Prolog and Epilog Scripts
HPC systems can benefit from administrator-defined prolog and epilog scripts.
Run One Program at any Scale with Legate
Run Python NumPy code on distributed heterogeneous systems without changing a single line of code.
When I/O Workloads Don’t Perform
Isolating and diagnosing the root causes of your performance troubles.
Preload Trick
By using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, you can improve performance without making changes to applications.
New Monitoring Tools
If you like ASCII-based monitoring tools, take a look at three new tools – Zenith, Bpytop, and Bottom.
Desktop Supercomputers: Past, Present, and Future
Desktop supercomputers give individual users control over compute power to run applications locally at will.
Rethinking RAID (on Linux)
Configure redundant storage arrays to boost overall data access throughput while maintaining fault tolerance.
How Linux and Beowulf Drove Desktop Supercomputing
Open source software and tools, the Beowulf Project, and communities changed the face of high-performance computing.
A Brief History of Supercomputers
This first article of a series looks at the forces that have driven desktop supercomputing, beginning with the history of PC and supercomputing processors through the 1990s into the early 2000s.