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IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fattest of them all? The IT universe is seeing a massive collision taking place as the worlds of high-performance computing, big data and warehousing intermingle. IBM is pushing its General Parallel File System (GPFS) further to broaden its footprint in this space, with the 3.5 release adding big data and async replication features as well as customer ...

Mon, 21 May 2012 08:15:22 -0700

Amazon's HPC Cloud: Supercomputing for the 99 Percent
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is becoming increasingly popular for high-performance computing. It’s now capable of running many of the applications that previously required building out a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center.

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:49:00 -0700

Amazon’s HPC cloud: supercomputing for the 99%
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is becoming increasingly popular for high-performance computing. It's now capable of running many of the applications that previously required building out a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. But as you might expect, Amazon EC2 can’t do everything a traditional supercomputer can. Scientific applications that require super-fast ...

Wed, 02 May 2012 06:23:40 -0700

Nvidia takes its GPU to the enterprise cloud
The graphics chip specialist has shown off Tesla chips and other technology based on its new Kepler GPU architecture, which it says can boost desktop virtualisation, BYOD and 'democratise' supercomputing ( ZDNet UK - Cloud )

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:35:32 -0700

Moore's Law Over, Supercomputing "In Triage," Says Expert
A dean of high performance computing says silicon is at the end of the line. High Performance Computing expert Thomas Sterling would like you to know that a computing goal you've never heard of will probably never be reached. The reason you should care is that it means the end of Moore's Law , which says that roughly every 18 months the amount of computing you get for a buck doubles.

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:20:39 -0700