HPC Up Close

• Cluster HPC History
• Magellan Report
• Advanced Computing Training Centers
• Pentaho Open Sources Kettle 4.3
• ORNL and Purdue Explore Technology at the Nanoscale

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

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. (more)

European HPC training sites announced. (more)

Pentaho Kettle 4.3 is open-sourced to Apache License v2.0. (more)

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. (more)

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

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