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May 17, 2013 |
Nicole and Addison continue to discuss the exascale race in light of Horst Simon's recent Q-and-A and consider the possibilities of D-Wave's quantum computer.
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May 17, 2013 |
Ask any IT engineering organization and they will tell you software has transformed their business, enabling them to run simulations more efficiently to automating design verification processes. The result is organizations are more competitive by delivering products to market faster and for less cost.
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May 17, 2013 |
Tableau Software, Inc. announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 8,200,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $31.00 per share. A total of 5,000,000 shares are being offered by Tableau Software, and a total of 3,200,000 shares are being offered by certain selling stockholders.
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May 17, 2013 |
The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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May 16, 2013 |
D-Wave Systems Inc., the world’s first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that its new 512-qubit quantum computer, the D-Wave Two, will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration among NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association.
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May 16, 2013 |
Colorado School of Mines’ new 155 teraflop supercomputer dubbed “BlueM” will allow researchers to run large simulations in support of the university’s core research areas while operating on the forefront of algorithm development using a powerful hybrid system.
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May 16, 2013 |
Kitware, a leading provider of scientific R&D software solutions, today announces new Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued development of an open-source, high performance computing (HPC) simulation and computation framework.
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May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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May 16, 2013 |
The supercomputing infrastructure of GCS centre HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart) at the University of Stuttgart will soon enter the next step of its HPC systems installation phase. Prof. Michael M. Resch, director of HLRS, and Dr. Ulla Thiel, Vice President Cray Europe, signed the contract for a Cray XC30 to be deployed at HLRS.
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May 16, 2013 |
Following the recent highly successful launch of version 2.0 of its integrated suite of storage, replication and web clustering software, HybridCluster, an early stage software solution provider to the cloud and hosting industry, today unveils full details of the ultra-high availability platform within HybridCluster 2.0.
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May 15, 2013 |
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May 15, 2013 |
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd announced its intent to acquire privately held Kotura, Inc.for high-speed networking applications.
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May 15, 2013 |
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced $1.8 million in funding to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for critical upgrades to the electrical and mechanical infrastructure of the university’s supercomputing center, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI).
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May 15, 2013 |
Bright Computing, the leading, vendor-independent provider of cluster and cloud management solutions, announced that it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's 2013 Top 100 North America award. As a finalist, Bright joins a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.
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May 15, 2013 |
Flow Science, Inc. announces the availability of a new release of FLOW-3D/MP, the distributed memory version of its flagship CFD software, FLOW-3D. FLOW-3D/MPv5.0 enables engineers to take advantage of the scaling potential of the software on multi-core clusters.
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May 15, 2013 |
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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May 15, 2013 |
NEC Corporation announced today that CJSC NEC Neva Communications Systems (NEC Neva) has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, NEC Ukraine, in order to expand its regional information and communications technology (ICT) business. The new company is scheduled to begin operations in May 2013.
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May 15, 2013 |
Fujitsu today announced that it has received an order from Nagoya University's Information Technology Center for a "high-performance supercomputer for academic research."
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May 15, 2013 |
Avere Systems today announced that the Avere FXT Series Edge filers are helping visual effects studio Framestore, the winner of multiple BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Emmys and Oscars, to stay ahead of the technology curve.
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May 15, 2013 |
Meeting the performance, energy-efficiency, and resilience requirements of systems and applications at Exascale will require rapid, accurate, and dynamic evaluation of tradeoffs. To provide these capabilities, significant advances in predictive modeling and simulation methods are needed.
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May 14, 2013 |
A national collaboration of electronic engineers and computer scientists is aiming to develop the next generation of energy-efficient computing systems.
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May 14, 2013 |
Findings from Yong Wei Zhang of the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore and co-workers may now make it easier to use metallic glass in practical engineering applications.
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May 14, 2013 |
At a press conference in Beijing today, IBM further extended its reach into China with the opening of the first Linux innovation center for Power Systems clients and business partners.
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May 14, 2013 |
Altera Corporation today announced the broad availability of its SDK for OpenCL and supported third-party production boards. Availability of the SDK for OpenCL enables software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices.
