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DOD Makes Multi-System Supercomputing Acquisition Totaling Four Petaflops

May 16, 2012 | The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DOD HPCMP) has just completed its largest one-time investment in supercomputing capability supporting the science, engineering, test and acquisition communities of the DOD.
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NVIDIA’s Bill Dally Talks 3D Chips and More at GTC

May 16, 2012 | EE Times | Chief scientist discusses memory stacks, interconnects, and US technology leadership.
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Mercury Computer Systems Develops Sensor Stream Delivery Application

May 16, 2012 | Mercury Computer Systems has announced StreamDirect, a software focused on improving delivery of sensor streaming data to GPGPUs.
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HPC Project Updates Par4All Parallelization Platform

May 16, 2012 | The HPC project has updated their Par4All Parallelization platform to version 1.4. The new version is set to include loop processing enhancements for CUDA and OpenCL.
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Limit Point Systems, MBA Sciences Collaborate to Assist Oil and Gas Industry

May 16, 2012 | Limit Point Systems and MBA Sciences have joined in a strategic partnership allowing both parties to assist the oil and gas industry. The companies aim to develop workflows incorporating their respective offerings.
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Nvidia Announces Availability of Tesla K10 GPU

May 16, 2012 | Nvidia has announced the availability of their K10 Kepler-based GPU. The GPU can deliver 4.58 teraflops of single-precision floating point.
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GE Announces Graphics Board Based on Nvidia VPX Platform

May 16, 2012 | GE has announced the GRA112 3U VPX graphics board. The device contains a 384-core Kepler GPU.
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DOE INCITE Program to Allocate Titan, Mira Compute Resources

May 16, 2012 | The department of Energy's INCITE program will be allocating compute resources for the Titan and Mira supercomputers. The two systems combined possess a performance of 30 petaflops.
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NVIDIA Unveils Virtualized GPU with Kepler-Based Board

May 15, 2012 | GPU maker conjures up visualization technology for virtual desktops.
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SGI Adds Kepler GPU-Accelerated Servers to Rackable Line

May 15, 2012 | SGI announced the availability of a complete, managed GPU solution of its SGI Rackable servers with the new high-performance NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Computing Accelerator.
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AMAX Intros HPC Servers with New Kepler GPUs

May 15, 2012 | AMAX announced the next generation of AMAX ClusterMax SuperG GPU cluster solutions and ServMax GPU server platforms optimized for the latest NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU Accelerator.
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Nvidia Introduces GPU Virtualization Platform

May 15, 2012 | Nvidia has announced the VGX platform. The offering is set to enable IT departments the ability to provision a virtualized desktop with the performance of a physical PC or workstation with a GPU.
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Wolfram Releases Financial Platform

May 15, 2012 | Wolfram Research has announced the release of its finance platform. the company aims to the financial market through data analysis, visualization and reporting.
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Dell Adds Quad-Socket Xeon Server to Lineup

May 15, 2012 | Dell has announced the PowerEdge R820. The 2RU Server runs on 4 Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors.
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NVIDIA Launches Kepler Into HPC

May 15, 2012 | NVIDIA has introduced its first Kepler-generation GPU product for high performance computing, and revealed some of the inner working of the new architecture. The announcement took place at the kickoff of the company's GPU Technology Conference taking place this week in San Jose, California.
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Nvidia Announces Kepler-Based Tesla GPUs

May 15, 2012 | Nvidia has announced the launch of Tesla GPUs based on the company's Kepler architecture. New models will be release under the K10 and K20 names.
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OpenFabrics Alliance, Microsoft Bring RDMA to Windows Server 2012

May 15, 2012 | The Open Fabrics Alliance has announced that Microsoft has worked with the alliance community to bring RDMA capabilities to Windows Server 2012. Support includes RDMA support for remote file access with SMB version 3
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Penguin Computing Adds New Sandy Bridge Chips to Servers

