If you're looking for a head start on solving the classic Knight's Tour chess challenge, try this homegrown Python script.

Bash is known for admin utilities and text manipulation tools, but the venerable command shell included with most Linux systems also has some powerful commands for manipulating binary data.

Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?

Churn through lots of data with cluster computing on Apache's Spark platform.

In a high-performance environment, you want speed as well as security. Kurt looks at some approaches to security that won't slow things down.

• New Intel Xeon Phi
• Intel-HP HPC Center
• Oracle Supports Azure Cloud
• Wayland 1.2 Released
• Java Enterprise Edition 7 Released

Cloud computing is most definitely here, but does it have a role in HPC? We discuss changes in HPC that could be solved effectively by cloud computing.

Starting out in the HPC world requires learning to write parallel applications and learning to administer and manage clusters. We take a look at some ways to get started.