Ferrari Revs HPC Horsepower

Oct 14, 2005 | Ferrari is opening a new data center in Maranello, Italy that will be dedicated to aerodynamic research and development for Formula One racing cars. This facility features technology delivered by the partnership of Fluent Inc., American Power Conversion and AMD.
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Scott Returns as CTO at Cray

Oct 07, 2005 | After leaving Cray Inc. over the summer, Steve Scott, one of HPC's most respected computer architects, has rejoined the company as chief technology officer. During his months away, Scott explains in this exclusive interview that he had time to see the world outside Cray while also recharging his enthusiasm for what Cray stands for and means to the HPC community.
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CSCS Benefits from HPC Challenge Benchmarks

Oct 07, 2005 | Marie-Christine Sawley, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, provides insights into CSCS's use of the HPC Challenge benchmark suite for its recent large-scale supercomputer procurement.
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Field Tests Unite Weather and Climate Models

Oct 07, 2005 | Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and seven other government and academic institutions have created four new supercomputer simulations that for the first time combine their mathematical computer models of the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and sea ice.
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Google and NASA: The Latest Hot Couple

Oct 07, 2005 | The two Silicon Valley all-stars have made a splash by announcing their plans to work together on a spade of technology-related research and development projects that take in distributed computing, data management and something called "bio-info-nano convergence."
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Robotic Research Goes Off-Road

Oct 07, 2005 | A $2 million prize competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense to build a fully autonomous vehicle that can drive on- and off-road through the desert without human drivers could impact a host of civilian applications for robotic technology, including the potential of enabling blind people to "drive" cars.
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Taking the Earth's Temperature

Oct 07, 2005 | It's been found in salmon, polar bears, dolphins, the Great Lakes, Arctic and Mediterranean. It's also in apples, green beans, bread and ground beef -- as well as the bloodstreams of people worldwide. What is it?
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Michigan State Receives NSF Grant

Oct 07, 2005 | To help its undergraduates prepare for these career-crossover demands, Michigan State University will use a $905,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance undergraduate education at the intersection of biology and mathematics.
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SDSC Scientists Help Katrina Victims

Oct 07, 2005 | The San Diego Supercomputer Center is collaborating with the American Red Cross and other rescue organizations to locate missing persons in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. SDSC is creating an amalgamated list containing thousands of names from a number of individual data searches.
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Supercomputer Predicts Flow of Toxic Water from Katrina

Oct 07, 2005 | In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, scientists and research centers from around the country have came together to generate information on the contaminated floodwaters and offer it to hazardous materials experts and public health officials.
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HPC User Forum Explores Leadership Computing

Sep 30, 2005 | At Oak Ridge National Laboratory this week, 131 HPC User Forum participants from the U.S. and Europe discussed current examples of leadership computing andchallenges in moving toward petascale computing by the end of the decade.
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Apple Supercomputer Grows in Qatar

Sep 30, 2005 | The Middle East is the site of a new Apple-based supercomputing cluster operating at the Qatar Foundation's Education City site. Created by Texas A&M University at Qatar, it links 101 Apple G5 XServe computers with customized communications software.
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Purdue Provides Evaluation to CAD System

Sep 30, 2005 | Researchers at Purdue University who developed the first system capable of searching a company's catalog of three-dimensional parts created with computer-aided design software are now providing a method to evaluate how well such systems work.
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Researchers Seek Answers to 'Self-Assembly'

Sep 30, 2005 | A healing cut or a developing embryo are examples of what a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher calls a hallmark of living systems: "biological self-assembly." A team of scientists, led by MU professor Gabor Forgacs, have received nearly $5 million from the NSF to answer the fundamental biological question: What controls this self-assembly process?
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Cray's Rottsolk: HPC's 'Eternal Optimist'

Sep 30, 2005 | Long-time HPC industry executive James E. Rottsolk may be winding down his days at Cray Inc. -- the co-founder relinquished his title as CEO in August -- but his enthusiasm for the field of high performance computing has not waned even a megabyte after decades dedicated to the cause.
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NCSA Provides Rapid Response Computing

Sep 30, 2005 | In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, scientists and research centers from across the country have come together to try to provide crucial information on the contaminated floodwaters to haz-mat and public health officials. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is playing a starring role in this effort by providing rapid-response computing capability.
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Berkeley Lab Could Help Katrina, Rita Victims

Sep 30, 2005 | An experimental technology developed by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds promise for providing a picture of bacterial presence in the air, soil and water, which would enable authorities to track how that presence changes over time.
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Lawrence Berkeley's Forecast: Hot Weather Ahead

Sep 30, 2005 | Climate change and rolling blackouts may be a package deal. More frequent and intense heat waves expected in California over the next 100 years could overburden the state's electric utility grid, according to a study led by scientists in the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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SGI's RASC Ups Application Performance

Sep 23, 2005 | A trend is emerging for accelerating application performance: reconfigurable computing. To support this effort, Silicon Graphics has unveiled hardware based on its Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing technology that is capable of increasing application performance by hundreds of times over conventional systems.
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ARM Extends to Niger Data Acquisition

Sep 23, 2005 | The U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program will send a data acquisition system to Niger next year to collect climate information in this data-sparse region.
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NCAR Reveals 'Astonishing' Weather Facts

Sep 23, 2005 | The number of Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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CAS 2005: Focus on Earth System Modeling, Katrina

Sep 23, 2005 | Eighty meteorologists and HPC experts from 12 countries and five continents recently attended the bi-annual CAS 2005 workshop on the use of HPC in meteorology.
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Letters to the Editor

Sep 23, 2005 | HPCwire readers respond to last week's articles regarding high performance computing and the current state of our educational system.
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Katrina the 'Super Model'

Sep 23, 2005 | The first detailed computer model of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge shows a gargantuan, 15-foot dome of water forming in the Gulf of Mexico. Propelled westward by 140-mph winds, the surge slams into levees east of New Orleans and pours over them, flooding a large inhabited area.
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Fastest Doesn't Equal Best

Sep 23, 2005 | Japan makes no secret of the fact it is aiming to develop a supercomputer that will regain the crown as the world's fastest. The country lost the cherished designation to the U.S. last year, so the Japanese government has countered by stating that it plans to develop a supercomputer that can handle in excess of one quadrillion calculations per second by as early as March 2011.
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