HPC Source – February 2013

NASA Supercomputer Helps ‘Dig Out’ Astronomical Treasures in Kepler Data
Pleiades handles pipeline’s most data-intensive segments

The New Watchword in HPC: ROI
To secure big money, it is becoming more important to talk about returns on investments

Groundbreaking Astrophysics Accelerated
Performing computer simulations at the petascale, leadership-class supercomputers are the only practical tools for some types of computational science

Meet HPC Innovator Chin Guok
Helping to run the world’s fastest science network wasn’t originally on Guok’s career horizon

Understanding TLP and Vector Hardware
GPUs rely on thread level parallelism, while the Intel Xeon Phi product family relies on traditional thread and vector programming models