by Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld
At the supercomputing conference here, there’s an almost obsessive focus on developing an exascale computing system — one that would be roughly 1,000 times more powerful than any existing system — before the end of the decade.

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by Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.
MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal by designing a computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information. This phenomenon, known [...]

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by Sylvie Barak, EETimes
Disruptive technologies like the GPU are important steps on the path to exascale computing said Nvidia Corp.’s CEO Jen Hsun Huang in a keynote at SC11 on Tuesday (Nov. 15).
With supercomputing already an essential tool in modern science, Huang said the industry’s work in the space was “vitally important to society and [...]

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by Jansen Ng, Daily Tech
GPGPU and cloud computing have been hot topics for the last several years. Intel has shown off several designs like Larrabee and the Single-chip Cloud Computer in the past. However, it is Knights Corner that will be the firm’s first commercial product to use the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. It [...]

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by Jansen Ng, Daily Tech
AMD launched its much anticipated Bulldozer architecture for the consumer market last month, but many were disappointed at the performance numbers. Now the company has officially launched new processors using the same architecture for the server and workstation markets, but things have changed significantly.

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by Jason Mick, Daily Tech
New octacore designs will likely launch in late 2012 or early 2013 in Samsung smartphones and tablets
ARM Holdings, Plc. (LON:ARM) is making waves in the crowded mobile graphics market, airing a new, more powerful next-generation design [1][2].
The chipmaker, best known for its licensed reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, [...]

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The University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has finalized a contract with Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY), to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project.
This new Cray supercomputer will support significant research advances in a broad range of science and engineering domains, meeting the needs of the most compute-intensive, [...]

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Directives-Based Programming Makes Accelerating Applications Using CPUs and GPUs Dramatically Easier Than Modifying Underlying Code
In an effort to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of parallel computing, NVIDIA, Cray Inc., the Portland Group (PGI), and CAPS enterprise announced today a new parallel-programming standard, known as OpenACC™.
Initially developed by PGI, Cray, and NVIDIA, with [...]

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CORVALLIS, OR (1 November 2011) - Today marks the official launch of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing. SIGHPC is the first international group within a major professional society that is devoted exclusively to the needs of students, faculty, and practitioners in high performance computing.

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