Dan Olds writes about an interesting GPU History presentation he caught last week by Nvidia’s Ian Buck. Right now there are more than 350 million compute-capable GPUs in the world: more than one for every man, woman and child in the U.S. Or one for roughly every 20 people on...

Michael J. Miller at PC Magazine writes that it was a big week at SC11 for HPC, especially for hybrid supercomputing. Last week, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD announced major strides in high-performance computing (HPC) at SC11. Intel’s Knights Corner CPU is the first processor capable of handling 1 tflops performance,...

The TOP500 may have been a bit anticlimactic for some this year, but I still find the list to be a fascinating snapshot of the state of HPC today. Rich Miller from Datacenter Knowledge brings us this photo gallery of the Top 10...

I heard some good things this week about the PGI Accelerator, which is designed to help mere mortals make their code go faster on x64+GPU platforms. To help get you started, The Portland Group is offering a new 2-day training course on programming GPUs using the PGI Accelerator programming model. This course will provide attendees with the...