May 15, 2012 | Penguin Computing is offering servers with the newly released Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors. The Relion 2804E is a 2RU chassis, supporting four E5-4600 chips.
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Caltech Research Center Using Panasas Parallel Storage

May 15, 2012 | Panasas has announced the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) has chosen the company to supply storage. CACR will be using Panasas ActiveStor11.
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BOXX Workstations Featuring NVIDIA Maximus Demo at GPU Technology Conference

May 14, 2012 | NVIDIA Maximus technology enables engineers, designers, and other creative professionals to complete simulation or rendering plus visualization simultaneously on the same workstation.
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Registration Now Open for XSEDE12

May 14, 2012 | Registration is now available for XSEDE12. The conference will take place at the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago, July16-20.
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Blue Waters Supercomputer Debugs With Allinea DDT

May 14, 2012 | Allinea software has announced that the Blue Waters supercomputer uses their offering to debug applications. Allinea DDT assists researchers in producing functional code.
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Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer Powered by New Intel Processors

May 14, 2012 | Appro has announced that the Appro Xtreme-X supercomputer is powered by Intel's new Xeon processors. The system is running four-socket nodes with Xeon E5-4600 chips.
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AMAX Releases Systems based on Intel E3 Family

May 14, 2012 | AMAX has announced a new system based on Intel's new E3 processor family. The chips have been manufactured with a 22nm process.
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IBM Augments x86 Offerings

May 14, 2012 | IBM has announced new x86 hardware. The company has added a blade server and a rack system to their lineup.
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Super Micro Shipping Servers With New Sandy Bridge Processors

May 14, 2012 | Super Micro Computer, Inc. has announced it will ship servers with updated Intel Xeon processors. Intel's E5-2400 and E5-4600 processor families were announced today.
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HP Updates Gen8 Servers With New Xeon Families

May 14, 2012 | HP has announced an update to their Gen8 Servers. The systems will support Intel's new E5-2400 and E5-4600 processors.
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Zettaflops Will Happen Says HPC Analyst

May 14, 2012 | Pessimistic predictions about technology have a poor track record, according to 451's John Barr.
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SGI Confirms Support for New Xeon Chips

May 14, 2012 | SGI has announced the company will support Intel's new E5-2400 and E5-4600 product lines. Intel announced the new Xeon variants today.
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Intel Adds More Chips to Xeon Lineup

May 14, 2012 | Intel has announced 28 new Xeon processors. New families include, E5-4600 and E5-2400 processors. Nine additional chips will be added to the E5-2600 family.
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Intel Rolls Out New Server CPUs

May 14, 2012 | Intel Corp. has launched three new families of Xeon processors, joining the Xeon E5-2600 series the chipmaker introduced in March. These latest chips span the entire market for the Xeon line, from four- and two-socket servers, down to entry-level workstations and microservers. A number of HPC server makers, including SGI, Dell, and Appro announced updated hardware based on the new silicon.
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BOXX Technologies Demos Workstations at GTC

May 14, 2012 | Boxx technologies is demonstrating the company's workstation computers at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference. The conference is taking place in San Jose, CA, May 14-17.
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nCore Design to Host Multicore Programming Course

May 14, 2012 | nCore will be hosting a multicore programming course. The course, named NCT-500, will take place in Houston, TX from June 11-12.
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Mellanox Releases InfiniBand Driver for VMWare

May 14, 2012 | Mellanox has announced the availability of an InfiniBand driver for virtualized environments. The new driver adds InfiniBand support to VMWare's vSphere5.
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NVIDIA Intros GPU Application Development Environment for Linux, Mac-OS

May 14, 2012 | Nvidia has announced a development environment for GPU accelerated applications. Named Nsight, the IDE will be available for Linux and Mac-OS systems.
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Podcast: The Zettaflops Dilemma; Emulex, Myricom Take Aim at InfiniBand

May 11, 2012 | Chris Willard and Michael discuss Thomas Sterling prediction that conventional HPC will probably reach the end of the line in the exascale era. Plus Emulex and Myricom team up for a high performance networking play.
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Gnodal Releases 40Gb Ethernet Switch

