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Nov 21, 2008

HPC Clouds -- Alto Cirrus or Cumulonimbus

The "cloud" model of exporting user workload and services to remote, distributed and virtual environments is emerging as a powerful computing paradigm. Yet, one domain that challenges this model in its characteristics and needs is high performance computing.
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Michael Feldman
What Caught My Attention at SC08
A show the size of the Supercomputing Conference is difficult to swallow whole. With hundreds of exhibitors and conference activities, it's virtually impossible to get a balanced perspective. That said, here are a few areas that caught my attention at SC08. Read more...

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The Week in Review

AMD's new quad-core Opterons ship early; ORNL announces Jaguar's petaflop performance; and Convey Computer prepares to launch SC-style. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Intel Revs Compiler Suite

On Tuesday Intel announced that it has updated its compiler and cluster suites ahead of the introduction of the Core i7 (Nehalem) processors. HPCwire spoke with James Reinders, chief product evangelist and director of marketing for Intel's Developer Products Division, to find out what's new this time around.
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The Future of Climate Research: A Q&A with ORNL's James Hack

As leader of ORNL's Climate Change Initiative, James Hack is in charge of pulling together scientists and engineers from across ORNL to advance the state of the science. We asked him about the future of climate science and the climate initiative at ORNL.
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The Week in Review

Australian Bureau of Meterology considers Sun; former IBM employee goes to Apple in violation of 'no-compete' agreement; SC celebrates 20 years, honors long-time friends. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Mine is Greener Than Yours

Supercomputing vendor SiCortex has long trumpeted the power-, cooling-, and space-friendliness of its HPC gear. This week the company is introducing a new metric, the Green Computing Performance Index, that assesses the performance of individual supercomputers based on the ratio of their performance on the HPC Challenge benchmark to power consumption.
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AMD Banks on Flood of Stream Apps

11/13/08 | vnumet.com | AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU). Read more...

Migrating Software Into Hardware

11/13/08 | EDN | EDN talks with David Stewart, founder and chief executive officer of CriticalBlue, about hardware/software co-design, multicore programming, and more. Read more...

We Have to Expand the Market not Served by Our Technology

11/13/08 | Livemint | In Bangalore, president and MathWorks co-founder Jack Little spoke about how Indian companies, science and engineering students could use technology to innovate. Read more...

Supercomputing Budgets: Fighting the Financial Storm

11/12/08 | ZDNet.co.uk | How are financial realities affecting supercomputing? HPC expert Andrew Jones takes a closer look. Read more...

Cloud Computing as the Enabler of HPC

11/12/08 | Ovum | The introduction of cloud services by Wolfram Research is another demonstration that HPC has come of age. Read more...

Become a Lazy SOB Administrator

11/12/08 | Linux Magazine | One of the often cited difficulties in deploying and operating HPC systems is finding experienced cluster administrators. Read more...

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

9/5/08 | Novell | The excellent scalability features of Linux, in addition to robust security and performance makes it an excellent choice for server systems, especially in the high performance computing area.

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HPC Horizons Community Member SPOTLIGHT
In order get to know our HPC Horizons members a little better, we have started this new column. For the first edition of HPC Horizons Community Member SPOTLIGHT, we introduce Laurence Liew, the Open Source Grid Development Centre Director at Platform Computing in Singapore.
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Michael Feldman

From the Editor
AMD Pulls the Trigger on Its 45
Barcelona, we hardly knew ye. Today AMD launched its 45nm "Shanghai" quad-core Opterons, sending the ill-fated 65nm Barcelona chips into the microprocessor history books.
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