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May 14, 2013 |
S&P Capital IQ, a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics, today announced that it has signed a Data Facilitator Agreement with Kuberre Systems. Kuberre Systems gains access to S&P Capital IQ's full suite of data feeds, including financials, global market data, equity research and estimates, fixed income, news and events, and security valuations and pricing.
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May 14, 2013 |
Solarflare, the leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O, today announced Davor Frank, senior solutions architect, will speak at the Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit.
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May 13, 2013 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego will host its first annual research review for current and prospective industrial partners and affiliates as part of a broader strategy to foster increased collaborations that may benefit from the center’s extensive research capabilities.
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May 13, 2013 |
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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May 13, 2013 |
AMD today announced availability of servers based on its AMD Open 3.0 specification, defined as part of the Open Compute Project, delivering workload versatility and performance equal to competing proprietary OEM servers at significantly lower cost.
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May 13, 2013 |
Infinera and BICS announced today the selection of the Infinera DTN-X platform to upgrade BICS' Pan-European network. The Infinera DTN-X delivers 500 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) long haul super-channels, enabling BICS to deliver flexible and cost effective 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services.
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May 13, 2013 |
This year Juniper Systems is celebrating its 20th year in business. Founded in 1993 by Ron Campbell, the company continues to be operated by members of the Campbell family. Ron’s son, Rob Campbell, has served as president of Juniper Systems since 2001.
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May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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May 10, 2013 |
Nicole and Addison discuss mid-range HPC products, the Japanese exascale initiative and the Irish500 this week.
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May 10, 2013 |
Materials science and physics research led by early career Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists received a boost this week from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program.
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May 10, 2013 |
New document provides clear guidance on achieving interoperability of various hypervisor platforms and virtual machines based on well-defined enterprise requirements.
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May 10, 2013 |
The Human Brain Project will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project will discuss their vision and roadmap for computing.
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May 09, 2013 |
Today at the 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications conference in Athlone, the Irish500 project has been launched to raise the profile of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland.
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May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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May 09, 2013 |
A high performance server cluster is enabling researchers to better understand the universe by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies.
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May 09, 2013 |
In what has become a week of news around bringing HPC technology to the midrange market, Lustre file system gatekeeper, Xyratex, hashed out new boxes to bring down some parallel file system barriers and put higher performance on x86 cluster within closer reach for simulation and....
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May 09, 2013 |
Super Micro Computer, Inc. is shipping a new scale-out object storage solution based on the high capacity Double-Sided Storage server (SSG-6047R-E1R72L) featuring 72x 3.5" hot-swappable HDDs plus 2x 2.5" hot-swappable HDDs, supporting up to 288TB using the latest 4TB Enterprise drives.
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May 09, 2013 |
Two student teams from Virginia Tech's electrical and computer engineering program have qualified among the 15 finalists in an international competition to develop strategies for clear communication in spite of interfering signals on a radio channel.
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May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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May 08, 2013 |
A team of IBM researchers created the world's smallest movie using the essential building-blocks of matter, atoms.
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May 08, 2013 |
With new features and enhancements in cloud, virtualization, and performance, the beta version of GlusterFS 3.4 brings high reliability, scalability, and data mobility to users and application developers.
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May 08, 2013 |
Highlights include early sustained petascale performance on Blue Waters, software performance teams, industry access to software talent and performance hardware, BP’s petascale pursuits, precision manufacturing, data-intensive computing, software innovation, and more.
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May 08, 2013 |
Seagate Technology plc announced its new portfolio of flash-memory solutions. The company took the wraps off its first client solid state drive (SSD) and its next-generation enterprise SSDs.
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May 08, 2013 |
Clustered Systems recently completed the installation of its first "hyper efficient" computing system at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Initial testing indicates that an average PUE of 1.07 can be expected.
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May 08, 2013 |
Traditional HPC languages, Fortran, C and C++, have little native control over hardware capabilities such as SIMD operations, multi-core availability and prefetch instructions. The burden of optimization is therefore...
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May 08, 2013 |
Effective immediately Penguin is delivering fully integrated, scalable OCP solutions that are built-to-order to meet the requirements of mid and large scale datacenters.
