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ANSYS Upgrades FLUENT CFD Software
Dec 01, 2006 |
ANSYS Inc. has announced the release of the latest version of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FLUENT 6.3. New capabilities have been added to FLUENT 6.3 that broaden its...
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PolyServe Joins Red Hat Advanced Software Partner Program
Dec 01, 2006 |
PolyServe Inc. has earned membership in the Red Hat Advanced Software Partner Program. Membership in the program ensures customers that PolyServe's shared data clustering software solutions for Linux have been...
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CEI Adds New Features to EnSight 8.2
Dec 01, 2006 | CEI has added major new features and performance improvements to its EnSight extreme visualization software just three months after the release of version 8.2.
CEI's latest release, called 8.2.2, includes faster...Read more...
Exanet Releases Intelligent Cluster Management NAS Solution
Dec 01, 2006 |
Exanet, a supplier of high performance, clustered NAS software, has announced the release of ExaStore - ICM (Intelligent Cluster Management), software that provides storage and delivery to a range of...
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Hitachi Unveils Blade Server with Hardware Virtualization
Dec 01, 2006 |
Hitachi America Ltd. has announced BladeSymphony with Virtage, a blade server to provide users with enterprise-class data center functionality. The new product, the latest member of Hitachi BladeSymphony...
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Physics Researchers Use SGI Technology
Dec 01, 2006 |
What if, before designing a car, an engineer could use physical knowledge of atomic particles to design materials and know exactly how they would react in a collision? What if...
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U of Illinois Announces New Institute for Supercomputing
Dec 01, 2006 |
Computational simulation and data analysis are now the core of an array of research disciplines, from astronomy and nanoscience to environmental sustainability and healthcare. Pushing disciplines forward by integrating emerging...
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Dan Reed Named AAAS Fellow
Dec 01, 2006 | Dan Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, is among the newest fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The association is honoring Reed for his "outstanding research...Read more...
Pennington Named NCSA Deputy Director
Dec 01, 2006 |
Rob Pennington, long a key member of the leadership team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named deputy director...
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Force10 Gear Powers High Performance Network at RSNA 2006
Dec 01, 2006 |
Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers is anchoring the 10 Gigabit Ethernet network at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2006 conference this week in Chicago. The Force10...
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Altair, ESI Integrate Software Offerings
Dec 01, 2006 |
Altair Engineering, Inc. has collaborated with the ESI Group to integrate Altair's PBS Professional and e-Compute into ESI Group's Open Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS) solution. Integrating PBS Professional Grid technology...
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Georgetown Prof Honored for Work in Computational Physics
Dec 01, 2006 |
Georgetown University physics professor Jim Freericks has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor reserved for physicists who have made significant advances in knowledge through original...
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Mechdyne Adds Immersive Visualization for Petrel Software
Dec 01, 2006 |
Mechdyne Corporation has announced that its VRCO software division released a immersive visualization solution for use with Petrel Software from Schlumberger. With availability of the Conduit graphics middleware for Petrel,...
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Interactive Supercomputing Awarded NSF Grant
Dec 01, 2006 |
Interactive Supercomputing Inc. has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a software development project that seeks to enable scientists to transparently run their simulations on parallel architectures. The goal of the project is to enable NSF-funded scientists and engineers to not only tap into the capabilities of parallel processing to solve huge computational problems, but to do so while minimizing development time.
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Ciena and Partners to Upgrade Boston South Network
Dec 01, 2006 |
Ciena Corporation is partnering with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to upgrade the Boston South Network (BoSSNET) -- an applications and network test bed for researching...
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3-D Computer Models Aid Research of Earth's Core
Dec 01, 2006 | The work of a University of Alaska Fairbanks post-doctoral fellow will be included in an article appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal, Science.
The article reveals that scientists...Read more...
CIR Releases Report on 100 Gigabit Ethernet Market
Dec 01, 2006 |
With the recent endorsement of 100 Gbps Ethernet (GigE) by an IEEE Study Group, new opportunities for modules and component firms are about to appear. To help clients...
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What do you do?
Dec 01, 2006 |
How would you explain HPC to your Mom? In this week's column, John West talks about the importance of articulating what you and your organization do. He says this is especially important in our world of high performance computing, which, let's face it, often need some explaining.
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Amal Johnson Joins Mellanox's Board of Directors
Dec 01, 2006 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier high performance interconnect products, announced the appointment of Ms. Amal M. Johnson to its board of directors.
"Amal provides Mellanox with significant enterprise infrastructure knowledge...Read more...
Cell-Based Cluster to be Used for EDA Acceleration
Dec 01, 2006 |
Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with Mentor Graphics to jointly develop and deliver a fully integrated electronic design automation (EDA) platform. The system combines a standard compute cluster with the Cell BE processor to deliver up to a 20x increase in compute capacity and speed now required for resolution enhancement tool applications at and below 45nm.
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Bandwidth Challenge Winner Establishes New Milestone
Dec 01, 2006 |
A team of experts from the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center for Data Mining (NCDM), Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University won the 7th annual Bandwidth Challenge held...
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TheInfoPro Research Shows 10 GbE to Grow by One-Third
Dec 01, 2006 |
According to TheInfoPro's Wave 2 Networking Study, 26 percent of enterprises interviewed have already adopted the use of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in their core networks. The study...
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OSC Announces HPC Partnership with Edison Welding Institute
Dec 01, 2006 |
Joining high performance computing applications with small- and medium-sized companies is one step closer to reality as the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Edison Welding Institute (EWI) announced a...
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Max Planck Researchers Grow Silicon Nanowires
Dec 01, 2006 |
Silicon nanowires can help to further reduce the size of microchips. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal...
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NSF CISE Director Moves to Private Sector
Dec 01, 2006 |
Peter Freeman, assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), has announced he will become a director at the Washington Advisory Group...
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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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