Mitrionics Looks Beyond FPGAs
At SC09 this week, Mitrionics announced it has started to work on an experimental compiler that aims to make parallel programming architecture-agnostic. The goal of the work is to extend the Mitrion-C...
View ArticleTokyo Tech Aims for 3 Petaflop Super in 2010
While wandering the SC09 show floor on Tuesday, I happened to catch the end of a presentation by Satoshi Matsuoka, the project lead for the TSUBAME supercomputer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology....
View ArticleJaguar Scales TOP500
When first deployed in 2005, the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab booted up with a peak speed of only 26 teraflops. Since then it has been continuously enhanced with additional cabinets...
View ArticleParallel NFS Is the Future Standard to Manage Petabyte Level Growth
IT professionals are constantly being challenged to manage exponential growth that has reached petabyte levels. With more and more data taxing the system, performance sacrifices are always a...
View ArticleBig Blue Simulates Little Brain
Even though IBM’s Roadrunner machine got dethroned from its number one spot on the TOP500 list, a research team at the company made some big news this week at the Supercomputing conference, announcing...
View ArticleReconfigurable Computing Research Pushes Forward
Despite all the all the recent hoopla about GPGPUs and eight-core CPUs, proponents of reconfigurable computing continue to sing the praises of FPGA-based HPC. The main advantage of reconfigurable...
View ArticleUbiquitous Parallelism and the Classroom
The oft-contended best simple statement is that we need ubiquitous parallelism in the classroom. Once upon a time, it was solely the lunatic fringe, programming esoteric architectures squirreled away...
View ArticleExascale Expectations
During Al Gore’s SC09 keynote speech on Thursday, he correctly observed that “Moore’s Law is not a law of physics, it’s a law of self-fulfilling expectations.” So it is with the unwritten law of...
View ArticleVendors to Watch
With all the SC09 news being broadcast this week, I neglected to cover our very own 2009 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. As per our annual tradition, we recognize some of the biggest...
View ArticleIntel CTO Tells HPC Crowd to Get a Second Life
The opening address of the Supercomputing Conference had a surreal quality to it in more ways than one. Between talking avatars, physics-simulated sound, and a Larrabee demo running HPC-type codes, it...
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