February 2012
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Accelerating Air Traffic Control with Nvidia GPUs
There is no question that GPUs have taken the HPC industry by storm over the past several years, speeding up all sorts of highly parallel scientific workloads by huge amounts. I thought this use of GPUs was particularly cool. Every day some 30,000-plus aircraft take flight over the US alone, each with an extremely detailed flight plan that keeps the flight safe, minimizes fuel consumption, and...
January 2012
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Watch Talking to Your Kids About Star Wars
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Welcome, Amazon, to the HPC Community.
Disclaimer: I work for the supercomputing vendor Cray Inc. The opinions expressed in this article are my own and do not represent my employer.
This week Amazon announced the addition of a GPU compute cluster instance to their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. This is an exciting and not unexpected addition to EC2 and has drawn a lot of attention at the 2010 Supercomputing conference (SC10)....
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