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As published in Top500 The manufacturing segment is one of the largest markets for high performance computing, globally. In fact, the large product manufacturing sub-segment is the biggest vertical in commercial HPC. All leading automotive, aerospace, and heavy equipment manufacturers have employed HPC for decades, using the technology to design and test their products. The…

As published in Top500 Top Six Predictions Pinpoint Trends in Accelerators, Cloud, Big Data, and Shifting Vendor Market Dynamics SUNNYVALE, CA—February 24, 2015—The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance Computing platforms, according to…

As published in Data Vortex   In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents: HPC Market Update. The drive toward exascale computing, a renewed emphasis on data-centric processing, energy efficiency concerns, and the limitations of memory and I/O performance are all working to reshape High Performance…

As published in Cluster Monkey Intersect360 Research has releases their top six predictions for 2015 and a recent Systems Site Survey. The “top six” report mentions many-core accelerators, flash storage, 3D memory, integrated networking, and optical interconnects as technologies that will push HPC this year. The Site Census report provides a detailed examination of the…

As published in Primeur Magazine Intersect360 Research surveyed the HPC user community to complete its seventh Site Budget Allocation Map, a look at how HPC sites divide and spend their budgets. The report concludes that hardware represents the largest overall budget item, accounting for 45% of the total HPC budget in 2014. Staffing continues to…

As published in Next Platform The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. The $67 billion deal covers a panoply of technologies from the outmoded to the innovative, setting up the combined mega-firm to…

As published in HPC Wire The goal in this analysis of networks is to examine the installations by network type and by supplier across the three locales (system, storage, and LAN) within the HPC user communities.

As published in The Next Platform Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). I look at product announcements, of course, and SC15 promises to have some big ones, but ultimately, the biggest stories are the ones that have context and meaning beyond individual…

As published in Primeur Magazine Intersect360 published two (sponsored) reports: “HPC Application Support for GPU Computing” and “Accelerated Computing: A Tipping Point for HPC”. In the latter report they write: “Over the last three years, accelerators have become firmly established in high performance computing (HPC), a significant part of the transition into another new era…

As published in Primeur Magazine In “This Week In HPC” podcast Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the November 2015 TOP500 list. China is taking the TOP500 list more serious. That explains part of the big growth of China’s presence in the list. Both two systems in the TOP10 are from Cray.