Today the STFC Hartree Centre in the U.K. announced that Alison Kennedy will be joining the centre as its new Director at the end of March 2016.

By Dona Crawford; Last July, President Obama issued an executive order that created a coordinated federal strategy for HPC research, development, and deployment called the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). This bold, necessary step toward building the next generation of supercomputers has inaugurated a new era for U.S. high performance computing (HPC).

This Week In HPC Episode 104 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Watching Intel over the years as they have continually integrated more of PC and server resources into their silicon and provided consistent architecture roadmaps, its not surprising that they are now taking that approach on a system level to advance high-performance computing (HPC).

This Week In HPC Episode 103 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Today Fujitsu Limited announced it has developed the worlds largest magnetic-reversal simulator. Developed in joint research with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the simulator runs on the famous K computer using a mesh covering more than 300 million micro-regions.

This Week In HPC Episode 102 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

From new processor technologies to quantum computing, 2016 promises to be another exciting year for supercomputing. Here are five predictions as to how the industry will push ahead in 2016.

By Cynthia R. McIntyre; This is an exciting period as emerging and frontier market economies (as defined by the financial sector) adopt advanced technologies for economic competitiveness, societal benefit, and scientific discovery. Most notably, these economies are evaluating and acquiring advanced information and communication technologies as competitive platforms for socio-economic benefit.

This Week In HPC Episode 101 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.