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As published in HPCwire With the announcement this week that storage maker Xyratex has acquired Oracle’s Lustre assets, the popular open source parallel file system is once again completely under the control of HPC stakeholders. The deal gives Xyratex ownership of the Lustre trademark, logo, and lustre.org website, as well as related intellectual property still…

As published in the Top500 Supercomputer Blog Maybe I’m getting old, but the petascale era of supercomputing still feels new to me. On the other hand, the recent decommissioning of IBM’s Roadrunner, the world’s first petaflopper, suggests otherwise. Roadrunner booted up at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory five years ago in 2008.…

As published in ISC HPC Blog If some proposed legislation in the US becomes the law of the land, supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) might have a rather different set of workloads in the not-too-distant future. In fact, there might be less need for these supercomputers, altogether. In the death spiral that…

As published in HPCWire The HPC500 recently held its quarterly members only call and the topic was processor architectures. The group is comprised of industry leaders who steer the direction of HPC and bring HPC technology to bear on challenging problems in science, engineering, and business. Members represent a worldwide diverse group of established HPC…

s published in insideHPC IBM’s announcement this month that it would be opening up its Power processor IP for licensing by third-party developers offers hope that the future of the data center will not be just a two-way shootout between x86 and ARM. To that end, IBM launched the OpenPOWER Consortium, a group devoted to…

As published in IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub Intersect360 Research studies the opportunities for high performance technologies, including high performance computing areas in science, engineering and business. CEO Addison Snell (this week’s IBM Big Data and Analytics Hero) shares his insights with us. What are some of the challenges with getting started with big…

Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research presented the firm’s findings on HPC Software Environments in 2014 to the members of the HPC500, an elite user group of organizations that represent a worldwide, diverse collection of established HPC professionals from a cross-section of academic, government, and commercial organizations. The presentation drew on findings from several different reports.…

As published in Top500 This year at the SC conference, the iconic Beowulf Bash (Monday, Nov. 17, 9:00 p.m. to midnight, at Mardi Gras World) celebrates the 20-year history of Beowulf clusters, the 1994 achievement that would transform the HPC industry, lowering the cost-per-flop barrier for anyone ambitious enough to tackle the parallelism challenge. Today…

As published in Intel Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research interviews Raj Hazra, Vice President with Intel’s Data Center Group At the recent SC14 conference in New Orleans, Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research caught up with Raj Hazra, Vice President with Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Intel’s Technical Computing Group. To…

As published in Top500 Why does your two-year old smartphone feel like a 1975 Ford Pinto? The answer, of course, is Moore’s Law. Thanks to transistor shrinkage, the semiconductor components inside the latest handheld devices are twice as powerful as the ones in your now outdated (2013!) relic. Moore’s Law, of course, does more than…