Supercomputing

The Case for ‘Inexactness’ in Supercomputing

Scientific computing must become less rigid and power hungry as researchers seek new ways to model and understand the real world, a climatologist argues. In a commentary published this ...Full Article

Achieving High Performance Computing without the Supercomputer

When most hear the term "High-Performance Computing" or HPC, what often comes to mind is the image of well-funded research laboratories, think CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the sheer ...Full Article

U.S. Puts Top Supercomputer up for Rent

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vulcan_LLNL.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In an effort to make the country more competitive, the federal government has made one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers ...Full Article

Cloud Fueled CFD Speeds Up NASCAR Team

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/MWR_Logo_stream2.jpg" alt="" width="96" height="71" />Cloud computing combined with CDadapco’s software is a winning combination for Waltrip Racing. The NASCAR team runs CFD simulations to perfect aerodynamic ...Full Article

Video: GPUs and HPC: A Match Made in Heaven or is the Devil in the Details?

No question where NVIDIA stands. Watch the video. But others have misgivings.Full Article

Floating All Boats: A Conversation with NCSA’s Merle Giles

If you'e simulating the universe, it helps to have a machine like NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. But if you want to use a supercomputer to design a better aircraft wing ...Full Article

Supercomputing Propels America Forward

Research at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is setting the stage for a generation of more energy-efficient, lower emission vehicles.Full Article

High-Risk, Big Payoffs from DOE’s ASCR Leadership Computing Research Program

Through its ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), the DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research program offers up to 30 percent of its computational resources at NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific ...Full Article

Seamless Computing: A Conversation with John Hengeveld

Intel's John Hengeveld likes automotive analogies. "If you haven't got a car, you don't need an on-ramp," he says, a statement that makes perfect sense in the context of ...Full Article

Case Study: Bringing the Power of HPC to Drug Discovery and the Delivery of ‘Smarter’ Healthcare

As recently as eight years ago, the application of high performance computing (HPC) techniques to drug discovery efforts was problematic at best. Even clusters composed of 40 or 50 ...Full Article