This Week In HPC Episode 79 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Special Edition.

TOP500 slides from the opening session of ISC15 in Frankfurt are now available.

This Week In HPC Episode 78 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— For the fifth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1 system, according to the 45th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, led the list with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark.

This Week In HPC Episode 77 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

This Week In HPC Episode 76 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

It has been somewhat difficult to ascertain what problems the fastest supercomputer on the planet has been chewing on since it was announced in 2013, but there are some signs that China is now pinning the machine’s mission on the future of genomics, among other areas.

Sandia National Laboratories has named Jill Hruby to its highest post. On July 17, she becomes Sandias 14th director in its 60-plus year history as well as the first woman to lead one of the three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories.

This Week In HPC Episode 75 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

By Sharan Kalwani; One of the main reasons I got into computing, admittedly a long time ago, was the potential that I personally saw in using this unbelievably powerful new tool towards addressing the needs of the society we live in.