Has the big multi-core Xeon and Opteron server jumped the HPC shark?

The low power Intel Atom offers some interesting possibilities for HPC. Does it make sense to try this approach?

Increasing total cost of ownership (TCO) may make throw-away nodes an option in the future

A trip to New York City to discuss HPC is a nice diversion from the basement life style.

Intel recently released an experimental processor that resembles a cluster on a chip.

The growth of clustered HPC is do in part to the freedom to choose (and toasters).

It has been well over ten years since the first Linux clusters arrived in the HPC market. What's next?

Combing things in parallel often has unexpected consequences and outcomes.

Sony removes choice from the PS3 and personal HPC takes a hit

InterSect360 shares some valuable marketing insights about the HPC market and invites HPC leadership

New additions to Sun Grid Engine allow integration with Clouds and Hadoop (map-reduce) jobs

nVidia CUDA may be the rage, but OpenCL is a standard that has some features you may need.

This month we are supposed to hear about new multi-core processors from both AMD and Intel. Should we be happy?

Managing power can save money especially if it is from your wallet

Introduced less than three years ago, the rapid growth of the CUDA software model is no accident

Can a solution for HPC software live within MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, and/or Ct?

Commodity trends at the low end are generating interesting ideas in HPC

Our final videos include Appro, 10GigE, and making sense of it all

Let's all help the Haiti relief effort and then watch some cutting edge videos

I get the latest from AMD, talk with Don Becker, and then get disruptive

A new year is upon us, but wait, I'm not done with the old one yet!

Truth is stranger than fiction. The connection that helped end HPC careers and companies in 2009

This week we hear from Intel, Numascale, and Mellanox. Plus some thoughts on single node HPC solutions

One of the challenges facing HPC are I/O rates and new clusters designs are paving the way to new levels of performance.

The first videos from SC09 are here. We take a look at the Beowulf Bash, SCinet, NVidia, and Adaptive Computing (previously Cluster Resources

The big show is over and now all that remains is to make sense of it all

Let's use the HPC fist bump this year.

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