April/May 2010
HPC DIRECTOR
The ins and outs of HPC
Lee Ward, principal member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, tackles HPC-related IO improvements to multiple supercomputing projects
HPC PROJECTS: VISUALISATION
A picture says a thousand words
Visualisation is a vital component of many HPC applications, but rendering huge datasets is no easy task, as Stephen Mounsey discovers
HPC: CLUSTER MANAGEMENT
Unbounded clusters
Especially with the advent of cloud computing, virtualisation and the increasing popularity of GPUs, what a physical computing system looks like is very fluid. Paul Schreier looks into how vendors of cluster management software address the provisioning and workload management needs resulting from this major trend
