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Feb 8, 2010

NASA Looks to Move Science Apps Into the Cloud

It seems only natural that the US space agency would be casting its eyes toward the clouds. Sure enough, NASA is now looking to cloud computing to optimize the operation of the agency's IT infrastructure for some of its science codes. Like many commercial businesses and government organizations, NASA is being asked to do more computing with fewer datacenter resources. Read more...

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The Week in Review

TACC's Ranger supercomputer celebrates its second year of enabling important research; Microsoft partners with NSF to bring cloud services to researchers; and NSF submits its fiscal year 2011 budget request. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Thoughts, Observations, Beliefs & Opinions About the NSF Supercomputer Centers

There is no such thing as an NSF (Supercomputer) Center and there never has been. There should be. What there are, in the words of Ed Hayes, then comptroller of NSF, are "NSF ASSISTED Supercomputer Centers." This is a double edged sword.
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The Week in Review

The DOE announces annual INCITE supercomputing awards; NVIDIA and the University of Illinois partner on a textbook for programming massively parallel processers. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Voltaire Launches InfiniBand-Ethernet Bridge

Voltaire has announced the Grid Director 4036E, a new QDR InfiniBand switch that includes a built-in Ethernet gateway. As such, it acts as a network bridge that hooks together QDR InfiniBand and 10 GigE infrastructure, all implemented inside a 1U box.
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IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

2/8/10 | eWeek | A new kind of Rocky Mountain high. Read more...

AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012

2/8/10 | Computerworld | Chip maker hopes to bring CPU-GPU processors to servers in two years. Read more...

Graphene Transistors That Work at Blistering Speeds

2/5/10 | Technology Review | IBM has created graphene transistors that leave silicon ones in the dust. Read more...

Intel Sneak Peeks Westmere EP Server Silicon

2/4/10 | The Register | Intel will preview first 32nm Xeon chips on Monday. Read more...

Cheap Stuff: Trends in Commodity HPC

2/3/10 | Linux Magazine | A couple of relatively new commodity solutions could make a huge impact in HPC. Read more...

No Flash in the Pan

2/3/10 | GenomeWeb | In 2009, a number of early adopters in HPC got behind flash storage. Read more...

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Virtualization for Aggregation And The vSMP Architecture™

1/12/10 | ScaleMP | In-depth look at vSMP Foundation server virtualization technology, technical implementation, use cases and capabilities. The technical whitepaper provides an architectural overview and details on the three vSMP Foundation products: vSMP Foundation for SMP, vSMP Foundation for Cluster and vSMP Foundation for Cloud.

Copper Cable Technologies for High Performance Computing

1/18/10 | W. L. Gore | This white paper discusses Gore’s copper cable assemblies, and how they continue to exceed the standards for providing reliable, cost-effective solutions for high-performance computer applications.

Appro Assists LLNL with Cluster Designed for Extreme Scale Visualization

1/11/10 | Appro | LLNL is home to some of the fastest computers in the world. In 2012, LLNL expects to have the Sequoia supercomputing cluster operational with a projected performance of over 20 PFLOP/s. These systems will focus on strengthening the foundations of predictive simulation through running large suites of complex simulations and then comparing model predictions with experimental data. To visualize this project’s large amount of data, LLNL requested an Appro Supercomputing Cluster specifically designed to support interactive data analysis.

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Podcast: NASA and the NSF Take to the Clouds
Addison and Michael talk about how NASA and the NSF are working to bring science codes to cloud computing.
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