Control
HPC Schedulers Snap To Docker
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Compute
HPC Scales Out of Balance With CPU-Heavy Thinking
Evaluating the true performance of HPC systems has never been quite as simple as tracking incremental improvements across processor generations, but is increasingly focused on how these tweaks affect the entire stack–and whether such gains are even useful from a memory or I/O perspective. …
Compute
Procter and Gamble Moves Closer to GPU Computing
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
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NVIDIA Tesla CTO Looks Ahead to Future HPC Systems
Times are booming for the high performance computing oriented Tesla division within Nvidia, according to the company’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang who pointed to 10X growth in their supercomputing line since 2008 during his keynote this morning at the annual GPU Technology Conference. …
Compute
The Tiny Chip That Could Disrupt Exascale Computing
Update to the original story post-funding and DARPA contact
When Rex Computing CEO, Thomas Sohmers, was working with embedded computing systems for military applications at MIT at age 13, his thoughts turned to much larger scale systems. …
Control
SUSE Shares View on HPC to Enterprise Transition
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
AI
HPC Clusters Lead a Double Life with Hadoop
The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. …
Compute
AMD Hints At Future HPC Push
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
Enterprise
Where is Lustre Finding its Brightest Shine?
Lustre will continue to grow in enterprise settings, but as we have described in part one and part two of this extended series on the state of the HPC-centric file system, it appears it will probably not have a sudden, meteoric rise to the top of the large enterprise list if users are not already invested in high performance computing infrastructure and applications. …
AI
When Data Needs More Firepower: The HPC, Analytics Convergence
Big data arguably originated in the global high-performance computing (HPC) community in the 1950s for government applications such as cryptography, weather forecasting, and space exploration. …