by Michael Feldman, editor of HPCwire
It was a tough year for HPC vendors — well, any vendor actually. But in 2009, we also witnessed the acceleration of GPU computing, an increased acceptance of cloud computing for HPC, and the beginning of the post-quad-core era. There were also a number of other interesting developments in the HPC universe. Here are my top 10 picks of hits and misses for 2009.
Hit: NVIDIA Lights a Fire Under GPU Computing
Miss: Other Accelerators Hit the Brakes
Hit: Government Stimulus to the Rescue
Hit and Miss: Cloud Computing in HPC
Miss: Thinning the HPC Herd
Hit: Cray Defies Economic Gravity
Hit and Miss: A Fickle Japanese Government
Hit: InfiniBand Rising
Hit: Intel Nehalem
Miss: The Joys of High Frequency Trading
