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The History of Cluster HPC

Stepping Back to Move Forward: Breaking the rules could offer some new avenues for the future of HPC.

The Magellan Report on Cloud Computing

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in December issued a detailed report summarizing the Magellan project, which investigated the role of cloud computing, addressing the HPC computing needs of scientists funded by the DOE Office of Science.

HPC Storage – Getting Started with I/O Profiling

HPC Storage is arguably one of the most pressing issues in HPC. Selecting various HPC Storage solutions is a problem that requires some research, study, and planning to be effective – particularly cost-effective. Getting this process started usually means understanding how your applications perform I/O. This article presents some techniques for examining I/O patterns in HPC applications.

Top Three HPC Roadblocks

The HPC market has come a long way in the last decade, but some issues still impede the full potential of the market.

Co-Design Approach to Supercomputing

Computationally complex problems constrained by conventional machine architectures might be improved with the use of hardware/software co-design, wherein components are purpose-built for specific applications.

Look for Bottlenecks with Open|SpeedShop

Using the Open|SpeedShop Performance Tool to Find Application Performance Bottlenecks

What's Ahead for OpenMP?

We talk with Michael Wong and Matthijs van Waveren about the latest developments surrounding the OpenMP ARB consortium.

AMD Rolls Out Opteron 4200 and 6200 Series Processor

AMD's new Opteron 6200 chip is tooled for HPC, with a revolutionary 16-core design and improved power management features.

OpenMP

OpenMP brings the power of multiprocessing to your C, C++, and Fortran programs.

hwloc

Examine and optimize your server’s internal topology with this hardware locality tool suite.