Computationally complex problems constrained by conventional machine architectures might be improved with the use of hardware/software co-design, wherein components are purpose-built for specific applications.

Using the Open|SpeedShop Performance Tool to Find Application Performance Bottlenecks

AMD's new Opteron 6200 chip is tooled for HPC, with a revolutionary 16-core design and improved power management features.

OpenMP brings the power of multiprocessing to your C, C++, and Fortran programs.

Examine and optimize your server’s internal topology with this hardware locality tool suite.

Overcome the Global Interpreter Lock in Python and take advantage of run-time parallelism on multicore machines.

We take a close look at how to integrate graphics processors into your parallel programs with OpenCL.

We’ll show you around some of the tools you need for rolling out your own high-performance cluster.

GNU Parallel brings the benefits of multicore processing to the command line.

Setting up a real-world HPC cluster with Kickstart, SSH, Son of Grid Engine, and other free tools.