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Code Parallel or Die

by Frank Chism on April 14, 2008

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” - Luke in “Cool Hand Luke” A fist full of cores in a server rich environment. If you haven’t noticed that the world has changed, you had better wake up and smell the coffee. The era of killer apps written... more

• Monday, April 14, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Frank Chism

Thinking about HPC Infrastructure

by kishi on December 01, 2006

I started the first HPC blog (See “previous blog“) with an understanding that HPC is an area where there has been a surge of activity from a development/investment standpoint. So after getting a basic understanding behind the importance of why HPC matters, the next logical step that needed uncovering was “How to think” about HPC Infrastructure and tap into the “wisdom” behind managing it...... more

• Friday, December 01, 2006
• in: Community
• kishi

HPC - The way all computing will look...

by MichaelF on November 01, 2006

I have been itching to write on this subject ever since I first met w/ Doug Lora and Frank Chism. High-Performance computing – Wow!! The first time someone explained the concept to me, I couldn’t help but visualize a scene from the movie “Blade Runner” and the futuristic feel of how Supercomputers actually work. My interest took me deeper into the heart of HPC to try to get my head around what HPC... more

• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Overloading 'Clusters'

by Frank Chism on October 20, 2006

I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Looking Glass Land. This usually occurs when I’m talking to someone new to cluster computing or someone who comes from a different tread of the industry than I do. My roots are in a thread that used number crunching to mean serious floating point arithmetic done... more

• Friday, October 20, 2006
• in: Community
• Frank Chism