February/March 2009

CLIMATE MODELLING

Weathering well

Gemma Church finds out how scientists are using HPC to predict climate and weather more accurately and efficiently

GPU PROCESSING

A supercomputer chip for every man

While GPUs (graphics processing units) were initially designed to accelerate video and gaming, vendors of science and engineering software are using them to accelerate their code. Paul Schreier looks at the benefits for today and tomorrow

HPC DIRECTOR

Driven by science

Professor Marek Niezgódka, Director of the ICM Centre at the University of Warsaw, explains why the centre heads the Green Top500 list and concentrates on open systems