Marrying NVIDIA Tesla and InfiniBand?
My friend is working on a research project dedicated to many-core architectures, such as NVIDIA’s GPUs or Intel’s Xeon Phi, that have lots of simple cores best suited to straightforward computations....
View ArticleFruits of Computing: Redefining “Green” in HPC Energy Usage
Suppose you are visiting a supercomputing centre for several days. Each day you submit your compute jobs and then go to a nearby tropical garden. While your jobs are being computed, you enjoy fresh...
View ArticleClusters: A Disruptive Technology in the Supercomputing World
I recently completed my first Coursera course — “Surviving Disruptive Technologies” by Hank C. Lucas, Jr., Ph.D. and his staff. The course was an eye-opener: it gave enough examples to prove that...
View ArticleMany-core and InfiniBand: Making Your Own CPUs Gives You Independence
The headline sounds like the obvious thing: of course, if you can make your own CPUs for your projects, then you don’t have to rely on CPU manufacturers. “But wait”, you would ask, “Aren’t CPU design...
View ArticleHungarian Goulash and Parallel Cooking
Most cooking recipes are formulated improperly: they list actions required to prepare food, but fail to explicitly mention which of those actions can be run in parallel. This leaves you guessing how...
View ArticleCost: The Biggest Pothole on the Exascale Road
Recently, industry analyst John Barr wrote at the ISC blog about “Potholes on the Road to Exascale”. John speaks about a unified programming environment that should be able to support all sorts of...
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