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Brookhaven Lab Celebrates New Supercomputer
Dec 02, 2005 |
In honor of the 25th anniversary of a scientific paper describing the first use of Monte Carlo methods and lattice gauge calculations in the study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) --...
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Level 5 Networks Adds Support for HP-MPI
Nov 25, 2005 |
Level 5 Networks has completed testing its EtherFabric interconnect required to support the HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI), v2.2. Joint testing by Level 5 and HP established interoperability between...
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SCAI Introduces New Open Source Products
Nov 25, 2005 |
Scientific Computing Associates Inc. (SCAI), a provider of parallel and distributed computing products, has developed the open source Sleigh package for executing R functions and applications in parallel. R is...
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Fiberlink Selects Coraid EtherDrive Storage
Nov 25, 2005 |
Coraid Inc. has announced that Fiberlink Communications Corp., a provider of secure mobile workforce solutions, has selected the Coraid 3U SATA-RAID EtherDrive Storage appliance to archive its standby...
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Super Network Supported Supercomputing 2005
Nov 25, 2005 |
For the first time ever in a real-world environment, Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP) and its strategic partners have brought together more than one-half terabit per second (500 gigabits...
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Visual Numerics Presents Web Seminar on HPC Trends
Nov 25, 2005 |
Visual Numerics Inc., a provider of numerical analysis and visualization software, will present a complimentary 60-minute Web seminar designed to address an increasing trend in high performance computing today --...
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Ohio Professor Receives UCES Award
Nov 25, 2005 | Capital University Professor Ignatios Vakalis won the Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) award in Seattle last week during the international Supercomputing 2005 conference.
Vakalis holds many distinguished roles as a...Read more...
Donostia Foundation Selects SGI Altix
Nov 25, 2005 |
To accelerate materials science research at atomic and molecular levels, the Donostia Foundation International Physics Center (DIPC), a leading organization devoted to the promotion of scientific research in basic and...
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SPEC Issues Call for Papers for 2006 Benchmark Workshop
Nov 25, 2005 |
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has issued a call for papers on performance evaluation subjects for the SPEC Benchmark Workshop 2006, a free event to be held Monday, January...
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AMD Introduces Emerald Clustering Environment
Nov 25, 2005 |
Last week, AMD unveiled its Emerald cluster installation. The AMD Developer Center's Emerald is its newest and largest system, as well as its first publicly-available cluster based entirely on dual-core AMD Opteron processors.
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BioSim Tool Used for Drug Development
Nov 25, 2005 |
Scientists at the Technische Universitat Dresden are engaged in a European research project entitled "BioSim", which uses biosimulation as a tool for drug development. The use of computer...
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Visual Numerics Expands Support for IMSL Numerical Libraries
Nov 25, 2005 |
Visual Numerics Inc., a provider of numerical analysis and visualization software, has announced the availability of Visual Numerics' IMSL C Numerical Library and IMSL Fortran Numerical Library for...
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USC Adds Sun Fire Servers to HPCC Cluster
Nov 25, 2005 |
The University of Southern California Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications has added 360 new Sun Fire V20z servers to its computer cluster, making it the second fastest supercomputer in an academic setting in the United States.
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NAG Upgrades Numerical Library
Nov 25, 2005 |
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), a provider of mathematical and statistical software for developers, has announced its new release of the NAG C Library. New functionality added to the NAG...
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SC05 Award Winners Leverage SGI Technology
Nov 25, 2005 |
SGI visualization and computer technology were used to garner awards at the Supercomputing 2005 Conference in Seattle, Washington, including the Best Technical Paper and the Tour de HPCycles Yellow Jersey.
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AMD to Introduce Quad-Core Processors in 2007
Nov 25, 2005 |
According to AMD executives, the Sunnyvale, California chip maker is going to roll out a quad-core-capable processor family during 2007. The new core design will be similar to the...
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PNNL Wins StorCloud Competition
Nov 25, 2005 | The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory team showed its storage muscle, winning the StorCloud competition at the Supercomputing 2005 conference last week in Seattle.
To demonstrate its capabilities, PNNL streamed...Read more...
2006 Network Storage Conference
Nov 25, 2005 |
The 2006 Network Storage Conference will be held May 2 and 3, 2006 at the Tuscany Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The tentative agenda for the event...
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Big Ben Performs Real-Time Turbulence Simulation
Nov 25, 2005 |
Last week at SC05 in Seattle, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking and storage, University of Minnesota researchers Paul Woodward and David Porter used Big Ben, the...
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Force10 Acquires MetaNetworks
Nov 25, 2005 |
Force10 Networks has acquired privately held MetaNetworks Inc., a provider of line-rate 10 gigabit intrusion detection and prevention technology. The acquisition of MetaNetworks brings with it a customer...
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Mercury Computer Systems Introduces Visage Platform
Nov 25, 2005 |
Mercury Computer Systems has announced a platform designed to enhance medical diagnostic workflow and deliver integrated 3D visualization to multiple end users throughout the enterprise.
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Liquid Computing Selects Neterion 10 GbE Adapter
Nov 25, 2005 |
Liquid Computing Corp., a developer of scalable servers for HPC applications, has announced it will embed Neterion's Xframe 10 gigabit Ethernet network adapter into LiquidIQ, Liquid Computing's Interconnect...
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Shell Oil Selects ModViz Virtual Graphics Platform
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Shell International's Exploration and Production Division in Houston, Texas, has licensed ModViz's Virtual Graphics Platform (VGP) to accelerate their 3D seismic interpretation application 123DI. ModViz's VGP software...
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Intel, Dell And Schlumberger To Deliver New Workstation
Nov 11, 2005 |
Intel Corporation has announced it is working with Dell and Schlumberger to deliver a new workstation platform specifically designed to meet the needs of the oil and gas industry.
The...
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Sun Announces Center for HPC
Nov 11, 2005 |
v style="text-align: left">Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced the opening of its Sun Solution Center for High Performance Computing, a testing and benchmarking facility for x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems. This...
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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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