Acceleware latest webinar: Watch Acceleware Product Manager Chris Mason discussing the benefits of using GPU clusters for performance and power savings:

The Management and Staff at Acceleware would like to extend their warmest wishes to you and your families this holiday season. As 2011 approaches, we would like to thank you for your continued loyalty and support. We look forward to another exciting New Year at Acceleware.

January 31: So I ended up in Zhuozhou City about 120km from Beijing this week as a guest of the Geophysical Research Institute (GRI). I have trouble following the connection chart, and it changes, but to make a long, convoluted story seem short: it seems like the path is China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which is then connected to PetroChina, which is then or also connected to the Bureau of Geophysical Processing (BGP), which is then the parent of GRI. GRI is the seismic processing workhorse and I think they do most of the seismic processing for the Chinese oilfields/companies.

Recently Acceleware celebrated its 5th Anniversary.  This was a significant milestone for our company, but it also caused me to reflect on the significant evolution that has occurred in the GPU/parallel computing space over the last five years.  An evolution for which we’ve had more than a front row seat, an evolution where we’ve been an active participant, and have evolved greatly ourselves in the process.  I’d like to highlight three main points in this evolution; I will call them the  three “A”s.  They are: Acceptance, Availability,

We decided to launch this blog for several reasons. Foremost was to capture the information and the energy that is so often created in lively internal Acceleware discussions, and present it to greater audience in the HPC community to see what that stirs up! We also intend to use the blog as a more informal way of sharing what type of work we are doing at Acceleware in our research and product development. Finally we have some great employees here that with an interesting diversity of education and experience that is bound to bring forth a host of different ideas.