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2010 Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach Awards
This year, I again had the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the IEEE Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, both of which were presented...
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Welcome to SC10: Opening Keynote, Top500 List
SC10—the premier conference for supercomputing—has begun. This post touches on a few highlights from the first day of the full technical program, including the...
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In Vivo, In Vitro, In Silico
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics...
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Web Applications Crave Memory
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.
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The Future of Electronic Design Automation, According to IBM
To paraphrase Mr. Meyerson: A truly talented engineer is someone who, when his hand gets slammed in a doorway and is badly hurt, inserts his other hand in the doorway...
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Electronic Voting Systems
What are the implications of electronic voting? Which countries are using this system? What are the advantages of using such systems? And what are the problems...
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SC09 Reflections: The Need For Speed
SC09 (aka the “Supercomputing Conference”) was held during the week of November 16. The conference set an attendance record this year – roughly 10,000 attendees...
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Technology
A short review of some of the hidden social and environmental costs of technology.
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Who Needs Massively Multi-Core?
Do consumers want massively multi-core? Or would they rather have lower power consumption and better memory bandwidth? Are we building what people want?
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Cray and Fernbach Award Winners
This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards, which recognize outstanding contributions...
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Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
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The Fallacy of Rankings
The list of the world's fastest computers will soon be announced. As always, we can expect the latest announcement to garner interest among the technological community...
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HPC: Making a Small Fortune
There is an old joke in the high-performance computing community that begins with a question, “How do you make a small fortune in high-performance computing?” There...
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When Petascale Is Just Too Slow
Evolution or revolution, it’s the persistent question. Can we build reliable esascale systems from extrapolations of current technology or will new approaches be...
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What To Do With Those Idle Cores?
So many processors on our desktops. Four cores, eight cores, soon we will see hundreds of cores. Almost all of them are going to be idle most of the time. If...
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