflops super dumped on scrap heap
Moore's Law, not Wile E. Coyote, brings down Roadrunner
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'Super' market tops $11.1bn, propped up by massive sales
But can high-end HPC keep growing like this?
Opinion
Buff American beauties keen to dominate Euro youth in tech tussle
HPC blog Competition at the ISC’13 Student Cluster Challenge will be the fiercest yet.
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.
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.
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Scan your branes LIVE IN REAL-TIME, thanks to GPU-surfin' boffins
GTC 2013 3D MRI videos bashed out by monster box and open-source code
Oil giant Total shells out €60m for world's fastest private super
2.3 petaflops now, double that in 2015
GE puts new Nvidia tech through its paces, ponders HPC future
GTC 2013 Hybrid CPU-GPU chips plus RDMA and PCI-Express make for screamin' iron
Calm a CARMA drama chameleon: Barça super waves ARMs, GPUs
GTC 2013 Cluster perks up with low-power CPUs bossing graphics chips
Nvidia's skirt-chasing chips ogle babes, eyeball Twitter and YouTube
GTC 2013 Like what that stranger's wearing? Snap a pic for image-matching GPU
Nvidia welds together ARM-Kepler ceepie-geepie system for the impatient
GTC 2013 Development board for CPU-GPU hybrid apps, or nodes in a parallel cluster perhaps
SGI rejigs financing ahead of possible asset sale
NUMAlink shared memory interconnect not for sale, but could be licensed
Australian supercomputer to use geothermal cooling
CSIRO starts drilling to ready petascale super for SKA data-crunching duty
Red Hat has BIG Big Data plans, but won't roll its own Hadoop
Kicks HDFS to the curb and replaces it with GlusterFS
Cray readies XC30 supers for Ivy Bridge and coprocessors
Turns in slightly better 2012 than expected, looks forward to 2013
Could you build a data-nomming HPC beast in a day? These kids can
Analysis Student cluster-building competitions are chock full of technical challenges, both “book learning” and practical learning, and quite a bit of fun too. I mean, who wouldn't want to construct a HPC rig against the clock and kick an opponent in the benchmarks? Here's what involved in the contests.
Scottish uni slams on the Accelerator to boost UK boffinry
The boffins who run two big supercomputers on behalf of the UK government and academic research institutions - as well as one smaller machine aimed at industrial users - have converted those machines into an HPC utility called Accelerator.
Eager students, huge racks - yes, undergrad cluster wrestling is back
2013 promises to be the breakout year for student cluster-building competitions – the most popular high-performance-computing-related sport in the entire world.
