HPC on Wall Street - Reboot

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Written by Number Six

Published: 27 July 2018

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Cluster Monkey has been attending the HPC on Wall Street meeting and exposition since it began. The event was a great way for those of us on the east coast to meet twice a year and learn the latest news and have great conversations. Lately, attendance seems to have waned a bit, but there was still a robust and active crowd. In days past, it was almost impossible at times to make your way through the exhibition hallway at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

Recently the show was acquired by Tabor Communication (of HPCWire fame). We believe this will breathe new life into the event and hopefully fill the hallways once again. The rebooted show is focusing on the following themes:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hybrid IT and Cloud Computing
• Big Compute / HPC
• Containerization in HPC
• Cyber Security
• Crypto Currency

For those on the east coast and beyond, the event will take place on Thursday, September 13 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. See you there!

SC17 Beowulf Bash

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Written by Douglas Eadline

Published: 10 November 2017

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AKA The 2017 Beowulf Bash and Bowling Fete

The last time we visited Denver (SC13) we held the very popular “Physics of Spherical Newtonian Solids Smackdown” (a pool tournament). Because rolling spheres seems to be such a big hit in Denver, we decided to continue the tradition with a kind of bowling tournament! Yes, you read that correctly.

A Long Overdue Update from the Head Monkey

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Written by Douglas Eadline

Published: 20 June 2018

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As one of the last three readers of Cluster Monkey, do not despair. I apologize for the rather low frequency of content over the last ten months. It is entirely my fault. I have been so busy with some other projects, Cluster Monkey got lost. I have not had time to post interesting news or write any articles. This situation is about to change.

Sledgehammer HPC

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Written by Douglas Eadline

Published: 05 August 2017

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HPC without coding in MPI is possible, but only if your problem fits into one of several high level frameworks.

[Note: The following updated article was originally published in Linux Magazine in June 2009. The background presented in this article has recently become relevant due to the resurgence of things like genetic algorithms and the rapid growth of MapReduce (Hadoop) . It does not cover deep learning.]

Not all HPC applications are created in the same way. There are applications like Gromacs, Amber, OpenFoam, etc. that allow domain specialist to input their problem into an HPC framework. Although there is some work required to "get the problem into the application", these are really application specific solutions that do not require the end user to write a program. At the other end of the spectrum are the user written applications. The starting points for these problems include a compiler (C/C++ or Fortran), an MPI library, and other programming tools. The work involved can range form small to large as the user must concern themselves with the "parallel aspects of the problem". Note: all application software started out at this point some time in the past.