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May 08, 2013 |
Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it will be showcasing its high-performance computing, storage, general computing, and server solutions at the University of Toronto’s TechKnowFile 2013, which will be held May 9-10, 2013 at the University’s downtown St. George campus.
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May 08, 2013 |
Today Omnibond announces the availability of OrangeFS on AWS Marketplace. The availability of OrangeFS on AWS Marketplace offers customers the simplicity of Running Big Data, HPC and other high-performance and data-intensive applications on AWS.
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May 08, 2013 |
Teradata introduced Teradata Intelligent Memory, an innovative database technology. Teradata Intelligent Memory creates the industry's first extended memory space beyond cache that significantly increases query performance and enables organizations to leverage in-memory technologies with big, diverse data.
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May 07, 2013 |
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has revealed the latest addition to its portfolio: the Cray XC30-AC (air-cooled) supercomputer. The new product leverages Cray's XC30 flagship technology to address technical enterprise price points and new classes of users.
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May 07, 2013 |
UF formally introduced their newest teraflopper, a Dell-built and Opteron-powered cluster of 256 nodes. We talked with Dell's Tim Carroll briefly to track the....
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May 07, 2013 |
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive hands-on training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future.
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May 07, 2013 |
Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up now for two summer school courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.
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May 07, 2013 |
Since the first bug was eradicated from a Mark II system at Harvard in 1940s (an actual moth wedged in a relay, which drove the machine to a standstill) system exterminators have faced a constant spray of challenges. We talk with Allinea co-founder David Lecomber about challenges on Titan and Blue Waters--and the future of debugging exascale ...
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May 07, 2013 |
Nallatech announced it is officially a member of the Altera Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL.
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May 07, 2013 |
Vicor Corporation today announced its participation in the Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) 2013 conference, the international conference devoted to power electronics and its applications, hosted in Nuremberg, Germany, May 14-16, 2013.
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May 07, 2013 |
ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Hetzner Online has deployed its 100G Core technology throughout its backbone network.
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May 07, 2013 |
WD, a Western Digital company, and SanDisk Corporation today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature flash memory technology from SanDisk and hard drive technology from WD.
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May 07, 2013 |
Solarflare announced today that its latest generation 10GbE Performant and Onload server adapters have been selected by IBM to optimize the I/O performance of the company's System x servers (including iDataPlex).
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May 07, 2013 |
SGI today announced that CQUniversity Australia has selected SGI to supply new High Performance Computing (HPC) server and storage infrastructure to accelerate its research projects.
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May 07, 2013 |
With prices starting at $500,000, the Cray XC30-AC (air cooled) supercomputer economizes the packaging, networking, cooling and power options of the Cray XC30 system to provide customers with a balance of features and footprint that matches....
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May 07, 2013 |
AMAX announced that it is showcasing its latest innovations in the Data Center, Open Compute Project (OCP) and Big Data spaces with its ServMax and ClusterMax turnkey computing solutions at the 2013 Interop IT Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 7-9.
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May 07, 2013 |
The PRACE Autumn School will offer free courses in industrial simulation, focusing on a number of commonly-used algorithms and techniques, from complex fluid flow simulations to structural mechanics and beyond...
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May 07, 2013 |
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on topics from a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, networks, distributed systems and applications.
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May 06, 2013 |
Chalk up another win for Sequoia and high-performance computing. The IBM Blue Gene breaks two more records.
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May 06, 2013 |
CRC Press | A new book for the shelves of supercomputing aficionados has emerged, which covers a rather impressive swath of topic areas—from analyses of current top systems like Sequoia and...
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May 06, 2013 |
AMAX has been named a member and official solutions provider to bring unique datacenter experiences to the Open Compute Project Foundation, which is aimed at scalable, efficient computing. The company's role will entail bringing...
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May 06, 2013 |
Today Altera announced its software developer kit for OpenCL and a new deal to help FPGA developers hit the ground running.
