NCSA Video on Demand

Peter Ungaro: The Changing Landscape of High Performance Computing
Posted: April 3, 2012

Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray Inc., gave a talk on "The Changing Landscape of High Performance Computing" at NCSA on March 14. This talk was co-sponsored by NCSA and the Illinois Parallel Computing Institute.

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iForge: a supercomputer for industry
Posted: March 20, 2012

Merle Giles, Evan Burness and Seid Koric from NCSA's Private Sector Program explain how the center's industry partners benefit from iForge, a supercomputer specifically designed for their needs.

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Behind Blue Waters, volume 9
Posted: March 6, 2012

Cray's Steve Samse showed NCSA the compute blades that include Blue Waters' processors, interconnect, and memory—the heart of what will be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

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SC11: Power Optimization: A 'Cool' Load Balancer for Parallel Applications
Posted: November 14, 2011

University of Illinois professor Sanjay Kale discusses his techniques to cooling processors to cut back on energy costs.

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SC11: Performance Modeling for Systematic Performance Tuning
Posted: November 8, 2011

Torsten Hoefler discusses the performance modeling method that NCSA will present during the SC11 State of the Practice and how performance modeling can be used to improve application performance.

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