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December 18, 2008

The Week in Review

by John E. West, for HPCwire

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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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Kogge on Spectrum Radio, DARPA's gloomy predictions for exascale computing

Guide to building a PS3 cluster

HPC info graphic in the NYT

Irish researchers work with IBM optical networks in next-gen supers

Intel: three things you must teach in parallel programming

Google U: intro to parallel programming and MapReduce

PRACE Winter Petascale Computing School

Berkeley developing patterns for parallel programming

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