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EXASCALE: AN INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave an electrifying opening keynote today at SC11, the annual gathering of the international supercomputing community, as it gears up for the industry’s next grand challenge: exascale computing. He began his presentation by discussing Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who literally wrote the book on innovation, The Innovator’s Dilemma.… Read More

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ISC 2011: EUROPE FLEXES ITS GPU SUPERCOMPUTING MUSCLES

A somewhat rainy Hamburg, Germany, is home to NVIDIA’s Tesla high performance computing (HPC) team this week as we spend a few days at the International Supercomputing Conference ‘11 (ISC’11), where the Top500 organization this morning announced the new Top500 List of World’s Supercomputers for June 2011. This year, two GPU-enabled HPC systems from Europe’s… Read More

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“FLASH MOB” GREETS NSF’S NEWEST GPU SUPERCOMPUTER

Last Thursday and Friday, Georgia Tech hosted a tutorial and workshop for computational scientists who are eager to run their simulations on the recently activated NSF Keeneland cluster. Keeneland is a NSF project to bring innovative computer architectures to NSF’s computational science community. To deploy Keeneland, Georgia Tech has partnered with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,… Read More

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A MOLECULE-MATCHING STAR IS BORN

A key path to drug discovery over the past decade has been the process of determining “shared bioactivity” between molecules, that is, determining the similarity of one molecule to another based on its three-dimensional shape. There’s always been a catch, though. If you’re a large pharmaceutical company doing research in this area, you probably have… Read More

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GPGPU CLEANS UP AT SC’10

Last week, NVIDIA’s Tesla team enjoyed some high times in the Big Easy during the SC (Supercomputing) 2010 conference in New Orleans. And this year was a landmark one for us. Michael Feldman, Editor in Chief of HPCwire, even stated that “you couldn’t miss GPGPU on the show floor” in HPCwire’s SC’10 Highlights podcast. Along… Read More

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GPUS ON THE PATH TO 1000X MORE SCIENCE

At the SC10 Show in New Orleans on Wednesday morning I found myself as one of many conference attendees hustling down the uneven sidewalks on a surprisingly windy and cool day.  Coffees in hand, we all managed to navigate the seemingly endless expanse of the convention center before the 8:30am start of the keynote session, featuring… Read More

TESLA GPUS POWER #1 SUPERCOMPUTER

This week was a momentous one in the world of supercomputing. Today in Beijing, the Tianjin Supercomputing Center revealed details of Tianhe-1A system – a new GPU-enabled supercomputer that delivers 2.5 petaflops of performance – that’s 2,500 trillion (2,500,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second  – the equivalent of 175,000 laptops! If you tried to build… Read More