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November 06, 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.

10 words and a link

insideHPC exclusive look at the SC08 Cluster Challenge competitors

HPC earnings season: Cray drinks champagne, SGI hires new CFO

Wolfram hosts Mathematica on the Nimbis cloud

Linux Mag test drives the iDataPlex, finds engineering excellence

Rogue Wave's parallel computing survey

EGI.org is looking for a home

IBM storms British Isles with systems in Wales and Ireland

Meet, greet, and dine with Andy Bechtolsheim at SC08

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