Can a solution for HPC software live within MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, and/or Ct?

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The 22nd annual HPCC Conference in Newport kicks off next week — I’ll be attending again as I have for several years now. On balance it is my favorite HPC conference: small and intimate, a single track, and uniformly attended by smart, engaged people from the HPC community. I’ll post updates from the meeting as [...]

Yesterday the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education held a hearing on the NSF’s FY 2011 budget request. From the committee website The NSF budget request for FY 2011 totals $7.4 billion, $552 million or 8 percent more than FY 2010 funding not including any FY 2010 carryover in the [...]

A quick note to let you know that Charles Thacker has been named winner of the ACM’s Turing Award Association for Computing Machinery today named Charles P. Thacker the winner of the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the prototype for networked [...]