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IBRIX CTO To Speak at LISA 2005
Dec 09, 2005 |
IBRIX Inc. has announced that Sudhir Srinivasan, Chief Technology Officer, is scheduled to present at the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference on Monday, December 5, at 8:00pm. Mr. Srinivasan,...
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Finetooth Intros 3D Visualization Software for Oil and Gas
Dec 09, 2005 |
Finetooth, Inc. has announced its formation as a company, offering the oil and gas industry 3D visualization software designed specifically for viewing and interacting with prestack data. Finetooth...
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IU's Global NOC Supports National LambdaRail
Dec 09, 2005 |
Indiana University's Global Research Network Operations Center (Global NOC) will provide support for National LambdaRail's (NLR) FrameNet and PacketNet services. Indiana University partnered with Cisco Systems, Inc. on...
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Force10 Enabled Record Setting Demo at SC05
Dec 02, 2005 |
Force10 Networks has announced that its TeraScale E-Series provided the 10 Gigabit Ethernet density that enabled the Bandwidth Challenge entries at the SC05 conference to demonstrate the latest...
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TACC Named as a 'Microsoft Institute for HPC'
Dec 02, 2005 |
Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates earlier this month announced that Microsoft is funding joint research at the Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) at The...
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Florida A&M Deploys Apple-Based InfiniBand Cluster
Dec 02, 2005 |
Small Tree Communications, a developer of enterprise networking solutions for Mac OS X, has provided a 128-node InfiniBand cluster, based on the Apple Xserve G5 platform, to Florida A & M University.
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LLNL, IBM Team Awarded 2005 Gordon Bell Prize
Dec 02, 2005 |
A team of scientists led by physicist Fred Streitz was awarded the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize for pioneering materials science simulations conducted on the world's fastest supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore...
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Cray Co-Founder Burton Smith Departs for Microsoft
Dec 02, 2005 |
Cray Inc. has announced that co-founder and Chief Scientist Burton Smith will leave the company to assume a new role at Microsoft Corporation. Smith, a graduate of the...
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Powerful New Cluster at Caltech to Analyze Earthquakes
Dec 02, 2005 |
One of the most powerful computer clusters in the academic world has been created at the California Institute of Technology in order to unlock the mysteries of earthquakes.
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NSWC Selects SGI Altix, InfiniteStorage
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics has announced that the Warhead Performance and Target Response Branch at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Indian Head, Maryland, has purchased SGI Altix server and...
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Geomagic Announces Alliance Program for DSSP Support
Dec 02, 2005 |
At Euromold 2005, Geomagic has announced the first industry-wide program that unites software, measurement system manufacturers, technology OEMs, and resellers to help customers implement digital shape sampling and processing...
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Scalable Systems Partners with Bull
Dec 02, 2005 |
Scalable Systems Pte Ltd and Bull announced that they will work together to support the Scalable Rocks software suite on Bull NovaScale servers. The Scalable Rocks suite will be integrated within the NovaScale server platform to deliver solutions to the high-performance computing market.
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SGI Moves Date for Annual Stockholders' Meeting
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics has announced it intends to postpone its annual meeting of stockholders until early 2006 in order to include an additional proposal for stockholders to approve an amendment to...
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Naval Research Lab Leverages SGI Solutions
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics has announced that the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. has purchased SGI visualization and SGI InfiniteStorage solutions to help visualize, store and share data...
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Fujifilm Medical Systems, SGI Deliver PACS
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics and Fujifilm Medical Systems have announced a new picture archiving and communication system (PACS) solution that can change the way healthcare professionals view and analyze complex datasets.
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Call for Proposals for Use of HPC Resources at BSC
Dec 02, 2005 |
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC - CNS) is the Spanish National Supercomputing Center. Established in 2005, it has inherited all the tradition of CEPBA (European...
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AIST Calculates Giant Molecule's Electron State
Dec 02, 2005 |
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has announced that it has succeeded in calculating the electron state of a giant molecule comprised of more...
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New Math Models Pick Up Where Computers Fail
Dec 02, 2005 |
For all the advances in computer power of recent years, many real-world processes are still so complex that they defy the capability of even the most advanced supercomputers to describe...
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Alcatel Introduces 10 GbE Core Switches
Dec 02, 2005 |
Alcatel has introduced its OmniSwitch 9000 family of high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet core switches. The new switches offer improved security, high availability and smart performance for today's networked...
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2005 Pearcey Medal Presented to John O'Callaghan
Dec 02, 2005 |
The 2005 Medallist, Professor John O'Callaghan has had a distinguished career in the area of information technology and has made significant contributions to research and development on information technology systems....
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Army Buys SGI, VRSim Virtual Reality Systems
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics has announced the sale of six SGI and VRSim turn-key Virtual Reality Welding Trainers to the U.S. Army Ordinance Center and School at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, to...
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Lockheed Martin Selects SGI Solution for Classified Data
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics announced that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. has purchased an SGI Diskless Operation Server Solution to help manage multi-level classified data in lab environments. Lockheed Martin's flight...
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SGI Showcases New Technology at I/ITSEC
Dec 02, 2005 |
Silicon Graphics showcased its compute, storage and visualization solutions at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference this past week, demonstrating the kinds of collaborative visual environments utilizing multiple data sources that government and analysts use for homeland security, defense and intelligence applications.
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Biosimulation Used in Clinical Cancer Setting
Dec 02, 2005 |
The Mary Crowley Medical Research Center (MCMRC) has announced its partnership with Gene Network Sciences (GNS) to provide a new innovative service for cancer patients. MCMRC will utilize...
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Camber Corporation Deploys RHEL for HPC Warfare Training
Dec 02, 2005 | Camber Corporation, a defense integrator, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for its high performance computing and net-centric warfare training.
Red Hat will provide interactive customer demos of its...Read more...
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May 24, 2013
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Exascale Advocates Stand on Nuclear Stockpiles
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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NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs
In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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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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