Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the week's top HPC news stories.

Back in February, the US Department of Energys High Performance Computing for Manufacturing program (HPC4Mfg) announced its first awards for advancing industry manufacturing projects using national lab supercomputing resources and expertise.

By Andrew Jones; High Performance Computing (HPC) is a vocal sport. We are always lobbying for something. Or giving talks at conferences. Or writing blogs. But sometimes we need a bit of help to translate what HPC people say into what they really mean

For the first time, a research team has harnessed the JUQUEEN supercomputer to find a way to simulate the fusion of heavier elements within stars.

At ISC14, over 18 months ago, Intel began talking about their next-generation fabric technology, Intel Omni-Path Architecture. Their new fabric for High Performance Computing and low-latency scale-out systems is part of the Intel Scalable Systems Framework, a new design approach for scalable, flexible HPC systems.