Asia Pacific (APAC), Business, Event, Global Politics, Interviews, Japan, Supercomputing Frontiers 2015

Satoshi Matsuoka Interview on state of Japan’s HPC Market

VR World chats with Satoshi Matsuoka to understand what is going on in the HPC space land of the rising sun.

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The Evils of Floating Point, and the Joys of Unum

Universal Numbers (Unum) and floating points are complicated. Here’s an explainer on the subject.

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Jack Dongarra on the Great Exascale Challenge and Rising HPC Powers

VR World chats with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jack Dongarra on the road to exascale computing, and rising national powers in the HPC space.

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Jack Dongarra: China Isn’t the Emerging HPC Power You Think It Is

In an exclusive interview with VR World, Jack Dongarra of Oak Ridge National Laboratory says we need to take a second look at certain countries’ claims of rising HPC power — notably China.

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Error-Free Computing: Unums Save Both Real and Virtual Battles

VR World chats with John Gustafson about the challenges of implementing universal numbers into hardware, and the benefits they offer computing.

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Supercomputing Frontiers 2015: The 101×10^2 Problem. Solution: Unums

We’ve almost reached the acceptance limit for floating point rounding errors. What’s the future? One potential solution was explained at Supercomputing Frontiers 2015.

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Supercomputing Frontiers 2015 to Feature Acclaimed Researcher Jack Dongarra

Jack Dongarra from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee will be giving one of the keynotes at Supercomputing Frontiers 2015.

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Supercomputing Frontiers 2015 Singapore Begins March 17

Jack Dongarra and other HPC thought leaders will all be speaking at Supercomputing Frontiers 2015.

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