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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Network Speed Record Broken for 3rd Consecutive Year

Dec 09, 2005 | For the third consecutive year, an international team of scientists and engineers has smashed the network speed record, moving data at a peak rate of 131.6 gigabits per second. Participants from Caltech, SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, Michigan, Florida, Brookhaven, Vanderbilt and partners in the UK, Brazil, Korea and Japan joined together to set the new world record at the Supercomputing 2005 Bandwidth Challenge.
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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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The Future of Custom HPC Application Development

Dec 09, 2005 | As Moore's law has stalled on the desktop, scientists and engineers in virtually every field are turning to high-performance computing to solve some of today's most important and complex problems. With simulation increasingly replacing physical testing, more complex phenomena being modeled, and whole products or systems being simulated, technical computing -- whether in the life sciences, manufacturing, energy, intelligence, defense, or earth sciences -- has become both more prominent and more challenging.
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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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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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NCAR Studies Land Cover Effects on Global Warming

Dec 09, 2005 | New simulations of 21st-century climate show that human-produced changes in land cover could produce additional warming in the Amazon region comparable to that caused by greenhouse gases, while counteracting greenhouse warming by 25 percent to 50 percent in some midlatitude areas.
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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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KamLAND Uses PDSF, HPSS to Find First Geo-Neutrinos

Dec 02, 2005 | In a paper which was featured on the cover of the July 28, 2005 issue of Nature, an international group of researchers reported the first observation of geologically produced anti-neutrinos. The observation is giving scientists new insight into the interior of our planet.
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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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M2005 Conference Sets Industry Standard for Data Mining

Dec 02, 2005 | SAS Institute Inc., a provider of business analytics software, recently hosted its 8th annual data mining technology conference, M2005.Nearly 700 attendees from 43 states and 18 countries came to Las Vegas from 300 business, academic and government organizations for the chance to hear from 50 noteworthy speakers.
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The (Supercomputing) World According to Horst

Dec 02, 2005 | Last month at UC Berkeley, Horst Simon presented a lecture entitled "Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years." In the lecture, he gives us his historical perspective of supercomputing over the last two decades and his outlook for the next two.
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EPPC@15

Dec 02, 2005 | This year marks the 15th birthday of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. This is, for us a significant milestone and I wanted to take this opportunity to review the past decade and a half, not only in terms of the changes we have seen as an organization, but also to reflect on the revolution that has taken place in the HPC arena more generally.
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Advancing the Power of Visualization

Dec 02, 2005 | Finding "affordable visualization" with enough scalable horsepower is often impossible for scientists and engineers who need HPC visualization capabilities to analyze large data sets. Steve Briggs, HPCD's SVA product marketing manager, explains how the HP Scalable Visualization Array addresses this need.
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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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Climate Modeling at Max Planck Institute

Dec 02, 2005 | Earth system and climate science deals with complex phenomena in the atmosphere, the ocean and on land surfaces. Modeling such phenomena numerically on extremely powerful computers is a crucial element of Earth System Sciences program at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany.
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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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Center of Excellence in Computational Biology Formed

Dec 02, 2005 | SRI International has announced the formation of its Center of Excellence in Computational Biology. The Center's mission is to conduct collaborative research in symbolic systems biology, synthetic biology and bioinformatics to advance scientific understanding of biological systems and accelerate drug discovery and development.
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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.

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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Rolling Thunder

Nov 25, 2005 | This spring, for the first time, real-time forecasts running daily on PSC's LeMieux, a lead resource of the TeraGrid, correctly predicted the details of thunderstorms 24 hours in advance.
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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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NERSC Develops Archiving Strategies for Genome Data

Nov 25, 2005 | When researchers at the Production Genome Facility at DOE's Joint Genome Institute found they were generating data so fast they couldn't find anywhere to store the files, let alone make them easily accessible for analysis, a collaboration with NERSC's Mass Storage Group developed strategies for improving the reliability of data storage while making retrieval easier.
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