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Ford Deploys SGI Technology for HPC Centers

Dec 16, 2005 | Silicon Graphics announced that Ford Motor Company has purchased technology for three of its high performance computing center locations to increase productivity in research and automotive design. SGI...
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Sun Shines Light on Enterprise HPC

Dec 16, 2005 | As more businesses are looking towards high-performance computing to solve problems for their increasingly sophisticated applications, a burgeoning demand is being created for enterprise HPC. Sun Microsystems is leveraging its expertise in both HPC and mission-critical computing to address this expanding market.
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Foundry Intros Dual Speed Fiber Solutions

Dec 16, 2005 | Foundry Networks, Inc. a provider of end-to-end switching, routing and application Web switching, has announced the availability of a dual-speed 24-port fiber module for the FastIron SuperX and a dual-speed...
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Sun Claims Record Performance with Sun Fire Systems

Dec 09, 2005 | Sun Microsystems claims that it has achieved a record-breaking data warehousing performance TPC-H SF10000 benchmark result with the Sun Fire E25K UltraSPARC IV+ system and the Oracle Database...
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Tohoku University Selects SGI Technology

Dec 09, 2005 | To aid global environment research, Silicon Graphics and SGI Japan Limited recently installed a new supercomputing system at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. The new system was built using SGI server, visualization and storage technology to enable researchers to achieve more accurate results and shorter time to solution.
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ONStor Wins 'Product of the Year' from Enterprise Systems

Dec 09, 2005 | ONStor Inc., a provider of high-performance scalable NAS gateways for multi-vendor storage, has won two "Toigos" for its high-throughput Bobcat 2280 NAS Gateway. ONStor was awarded both "Best Product in...
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Neterion Adapters Enabled SC05 Bandwidth Challenge Record

Dec 09, 2005 | Neterion, Inc., a provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for server and storage environments, announced that its Xframe adapters were used in the network infrastructure of the High...
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MSC.Software Appoints Andrew Meyer as Marketing VP

Dec 09, 2005 | MSC.Software announced the appointment of Andrew Meyer, an experienced enterprise software executive, as the vice president corporate marketing.

"As MSC further strengthens its senior management team, I am...
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Woods Hole Selects SGI Technology

Dec 09, 2005 | Why does the Oregon coastal region have so little seismic activity while sediment layers point to a tsunamigenic earthquake once every 200-1200 years? To study this and other...
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Finisar Corp Acquires Assets From Big Bear Networks

Dec 09, 2005 | Finisar Corporation , a provider of gigabit fiber optic solutions for high-speed data networks, today reported that it had acquired all of the optical transponder assets of Big Bear Networks...
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ERDC Supercomputer Most Powerful in DoD

Dec 09, 2005 | The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Miss., recently installed a Cray XT3 supercomputer that is the most powerful openly announced supercomputer in the...
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ONStor, Asigra Launch Compliance Package

Dec 09, 2005 | ONStor Inc., a provider of enterprise NAS Gateway solutions, and Asigra, a provider of agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, have announced a partnership to provide a...
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World Record Set in Transatlantic Visualization

Dec 09, 2005 | Global Crossing, a provider of telecommunications solutions, has helped to set a world record in transatlantic visualization. Scientists from the Netherlands established the record by generating the largest transatlantic real-time data stream for ultra-high-resolution visualization.
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NSF Director to Speak at NCSA

Dec 09, 2005 | National Science Foundation director Arden Bement will kick off NCSA's 20th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on Jan. 25 at the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana.

In...
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Industry Veterans Join Mellanox's Board of Directors

Dec 09, 2005 | Mellanox Technologies Ltd, a provider of business and technical computing interconnects, announced the appointments of H. Raymond Bingham and Thomas Weatherford to its Board of Directors.

"Both Ray and Thom...
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GridIron Software Targets Multi-Processors, Multi-Cores

Dec 09, 2005 |

GridIron Software has introduced GridIron Nucleo, a productivity enhancement tool for digital post-production that takes advantage of multi-processor and multi-core technology. Nucleo for Adobe After Effects addresses the...
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IDC Reports Record Growth for Disk Storage Systems

Dec 09, 2005 | According to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker, factory revenue in the external disk storage systems market grew a record 12.5 percent year over year to $3.9 billion in the...
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Intel Names New Chief Marketing and Technology Officers

Dec 09, 2005 | Intel Corporation named new chief marketing and technology officers and announced that its board of directors has promoted four people to serve as senior vice presidents and elected four others...
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CCT Showcased Hurricane Katrina Research at SC05

Dec 09, 2005 | Researchers from the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU showcased visualization techniques for hurricane Katrina research at SC05, an internationally recognized supercomputing conference, recently held in Seattle...
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Astronomy Data Pipeline Tackles First Challenge

Dec 09, 2005 | The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is leading the development of data-management and data-processing tool for the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a multi-institution collaboration aimed at discovering...
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Coraid EtherDrive Selected by NASA

Dec 09, 2005 | Coraid, Inc. has announced that the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has purchased its  SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage appliance to back up critical data for its Solar Dynamics Observatory...
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Alcatel Selects MySQL Cluster for Data Server Platform

Dec 09, 2005 | Alcatel has selected the MySQL Cluster database for its Multi-access Data Server (MDS) platform. MySQL Cluster is a special high-end version of the MySQL database specifically designed for fault-tolerant, mission-critical applications that need scalability and high-availability, as are common in the communications industry.
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Sun Introduces CoolThreads-Based Servers

Dec 09, 2005 | Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the availability of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers featuring patented CoolThreads technology, the industry's first eight core, 32-thread processor. Based on the 9.6 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor, code named Niagara, the new server family is Sun's latest offering for the competitive datacenter market.
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Panel to Discuss Low-Latency Networking

Dec 09, 2005 | Industries across the board have become increasingly dependant on compute-heavy tasks, from rapid customer-facing web transactions to genome simulations that require millions of calculations per second. Such a...
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Terracotta Previews Clustered Java Solution

Dec 09, 2005 | Interface21 Limited and Terracotta, Inc., have agreed to develop the Terracotta Clustered Spring Runtime -- a high performance, transparently clustered runtime that enables scaling out of Java/J2EE applications built on the Spring Framework. The jointly developed solution provides an enterprise-class, high-performance clustered runtime for all Spring applications with no changes required to the application code.
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In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries

May 22, 2013 | At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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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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