Force10 Switches Integrated into IBM System Cluster 1350

Dec 01, 2006 | Force10 Networks has announced that IBM is integrating the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of data center switches into its System Cluster 1350 to deliver the...
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Leaders Are Made, Not Born

Nov 24, 2006 | Are you a born leader? If not, don't worry. It's not all genetics. Contributing author John West believes leaders can be made too. West talks about the different levels of leadership that are within the reach of everyone.
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NCDM Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC06

Nov 24, 2006 | The National Center for Data Mining at UIC has won the HPC Bandwidth Challenge at SC06 in Tampa, FL, sponsored by Qwest. Nine institutions participated in the competition. NCDM won...
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IBM Continues Domination of HPCC Competition at SC06

Nov 24, 2006 | For the second straight year, IBM has dominated the HPC Challenge (HPCC) competition. The DOE/NNSA/LLNL team, using IBM's Blue Gene/L system, once again swept all four Class 1 benchmark awards....
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University of Waterloo Enables Research with SGI Gear

Nov 24, 2006 | Researchers in a number of national and international universities are using the shared-memory processing power of SGI high performance compute technology to explore and solve a wide range of complex mathematical problems in pure and applied math. The University of Waterloo (UW), in Ontario, Canada, recently upgraded the processing power of two SGI Altix systems with SGI InfiniteStorage arrays for a variety of fields, including ocean wave modeling and computer sciences.
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Gartner Upgrades Semiconductor Research Offerings

Nov 24, 2006 | Gartner, Inc. announces three new offerings, which extend its semiconductor research portfolio. These offerings are designed to assist the semiconductor industry, its customers and investors to develop and manage successful...
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Medical Imaging System to Use Cell BE Processor

Nov 24, 2006 | Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. has announced a cooperation with the Institute of Medical Physics (IMP) of Erlangen, Germany, which is focused on the joint development and commercialization of medical imaging...
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Supercomputer Reveals Milky Way's Halo of Dark Matter

Nov 24, 2006 | Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter...
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PSC Doubles Capability of BigBen Supercomputer

Nov 24, 2006 | The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has announced that it will more than double the capability of its 10-teraflop Cray XT3 system, BigBen, to 21.5 teraflops, an increase that improves the...
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Quellan, Fulcrum Deliver Advanced Interconnect

Nov 24, 2006 | Quellan, a provider of analog signal integrity devices and Fulcrum Microsystems, a provider of high performance interconnect devices, have announced an extended reach CX4 mezzanine card. The card is for...
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Synopsys Builds Supercomputer for EDA Work

Nov 24, 2006 | Synopsys Inc., a provider of semiconductor design software, has built a 3.7 teraflop supercomputer cluster to perform production EDA runs with intense compute needs. Synopsys constructed the system in less than four months using commodity Linux servers, delivering up to ten times the software performance of traditional legacy computing systems in certain applications.
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Researchers Shine Light On Atomic Transistor

Nov 24, 2006 | Researchers from Delft University of Technology and the FOM Foundation (Fundamental Research on Matter) have successfully measured transport through a single atom in a transistor. This research offers new insights...
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SC06 Award Wrap-Up at SC06

Nov 24, 2006 | SC06, the international conference of high performance computing, networking, data storage and analysis, presented awards last week for the best paper, best student paper, best research poster, and several competitive...
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ANSYS Announces Secondary Offering of Common Stock

Nov 24, 2006 | ANSYS Inc. has announced that affiliates of Willis Stein & Partners have agreed to sell 3,350,356 shares of ANSYS common stock in an offering underwritten by Goldman, Sachs & Co....
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Kingston Technology Releases 4-GB ValueRAM DDR2 DIMMs

Nov 24, 2006 | Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a provider memory products, has announced the release of 4-GB 533 MHz and 667 MHz ValueRAM DDR2 registered ECC DIMM memory modules. The advent of new...
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National Severe Storms Lab Uses Altix for Weather Model

Nov 24, 2006 | As America's autumn storm season for 2006 continues, the nation's weather forecasters have a relentless demand for reliable information that can help them warn citizens of potentially devastating storms. Providing...
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Oscar 5.0 Released

Nov 24, 2006 | The OSCAR working group has released a new version of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit, OSCAR 5.0. The infrastructure underlying OSCAR has been completely reworked to include smart package managers, yum based image building and package installs, easier client updating by using a repository based approach, and optimized start ups to reduce build time.
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AMD Buys HP Blade Servers for Chip Design

Nov 24, 2006 | Opterons used to design better Opterons? AMD has purchased several hundred HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades powered by Opteron processors to support the development of its chip designs. AMD's silicon design team will use the new systems for electronic design automation applications such as architecture, circuit and verification tasks on existing and future microprocessor design projects.
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NCSA Develops Improved Software to Render AMR Data

Nov 10, 2006 | Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is a powerful technique for simulating phenomena -- from the development of hurricanes to the formation of galaxies to the 3D mixing of fluids -- at...
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Six and a Half Decisions You Should Make On Purpose

Nov 10, 2006 | When it comes to careers, a lot of us spend way too much time on autopilot, letting someone else decide what promotions we should be interested in and what career paths we should take. Sounds like someone you know? John West offers six (and a half) decisions you can make to get control of your career roadmap and enhance your leadership abilities.
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CEI to Demo Automated Cluster Rendering at SC06

Nov 10, 2006 | CEI has announced plans to demonstrate high performance distributed rendering technologies and new features recently introduced in EnSight 8.2 at the SC06 supercomputing show next week in Tampa, Florida. CEI...
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UF Computing Center to Demo Super-Fast Data Transmission

Nov 10, 2006 | The upcoming international supercomputing conference and exhibit (SC06) in Tampa will showcase a method of transporting vast amounts of information at a speed and capacity 10 times the current standard.

Voltaire Intros 10 GbE Switching for Grid Director

Nov 10, 2006 | Voltaire has announced that it will now offer 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switching capabilities in its Grid Director multi-service switches. With 10 GbE switching, customers can take advantage of the...
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ADVA Optical Networking Provides Technology for NSF DRAGON

Nov 10, 2006 | ADVA Optical Networking has announced its participation in a demonstration at SuperComputing 2006 (SC06) of dynamic hybrid network services that enable grid computing, high-capacity storage facilities, transport of high-resolution video...
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AtlanticWave Improves International Research Collaboration

Nov 10, 2006 | The AtlanticWave service, officially launched by the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and a group of collaborating not-for-profit organizations, is a distributed international research network exchange and peering facility along...
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