May 11, 2012 | Gnodal has released a 72 port, 40Gb Ethernet switch at Interop in Las Vegas. The device comes in a 2RU form factor.
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University of Rochester to Install Blue Gene/Q

May 11, 2012 | The University of Rochester will be implementing IBM's Blue Gene/Q to assist in medical research. The University had received a Blue Gene/P from IBM in 2008.
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Next-Gen Memory on the Horizon

May 10, 2012 | Ars Technica | DRAM manufacturers gear up for DDR4.
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Novel Chip Technology to Power GRAPE-8 Supercomputer

May 10, 2012 | With the fastest supercomputers on the planet sporting multi-megawatt appetites, green HPC has become all the rage. The IBM Blue Gene/Q machine is currently number one in energy-efficient flops, but a new FPGA-like technology brought to market by semiconductor startup eASIC is providing an even greener computing solution. And one HPC project in Japan, known as GRAPE, is using the chips to power its newest supercomputer.
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EMC Acquires XtremIO

May 10, 2012 | EMC announced that it has acquired ExtrmIO. The privately held company is known as a pioneer in flash storage architecture.
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National Computational Science Institute, XSEDE Offer Workshops to Educators

May 10, 2012 | XSEDE and the National Computational Science Institute are encouraging educators to participate in workshops held around the country during the summer.
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Rogue Wave Acquires IBM Visualization Products

May 10, 2012 | Rogue Wave Software has announced that it will acquire IBM's VLOG visualization for C++ products.
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Kove Storage Claims Sustained Low Latency Performance

May 10, 2012 | Kove storage announced at a Dell Solution Center in NYC that their storage system, combined with Mellanox InfiniBand, can achieve a sustained 5ms read/write performance.
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US Energy Secretary Talks Supercomputing

May 09, 2012 | Forbes | Steven Chu discusses the role of supercomputing in energy research.
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Myricom, Emulex Take Aim at High Performance Networking

May 09, 2012 | Myricom and Emulex are teaming up to bring a series of network offerings to market targeted for high performance applications. The partnership will kick off with Emulex reselling Myricom 10GbE products into selected application domains, but the end game is to go after the high-flying InfiniBand market with products based on Emulex's Ethernet ASICs and Myricom's high performance software.
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Microsoft, Fusion-io, Mellanox Demonstrate Performance Gains with InfiniBand

May 09, 2012 | Mellanox in collaboration with Microsoft and Fusion-io have demonstrated performance gains in Windows Server 2012. According to the companies, the benchmark test showed a 5X application performance increase.
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Benchmark Measures Mellanox Ethernet Performance

May 09, 2012 | The Tolly group released benchmark results from Mellanox ethernet offerings. Mellanox says the results demonstrate their products as having more than twice as much performance and energy efficiency as their nearest competitor.
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Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs

May 09, 2012 | Nvidia has announced that the LLVM open source compiler now supports Nvidia GPUs.
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Myricom, Emulex Collaborate to Create Family of Network Products

May 09, 2012 | Myricom and Emulex are partnering to develop a family of networking products. The Emulex OneConnect Network Xceleration Family will include Myricom's FastStack software.
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SGI Tapped to Supply Air Force Research System

May 09, 2012 | SGI wil supply an ICE X system to be installed at the Dod Supercomputing Research Center. The system will provide resources for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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HPC Project, Cenaero Announce Strategic Partnership

May 09, 2012 | The HPC project and Cenaero have joined in a strategic partnership. Cenaero will provide their software and experience to the HPC project.
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NoMachine Software Enables Remote Access for Medical Professionals

May 09, 2012 | The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is utilizing NoMachine software to enable remote access for their medical professionals. Employees can now access HPC, analysis and administrative resources remotely.
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Chips on the Table: Sandy Bridge versus Westmere

