HPC Case Studies and Articles
Publications by or about NAG HPC experts
- Performance of Atmospheric Chemistry Simulations (GLOMAP/TOMCAT) Enhanced by HECToR dCSE Team
- When supercomputing benchmarks fail to add up , ZDNet UK, Jun 2009
Benchmarking is an invaluable procurement tool.
- CASTEP, HECToR dCSE report
HECToR dCSE Team Quadruples Speed and Enhances Scalability of Key Materials Science Code - Are supercomputers just better liars?,
ZDNet UK, Mar 2009
Supercomputers might be better at providing the right answers or they could just be providing the wrong answers in far greater detail?
- What to do if your supercomputing supplier
fails, ZDNet UK, Feb 2009
High-performance computing operates at extremes of technological innovation and risk. That combination makes supplier failure a distinct possibility, but it needn't be the end of the world.
- Wrangling the High-Performance
Computer, Mechanical Engineering magazine, Feb 2009
The complex mechanical engineering problems where breakthrough research is being done today often involve terabyte-size datasets in order to find solutions. The inherent complexities of parallelizing and optimizing code for the high-performance computing environment require a huge investment of time not available to most in the mechanical engineering field. For the foreseeable future, HPC experts will need to be relied on by mechanical engineers to get their code to run faster and without error in multicore systems.
- Santa's HPC Woes, HPCwire, Dec 2008
You thought you had it hard. What if all of your business, with a worldwide customer base, occurred in the midnight hours of a single day towards the end of December? In a break with centuries of reticence, perhaps the most widely recognised distributor of festive spirit and products, Santa Claus, has revealed some details of the HPC underpinning his time-critical global operations.
- How to stand out in the supercomputing
crowd, ZDNet UK, Dec 2008
If you deploy the same high-performance computing systems as everyone else, how can you possibly gain an edge over your rivals?
- Supercomputing budgets: Fighting the
financial storm, ZDNet UK, Nov 2008
SC08, this year's mass get-together of the supercomputing industry, starts this weekend Austin, Texas, and looks set to be as huge and lively as ever. But how are financial realities affecting supercomputing?
- Is supercomputing just about performance?, ZDNet UK,
Oct 2008
HPC: does it stand for high-performance computing, or is it high-powered? Or high-productivity? And does it really matter? Well, even for the non-pedants out there, there is a story in that mysterious 'P'.
- NAG embarks on a new business venture,
HPCWire interview, Aug 2008
Responding to changes in computing at both ends of the spectrum, [NAG] is positioning itself as the place to go, not just for shrink-wrapped libraries, but also for education and expertise in how to program in parallel, and even for expert advice on how to buy, build and run your own supercomputer. HPCwire talked to Andrew Jones, vice-president of HPC business at NAG, on what he has in mind for this new business and how he sees the future of HPC and parallel programming shaping up.