Blogroll | Communications of the ACM

From insideHPC

Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt

Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing... staff
From insideHPC | February 24, 2015 at 10:08 AM

From insideHPC

New Algorithm Real-Time Simulations in Materials Research

Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research. staff
From insideHPC | February 21, 2015 at 12:46 PM

From insideHPC

OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference

This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19... staff
From insideHPC | February 20, 2015 at 10:40 AM

From insideHPC

Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing

Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale... staff
From insideHPC | February 19, 2015 at 10:52 AM

From insideHPC

ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP

Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and... staff
From insideHPC | February 19, 2015 at 10:36 AM

From insideHPC

Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)

There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of... staff
From insideHPC | February 19, 2015 at 10:02 AM

From insideHPC

IBM Redefines Storage Economics with New Software

"A new approach is needed to help clients address the cost and complexity driven by tremendous data growth," said Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM Systems... staff
From insideHPC | February 18, 2015 at 09:39 AM

From insideHPC

CHPC Propels Supercomputing in South Africa

CHPC Communications Manager Noxolo Moyake describes how the South African Center for High Performance Computing is fostering the use of supercomputing in the region... staff
From insideHPC | February 18, 2015 at 07:15 AM

From insideHPC

CloudyCluster Moves HPC out of the Data Center and Into the Cloud

CloudyCluster allows you to quickly set up and configure a cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle the most demanding HPC and Big Data tasks. You don’t need... staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2015 at 09:00 AM

From insideHPC

Satisfying Safety Standards Through Simulation

Because the requirements in terms of energy, emissions, and fuel efficiency have not been globally standardized, vehicle manufacturers are making use of increasingly... staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2015 at 08:59 AM

From insideHPC

Hartree Centre Collaborates with Lenovo on ARM-based HPC

Today Lenovo announced that the company is collaborating with the STFC Hartree Centre in the U.K. on improving the energy-efficiency of HPC systems. staff
From insideHPC | February 17, 2015 at 08:44 AM

From insideHPC

Driving NVH Simulation at Volvo

Volvo is pushing the boundaries of NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) simulation in order to improve the quality of new automobiles. staff
From insideHPC | February 16, 2015 at 11:32 AM

From insideHPC

SC15 Steps Up with Enhanced Student Programs

The SC15 theme is ‘HPC Transforms’ and we’re looking to do as much as we can so that our student attendees’ ideas about school and careers are also transformed,... staff
From insideHPC | February 16, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From insideHPC

Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software

Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid assembly... staff
From insideHPC | February 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM

From insideHPC

iPlant Collaborative Bridges the Atlantic with Big Data

"Scientists from all over the world use iPlant to share data and computational methods,” said Matt Vaughn, Co-Principal Investigator of the iPlant Collaborative... staff
From insideHPC | February 13, 2015 at 11:29 AM

From insideHPC

Fujitsu Powers Statistical Genetics at Wellcome Trust Centre

Today Fujitsu announced that the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [WTCHG] at the University of Oxford is using the company's HPC systems to support the... staff
From insideHPC | February 12, 2015 at 10:59 AM

From insideHPC

Skoda uses HPC to Accelerate Automotive Innovation

Škoda Auto, was in need of scalable, high performance computing systems to perform complex product performance and safety analysis. In this case study we learn... staff
From insideHPC | February 11, 2015 at 12:34 PM

From insideHPC

Supercomputing New Materials with HPC Wales

HPC Wales has partnered with the engineering team at Deregallera Ltd to develop new materials that will make better use of the planet’s resources. staff
From insideHPC | February 10, 2015 at 10:59 AM

From insideHPC

UK Met Office to Debug New Cray Systems with Allinea DDT

The UK Met Office is rolling out the Allinea DDT debugger on its newest supercomputers. The debugging tool will be used to help the scientists and developers to... staff
From insideHPC | February 10, 2015 at 10:42 AM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Most Important Book You Will Read This Year

Jane Margolis' and Allan Fisher's book from a few years ago called "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing" was a germinal work about computer science education... CSTA staff and volunteers
From Computer Science Teachers Association | October 14, 2008 at 10:52 PM