The world of high performance computing (HPC) is extremely fast paced, and arguably the most dynamic arena in all of science/technology.  It’s truly amazing to see the advances that have taken place over the past few years, which makes it imperative to keep a keen pulse on the latest technologies, trends and workloads shaping the space today and in the future.

If you’re familiar with HPC, then you’re undoubtedly familiar with the annual Supercomputing conference where top system builders, vendors and OEMs gather to discuss the latest breakthroughs in HPC and quarrel over the TOP500 list. I was fortunate enough to attend the 2010 Supercomputing conference in New Orleans last year, and caught up with a few of our system builder and infrastructure partners, Penguin Computing, SGI, and Supermicro to hear about their experience at the conference, HPC market trends and their predictions for HPC in 2011. Below are a couple excerpts from those conversations.

HPC market trends and thoughts on SC10:

HPC predictions for 2011:

PS -- If you’re interested in diving even deeper into HPC, I highly recommend you listen to this insideHPC podcast as my colleague John Fruehe talks multicore, GPGPUs, the TOP500, and the upcoming 16-core “Bulldozer” processors.

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