May 08, 2012 | Colfax International | Newest Intel Xeon chip proves its worth for artithmetic-heavy codes.
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Emulex Introduces New Family of Networking Devices

May 08, 2012 | Emulex corporation has announced a family of OneConnect Network Xceleration products. Items include a host bus adapter and network adapter.
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Dell Announces Microserver Customers

May 08, 2012 | Dell has announced new microserver customers, including Vibrant Media and Morphlabs. Dell's microservers are based on Intel Xeon E5 chips.
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Super Micro to Display GPU Servers, Workstations at Nvidia Conference

May 08, 2012 | Super Micro Computer, Inc. will display its latest hybrid servers and workstations at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference. The X9 servers and workstations utilize the Intel E5-2600 processor.
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Penguin Computing Introduces New Xeon Servers

May 08, 2012 | Penguin Computing has announced the availability of a new line of servers. The servers are based on Intel's Xeon E5-2600 processors.
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Thomas Sterling: 'I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'

May 07, 2012 | As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain. HPC veteran Thomas Sterling takes us through some of the most critical developments in high performance computing, explaining why the transition to exascale is going to be very different than the ones in the past and how the United States is losing its leadership in HPC innovation.
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XSEDE12 Introduces New Sponsor Levels Aimed at Nonprofits, Education Groups

May 07, 2012 | XSEDE is encouraging nonprofits and educational groups to sponsor XSEDE12. The Conference has introduced sponsorship packages ranging from $2,500-$10,000.
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Mellanox Exceeds $1 Billion in Accumulated Revenue

May 07, 2012 | Mellanox has announced that the company has reached in excess of $1 billion in accumulated revenue. The company has been in existence since 1999.
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Paradigm Updates Seismic Application Suite

May 07, 2012 | Paradigm has announced an update to their 2011 application suite. The software is used to compute seismic attributes.
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TACC Data Repository Now Available to Texas Researchers

May 07, 2012 | Named Corral, the University of Texas Data Repository is now available for use by researchers. The system has been made available to scientists from 15 University of Texas Institutions.
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PRACE Scientific Conference 2012 Details

May 07, 2012 | The PRACE Scientific Conference 2012 will be held in Hamburg, Germany. The conference will take place on Sunday, June 17th at the Radisson Blu Hotel.
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Opscode Named Best of Show at Bio-IT World

May 07, 2012 | Opscode has been named best of show at the Bio-IT World conference and expo. The company's Opscode Chef, a systems integration framework, was used to create a 50,000-core virtual cluster earlier this year.
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AMD : The Integration Revolution?

May 07, 2012 | In recent years, microprocessor designers began hitting the limitations of the single-core architecture. So they made the shift to power-efficient multi-core designs. Now they’re running up against the limitations of this format, programming multi-core processors becomes increasingly complex. One path forward is to synergistically combine the potential of both CPU and GPU units. But integrating two very high powered processing units with somewhat differing performance and bandwidth requirements can pose interesting challenges to the overall system architecture.
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Podcast: Convey Hybrid-Core 2.0; Software Updates for Multicore and Cloud

May 04, 2012 | Michael and Addison talk about the recent upgrade of Convey's "Hybrid-Core" offering, and review a couple of middleware developments from eXludus Technologies and Bright Computing.
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Virtual School to Offer Summer Computing Courses

May 04, 2012 | The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering has announced that it will be holding three summer school courses.
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Designing Faster Chips with... Faster Chips

May 03, 2012 | EE Times | With the right software, GPUs can speed chip design.
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The Last Mile of Virtualization

May 03, 2012 | The advent of multicore servers presents something of a challenge for application virtualization. This is especially true in the realm of high performance computing, an environment that has never been particularly friendly to virtualization. To overcome these hurdles, eXludus Technologies has introduced "micro-virtualization," a technology that brings virtualization down to the level of the core, and does so with minimal overhead.
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ISC'12 to Feature Top500 List in Sessions

