The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports high-impact scientific [...]

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by Douglas Eadline Ph.D.
When multi-core processors first appeared, I wanted to know the answer to a simple question. If a program runs on a single core in X number of seconds, then Y copies should run in the same amount of time, provided Y is less than or equal to the number of cores and [...]

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Nvidia’s New CUDA Toolkit 4.0 Release Candidate (RC), and associated drivers, SDK code samples and documentation are now available for download from the CUDA Registered Developer Portal. If you are a registered developer, you can download it from here.
Here’s an NVIDIA presentation with the new features of CUDA 4.0.
CUDA 4.0 Overview [pdf]

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Over the next decade, scientists will command the abilities of computers operating at exaflops speeds – 1,000 times faster than today’s best machines, or greater than one billion laptops working together.
With that kind of power, researchers could unravel the secrets of disease-causing proteins, develop efficient ways to produce fuels from chaff, make more precise climate [...]

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by Rob Farber
General purpose graphics processor unit (GPGPU) technology has arrived during a perfect storm of opportunities. Multi-threaded software is now a necessity as x86 and other conventional processor designs have been forced to adopt a multi-core approach. From dual core cell phones to IBM Power 7 systems that will support well over a [...]

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The European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is formed with the goal of building a European vision and roadmap to address the challenge of the new generation of massively parallel systems composed of millions of heterogeneous cores which will provide Petaflop performances in 2010 and Exaflop performances in 2020.

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by Michael Ewan
This paper discusses recent (Originally Published On January 23, 2009) research and testing of clustered, parallel file systems and object storage technology. Also included is an overview of product announcements from HP, IBM and Panasas in these areas.

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The HPC Advisory Council today announced that Xiangqian Hu from Duke University has received
the prestigious HPC Advisory Council 2010 University Award for advanced research in the subject
area of high-performance computing. Twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council selects worthy proposals allowing winners to benefit from the council’s wide range of resources and events, including [...]

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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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In November 2010, the Big Easy plays host to discoverers of the future at SC10. Taking place from November 13 to 19, 2010 in New Orleans, LA, the international conference offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific [...]

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by Suzanne Tracy
A distinguished group of researchers and IT professionals assembled on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in Huntsville, AL, to share their expertise and perspectives in a one-day workshop, part of a series of such gatherings being organized by Dell’s HPC solutions team under the theme “Enabling Discovery.” Tim Carroll, Senior Manager with Dell’s [...]

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by Eugene Loh
The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program sought a tenfold productivity improvement in trans-petaflop systems for high-performance computing (HPC). This article describes programmability studies undertaken by Sun Microsystems in its HPCS participation. These studies were distinct from Sun’s ongoing development of a new HPC programming language (Fortress) and the company’s broader HPCS [...]

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SGI, a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Cyclone, the world’s first large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications.
Until now, cloud solutions have been primarily focused on running important business applications like CRM, ERP, email and other database programs. Cyclone capitalizes on over 20 [...]

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If you build a supercomputer out of Atom chips, will someone buy it? That remains to be seen, but it’s a compelling enough idea to score $9.3m from the US Department of Energy.
You can click here to read about SeaMicro, a small company that picked up the dough to develop an Atom-based supercomputer.
The story describes [...]

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The PADTAD 2010 workshop is a two-day event at ISSTA 2010, focusing on techniques and systems that aid in the testing, analysis, and debugging of multi-threaded, parallel and distributed applications and systems. The workshop has a practical and applied emphasis on systems that have been implemented in (at least) prototype form, but also welcomes submissions [...]

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CAPS, a leading global provider of compiler technologies and engineering services for parallel hybrid
computing, has announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will use CAPS’ HMPP
compiler to leverage the computing power of a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based hybrid cluster.
As a world leader in high-performance computing (HPC), ORNL is preparing the future of next-
generation petascale computing [...]

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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 [...]

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by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
There was plenty of action in the HPC arena this year: the leap forward in GPU computing, the spread of cloud computing into the HPC realm, and the continuing multicore juggernaut, to name a few. But what really dominated the news from week to week in 2009 was the effect [...]

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by Andrew Jones, Vice-President of HPC Business at Numerical Algorithms Group
As we turn the decade into the 2020s, we take a nostalgic look back at the last ten years of supercomputing. It’s amazing to think how much has changed in that time. Many of our older readers will recall how things were before the official [...]

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NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs have been getting quite a share of positive responses lately. Not only can they be used to create supercomputers that completely overshadow other clusters in the area of power efficiency, but they are capable of massive parallel processing tasks that make them quite suited to heavy computing operations. More recently, the well-known [...]

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