In InformationWeek, Lisa Morgan gives six reasons why established companies and startups are using supercomputing resources. She says supercomputers unleash Big Data's power. Quotes are from JICS director Tony Mezzacappa, and Jeff Nichols, ORNL's associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences. Each reason is accompanied by an image that does not have anything to do with the reason itself or supercomputing in general. Read further...

Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) interviews Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) after PASC15 Conference in a windy YouTube video. Read further...

France is the only European country that offers the same portfolio of HPC services as the U.S., Japan and China, said Thierry Breton, President of Atos (that did acquire Bull last year) at TeraTec 2015 in Paris. Breton is quoted by the French daily Le Monde. Le Monde says that Big Data is fueling HPC developments." France has everything it takes to be a leader in this field" said the French Minister of Economic affairs Emmanuel Macron. The 10th edition of the TeraTec 2015 HPC forum attracted some 1300 attendees Read further...