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,…

April 21, 2018

Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.

“Cisco (NYSE: CSCO) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a global collaboration to provide instant Internet of Things (IoT) insight at the edge of the network. Now, businesses and organizations in remote and autonomous locations will be able to tap the combined power of IBM’s Watson IoT and business analytics technologies and Cisco’s edge analytics…

April 21, 2018

Christopher G. Willard Ph.D.

This presentation was about 40% product review, 20% Lustre overview, and 40% technical tutorial overview. There were no new announcements. Points of interest: About 65% of the lines of code in Lustre are provided by Intel. Lustre is used HPC organizations: Manufacturing and Finance stand out. Intel provides three versions of Lustre: Foundation – the…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in The Next Platform Seven years ago, it was the end for SGI. The legendary company had gone bankrupt, its remains were up for liquidation, and its relatively few remaining loyal customers were left in limbo. This week, SGI reached a new ending, significantly different from its last one, as HPE announced an…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in The Next Platform It’s elastic! It’s on-demand! It scales dynamically to meet your needs! It streamlines your operations, gives you persistent access to data, and it’s always, always cheaper. It’s cloud computing, and it’s here to save your enterprise. And yet, for all the promise of cloud, there are still segments of…

April 21, 2018

Addison Snell

As published in HPCWire A lot can change in ten years. We might move houses or change jobs. Our kids get older (and so do we). If we’re lucky we make new friends, and we’re sad when old ones pass into memory. There are some things we hold onto—our core values, our driving passions—and over…