High-Performance Computing

The way Europe has joined up its networks not only supports supercomputing on the continent, but also offers a model for international cooperation that might have lessons for the development of next-generation technology, as Tom Wilkie discovers

Lindsay Botten and Neil Stringfellow explain how Australia has developed a national HPC strategy to address the countrys unique challenges in science, climate, and economic development

John Barr surveys the technologies that will underpin the next generation of HPC processors and finds that software, not hardware, holds the key.

Concerns about energy-efficient computing are driving innovation in cooling technologies, as Robert Roe discovers

HPC is important for economic development according to several recent reports and, Robert Roe reports, announcements about next-generation US HPC systems could be made at SC14

Engineers and industry will adopt HPC in the cloud, if it is packaged up for them in a simple container, argues UberClouds Wolfgang Gentzsch

Computing in the cloud could be seductive for scientists and engineers, but Tom Wilkie finds that there are still problems to be overcome

William Payne looks at the issues faced by HPC as the volume and variety of data produced by science and engineering grow

Argonne has pioneered a course to equip researchers with the skills they need for computational science and engineering (CS&E). Its organiser, Paul Messina, calls on more institutions to offer such training

HPC need people even more than it needs technology. John Bashor reviews one initiative to attract new people into HPC, the Student Cluster Competition