Finally, after 15-plus years of intellectual strain (planning), bureaucratic wrangling (budgeting), technical toil (system building) and, probably, some tears, the HPC community has arrived at an Exascale Day, October 18 (1018), on which we actually have a certified exaFLOPS supercomputer: Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Exascale is no longer in the future, it’s here, […]
@HPCpodcast: Parallel Processing Systems Pioneer Dr. Thomas Sterling on the State of HPC
June 17, 2022 by
Following his highly anticipated and always-insightful closing night keynote at the recent ISC conference, we caught up with Prof. Thomas Sterling to discuss the state of HPC. Dr. Sterling is professor of intelligent systems engineering at Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and president and co-founder of Simultac, a technology company focused on […]
Virtual SC20 Retrospective: Thinkers’ Thoughts on HPC Today and Tomorrow
November 25, 2020 by
Check out this assemblages’ reflections on last week’s virtual SC20. Their thoughts range from big-picture insights on how the event reflects the state of HPC to the keynotes, sessions and announcements they think were particularly notable (and worth going back and watching, if you missed them). Among the topics covered: The convergence of the Top500 and Green500 supercomputer lists, the emerging earmarks of machine learning HPC workloads and the validity of supercomputing predictions made at SC in 2006 over against predictions for 2035.
Where to Go and What to Do at Virtual SC20: These HPC Experts Give Guidance
November 13, 2020 by
As you plan for next week’s Virtual SC20, we thought it would be helpful to ask four HPC industry experts for guidance regarding the sessions, trends, news and other highlights worthy of your attention coming out of what one of our panelists, Dr. Thomas Sterling of the University of Indiana (and of Beowulf cluster pioneering fame), described as “a diverse and rich” program agenda.
HPC Luminaries to Celebrate 20 Years of Beowulf Oct. 13-14
September 30, 2014 by
There is still time to register for the 20 Years of Beowulf workshop, which takes place in Annapolis, Maryland on Oct. 13-14.
October Workshop to Celebrate 20 Years of Beowulf
September 3, 2014 by
The CREST Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies is hosting the 20 Years of Beowulf workshop in Annapolis, MD. on Oct. 13-14. “The initial target of the Beowulf cluster project was to develop inexpensive, smaller parallel computing platforms—to bring supercomputing to the masses. The approach was extremely successful and Beowulf/commodity clusters are being used worldwide across a diverse spectrum of uses from teams of high school students to some the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”
