As the TOP500 project works its way through its third decade of its life, there is talk of expanding the effort to include new metrics to Linpack. There is no one better to discuss this topic than veteran TOP500 co-author, Jack Dongarra, who was present at the birth of list in 1992.

This Week In HPC Episode 93 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Horst Simon is the Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Outside his executive role at the lab, Simon is a highly respected mathematician in the high performance computing (HPC) community. Within the HPC community, he plays another significant role as the co-editor of the TOP500 project.

This Week In HPC Episode 92 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

This Week In HPC Episode 91 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman

This Week In HPC Episode 90 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

This Week In HPC Episode 89 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

This Week In HPC Episode 88 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

In the course of tracking commercial and research supercomputers here at The Platform, it has become apparent that this is the year for massive refreshes and updates to existing weather prediction systems.

Chalk “predict death” off the list of “what computers can’t do.” A supercomputer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass., can decipher the likelihood of a patient’s imminent demise with uncanny accuracy.