This Week In HPC500 Episode 46 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Sponsored by Altair.

A startup founded by two teenagers is designing a parallel processor that it hopes delivers a 10x leap in performance per watt for high-end systems. Rex Computing will make open source its instruction set architecture in hopes of rallying supporters around it.

My father, Hans Meuer, was a huge proponent of all kinds of ranking. With great pleasure he would recite the list of names of the best chess players along with their own Linpack rating, the so-called Elo numbers, and enjoy his opponents astonishment afterwards. He definitely could impress those who understood that the Elo numbers, unlike the TOP500 ranking, were updated monthly.

This Week In HPC500 Episode 45 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

Collaborative project using 3D printing technology to develop next generation bicycle safety helmets A pioneering collaborative project has been launched in Wales to improve bicycle safety helmet performance using state-of-the-art 3D printing and supercomputing technology.

The presentation slides of the 44th TOP500 list are now available. The 44th TOP500 list was announced November 18th, during the SC14 conference in New Orleans, LI.

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the fourth 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 with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 44th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

Traditionally, one of the most exciting opening elements of the annual SC event is the announcement of the list of the Top 500 supercomputers on the planet. There are often surprises or at the very least, some notable movements as large systems enter the list, offering new ways to track architectural and system design trends.

This Week In HPC500 Episode 44 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM and NVIDIA Pick up Two Pieces of Coral and A Look Ahead to SC14.

As the results of the 44th round of the Big Iron game of thrones are about to be announced, lets put this in context by taking a synoptic look at the historical data from the perspective of competition among nations.