University Leuven has a job opening for HPC support for scientific programming. Closing date : July 3th. The objective of the job function is to provide effective advanced support to scientists from a broad range of scientific fields and possibly to researchers from industry. This comprises profiling and optimizing scientific applications, providing support to create efficient workflows and develop new training sessions. Read further...

In a speech to at Digital Assembly Riga 2015 last week in Riga, Latvia, EC Commisioner Günther Oettinger said available and easy-to-use High Performance Computing (HPC) resources is a priority for the industry's competitiveness – in particular for SMEs – and for better adaptation to market demands, especially in terms of innovation and fast renewal of their product and service offerings. This is one of the main objectives of Industry 4.0. Read further...

Google reveiled some details on the work they did to keep their networks fast enough. This adds to what Google already developed in distributed computing and data processing, from Google File System to MapReduce to Bigtable and to Borg. Google's current current generation networking infrastructure can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. Software defined networking is also a part of Google's networking infrastructure. Read further...