Cloud
ANSYS Leaps HPC Cloud Software License Barrier
For those who want to run high performance computing applications in the public cloud, there are limited options, but not for the reasons one might expect. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Control
Omega To Become Part Of Google’s Borg Collective
The fact that Google calls its massive-scale resource management framework “Borg” is, in itself, rather a brilliant thing. …
Connect
SDN Startup Pushes Switch To Open Hardware
As datacenter operators push for more choices to maximize performance and efficiency, the limited options for network operating systems against preferred hardware platforms are a new target for startups hoping to upend the established network world. …
Compute
Simulating the Next Generation of Quantum Computers
Just as modeling and simulation tools are being used to design and test prototypes of everything from rocket engines to safer tools, so too are they being used in novel ways to model technologies that rest on the edge of commercial reality. …
HPC
Still Shrouded in Stealth, DSSD Proves Early Performance at Scale
Around this time last year, EMC announced the acquisition of DSSD, a storage acceleration startup founded by a slew of ex-Sun leads, including Andy Bechtolsheim (one of the original Sun founders), Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of Sun’s ZFS file system) and led by Bill Moore as CEO (former head of storage at Sun). …
Compute
Why You Should Give A Damn About Supercomputers
When you hear the word “supercomputer,” what are the first mental images that pop into your head? …
HPC
Supercomputers Bump Against the End of Another Era
When one looks at major milestones in supercomputer history, one of the relatively recently markers rests with IBM, which began work its work to create a massively parallel system for protein folding research. …
HPC
An Insider’s View of Financial Modeling on HPC Systems
Back in 2008, the global economy came crashing down sending many organizations and individuals into a state of financial ruin. …
Connect
What’s Inside Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework?
When we broke the news about the upcoming Intel and Cray contract for the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2018, we talked in depth about the unique Knights Hill based architecture of the future machine and referenced a new paradigm for high-end HPC systems that Intel refers to as the HPC scalable system framework. …
HPC
Why Big Oil Keeps Spending on Massive Supercomputers
With per barrel oil prices down by about 50 percent from the previous four years, the question naturally arises: “Why are oil and gas giants spending millions on new supercomputers?” …