Archives for September 2013

Supercomputing the League of Extraordinary Matter

Researchers are using supercomputers to expand our understanding of how the matter of the early universe transformed into the stuff of our familiar everyday world.

Lustre at the Australian National Computational Infrastructure

Joseph Antony from NCI presents: Lustre at the Australian National Computational Infrastructure.

Announcing October Lustre User Group Meetings in APAC

The first annual APAC Lustre User Group (LUG) event will be held in China, home of Tianhe-2, currently #1 on the TOP500. The second event will be held in Japan, home of the K Computer, #1 in 2011.

OpenFramework Working Group Launched to Improve Application I/O

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has created a group that will focus on designing a software framework that enables an application to easily access I/O services appropriate to its needs.

An Interview with SC13 Keynote Speaker, Dr. Genevieve Bell

In this podcast interview, Intel Fellow and SC13 Keynote Speaker, Genevieve Bell discusses her hopes for the SC13 keynote and the exciting challenges ahead for technology achievement.

Interview: The Ubercloud HPC Experiment

This interview describes how the Ubercloud project is working to help SMEs to adopt Cloud HPC.

DOE Report: Exascale System will Cost up to $1.4 Billion

Over at Fierce Government IT, David Perera writes that a June Energy Department report to Congress indicates that building a viable exascale supercomputer by 2022 will likely require at least $1 billion to $1.4 billion in funding and won’t occur in America unless federal agencies spend money on its development. Exascale suffers the problem of […]

Podcast: Supercomputers Power the America’s Cup

This year’s America’s Cup race is just as much about computing speed as it is about sailing.

insideBIGDATA Brings on a Data Scientist as Managing Editor

I am very excited to share the news that Daniel Gutierrez has joined the editorial team at our sister publication, insideBIGDATA.

HPC On-Demand: the Impact on Training

In this special feature from Scientific Computing World, Stephane Raynaud reports on the evolution in training content and style for HPC on-demand users.