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Earthquake Team Wins SC06 Analytics Challenge
Dec 08, 2006 |
A team of scientists and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas, the University of California, Davis, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) won the Analytics Challenge Award...
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IU Deploys Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series
Dec 08, 2006 |
Indiana University (IU) has deployed Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to build a distributed, high performance cyberinfrastructure. In addition to IU's AVIDD and Big Red supercomputer clusters, the...
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Rensselaer to Get IBM Blue Gene
Dec 08, 2006 |
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will continue to advance the frontiers of computational science with the help of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. Awarded under IBM's Shared University Research...
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NRL Selects SGI Systems for Advanced Warfighter Project
Dec 08, 2006 |
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), a DoD scientific research lab, has selected SGI Altix servers and SGI InfiniteStorage solutions to help demonstrate the military utility of a scalable, rapid and secure integrated capability to retrieve, store and share massive amounts of information effectively between global users.
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Call for Papers Extended for LCI Conference
Dec 08, 2006 |
The 8th LCI International Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing is organized for users, administrators, and developers of clustered computers for high performance computing. The conference will be held May...
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Joint Genome Institute Updates IMG Data Management System
Dec 08, 2006 |
Version 2.0 of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has been released to the public....
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NL Nanosemiconductor Acquires Zia Laser
Dec 08, 2006 |
NL Nanosemiconductor GmBH, a developer of quantum dot technology for semiconductor lasers, has announced it has acquired Zia Laser Inc, a manufacturer of quantum dot semiconductor lasers. The transaction has...
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Researchers Develop Technology for One-Terabyte Disc
Dec 08, 2006 |
Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. University of Central Florida Chemistry Professor Kevin...
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IEEE Study Group Puts 100 GbE in the Fast Lane
Dec 08, 2006 |
The Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology, has announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 Higher Speed...
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Aerospace Firm Uses SGI Systems for Parachute Design
Dec 08, 2006 |
Irvin Aerospace, a parachute designer and manufacturer, has enhanced its engineering simulation and analysis capabilities with the addition of SGI technology used to couple Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite...
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IU Team Receives Award in Bandwidth Challenge
Dec 08, 2006 |
A team led by researchers and technologists from Indiana University (IU) was recognized for its accomplishments in the 2006 Bandwidth Challenge held recently at the 2006 Supercomputing conference (SC06) in...
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National LambdaRail Plans for Telepresence Testbed
Dec 08, 2006 |
National LambdaRail (NLR) has announced that it is developing a plan to implement a Telepresence testbed based on the Cisco Telepresence Meeting solution by mid-2007. With its nationwide optical backbone...
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ADVA Optical Networking Demos 10G Fibre Channel Transport
Dec 08, 2006 |
ADVA Optical Networking has announced that its Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 2000 DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) transport system has been successfully deployed in a field demonstrator for the transmission...
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EPA to Deploy SGI Gear for Scientific Computing Initiatives
Dec 08, 2006 |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected SGI to equip the next generation of the EPA's Scientific Research Computing initiatives. The $1.6 million technology and services contract involves high-performance,...
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Blowing Your Own Horn
Dec 08, 2006 |
To brag or not to brag? It's not that simple. John West gives us a lesson on how and when to share our accomplishments with others. If done intelligently, it's a good way to boost your career and your organization's reputation.
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Lusk Named Director of MCS Division at Argonne
Dec 08, 2006 | Ewing ("Rusty") Lusk has been named director of the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
A Kansas native, Lusk received his...Read more...
Pioneering Petascale Computing in Biological Sciences
Dec 08, 2006 |
Supercomputers help scientists build virtual worlds to explore blood flow for stroke prevention, design new proteins for life-saving drugs, and diagnose brain disorders. But even with today's largest machines, researchers...
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Deploys Sun Compute Grid
Dec 08, 2006 |
Sun Microsystems has announced that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is now using a Sun Grid Rack system, comprised of 400 Sun Fire x64 servers, Sun StorageTek solutions, Sun N1 software and...
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First Segment of New Internet2 Network Goes Live
Dec 08, 2006 |
On Tuesday at its annual Fall Member Meeting and 10-year anniversary celebration, Internet2 unveiled the first major segment of its new nationwide advanced network. The consortium also announced that NYSERNet,...
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Call for Papers Issued for TeraGrid 07 Conference
Dec 08, 2006 |
TeraGrid '07 is accepting papers, demonstrations, posters, tutorials, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions for the second annual TeraGrid conference to be held June 4-8, 2007, at the University of Wisconsin at...
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HPC Service Will Be Used For Genome Annotation System
Dec 08, 2006 |
Integrated Genomics (IG) and Tsunamic Technologies have entered into a contract to develop high performance Linux clusters for large-scale, high-throughput genome annotation and comparative genomics. Scientists at Integrated Genomics claim to have increased the efficiency of IG's public and proprietary comparative genomics tools by an order of magnitude and will implement them on Tsunamic Technologies high performance secure Linux clusters.
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Internet2 Selects Infinera for Metro Networks
Dec 08, 2006 |
The Infinera DTN has been selected by Internet2 for metro network extensions to Internet2's new national backbone network. This extension will allow Internet2 to expand the reach of the national...
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Business Magazine Names Peter Ungaro CEO of the Year
Dec 08, 2006 |
Cray Inc. has announced that CEO and President Peter Ungaro was recognized by Seattle Business Monthly Magazine for his leadership in turning around the company and has been named CEO...
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Astron, IBM to Build Radio Telescope Prototype
Dec 08, 2006 |
ASTRON, an astronomy research organization, has announced a new collaborative agreement with IBM focusing on the design, engineering and manufacturing of customized, high performance analogue and mixed signal processing chips....
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AMD Demos Quad-Core Opteron
Dec 01, 2006 |
AMD has demonstrated what it is calling "the industry's first native quad-core x86 server processor," achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon. At the annual AMD...
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May 21, 2013
- Cyber Network Gears Up for Growth in the Cloud With IBM PureSystems
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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
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May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
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- Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
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- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
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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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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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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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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications
May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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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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