HPC News and Articles

How Linux and Beowulf Drove Desktop Supercomputing

Open source software and tools, the Beowulf Project, and communities change d  the face of high-performance computing.

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Why Good Applications Don’t Scale

You  ha ve parallelized your serial application ,  but as you use more cores you are  n o t seeing any improvement  in performance . What gives?

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Serverless computing with AWS Lambda

Light Work

Monitoring with AWS Lambda serverless technology reduces costs and scales to your infrastructure automatically.
AWS , cloud , HPC , Server
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Thrashing the data cache for fun and profit

Ducks in a Row

To reduce the possibility of disk thrashing, optimize your data cache through spatial locality and cache-friendly algorithms and utilize fully the data loaded from slower storage media before moving on.
data , HPC , optimization
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Porting CUDA to HIP

Give your proprietary CUDA code new life with an open platform for HPC.

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High-Performance Python – Distributed Python

Scale Python GPU code to distributed systems and your laptop.

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Logical Bombs for Fun and Benchmarking

Explosive Code

The admin can generate load a number of ways with shell commands.
Bash , cloud , CPU , HPC
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Julia: Fast as Fortran, easy as Python

Tech-Speak

The first stable release of the Julia language offers scientific and technical programmers a convenient and fast tool.
HPC , programming lan... , python , scripting
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Filesystem Murder Mystery

Hunting down a performance problem

Slow file rename prompts a cloud exploration.
AWS , HPC , performance , Storage
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OpenMP

The powerful OpenMP parallel do  directive creates parallel code for your loops.

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