May 03, 2012 | The Top500 list will be the subject of discussion at multiple sessions at ISC'12.
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New Supercomputer to be Installed Near Paris

May 03, 2012 | CEA Computing Centre for Research and Technology deploys new supercomputer to boost industrial innovation
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Open Fabrics Recommends Linux-Specific Distributions of RDMA Middleware

May 03, 2012 | The OpenFabrics Alliance has announced changes to their distribution of RDMA middleware. New developments will enable the software to run on multiple versions of Linux
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LBNL Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 03, 2012 | Jon Bell, mathematician and computational scientist has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Bell is also the leader of Computational Sciences and Engineering as well as the Mathematics and Computational Sciences departments at LBNL.
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Server Farm Realty, NantWorks Partner to Create Datacenters

May 03, 2012 | Server Farm Realty and NantWorks are collaborating on a datacenter project. The companies aim to build facilities to assist healthcare, science, media and entertainment industries.
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100G Network to Support Big Science

May 02, 2012 | the Energy Science Network (ESnet) news site | Researchers take their datasets into the fast lane.
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Cray Completes Sale of Interconnect Assets to Intel

May 02, 2012 | Cray has announced that it has completed its sale of interconnect assets to Intel. The systems provider will receive $140M in return for its IP.
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Researcher at Ohio Supercomputer Center Named Campus Champion

May 02, 2012 | Karen Tomko, researcher at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, has been named Campus Champion by XSEDE. The Ohio Supercomputer Center is one of 17 XSEDE partners in the US.
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Foundation to Fund Institute for Theoretical Computer Science

May 02, 2012 | The Simons Foundation has swarmed $60M in funding to UC Berkeley. The funding will be used to establish UC Berkeley as the worldwide center for theoretical computer science.
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ASIC Provider Claims 3X Energy Efficiency in Astronomical Simulations

May 02, 2012 | ASIC device provider eASIC has claimed their new ASIC devices increase energy efficiency by up to 3x. Their data comes from The Tokyo Institute of Technology and Hitotsubashi University running astronomical simulations.
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Server Platform Spec. Unveiled by AMD at Open Compute Summit

May 02, 2012 | A new server specification has been announced at the open compute summit in San Antonio. Codenamed "Roadrunner" the spec is aimed at fulfilling compute and storage needs of the financial industry.
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CAPS Entreprise Now Supports OpenACC Standard

May 02, 2012 | CAPS entreprise has released HMPP Workbench 3.1. the compiler supports the OpenACC standard, an initiative from CAPS, Nvidia, Cray and PGI to create an open standard for parallel programming.
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Univa Releases Grid Engine Update

May 02, 2012 | Univa has announced an update to their grid engine platform. Grid Engine version 8.1 is expected to be available during Q2 2012.
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Gartner Calls E.T. International a Cool Vendor

May 02, 2012 | E.T. International has announced that Gartner Inc. has named the software company a "cool vendor". The list of Gartner's cool vendors comes from its HPC and Extremely-Low-Energy Servers 2012 report
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PRACE to Hold Summer School for Multi-Core, MIC Code Optimization

May 02, 2012 | PRACE has announced a summer school aimed at code optimization. The organization will be focusing on multi-core n many-core architectures.
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Famous Physicist Predicts the End of Silicon-Based Computing

May 01, 2012 | The Daily Galaxy | Michio Kaku says Moore's Law is slowing and will wind down by 2022.
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TACC-Intel Symposium Highlights MIC Architecture Developments

May 01, 2012 | Researchers, hardware and software engineers, and high performance computing specialists from around the country attended the TACC-Intel Highly Parallel Computing Symposium last month at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The meeting showcased the experiences of researchers who had ported their scientific computing codes to Intel’s Knights Ferry software development platform, as well as those working on the single-chip cloud (SCC).
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Systems Provider Helps University of Melbourne Create National Research Cloud

May 01, 2012 | Xenon and the University of Melbourne are collaborating on creating a national research cloud. Named NeCTAR, the Australian research cloud first went live on Feb. 1, 2012.
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SGI Upgrades HPC System at Queensland University

