The road to exascale computing is a long one, but the Georgia Institute of Technology, a new leader in high-performance computing research and education, continues to win new awards and attract new talent to drive technology innovation. From algorithms to architectures and applications, Georgia Tech’s researchers are collaborating with top companies, national labs and defense [...]

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by Mark Raby
Samsung has its Galaxy S, Motorola has the Droid, HTC has the Evo, and now it’s time for LG to step up its game. And boy, is it rising to the occasion.
According to leaked information obtained by Engadget, LG is working on a massively powerful Android phone - so powerful that it has [...]

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The supercomputing community understands how critical it is to tightly integrate hardware and software, particularly with today’s continued march to multi-core, scale out supercomputing platforms. It’s not just hardware differentiated by raw performance that moves this performance-oriented market; its software tools including compilers, debuggers and libraries that are key mechanisms for creating computing environments [...]

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The newly released version of the Mathematica scientific number-crunching software allows users to enter calculations in plain English, the company announced Monday.
With Wolfram Research’s Mathematica 8, now available, the user can simply type in the desired calculation and the software will interpret the input and, presumably, return the correct answer. The company calls this feature [...]

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By Patrick Thibodeau
U.S. supercomputing dominance is being challenged in ways not seen before, and that may be the best thing to ever happen to this field, particularly in Washington’s climate of cost-cutting.
Of the top four systems on the semi-annual Top500 list of the world’s leading supercomputers, which was released this week, two are in China: [...]

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by Jason Mick, Daily Tech
If it can beat Atom+Ion netbooks in cost AMD will have this round in the bag
AMD several years back entered a phase where it was full of big talk, but delivered very little. Then a couple of years ago it began to turn the corner, with its aggressive delivery of [...]

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Researchers have devised a theoretical quantum computer that could function even if one in four quantum bits (qubits) were missing. With scientists struggling to build devices as large as three qubits, the new method could bring future applications closer by lowering the engineering requirements of a functional machine.
University of Queensland physicist Thomas Stace worked with [...]

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Wolfram Research today announced the release of Mathematica 8, the latest version of its flagship computation, development, and deployment platform that introduces the breakthrough concept of linguistically controlled computing. Integrating technology of Wolfram|Alpha, the Mathematica-powered computational knowledge engine, makes it possible to enter math or data calculations in plain English and get immediate answers or [...]

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by Rick Merritt
Engineers are exploring radical shifts in computing to deliver exascale-class systems by 2018. Their efforts recognize that today’s best designs are too complex and power hungry to execute a quintillion instructions per second.
“If we don’t do this kind of work, exascale systems will consume 100 megawatts instead of the five MW today’s top [...]

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Cray Inc., Intel Corporation, and Swift Engineering have been collectively recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for “Best Use of HPC in Automotive.”
Swift is a product development company that designs and builds innovative products from race cars to jet planes. The Company uses the Cray CX1 and Cray CX1000 high performance [...]

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AMD announced that its upcoming 16-core server platform based on the “Bulldozer” core has been selected by the editors of HPCWire as one of the top 5 new products or technologies to watch in 2011. AMD was also selected as one of the top vendors to watch, and the highly technical readership of HPCWire named [...]

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by John West
Reinvention and change have always been at the core of HPC. As new technologies enter the computing landscape, our community adopts and adapts what it finds on the quest to expand the capabilities of the tools of discovery and exploration that we provide to enable the “makers” — the scientists, engineers, and thinkers [...]

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In this SC10 update video, Mike Bernhardt interviews Trish Damkroger, S10 Workshop co-chair, and Jim Costa, Deputy Technical Program Chair. Jim and Trish give us a summary of the Monday highlights from the show and a preview of the SC10 Keynote and other notable things to come on Tuesday, November 16.

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Based on GPU programming and tuning directives, HMPP offers an incremental programming model that allows developers with different levels of expertise to fully exploit GPU hardware accelerators in their legacy code.
With the last generation of GPU, performance gain can be improved by executing several kernels on a same GPU. In its latest 2.4 version, [...]

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by Mike May
Scientific simulations can tackle larger problems and produce more accurate answers, as computing grows increasingly parallel. This need for parallel processing proves particularly crucial for some questions, including how to make better drugs and how elements formed after the Big Bang. Such simulations may require millions of iterations, with results feeding back into [...]

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Super Micro Computer, Inc., the global leader in server technology innovation and green computing, is exhibiting an impressive selection of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions at the SuperComputing 2010 (SC10) Conference (booth 3829) held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, November 15-18, including a first peek at the SuperServer 5086B-TRF that supports [...]

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At Supercomputing 2010 (SC10), AMD today announces that 24 of the top 50 fastest supercomputers ranked in the bi-annual TOP500 list are using AMD’s CPU and/or GPU technology, including half of the top 10. 59 supercomputers in the TOP500 list are now taking advantage of the massive compute power offered by AMD Opteron™ platforms, including [...]

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SGI, a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction of SGI Prism™ XL, a breakthrough new product for accelerator-based high performance computing (HPC). SGI Prism XL was purpose-built to fully leverage the scale and speed of accelerators, enabling customer to scale to the tens of petaflops or large teraflop range.
SGI Prism XL boasts [...]

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by Patrick Darling
Intel Corporation today announced that its Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors, announced earlier this year, are at the heart of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A. Located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, Tianhe-1A contains 14,396 Intel processors accompanied by accelerator cards, and has demonstrated groundbreaking performance of 2.57 [...]

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NVIDIA announced today that, for the first time ever, enterprises and start-ups will be able to access the supercomputing-class performance of NVIDIA(R) Tesla(TM) GPUs through a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering, called Cluster GPU Instances. This new offering extends the available options for flexible, on-demand high performance computing (HPC) within the Amazon Web [...]

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