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May 06, 2013 |
6WIND today announced full OpenFlow protocol compatibility within its 6WINDGate networking software. At the recent Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA, conference attendees viewed a demonstration of the 6WINDGate virtual switch acceleration in 6WIND’s booth.
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May 06, 2013 |
PCIe COTS FPGA board offered as part of a turnkey OpenCL Developer's Bundle at a special introductory price.
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May 06, 2013 |
A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it — an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted — a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
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May 06, 2013 |
The IEEE TCSC is seeking nominations of young people working in scalable computing for this year's award. Members of the community are welcome to nominate computer scientists who have....
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May 06, 2013 |
The conference, coming in February, will focus on groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in different arenas of computing. The event is set to be held in Seattle and attract those in many....
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May 06, 2013 |
AutoGrEEEn Plus Technology extends power saving benefits throughout the network.
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May 06, 2013 |
In this article, we will consider how OpenCL can address some of the coming challenges, and what the OpenCL community is doing to insure that there is a vibrant ecosystem of support, as more and more users turn to OpenCL from vendor-locked solutions.
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May 05, 2013 |
SC13 is launching a new program called "Emerging Technologies". This focus area will concentrate on real hardware prototypes and demonstrations of software as well as project presentations in other formats. To learn more, HPCwire spoke with the co-chairs to get a sense of which technologies are....
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May 03, 2013 |
For the largest computer systems in the world, keeping IT assets safe presents a unique set of challenges.
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May 03, 2013 |
Big Switch Networks today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners.
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May 03, 2013 |
Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, today announced in collaboration with Delft University of Technology the entanglement of electron spin qubits (quantum bits) in two synthetic diamonds separated in space.
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May 03, 2013 |
24 vendors and research organizations now collaborating on developing standard shared-memory parallel programming model.
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May 02, 2013 |
It's been a notable week for Intel, with the announcement of two new leadership positions, including the pushing of 30-year veteran engineer, Brian Krzanich into the top slot. With this in mind, we revisit this week's discussion led by Intel's John Hengeveld on where the trends of big data and HPC tend to converge on the interconnect and its role in...
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May 02, 2013 |
We've scoured the journals and conference proceedings to bring you the top research stories of the week. This diverse set of items includes the latest CAREER award recipient; the push to bring parallel computing to the classroom; HPC in accelerator science; the emerging Many-Task Computing paradigm; and a unified programming model for data-intensive computing.
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May 02, 2013 |
This week Nicole and Addison discussed the growing trend of accelerators and leadership changes in HPC, including Intel's new CEO.
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May 02, 2013 |
Intel announced that the board of directors has elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Otellini.
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May 02, 2013 |
Experts from Indiana University have played a role in the NASA's Operation IceBridge mission's success.
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May 02, 2013 |
Three University of Wyoming students will work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research this summer.
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May 02, 2013 |
AMD announced a strategic focus on developing one-of-a-kind solutions through its Semi-Custom Business Unit.
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May 02, 2013 |
Microsemi is leveraging Intel's onshore foundry technology for the development of advanced high-performance digital integrated circuits and system-on-chip solutions.
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May 02, 2013 |
Cray announced that Brian Henry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Paul Hiemstra, Director, Treasury and Investor Relations, will be presenting at the 2013 Small and Mid Cap Conference.
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May 02, 2013 |
D-Wave Systems Inc. announced the formal launch of its U.S. business.
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May 01, 2013 |
Tech-X announced the release of GPULib 1.6, the latest release of Interactive Data Language (IDL) calculations using GPU hardware.
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May 01, 2013 |
TACC at The University of Texas at Austin announced that Dr. Niall Gaffney has joined the center in the position of Director of Data Intensive Computing.
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May 01, 2013 |
What can be done to address gender inequality in computer science?
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May 01, 2013 |
Arista Networks announced enhancements to its Arista 7500 modular switching platform that enables Cloud Networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines.
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May 01, 2013 |
Applied Math Modeling announced the availability of CoolSim 4.1 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software.
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The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
Read more...
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
Read more...
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
Read more...
May 16, 2013 |
When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
Read more...
May 15, 2013 |
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
Read more...
May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
Read more...
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
Read more...
May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
Read more...
05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.