As we have been describing here in detail, there is little end in sight to the train of exascale computing challenges ahead. The most prominent include building dense, energy-efficient systems that ...

In this video from the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, Bill Gropp from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign presents: MPI and Hybrid Programming Models. “Blue Waters ...

National Instruments has released LabView 8.5 Student Edition, the latest update to its software that gives students a graphical system for designing, prototyping, and deploying real-world ...

HPC Tutorials are one of the highlights of the annual International Supercomputing Conference. To learn what’s in store for ISC’12, I caught up with the man behind the curtain, Pavan Balaji from ...

Hybrid particle filtering algorithms use heuristics during their computation, which can often lead to inefficient computation ...

C# is a powerful hybrid programming language that takes the best of C and C++ to create a versatile modern programming language. C# programmers use the .NET framework to develop apps for Microsoft ...

Facebook has released Hack to the open source community. This will be interesting at many levels. Hack is a hybrid programming language that tries to meld the benefits of 'traditional' programming ...

Two years ago this month, IBM announced that it had developed a cognitive computer chip, inspired by human neural architecture. That chip was developed as part of the SyNAPSE project, which has a long ...

China’s Baidu Inc. announced a new cloud-based quantum computing platform called Quantum Leaf today that it says is designed for programming, simulating and executing quantum workloads. Baidu is one ...