Posts Tagged with 'hpc'

The promise of a sofa at SC10 has all the hallmarks of a successful trade show.

The often forgotten community aspect of HPC gets remembered each year at the fall Supercomputing conference.

An HPC product review featuring the Appro 1U Tetra GP-GPU server

Multi-core has made it to cell phones. Doug follows up on some recent stories about low power cell phone clusters and high power multi-core memory performance

Cloud and Multi-core offer new modes of High Performance Computing. Will it suit your needs?

The new Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance may be a game changer in HPC

A recent paper by Intel provides some hard data on CPU vs GP-GPU speed-up numbers.

This week we hear from Intel, Numascale, and Mellanox. Plus some thoughts on single node HPC solutions

Hitching a ride to a fast moving technology is a welcome trend

Hybridizing MPI applications with cores and GP-GPUs. Is this a good idea?

The acquisition of Sun by Oracle raises many questions and recalls some past experiences

A Beowulf pioneer provides insights and experience from the HPC trenches.

Commodity hardware is the norm in HPC. What about commodity software?

SMPs may have cores, but clusters have bandwidth.

Will multi-core split HPC into two programming camps? Which one will you join?

Yet another multicore rant. This one is triggered by the recent Multicore Expo.

In the big picture HPC hardware is a small part of the economic equation. What are the big parts?

The wait is over. Next generation Gigabit Ethernet has hit the ground running

Getting into Ganglia for a scalable and flexible solution to the problem of cluster monitoring.

The processor market is diverging between two paths, the general and the predictable. Where does HPC hitch it's wagon?

Parallel fundamentals, what constitutes an actual parallel program, and why some applications may or may not run faster on multi-core systems.

Learn how to obtain, build, and use an MPI stack for Linux machines. This tutorial will take you from "hello world" to parallel matrix multiplication in a matter of minutes.

It's time for the yearly batch of retrospectives and predictions. Count me in! Let's see, the big thing of 2007? Well, that had to be multi-core. And, the big prediction for 2008? Why that would be multi-core, once again. There, I'm done. Enjoy your year.

In the last installment of our Parallel Platters series, Jeff Layton looks at the next generation of parallel file systems: Object Based File Systems.

High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters are easier, and cheaper, than ever to put together. If you have an interest in pulling together your own cluster, or maybe you just want to understand more about cluster technology, it’s necessary to grok the differences between clusters and standard systems.

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