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The latest issue of Scientific Computing features a compelling article, From mobile phone to supercomputer?, where Tom Wilkie explores the challenges industries face in the move towards Exascale. He talks to a range of companies across the globe who are playing key roles in accelerating the progression of this movement.

Tools developers attempt to make change to hybrid architectures a smooth transition

Researchers using the OLCF's resources can foresee substantial changes in their scientific application code development in the near future.

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HPC Wire reports a Cray-sponsored story on how Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) supercomputer, Jaguar, is being used to advance scientific discoveries.

- - and look set to continue to be so in 2012.  The models often result in shorter and simpler code than MPI - and hence potentially speed up development and improve code quality.

Eric Gedenk interviews Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Richard Graham on: Application tools critical as programs move toward exascale computing, which includes Allinea DDT.

Michael Wolfe discusses the use of ARM-architecture processors in HPC including how a compatible debugger is needed

"In Part 1 of this two-part series, I advocated that we should explore the use of ARM-architecture processors in high performance computing for three reasons: its innovation, its ubiquity in the marketplace, and its ability to be customized. In Part 2, I look at some of the challenges of the architecture as well as several missing pieces of the ecosystem."

The first exascale supercomputers are expected to arrive at the end of this decade.  These systems must deliver an exaflop - or a million million million calculations per second. A new consortium of leading European sites has come together to meet the challenge of delivering software to support and exploit these massive systems.

The Art of Science — Visualize the Possibilities

As smaller commercial IT shops gravitate toward cloud computing, they are also searching for more lower-cost, raw processing power to accelerate and improve product design. One solution could be high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Cloud computing has helped remove barriers that have kept smaller companies out of the HPC market, but it has also introduced new problems involving data movement to and from the cloud as well as concerns about security of data as it moves off site.