HPC Architectures

HPC Rankings:

TOP500 Supercomputer Sites November 2012    

The Green500 List November 2012    Green500 turns blue

The Graph 500 List November 2012

Top problems with the TOP500   Council on Competitiveness defends TOP500 usefulness

TOP500: the missing puzzle pieces

HPC Lists we'd like to see    Too big to FLOP?

A conversation with ISC Fellow Jack Dongarra

Towards Exascale:

DOE primes pump for exascale supercomputers    DOE commissions extreme computing study

Exascale computing - the view from Argonne   Argonne's Peter Beckman on the Race to Exascale

Number Crunching, Data Crunching and Energy Efficiency: the HPC Hat Trick

Revisiting Supercomputer Architectures   End-users need to design exascale computers

Trends in High-Performance Computing   Future challenges within HPC   Facing the future    

Supercomputers Let Up on Speed     A New Generation of Smarter, Not Faster, Supercomputers

IEEE members on suoercomputing predictions, challenges 

HPC: A Key Technology for Europe   How Cool are Supercomputers?     Petaflop in a box  

Working towards higher performance    Taking a Disruptive Approach to Exascale     Meet the exascale apps

An HPC programming model for the exascale age    Compilers and More: Programming at Exascale

HPC programming in the age of multicore: one man's view

MPI milestone achieved on the path to  exascale

Exascale Computing   On the Road to Exascale   The Bumpy Road to Exascale  

IEEE Conference Keynoters Lay Out Path to Exascale Computing  

Exascale: Power Is Not the Problem!   Powering Up Exascale

European Project Will Design Energy-Efficient Exascale Machine

UCLA engineers develop new energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials

Exascale Research: Preparing for the Post-Moore Era

The International Exascale Software Project Roadmap   China Flexes High-Tech Muscles

Top scientist urges 'ambitious' U.S. exascale supercomputer plan

Leap to the extreme scale could break science boundaries

Will we ever reach Zettaflops?

Hybrid Computing (CPUs/GPUs):

A blending of strengths    The rise of GPU compute

Redefining the role of the CPU in the era of CPU-GPU integration  

Massively multithreaded computer systems   OpenCL: free your GPU ... and the rest of your system too!

NCSA Director: GPU is the future of supercomputing   The GPU Computing Era

GPUs versus CPUs: Apples and Oranges?   Top 10 Objections to GPU Computing Reconsidered

Supercomputing with Tesla GPUs   Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer  

From Multithreaded Programming to GPU Computing    The heterogenous programming jungle

Performance Analysis of a Hybrid MPI/CUDA Implementation of the NAS-LU Benchmark

Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012

Overcoming hurdles to parallelisation   GPUs and the future of Parallel Computing

NVIDIA Eyes Post-CUDA Era of GPU Computing   NVIDIA Opens Up CUDA Compiler

NVidia unveils 1.3 teraflop GPU for supercomputing

Intel will ship Knights Corner chip in 2012    Intel fires the next salvo in supercomputer battle

Intel brings manycore X86 to market with Knights Corner

AMD announces FLOP-Monster GPU card

OpenCL gains ground on CUDA    A Tale of Two GPU Computing Models   Computer games help HPC

HPC debugging redefined    

Ten Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on GPUs

Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance By Over 20 Percent

NVidia pokes holes in Intel's Manycore story

AMD: The Integration Revolution

Commodity memory for a high performance world

Multicore:

Adapteva unveills 64-core chip

HP scientists envision 10-teraflop many-core chip

We need more than Multi-core  Chip simulation for the 1000-core era 

Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers

ARM Processors Set to Challenge x86 On Its Own Turf   

ARM Discloses Technical Details of 64-bit Architecture  

Arm Yourselves for Exascale, Part 1   Arm yourselves for Exascale, Part 2

A new breed of heterogenous computing 

NVIDIA Tegra Processors Blaze the Way for ARM in Supercomputing

Attack of the Killer Micros Redux

Remapping Computer Circuitry to Avert Impending Bottlenecks

Studying the Impact of Hardware Prefetching and Bandwidth Partitioning in Chip-Multiprocessors

Computing Models for FPGA-Accelerators

Moving Scientific Codes to MultiCore Microprocessor CPUs   Core Scalability in Volume Rendering

Playing with NAG’s Library for SMP & multicore (Or parallel programming made easy)p

Retrofitting programming languages in a parallel world

IOLanes: Advancing the Scalability and Performance of I/O Subsystems in Multicore Platforms

IBM Specs Out Blue Gene/Q Chip   Processor Whispers: About 16 and 17-core processors

Intel Scales Up Cores and Memory with New Westmere EX CPUs  

Intel Adds New Dimension to Transistor Making  

Intel Xeon E5 Debuts on TOP500; First Intel MIC Co-processor Hits 1 Teraflop

Adapteva Builds Manycore Processor That Will Deliver 70 Gigaflops/Watt

Tilera Releases 16-Core and 36-Core Processors for 64-bit Computing

Cluster Numbers: An Automated Benchmarking Tool for HPC Clusters

China Preps Godson Chip for Supercomputing Duty   China mulls national CPU architecture spec

China could become supercomputing partner   China's Dark Horse Supercomputing Chip: FeiTeng

Homemade CPUs on the way for local supercomputers

Designer of Microprocessor-Memory Chip Aims to Topple Memory and Power Walls  

 
 
 
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