In this slidecast, Intel Tool Evangelist James Reinders presents an overview of the new Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 tool suites. With a host of new features, these toolkits include support for the pending Intel Xeon Phi co-processors for HPC. Read the Full...

With all of the relatively cheap computing power available today, and with the expanding focus from traditional supercomputers to clusters that can run simulations or big data workloads, you’d think that the HPC market would be growing like gangbusters. Not so. That’s the latest news from the box counters at IDC. But there’s good news, as well: in terms of sales, the HPC space helped prop up the rest of the server racket in the second quarter of this year, and looks to do even better in the second half. 

In this video, Chad Harrington from Adaptive Computing describes the coming wave of virtualization technologies in high performance computing and how the company’s Moab software helps customers manage HPC clusters of all sizes. 

This week the Hot Interconnects conference kicked off with a keynote by John Roese, VP and General Manager of Futurewei, Huawei’s North American R&D organization. After the talk, I got a chance to catch up with Roese and ask him about the keynote and where Huawei is headed in the HPC space.