Directory of Supercomputing Resources

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A supercomputer is, generally, a really big and fast computer. The standard of what exactly constitutes a supercomputer has evolved with the capabilities of the computing industry. Supercomputers contain many processors and often take up entire rooms. They can do anything a normal computer can do, but usually much, much faster.

This category contains information about supercomputers, including (but not limited to) companies that manufacture supercomputers, supercomputing facilities, news articles about supercomputers, and supercomputing conferences.

Information about writing programs to run on supercomputers is in Computers/Parallel_Computing.

Subcategories

• Beowulf Clusters
• Companies
• Conferences
• Cray
• Directories
• Parallel Computing

Resources in This Category

• A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University

  http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html
  Essay written by Jeff Bauer in early 1991.

• Advanced Simulation and Computing

  http://www.sandia.gov/NNSA/ASC/
  A United States government initiative to develop simulation capabilities suitable for weapons testing. Program details and links to university partners.

• Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation

  http://www.casc.org/
  Links to member institutions and published papers.

• HPCwire

  http://www.hpcwire.com/
  News portal covering the high performance computing industry. Includes whitepapers, blogs, conference listings and job search.

• ICC at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  https://computation.llnl.gov/icc/
  Offers current scientific and networking research information.

• Primeur

  http://enterthegrid.com/primeur/10/articles/
  Monthly newsletter about European high performance computing developments. Back issues available.

• Scandal Supercomputing Project

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/
  Development of a portable environment for programming supercomputers. Project information and resources about parallel programming.

• Supercomputers

  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/SUPERCOM.Calle.HTML
  A history of supercomputing.

• Supercomputing Online

  http://www.supercomputingonline.com/
  Includes news, analysis, and discussion about supercomputing.

• The Journal of Supercomputing

  http://link.springer.com/journal/11227
  Available in print and online. Searchable archives available to subscribers.

• The National Center For Supercomputing

  http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/
  Information about supercomputing applications and research in the United States.

• Top 500 Supercomputers

  http://www.top500.org/
  Ranking of supercomputers according to the LINPACK benchmark. Links to news articles.

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