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.

AMD is poised to announce a new generation of processors, including the Bulldozer series, which is targeted for data centers and HPC implementations. We asked John Fruehe, AMD's Director of Product Marketing for the server and embedded space, for an inside look at what's coming with Bulldozer and what it means for HPC vendors and customers.