SC Launches HPC Matters Video Challenge
With SC13 in Denver, Colorado, starting to wind down, this mostly-volunteer organization is looking ahead to SC14, where the conference will reprise its SC10 venue: New Orleans. The theme for next...
View ArticleNVIDIA Kepler Parts Top Green500
Twice a year, in step with the biannual TOP500 list, the Green500 list ranks the most powerful systems in the world based on energy-efficiency. Published Wednesday evening at SC13, this year’s Green500...
View ArticleMont Blanc Forges Cluster from Smartphone Chips
The Mont Blanc project, an effort by a number of European supercomputing centers and vendors that seeks to create an energy-efficient supercomputer based on ARM processors and GPU coprocessors, has put...
View ArticleGordon Bell Prize Bubbles from Sequoia
Each year at SC, the ACM hands out one of the most coveted awards, the Gordon Bell Prize. The award, which became a regular feature of SC, began in 1987 and now carries a $10,000 prize sponsored by...
View ArticleMicron Exposes the Double Life of Memory with Automata Processor
If we had to take a pick from some of the most compelling announcements from SC13, the news from memory vendor (although that narrow distinction may soon change) Micron about its new Automata processor...
View ArticleIntel Brings Knights to the Roundtable at SC13
This week during SC13, Intel hosted a roundtable session to discuss the future of its upcoming Knights Landing product, hitting on where the key benefits are expected for technical computing users and...
View ArticleHPC Luminaries Reflect on 25 Years of SC
As SC13 comes to a close, we thought it might be a good time to take a look back at what the last 25 years of the SC conference has meant for key people in the supercomputing space. From Jack Dongarra,...
View ArticleSC13 Wrapup: Supercomputing’s Top Themes
For those of us who traveled to Denver for SC13, it’s now back to “normal” as the year in high performance computing begins its slow descent into relative silence before a fresh start in 2014. Sitting...
View ArticleBig Data Begets Big Storage Announcements; SC13 Winds Down
This week’s podcast discusses big announcements from NetApp, Xyratex, and DataDirect Networks. It also delves into what impressed at SC13 and what was missing from this year’s show. The post Big Data...
View ArticleSC13 in Review: The Week’s Top Newsmakers
This year at SC13 we counted over 100 HPC-specific announcements that hit the wires over the course of the week, many of which were from vendors, organizations and users that we were within a short...
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