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| HPCwire | |
|---|---|
| Name | HPCwire |
| Type | Online publication |
| Owner | The Tabor Group (as of 2016 acquisition by Tabor Communications? verify) |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Language | English |
HPCwire
HPCwire is a specialized online publication dedicated to high performance computing, supercomputing, and related technologies. It provides news, analysis, interviews, and opinion pieces on developments in hardware, software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and scientific computing. The site serves researchers, engineers, procurement officers, and policy makers engaged with supercomputer centers, national laboratories, universities, and industry vendors.
HPCwire originated in the late 1980s amid growth in supercomputing at institutions such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and San Diego Supercomputer Center. Early coverage paralleled milestones at manufacturers like Cray Research, IBM, Fujitsu, NEC Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. During the 1990s and 2000s HPCwire chronicled the transition from vector architectures exemplified by Cray-2 and Cray-1 to massively parallel systems such as the IBM Scalable POWERparallel families and clusters based on Intel processors and AMD microarchitectures. Coverage expanded as major programs and collaborations—Human Genome Project, Blue Waters, Titan—drove advances in computational science. In the 2010s the publication reported on exascale initiatives led by agencies including United States Department of Energy, European Commission, Riken, and Jülich Research Centre, alongside vendors unveiling prototypes at conferences like International Supercomputing Conference and Supercomputing Conference. Ownership and editorial stewardship have shifted through acquisitions and reorganizations involving media firms and specialist publishers with ties to the technology and trade press.
The publication produces breaking news, feature articles, technical analysis, and opinion columns on topics ranging from processor design to software ecosystems. Typical reporting links developments at chip designers such as NVIDIA, Intel Corporation, AMD, ARM Ltd., and Google with systems and storage vendors including Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, NetApp, and Dataram. Coverage routinely references benchmarks and installations at centers like Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CERN, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The editorial mix connects advances in parallel programming models—citing initiatives such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and SYCL—with scientific domains that rely on HPC, including teams behind Large Hadron Collider experiments, climate studies affiliated with Met Office, and computational chemistry groups at universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. In recent years reporting has increasingly woven in developments in machine learning and deep learning frameworks from projects at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and research groups at Facebook AI Research.
The bylines include experienced journalists and subject-matter experts drawn from academic, national laboratory, and industry backgrounds. Regular contributors have come from institutions such as University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Princeton University, while guest columns often feature leaders from corporations like Microsoft Research, Amazon Web Services, IBM Research, and NVIDIA Research. Editorial leadership has historically interacted with boards and advisory groups composed of representatives from DOE Office of Science, research centers, and consortiums such as HPC Advisory Council and OpenACC. Coverage also leverages analysis by independent analysts and commentators associated with firms such as Gartner (company) and IDC (company).
The publication reports extensively on major conferences and workshops, providing previews and post-event analysis for gatherings such as SC Conference, ISC High Performance, NeurIPS, GTC (GPU Technology Conference), and meetings of the Association for Computing Machinery. It documents prize announcements and recognitions tied to initiatives like the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, ACM Gordon Bell Prize, and national laboratory achievement awards. In addition to event coverage, it has sponsored or partnered in awards and market surveys that highlight innovation in areas such as accelerated computing, interconnect technologies from vendors like Mellanox Technologies, and storage solutions from companies such as Seagate Technology.
HPCwire has influenced purchasing decisions, procurement strategy, and research agendas by aggregating vendor news, procurement announcements, and scientific milestones. Its reporting has been cited by institutions when announcing new systems at facilities like Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. The publication has also acted as a forum for debate on policy measures affecting research computing, intersecting with discussions led by bodies such as National Science Foundation, European Grid Infrastructure, and national research councils. Through interviews with directors of supercomputing centers, chief architects at vendor firms, and principal investigators of flagship collaborations, the outlet has shaped community awareness around trends such as energy-efficient architectures, heterogeneous computing, and exascale readiness.
Revenue has historically derived from a mix of sponsored content, display advertising, event partnerships, and subscription or membership services tailored to industry stakeholders and procurement teams. The outlet has been part of media portfolios that include technology trade publications and has undergone ownership changes involving specialized publishing groups and private media firms. Commercial partnerships often tie editorial coverage to industry events, market reports, and custom content produced in collaboration with vendors and service providers in the HPC ecosystem such as cloud providers and systems integrators.
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