May 01, 2012 | The Queesnland University of Technology in Australia has chosen SGI to upgrade their HPC infrastructure. 54 nodes consisting of 864 cores have been installed at the university.
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Bright Computing Releases New Version of Cluster Manager

May 01, 2012 | Bright Computing has released a new version of their management Suite. Cluster Manager 6.0 now has the ability to support cloud bursting and data aware scheduling.
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Rogue Wave Updates Debugger, Supports Cray Systems

May 01, 2012 | Rogue Wave Software has announced the release of their debugger, TotalView 8.10. The application has added support for Cray supercomputers.
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Bits Are Cheaper Than Atoms

Apr 30, 2012 | Technology Review | Why one man thinks computation will “solve the world's energy problems in this century.”
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Researchers Entangle Photons with Integrated Circuit

Apr 30, 2012 | An engineering team at the University of Toronto have built an integrated circuit that has application in optical quantum computing.
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Appro to Sponsor XSEDE12

Apr 30, 2012 | Appro has signed on as a sponsor of XSEDE12. The conference will take place July16-20 in Chicago.
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Hot Interconnects Event Warms Up for Summer Meeting

Apr 30, 2012 | This August, the IEEE is hosting its annual symposium on high-performance interconnects, known as Hot Interconnects. Now in its 20th year, the event focuses on the latest developments in the field with a special emphasis on how the technology is advancing in the realm of supercomputing and large-scale datacenters. The event covers both chip-to-chip interconnects as well as networking fabrics that bind whole systems and datacenters together.
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New Supercomputer to be Installed in Paris

Apr 30, 2012 | AREVA, the CEA and partners are installing a new supercomputer to be located in Paris. The system will be built by Bull.
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PRACE Awards 1,134 Million Core Hours

Apr 30, 2012 | PRACE announced they have awarded 1.134 million core hours. The core hours have been given not 43 proposals
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Advania to Host Nordic Supercomputer

Apr 30, 2012 | Advania has announced that it will be hosting a supercomputer in Iceland. Named Thor, the system will be located outside of the country's capital.
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IBM Awards HPC Components to University of Kansas

Apr 30, 2012 | IBM has awarded computing components t o the University of Kansas' Bioinformatics Computing Facility. The award consists of compute, memory and gpu blades as well as storage servers.
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Connecting the Global Supercomputing Community in Hamburg, Germany

Apr 30, 2012 | ISC ’12 celebrates its 27th conference in the series this year. On track to draw its highest attendance in the history of the event, the conference is welcoming close to 2,400 attendees from around the world. Taking place in Hamburg, Germany, June 17 – 21, 2012, these five days promise to be extremely valuable and very busy, as it is the key event in Europe for the HPC community and the only large-scale HPC gathering throughout the first-half of 2012.
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NVIDIA Launches Kepler Into HPC

NVIDIA has introduced its first Kepler-generation GPU product for high performance computing, and revealed some of the inner working of the new architecture. The announcement took place at the kickoff of the company's GPU Technology Conference taking place this week in San Jose, California.
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Intel Rolls Out New Server CPUs

Intel Corp. has launched three new families of Xeon processors, joining the Xeon E5-2600 series the chipmaker introduced in March. These latest chips span the entire market for the Xeon line, from four- and two-socket servers, down to entry-level workstations and microservers. A number of HPC server makers, including SGI, Dell, and Appro announced updated hardware based on the new silicon.
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Novel Chip Technology to Power GRAPE-8 Supercomputer

With the fastest supercomputers on the planet sporting multi-megawatt appetites, green HPC has become all the rage. The IBM Blue Gene/Q machine is currently number one in energy-efficient flops, but a new FPGA-like technology brought to market by semiconductor startup eASIC is providing an even greener computing solution. And one HPC project in Japan, known as GRAPE, is using the chips to power its newest supercomputer.
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