high performance computing

Raising A City’s IQ

Smart cities represent a tremendous opportunity to improve the lives of millions, but many technical challenges stand in the way. Here’s how high performance computing is being used to address several of the most difficult ones.

Three Individuals Recognized For Contributions To HPC

The SCA18 Awards recognize excellence in high performance computing, networking, storage and visualization from Asia.

Computing In The Cosmos

Supercomputing Asia talks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Dr. Goh Eng Lim about the company’s supercomputer that is boldly going where no supercomputer has gone before.

The View From The TOP500

The TOP500 list may have begun almost as an accident, but it has nonetheless come to shape the way we think about supercomputers. Supercomputing Asia catches up with the co-originator of the list, Jack Dongarra, to find out more about its past, present and future.

Supercomputers Take To The Sea

The advent of powerful supercomputers represents a sea change for computational fluid dynamics, a field which is helping scientists and engineers demystify the inner workings of the ocean.

Riding The HPC Wave

Supercomputers are useful in practically every stage of the oil production process. Here are five ways they play a role in the oil and gas industry.

High Performance Healthcare

Thanks to all the data that is already available, the healthcare sector is ripe for a data-driven transformation. Here’s how supercomputers can make a difference.

Build Your Own Supercomputer For Less Than $1,000

It is possible to build your own supercomputer using parts you can easily buy off the shelf. Just don’t expect it to be on the next TOP500 list.

The Ocean Is Starting To Boil

Over the hundred years that they have been used, floating-point numbers have become so entrenched that replacing them would be like “boiling the ocean.” But Dr. John Gustafson believes he has done just that.