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The first and only Survey of HPC Cloud providers has been posted over at HPC-Admin magazine. The article surveys a whole raft of "cloud offerings" from many different companies. If you are unfamiliar with the idea of HPC cloud and are wondering if it is the next big thing, take a look at the recently posted, Will HPC Work In The Cloud?. Remember, we need the "Cloud" because the web is so last year.

Is that anything like the Nights Watch?

Just read a very good article over at SemiAccurate that provides many details on Intel's Knight's Corner. In simple terms, Knights Corner, also known as the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture is Intel's answer to NVidia and AMD/ATI GPU solutions for HPC. Pay attention to the software and MPI discussion at the end of the article. To add a some green perspective, you may also be interested in reading this blog post from NVidia.

How many things can rhyme with your acronym?

The first UC Berkeley AMP (Algorithms, Machines, and People) Camp will be hosted in Berkeley (and online) August 21-22, 2012, brought to you by the AMPLab, featuring hands-on tutorials teaching Big Data analysis using the AMPLab software stack, including Spark, Shark, and Mesos. These tools help accelerate Hadoop and other popular data management platforms.

The AMPLab works at the intersection of machine learning, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing; integrating Algorithms, Machines, and People (AMP) to make sense of Big Data, and we want to share our expertise with you! Attendees will learn to solve Big Data problems using components of the Berkeley Data Analytics System (BDAS) and cutting edge machine learning algorithms.The agenda can be found here.

Registration for in-person attendance is sold out, but FREE online live streaming of the event is available.

From the "I'm not dead" Python department

For those of you that don't know the Beowulf mailing list is a highly useful resource to the HPC community. Started by Don Becker and now run by Penguin Computing the list has been a discussion place for pioneers, innovators, and users of HPC clusters. Recently the list went down along with the beowulf.org site. Questions about the list future surfaced. Through some recent discussions with Penguin, I am pleased to announce that the list will be back up real soon. Penguin is aware of the problem and expects the list to be back up by August 10th. They ask for the communities patience in this matter. I have also offered community help to assist with future list moderation. I will post any new information as it develops.

Update: (August 9th, 2012) The list is back up. Penguin and some community members are working on the moderation issue. Thanks Penguin.

Final Update: (August 20, 2012) The list is functioning, there are several moderators from the community, and new users are able to post. Good job Penguin.

The Changing Landscape of HPC has Created New Opportunities for Leadership…Perhaps the Frontier of HPC is Closer Than you Think.

As HPC continues to grow in academic, government, and commercial sectors, one might wonder just who are the current movers and shakers of the HPC industry and community? In the past, the government labs certainly took on this role and blazed the commodity HPC trail. These days, however, those pushing the HPC market and the technology are not necessarily pushing top performance, but are rather expanding and improving HPC application spaces. HPC headlines traditionally speak of petaflops, colliding galaxies, and folding proteins — all important stuff — but the growth of HPC in other areas, such as design or manufacturing, are equally as important and just as interesting. Unfortunately, many of these HPC application leaders are known only within their respective domains. Perhaps you know of someone who should be sharing their experience and know-how with the rest of the HPC community. In fact, it could be you!

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