April 21, 2018

Laura Segervall

As published in HPCWire The HPC500 recently held its quarterly members only call and the topic was processor architectures. The group is comprised of industry leaders who steer the direction of HPC and bring HPC technology to bear on challenging problems in science, engineering, and business. Members represent a worldwide diverse group of established HPC…

April 21, 2018

Christopher G. Willard Ph.D., Michael Feldman

s published in insideHPC IBM’s announcement this month that it would be opening up its Power processor IP for licensing by third-party developers offers hope that the future of the data center will not be just a two-way shootout between x86 and ARM. To that end, IBM launched the OpenPOWER Consortium, a group devoted to…

April 21, 2018

Intersect360 Research

As published in IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub Intersect360 Research studies the opportunities for high performance technologies, including high performance computing areas in science, engineering and business. CEO Addison Snell (this week’s IBM Big Data and Analytics Hero) shares his insights with us. What are some of the challenges with getting started with big…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research presented the firm’s findings on HPC Software Environments in 2014 to the members of the HPC500, an elite user group of organizations that represent a worldwide, diverse collection of established HPC professionals from a cross-section of academic, government, and commercial organizations. The presentation drew on findings from several different reports….

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in Top500 This year at the SC conference, the iconic Beowulf Bash (Monday, Nov. 17, 9:00 p.m. to midnight, at Mardi Gras World) celebrates the 20-year history of Beowulf clusters, the 1994 achievement that would transform the HPC industry, lowering the cost-per-flop barrier for anyone ambitious enough to tackle the parallelism challenge. Today…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in Intel Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research interviews Raj Hazra, Vice President with Intel’s Data Center Group At the recent SC14 conference in New Orleans, Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research caught up with Raj Hazra, Vice President with Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Intel’s Technical Computing Group. To…

April 21, 2018

As published in Top500 Why does your two-year old smartphone feel like a 1975 Ford Pinto? The answer, of course, is Moore’s Law. Thanks to transistor shrinkage, the semiconductor components inside the latest handheld devices are twice as powerful as the ones in your now outdated (2013!) relic. Moore’s Law, of course, does more than…

April 21, 2018

Intersect360 Research Contribution

As published in Top500 The manufacturing segment is one of the largest markets for high performance computing, globally. In fact, the large product manufacturing sub-segment is the biggest vertical in commercial HPC. All leading automotive, aerospace, and heavy equipment manufacturers have employed HPC for decades, using the technology to design and test their products. The…

April 21, 2018

Intersect360 Research

As published in Top500 Top Six Predictions Pinpoint Trends in Accelerators, Cloud, Big Data, and Shifting Vendor Market Dynamics SUNNYVALE, CA—February 24, 2015—The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance Computing platforms, according to…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in Data Vortex   In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents: HPC Market Update. The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance…