Contents:
- Letter from the Editor: Black Holes and High-Performance Computing by Henry A. Gabb, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Leadership Performance with 2nd-Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors: New Features and Tools to Maximize Your HPC, AI, and Analytics Applications by Amarpal S. Kapoor, Technical Consulting Engineer; Rama Kishan V. Malladi, Performance Modeling Engineer; and Avinash Karani and Nitya Hariharan, Application Engineers; Intel Corporation
- Using the Latest Performance Analysis Tools to Prepare for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory: Getting Past Bottlenecks and Storage Issues by Jackson Marusarz, Technical Consulting Engineer, and Kevin O’Leary, Senior Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Measuring the Impact of NUMA Migrations on Performance: Weighing the Tradeoffs to Maximize Performance by Gurbinder Gill, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, and Ramesh V. Peri, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Parallelism in Python: Directing Vectorization with NumExpr*: Boosting Performance for Computing with Arrays and Numerical Expressions by Fabio Baruffa, PhD, Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Turbo-Charged Open Shading Language on Intel® Xeon® Processors with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512: Up to 2x Faster Full Renders Speed Digital Content Creation by Steena Monteiro, Software Engineer, and Alex M. Wells, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
- The Performance Optimization and Productivity (PoP) Project: Pursuing the Never-Ending Quest for Performance by Mike Croucher, Developer Advocate, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
- Seven Ways HPC Software Developers Can Benefit from Intel® Software Investments: Taking Another Look at Intel and HPC Software by James Reinders, Editor Emeritus, The Parallel Universe