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HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Turns 15

A hallmark of sustainability is this: If you are not serving a need effectively and efficiently you do not last. The HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards program has stood the test of time. Each year, our re Read more…

Juneja: HPC, Cloud, and Open Source the Nexus of Big Data Innovation

It should come as no surprise that Intel is converging HPC, cloud and open source, said Intel's big data chief at the Strata 2013 conference this week. Read more…

The GPU “Sweet Spot” for Big Data

GPUs have stirred some vicious waves in the supercomputing community, and these same performance boosts are being explored for large-scale data mining by a number of enterprise users. During our conversation with NVIDIA's Tesla senior manager for high performance computing, Sumit Gupta, we explored how traditional data... Read more…

IBM Fellow Tracks HPC, Big Data Meld

From massive physics simulations to astrophysics research that recreates the universe’s birth, HPC systems are designed to quickly plow through incredible amounts of data. In reality, the “big data” challenges (among which are data volume, variety and velocity barriers) that are.... Read more…

SAS Shifts Retail Analytics to HPC Platform

This week SAS announced that their more popular and resource-demanding packages for retailers would be moved under the umbrella of their High Performance Computing Platform. This includes products to harness predictive analytics and allow for swift price changes. Read more…

Graphing Genius and Giants

Cydney Stevens discusses Convey Computer's approach to bridging the divide between high performance computing and data-intensive computing in the wake of the Graph500 list. She highlights the role of the company's leader, Steve Wallach as the ecosystem evolves. Read more…

DDN Addresses Scalability Wall

Data Direct Networks (DDN) issued a letter to the high performance computing community this week following the supercomputing industry's annual conference that addresses the storage side of the big data and exascale eras that are necessitating I/O innovations. Read more…

Live from SC11: HPC and Big Data Get Hitched in Seattle

The annual Supercomputing Conference (SC11) is taking over Seattle this week as those in the high performance computing community gather to share insights over the course of the next several days. The focus this year isn't on the almighty CPU, however--data intensive science is the star of the show and big data challenges are taking center stage in presentations, sessions and conversations. Read more…

SGI Spins Ready-to-Roll Hadoop Clusters

SGI is making good on its partnership with Hadoop distribution vendor, Cloudera, by offering turnkey Hadoop clusters that take advantage of their Xeon-based Rackable and Cloud Rack servers and BI and other key integrations. Read more…

StackIQ Update Rocks Big Data

Cluster management company StackIQ has released the latest version of Rocks+ with a keen eye on big data systems. StackIQ included support for major Hadoop distributions as well as refinements to handle big infrastructure. Read more…

SAS Previews High Performance Analytics Features

During an event in Florida this week, SAS lifted the curtain ever so slightly on two of its new high performance analytics offerings, including a risk calculation product aimed squarely at financial services. SAS has revealed a few details about the two solutions. Read more…

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