Archives for November 2013

Interview: Jason Stowe on Cycle Computing’s World Record

In this video, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing discusses how the company is breaking records of scale using Cloud HPC on the Amazon Cloud.

Low-Power Supercomputing Demo at SC13 Emerging Technologies Exhibit

In this video, Roger Ronald, Chief System Architect at System Fabric Works describes the company’s demonstration of low-power supercomputing at the SC13 Emerging Technologies exhibit. Using Freescale SoCs, the company demonstrated the potential of 64-bit supercomputing.

Carver Mead on the Need to Leap Ahead with Quantum Computing

Over at MIT Technology Review, Tom Simonite interviews Carver Mead, the computer scientist who came up with the term, “Moore’s Law” on the topic of quantum computing.

Micron Announces Automata Parallel Processing Architecture

Last week at SC13, Micron Technology announced a new computing architecture capable of performing high-speed, big data processing.

PSNC in Poland Chills with Iceotope Cooling

Iceotope, the environmental cooling specialist, has announced the installation of its liquid-cooled servers inside the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland, a 3,200sq ft colocation facility offering shared HPC services to scientists, universities and researchers from around the world. The installation is part of the European PRACE Research Project (Partnership for Advanced Computing […]

Steve Oberlin Joins Nvidia as Tesla CTO

Steve Oberlin has joined Nvidia as CTO for their Tesla business unit. This is a smart a move for Nvidia as they look to continue their momentum in the HPC market. And I have to say it was great for me to see Oberlin back in the game at SC13.

Deskside Hadoop System Revives the Notion of Personal Supercomputing

Over at Scalability.org, Joe Landman writes that a new “Deskside Hadoop” system from Basement Supercomputing is reviving the idea of a personal supercomputer.

Video: Team Germany Wins Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge

In this video, Mike Bernhardt from The Exascale Report and James Reinders from Intel wrap up the final round of the Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at SC13.

Meet the Winners of the SC13 Student Cluster Competition

In this video, Dan Olds interviews Team Longhorn, the overall winning team in the Student Cluster Competition at SC13.

SC13 Awards Roundup: Students Trounce Old-Timers in Celebrity Pro-AM

SC13 wrapped its 25th anniversary conference wrapped today with awards for the very best in supercomputing.