April 21, 2018
Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCWire This week saw the inaugural meeting of HPC Horizons, a new community of HPC users, vendors, and policymakers dedicated to collaborative discussion of forward-looking topics that push the boundaries of High Productivity Computing. The two-day conference had 125 attendees and featured speakers that represented both traditional and emerging HPC applications. Tabor…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCWire Gaining an Edge: Wall Street Firms Expand Productivity in “Edge HPC” Arena High Performance Computing – or as it is increasingly called, High Productivity Computing – continues to drive innovation and profits for a wide range of industries. Today, technological evolution is driving HPC in new directions with non-traditional “Edge HPC”…
April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCWire Traditional HPC and Edge HPC — The Same Only Different Tabor Research is in the midst of conducting in-depth end-user interviews with organizations running or considering Edge HPC applications (see http://www.taborresearch.com/edgemarket.html for Edge HPC definition). As we have completed the initial interviews several similarities and difference between the two branches of…
April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCWire The announcement of each new TOP500 list and especially those with systems that break the triple order of magnitude barrier in flops tend to get me thinking about the meaning of the term “supercomputer.” This term has been with us at least since the 1970s (if you know of any earlier…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCWire Anticipating the Fall: Application Performance Has Chased Multicore’s Speed Right Over a Cliff Wile E. Coyote is doomed. Hanging in space, he is about to fall, and everyone knows it but him. We all saw it coming. Poor Coyote. Yet strangely, he doesn’t fall right away. According to the alternate-reality rules…
April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCWire Server partitioning – one of the many implementations of IT virtualization – has for the last half decade seen strong interest within commercial computing environments. This interest has been driven in large part in response to the population explosion of small servers that occurred in the first part of the decade….
April 21, 2018
Debra Goldfarb
As published in HPCWire HPC: The Software Industry Gulag…or More Pointedly, Where is SAP for the Rest of Us? If one were to categorize the enterprise software market as mature, robust, innovative — and definitely 21st century — as it races headstrong into the cloud — how would one categorize the HPC software market? Not…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCWire Field Research: Il Calcolo Tecnico-Scientifico in Italia When I saw the front-page article on HPCwire dealing with “cultural analytics” and a debate that originated in the Renaissance, I knew I had to learn more. Being a dedicated analyst, I flew immediately to Italy to check it out. Or maybe I was…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCWire Feast or Famine: A Hungry Analyst’s Review of SC08 It happens every year at the Supercomputing Conference and Expo, whether it’s seafood in Seattle, pierogies in Pittsburgh, or anchos in Austin. Some days it’s a feast, others a famine. For those of you who, like me, used SC08 as an opportunity…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCWire I loved Kool-Aid when I was a kid. Not only were the commercials fantastic – admit it, if you were a kid in the 1970s, at some point you crashed through a homemade barrier singing “Oh yeah!” — but it was sweet refreshment on a hot day. My favorite was when…