Dr. Douglas Eadline has over 25 years of experience in high-performance computing. You can contact him through Basement Supercomputing (http://basement-supercomputing.com). This article was sponsored by Concurrent (http://www.ccur.com), a global leader in providing digital on-demand systems to the broadband industry and real-time/HPC computer systems for industry and government.
Computer systems have
fully entered the age of
multi-core processing.
This trend was examined
in a white paper
entitled, 'Preparing for
the Revolution,
Maximizing Dual-Core
Technology.' While much
of the focus had been on
dual-core processors,
Intel has now delive...
Advances in clustering
technology have redefined
the price-to-performance
curve for many High
Performance Computing
(HPC) application areas.
The use of specialized
high-speed interconnects
and fast commodity
processors have pushed
the envelope to where it
is today.
There's revolution (or
evolution) occurring in
the high-performance
computing (HPC) industry.
Recently both AMD and
Intel introduced chips
with multiple processing
units in a single
package. Instead of
having one central
processor, or brain,
computers will now hav...