April 21, 2018
Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.
As published in HPCwire The chronology of high performance computing can be divided into “ages” based on the predominant systems architectures for the period. Starting in the late 1970s vector processors dominated HPC. By the end of the next decade massively parallel processors were able to make a play for market leader. For the last…
April 21, 2018
An interview with Beowulf pioneer Thomas Sterling on the iconic Beowulf Bash as published in HPCwire and iSGTW With each successive year, the SC conference kicks off on Monday with a bigger bang. The Technical Sessions are already in full swing as exhibitors scramble to complete their booths prior to the Gala Opening Monday evening….
April 21, 2018
Addison Snell
As published in HPCwire With the announcement this week that storage maker Xyratex has acquired Oracle’s Lustre assets, the popular open source parallel file system is once again completely under the control of HPC stakeholders. The deal gives Xyratex ownership of the Lustre trademark, logo, and lustre.org website, as well as related intellectual property still…
April 21, 2018
Michael Feldman
As published in the Top500 Supercomputer Blog Maybe I’m getting old, but the petascale era of supercomputing still feels new to me. On the other hand, the recent decommissioning of IBM’s Roadrunner, the world’s first petaflopper, suggests otherwise. Roadrunner booted up at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory five years ago in 2008….
April 21, 2018
Michael Feldman
As published in ISC HPC Blog If some proposed legislation in the US becomes the law of the land, supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) might have a rather different set of workloads in the not-too-distant future. In fact, there might be less need for these supercomputers, altogether. In the death spiral that…
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…