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Chevron Selects IBM Technology for Oil Exploration
Dec 16, 2005 |
IBM has announced that Chevron Corporation selected an IBM cluster built with AMD Opteron processor-based IBM eServer 326 servers to power its compute-intensive depth imaging technology. Working with IBM, Chevron...
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3PAR Adds 500 Gigabyte Nearline Disk Drives
Dec 16, 2005 |
3PAR, a provider of utility storage, has announced that 500 gigabyte Nearline drives are now available, extending 3PAR Utility Storage across both Fibre Channel and Nearline storage tiers. These high-capacity...
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Over 40 ISVs Endorse New Sun Fire Servers
Dec 16, 2005 |
More than 40 ISVs, including Oracle, Symantec and BEA, are supporting Sun's new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, powered by the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology...
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Princeton Gets 100,000 CPU Hours on Sun Grid
Dec 16, 2005 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has awarded Princeton University a Sun Grid Education Grant for 100,000 CPUs hours on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Sun Grid helps customers and partners...
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Jeffrey Skolnick To Lead New Center at Georgia Tech
Dec 16, 2005 |
One of the world's leading researchers is joining the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jeffrey Skolnick, Ph.D., a renowned systems biologist and previously director of the Buffalo Center...
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Adler Planetarium to Use TRECC Hardware
Dec 16, 2005 |
Chicago's Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum will use a high-tech tiled display wall on loan from the Technology Research, Education, and Commercialization Center (TRECC) as part of an exhibit on...
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IBM Opens GPFS to Third-Party Vendors
Dec 16, 2005 |
IBM has developed a strategy that allows customers to use its General Parallel File System (GPFS) across mixed-vendor supercomputing systems. IBM is offering access to GPFS source code to eligible clients, who may choose to adapt GPFS to other platforms and share their work with other licensees.
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BlueArc Storage Used for Narnia Special Effects
Dec 16, 2005 |
BlueArc Corporation, provider of high-performance network storage systems, has announced that leading digital film studio Rhythm & Hues chose BlueArc's Titan Storage System as the storage foundation for the company's...
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SGI Expands CAE Software Portfolio for DoD
Dec 16, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics has announced the addition of two government off-the-shelf (GOTS) application software suites, CTH and Xpatch, to the portfolio of computer-aided engineering software available on the SGI...
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Force10 Networks Names Meresman to Board Of Directors
Dec 16, 2005 |
Force10 Networks has announced that it has named Stanley Meresman to its board of directors. Serving as an independent director, Mr. Meresman brings more than 30 years of experience in...
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Rice Centralizes Storage With BlueArc
Dec 16, 2005 |
Rice University has selected BlueArc Corporation's Titan Storage System as the campus's central data repository, eliminating the need for more than 50 disparate file servers and easing storage...
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Level 5 Networks Teams with Verari Systems
Dec 16, 2005 |
Level 5 Networks and Verari Systems have announced that they are partnering to accelerate application performance on blade server clusters. The two companies will conduct a demonstration showing four times more transactional throughput than is possible with conventional Ethernet network interfaces in blade servers.
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IFP Deploys SilverStorm InfiniBand Switch Technology
Dec 16, 2005 |
The Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP) has deployed SilverStorm Technologies' 9240 InfiniBand switch gateway platform as the interconnect backbone for its newest HPC cluster network. The new cluster enables IFP to run multiple oil and gas industry applications over a single interconnect infrastructure.
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FLUENT 6.3 Beta Shows Increased Performance on Linux
Dec 16, 2005 |
Fluent Inc., a provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and services, has announced that the recently released beta version of its flow simulation software, FLUENT 6.3, includes significant performance...
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Cray to Lay Off About 8 Percent of Workforce
Dec 16, 2005 |
Cray plans to reduce its full-time staff by approximately 65 people, or about 8 percent of their workforce, according to a document filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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Myspace Deploys Isilon Clustered Storage
Dec 16, 2005 |
MySpace, developers of the Myspace.com lifestyle portal, has made an initial deployment of 20 terabytes of Isilon IQ clustered storage to meet the media consumption demands of its...
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SBE Announces Two iSCSI Design Wins
Dec 16, 2005 |
SBE Inc., a provider of high-performance IP-based networking solutions for storage and communications systems, has announced that two networking and storage equipment providers, Open Source Storage (OSS) and Yang Ming...
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Xilinx Upgrades FPGA Integrated Software Environment
Dec 16, 2005 |
Xilinx, Inc. has announced the 8.1i release of its Integrated Software Environment (ISE) design tool suite, which features the new ISE Fmax technology with enhanced physical synthesis capabilities...
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Gates Continues HPC Push in Asia
Dec 16, 2005 |
Microsoft Corp. greeted nearly 200 delegates at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum (GLF) Asia in New Delhi, India last week. During the two-day forum, government, academia and industry leaders from...
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Alcatel Deploys 40 Gbps Optical Link in Germany
Dec 16, 2005 |
Alcatel has deployed its 40 Gbit/s solution connecting the data centers of the University of Stuttgart and the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, a distance of over 105...
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Teak Technologies to Lead Power.org Subcommittee
Dec 16, 2005 |
Teak Technologies, a provider of theoretically optimal interconnect systems solutions, has been selected to lead the technical subcommittee on high-speed packet switching interconnects within Power.org, an open standards community around...
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IBM Opens PowerPC 405 Architecture for Researchers
Dec 16, 2005 |
At a Power.org event in Palo Alto, California, IBM announced plans to make the specifications of IBM's PowerPC 405 core freely available to researchers and academia. IBM plans to coordinate...
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Allinea Software Announces Seller Agreement with IBM
Dec 16, 2005 |
Allinea Software, a supplier of high performance computing tools, has announced a seller agreement with IBM involving joint sales and marketing of Allinea's distributed computing products. The agreement...
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Fakespace to Develop Visualization Systems for Sandia
Dec 16, 2005 |
Fakespace Systems Inc. has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from Sandia National Laboratories to design, build and integrate visualization systems for Sandia's MESA (Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications) MicroLab...
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WI-MIT BioImaging Center to Deploy Archivas Technology
Dec 16, 2005 |
Archivas, Inc., a provider of fixed content archiving solutions, has announced the Whitehead Institute-MIT BioImaging Center and the Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede
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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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon
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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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
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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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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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Computing the Physics of Bubbles
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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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
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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