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March 21, 2008
Here's a collection of highlights, selected totally subjectively, from this week's HPC news stream as reported at insideHPC.com and HPCwire.
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Sao Paulo's center for HPC expands SGI installation;
http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/14/cenapad-sp-expands-sgi-altix-install/
New infrastructure-as-a-service conference on the horizon;
http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/17/new-infrastructure-as-a-service-conference/
SiCortex moves in at U Colorado's Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics;
http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/18/university-of-colorado-selects-sicortex/
SGI revs ICE Blades;
http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/19/sgi-announces-enhancements-to-altix-ice-blade-platform/
Multicore software workshop in conjunction with ICSE;
http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=15302
Sun releases SAM/QFS as open source;
http://insidehpc.com/2008/03/20/sam-and-qfs-available-as-open-source/
>>NEC claims 10-petaflop supercomputing breakthrough
NEC and the Tokyo Institute of Technology are claiming they have developed technology that will allow supercomputers to breach 10 petaflops. Apparently, they have laid the groundwork using a network of optical interconnections between nests of chips. The optical interconnects allow systems to perform chip-to-chip communication at 25 Gbps (no mention of latency).
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