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Horst Simon on the slowdown of HPC, Moore’s Law and Parallelism

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Brett

On Feb 12, Horst Simon, Deputy Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a maintainer of the Top500 List gave a talk arguing that Moore’s law and parallelism can no longer be counted on to provide the exceptional growth that has … Continue reading →

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Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can’t

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Brett

There are many articles out there on the applications of HPC. This one is different. Hal Hodson of the New Scientist takes a look at HPC making discoveries that “scientists can’t”. At this point I would like to make two … Continue reading →

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Optical processing – a route to exascale?

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Brett

UK startup Optalysys has a 340 GFlop optical processing proof-of-concept that they claim is achievale of scaling to exascale by 2020. Full story here.

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What’s it like to unbox a supercomputer?

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Brett

Nice article from our friends at ExtremeTech, including unboxing Magnus2, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre‘s new Petaflop-scale Cray XC90, and the University of Arizona’s El Gato, believed to be a custom-build IBM. They also have a great time-lapse of ORNL’s Jaguar morphing … Continue reading →

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