April 21, 2018
Douglas Eadline
As published in Cluster Monkey Intersect360 Research has releases their top six predictions for 2015 and a recent Systems Site Survey. The “top six” report mentions many-core accelerators, flash storage, 3D memory, integrated networking, and optical interconnects as technologies that will push HPC this year. The Site Census report provides a detailed examination of the…
April 21, 2018
As published in Primeur Magazine Intersect360 Research surveyed the HPC user community to complete its seventh Site Budget Allocation Map, a look at how HPC sites divide and spend their budgets. The report concludes that hardware represents the largest overall budget item, accounting for 45% of the total HPC budget in 2014. Staffing continues to…
April 21, 2018
As published in Next Platform The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. The $67 billion deal covers a panoply of technologies from the outmoded to the innovative, setting up the combined mega-firm to…
April 21, 2018
As published in HPC Wire The goal in this analysis of networks is to examine the installations by network type and by supplier across the three locales (system, storage, and LAN) within the HPC user communities.
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in The Next Platform Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). I look at product announcements, of course, and SC15 promises to have some big ones, but ultimately, the biggest stories are the ones that have context and meaning beyond individual…
April 21, 2018
As published in Primeur Magazine Intersect360 published two (sponsored) reports: “HPC Application Support for GPU Computing” and “Accelerated Computing: A Tipping Point for HPC”. In the latter report they write: “Over the last three years, accelerators have become firmly established in high performance computing (HPC), a significant part of the transition into another new era…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell, Michael Feldman
As published in Primeur Magazine In “This Week In HPC” podcast Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the November 2015 TOP500 list. China is taking the TOP500 list more serious. That explains part of the big growth of China’s presence in the list. Both two systems in the TOP10 are from Cray.
April 21, 2018
Michael Feldman
As published in The Next Platform, http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/18/the-joys-of-not-owning-a-supercomputer/ Shopping for high performance computing machinery can be a sobering experience. That’s because buying high-end equipment in bulk is an expensive proposition. A single server costs only a few thousand dollars, but even a relatively modest-sized HPC cluster can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published by HPC Advisory Council, http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com By now it’s well-established that we have entered a new era for high performance computing. The industry is in a state of flux, evolving around new markets, new users, new applications, and new technologies. As these new demands affect product directions and the real-life problems they aim to…
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in “The Next Platform” Don’t just call it “the cloud.” Even if you think you know what cloud means, the word is fraught with too many different interpretations for too many people. Nevertheless, the effect of cloud computing, the web, and their assorted massive datacenters has had a profound impact on enterprise computing,…