In the next issue: "Preparing for the 20 PFLOPS, GPU-accelerated reincarnation of Jaguar", "How will the collaborating partners avoid a collapse as we saw with Blue Waters?" & "How will users be affected by Titan?"
Interviews with: ORNL, CRAY, NVIDIA, AMD, The Portland Group
The Violent Waters of HPC
by Mike Bernhardt
The Shipwreck
By: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1805
An editorial opinion piece by Mike Bernhardt
Supercomputers should be considered an important strategic asset, and funded as such. If the USA really wants to demonstrate world technological leadership, then adequate resources need to be committed. The failure of Blue Waters should be seen not just as a failure for IBM, but as a failure for the leadership of this country.
Raj Hazra, GM, Intel HPC
In this issue, Raj Hazra, General Manager of Intel’s HPC group steps up to take responsibility, clarify Intel’s messaging, and commits to getting Intel reconnected with the HPC community.
Interconnects and Exascale: An Interview with Intel Fellow, Shekhar Borkar.
by Mike Bernhardt
I was intrigued when I saw the title of this presentation at the Hot Interconnects conference.
"Will interconnect help or limit the future of computing?"
So we tracked down the author, Shekhar Borkar, Intel Fellow and director of Extreme-scale
Technologies at Intel Labs for this brief interview on Interconnects and Exascale. Interconnects and Exascale: An Interview with Cray Vice President, Barry Bolding
by Mike Bernhardt
Interconnect discussions are nothing new to Cray. So, to talk about interconnects and exascale, we
tracked down Barry Bolding, vice president of Cray’s products division, who knows a lot about balancing
wish lists and engineering deliverables. 
John Barr
Will Infiniband Play A Role in Exascale?
by Staff
Infiniband is one of those topics that provokes some very interesting discussions. Will Infiniband play a role in exascale? It's a point of disagreement for many. We asked Gilad Shainer of Mellanox to comment on this.
Can HPC or Exascale Applications Be Green? They can - if they come from Ireland.
by Staff
Exascale is not just about hardware and software stacks. Applications must be written to take advantage of these monster systems. And these new applications may come from places we don’t often think about.
A feature interview with Ivan Girotto of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.
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