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High Performance Computing The Exponential Growth of Hardware and the Linear Growth of Software – Stone Ridge Technology

Dec 01 2022

The Exponential Growth of Hardware and the Linear Growth of Software

Computing hardware capability has grown exponentially while software evolution occurs much more slowly, constrained by human effort. The mismatch bestows undue longevity to legacy codes and leads to significant inefficiency and lost productivity. The solution is new software optimally designed for the latest hardware.

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High Performance Computing Why 2016 is the Most Important Year in HPC in Over Two Decades – Stone Ridge Technology

Jul 07 2016

Why 2016 is the Most Important Year in HPC in Over Two Decades

The stakes are very high and the HPC hardware market only scratches the surface. The real cost is in the millions of person-hours that will be invested in...

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Trends: The Emergence of the Computational Scientist – Stone Ridge Technology

Dec 09 2015

High Performance Computing Trends: The Emergence of the Computational Scientist

An organization can no longer ask a geoscientist, chemist or reservoir engineer to write a modeling and simulation code. Computational Scientists fill the gap.

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Trends: The Software Challenge – Stone Ridge Technology

Nov 09 2015

High Performance Computing Trends: The Software Challenge

The difficulty of parallel programming has led to conspicuous trends in HPC: lagging performance of legacy codes & emergence of the computational scientist.

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing – Stone Ridge Technology

Oct 31 2015

High Performance Computing

It's gratifying to make a computer perform to its specifications. Some of us have made a career of it in the discipline of high performance computing (HPC).

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Trends: New Architectures – Stone Ridge Technology

Oct 27 2015

High Performance Computing Trends: New Architectures

Stone Ridge Technology's thoughts on the adoption of GPUs & success NVIDIA has attained in promoting them in the last decade.

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Trends: Core Issues – Stone Ridge Technology

Oct 19 2015

High Performance Computing Trends: Core Issues

The only way to achieve performance on modern processors is through deliberate design that makes effective use of massive on-chip parallelism.

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High Performance Computing High Performance Computing Trends: The Lagging Performance of Legacy Codes – Stone Ridge Technology

Oct 16 2015

High Performance Computing Trends: The Lagging Performance of Legacy Codes

Many of the codes we use today for business critical decisions were written for computers that no longer exist, leaving a large & growing performance achievement gap.

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