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At the end of each year, there are always "look back" and "look forward" articles that take stock in the past year or... ...

The annual Supercomputing Conference, called SC09, was held recently in Portland Oregon. This was the 22nd consecutive... ...

The modern HPC cluster is often a complicated affair. It consists of various hardware components that include compute servers, communication networks, and a storage system. In order to create a functional cluster one needs many types of software. This software includes:


Provisioning Tools
The Operating System Distribution
Management and Monitoring
Development Tools and Libraries
User Appli ...

There is at least one Message Passing Interface (MPI) library on every cluster. MPI programs are groups of two or more... ...

Benchmarking any computer is always useful, but it is not quite as simple as running a few programs and reporting some numbers. Indeed, benchmarking is an art that requires some diligence and attention to detail. To be effective, one must have clear goals and objectives in mind. In addition, interpretation of results must be done within the context of the benchmark. In this article will take a loo ...

There continues to be plenty of news in the GP-GPU (General Purpose - Graphical Processing Unit) sector. In case you... ...