High-Performance Computing

An open invitation to work on the worlds fastest computer

25 August 2015

In conversation with Tom Wilkie, the deputy designer of Tianhe-2 spoke warmly of the benefits of peaceful and open international cooperation in using supercomputers for science

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Mobile apps launched for XSEDE user portal

25 August 2015

The XSEDE User Portal Project has introduced two mobile apps to aid researchers in making better use of XSEDE resources and services

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SMT Nut 82 series

14 July 2015

Fivetech has announced that its SMT Nut 82 series is to provide a complete product line for all thread sizes, which it believes will gradually replace traditional assembly

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IBM Cloud to offer Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators

13 July 2015

IBM has announced that it is now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers

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Allinea 5.1

13 July 2015

Allinea Software has released version 5.1 of its development tool suite and performance analysis tools, with a focus on improving the energy efficiency of application software

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Accelerating the development of HPC

7 July 2015

Robert Roe investigates how accelerators are driving the design of new architectures in HPC to solve the challenges of exascale computing

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Software softens energy demands

7 July 2015

Software approaches to energy efficiency in HPC may yield unexpected improvements in the hardware of next-generation mobile phone networks, Tom Wilkie discovers

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Cool ways to save energy

7 July 2015

Tom Wilkie admires the ingenuity of the engineers who are devising so many ways to keep supercomputers cool

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How do you measure a supercomputer's speed?

7 July 2015

Adrian Giordani asks what benchmarks should be applied as the nature of supercomputing changes on the way to exascale

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Parallel programs need new maths

7 July 2015

From the PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie and Robert Roe report on the inadequacies of Open Source and commercial software, support for Irish industry, and HPC policies in Europe and Japan

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The Pistoia Alliance has been pioneering initiatives that will support organisations as they work to enable and engage Fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of data management and stewardship in their organisations.

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Energy-efficient supercomputing

By increasing the energy efficiency of a supercomputer scientists can save huge amounts of money over the total lifecycle of the system. With ever-increasing core counts and increasingly large supercomputers, the drive for increased computational power comes at a cost.

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