James Pepin Named Clemson's CTO, Director of HPC

Dec 15, 2006 | James Pepin of the University of Southern California has been named Clemson University's chief technology officer (CTO) and director of high performance computing. He will begin his duties in February...
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BlueArc Reports Record Sales

Dec 15, 2006 | BlueArc Corporation, a network storage provider, has announced the company's recently-concluded fiscal quarter achieved new sales records for the firm, delivering year-over-year growth of nearly 100 percent. On the back...
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Bull to Deliver 43-Teraflop System to CCRT

Dec 15, 2006 | CCRT (Centre de Calcul Recherche et Technologie), the Center for Research and Technology Computing in France, has awarded Bull the contract to build a supercomputer delivering in excess of 43 teraflops. The system will be made available for the scientific and industrial communities to use in major areas of research, particularly aeronautical engineering, energy, life sciences and environmental research.
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BMW Sauber Unveils New Supercomputer for Automotive Design

Dec 15, 2006 | The BMW Sauber F1 Team has unveiled its new 12-teraflop supercomputer to be used for Formula 1 automotive design. Albert2, revealed on Thursday to international media representatives in Hinwil, is Europe's fastest machine used in the industry. The system is based on Intel processors and will be employed by the team for computational fluid dynamics workloads.
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IBM Selects Universities for Cell BE Research

Dec 15, 2006 | Ten universities spanning multiple geographies have been chosen as winners of the latest IBM Shared University Research (SUR) awards. For the first time, each of the universities will be using the Cell Broadband Engine technology to enable students and faculty to drive innovation, collaborate and foster skill development in the creation of digital media, software platform performance and medical imaging solutions.
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John Rollwagen Named Chairman Of SiCortex Board

Dec 15, 2006 | SiCortex, a Linux cluster startup company, has announced that high performance computing executive John Rollwagen has been elected chairman of the board. Rollwagen, who served as chairman and CEO of...
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Water, Water Everywhere

Dec 15, 2006 | Understanding and addressing the many issues connected to water is complex, but NCSA is developing a cyberenvironment to make tackling the problems easier for the nation's researchers.
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Itanium Solutions Alliance Commits $100K to Gelato

Dec 15, 2006 | The Itanium Solutions Alliance has announced a $100,000 sponsorship of the Gelato Federation, a global technical community dedicated to the advancement of Linux on Intel Itanium architecture. The partnership is...
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'Zeke' Supercomputer Boots Up at UL Lafayette

Dec 15, 2006 | Zeke is plugged in at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and ready to deliver economic benefits to the university and the state. Zeke, UL Lafayette's computing node...
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Hitachi Moves Into HPC Storage Market

Dec 15, 2006 | Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, has announced major moves that it claims will enable its rapid expansion into the global high-performance computing storage market. These moves, backed by an investment in...
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AMD and IBM Collaborate on 45nm Process Technology

Dec 15, 2006 | This week at the International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), IBM and AMD presented papers describing the use of immersion lithography, ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics, and multiple enhanced transistor strain techniques for...
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Researchers Close In On Terahertz Transistor

Dec 15, 2006 | Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world's fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is...
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Alchip Unveils First Silicon of 512-Core Chip

Dec 15, 2006 | In collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Alchip Technologies, a fabless ASIC company, has announced its first silicon success of the SING processor for GRAPE-DR, a next-generation supercomputer design that is targeting a performance goal of two petaflops. The SING chip features 512 CPUs with over 60 million logic gates and 10 million bits of SRAM.
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2007 Predictions of Superconductivity-Based Breakthroughs

Dec 15, 2006 | Low-cost MRI machines, super-fast Internet routers, and high-capacity power lines top the list of likely breakthroughs in the field of superconductivity in 2007, according to a 'Top-10' forecast list released...
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The MareNostrum Universe

Dec 15, 2006 | According to the Bible, the universe was created in about a week. Astrophysicists are currently building a virtual universe that will be completed in about four months, using 2048 processors of the MareNostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. This unique facility is the perfect place to compute the formation and evolution of a virtual replica of our own universe.
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Cray Plans XT3 Technical Workshop

Dec 15, 2006 | Computational scientists using the Cray XT3 architecture -- and those interested in the XT3 -- will gather in Nashville for three days in February to exchange their knowledge and experience.

Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer

Dec 15, 2006 | An international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology, CERN, and the University of Michigan and partners at the University of Florida and Vanderbilt, as well as participants from Brazil and Korea joined forces to set new records for sustained data transfer between storage systems during the SC06 Bandwidth Challenge.
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SiCortex Marches to A Different Drummer

Dec 15, 2006 | Last month at SC06, SiCortex, Inc. introduced its family of ultra low power high performance Linux systems, based on MIPS processor technology. In this Q&A, the company's co-founders, John Mucci (CEO) and Jud Leonard (CTO), talk about the novel design of the SiCortex systems, how the design overcomes the limitations of conventional clusters, and how their offerings will fit into the HPC market.
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CITI Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Dec 15, 2006 | On December 7-8, 2006, the Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) at Rice University celebrated its 20th anniversary with a technical symposium that attracted a stellar collection of experts in...
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CCT Director Outlines Business Value of HPC

Dec 15, 2006 | Supercomputing is no longer something that benefits only computer scientists but is an essential part of advancing all types of business and spurring economic development.

17th Machine Evaluation Workshop at Daresbury

Dec 15, 2006 | On December 4th through 6th, 2006, about 250 people attended the 17th machine evaluation workshop at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratories, UK. In its seventeenth year, this workshop is a leading UK national event dedicated to distributed, high performance scientific computing. Contributing author Christopher Lazou recaps some of the most important workshop presentations and offers his perspective on the multi-core benchmark comparisons.
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NIST Explores New Circuitry Shrinking Technology

Dec 15, 2006 | The bull's-eye solution to the semiconductor industry's hunt for more exact means to measure the relative positions of ever-tinier devices squeezed by the millions onto silicon chips might be new...
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Argonne's William Gropp Recognized by the ACM

Dec 15, 2006 | William Gropp has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM Fellows Program recognizes outstanding members for their achievements in computer science and information technology...
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Horst Simon Steps Down As NERSC Director

Dec 15, 2006 | Horst Simon, who has been director of DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) since early 1996, announced last month that he was stepping down in order to focus his energy on the two other positions he holds at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With the search for a new NERSC leader officially under way, Simon took some time to talk about his decision and how he sees his future.
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DRC Names New Chief Operating Officer

Dec 15, 2006 | DRC Computer Corporation, maker of reconfigurable coprocessor systems, announces the addition of Michael D'Amour to the company's executive team. D'Amour will serve as chief operating officer, overseeing product development and...
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Yes, Even You Should Care About Being Able To Write Well

Dec 15, 2006 | If you are a scientist or engineer who thinks being able to write well is not important for your job, read this article. John West tells us why writing is one of the most fundamental skills for all technologists.
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Shibboleth-FastLane Interoperability Demoed

Dec 15, 2006 | The Internet2 community has demonstrated the interoperability of its Shibboleth federated identity management software with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) FastLane online grant administration system. The interoperability demo is the...
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Cray Offers 7.5 Million Shares of Common Stock

Dec 15, 2006 | Cray Inc. has announced that it has priced its public offering of 7,500,000 shares of common stock from the company at a public offering price of $10.00 per share. The...
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AMD Taps Mario Rivas as EVP Of Computing Products Group

Dec 15, 2006 | AMD has announced that Mario Rivas has been promoted to executive vice president of Computing Products Group (CPG). In this role, Rivas will be responsible for driving the development, strategy...
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IT Revolution Just an Einstein Away

Dec 15, 2006 | Is there any chance the information technology juggernaut can be managed by a few million brave souls? Hope is on the way.
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A Look Back at 2006

Dec 15, 2006 | Wow, 2006 is almost in the books. Editor Michael Feldman recaps the some of the top HPC events and trends of the past year.
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DataDirect Networks Opens Japan Subsidiary

Dec 08, 2006 | DataDirect Networks Inc. has announced that the company has opened a fully-owned subsidiary in Japan, DataDirect Networks Japan. The subsidiary will provide sales, marketing, training and technical support to its...
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Australian Researchers Demo 6 Gbps Wireless Link

Dec 08, 2006 | On Thursday, researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in New South Wales, Australia will demonstrate the fastest and most efficient wireless link ever achieved. The CSIRO...
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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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Battle of the Network Fabrics

Dec 08, 2006 | With the support of InfiniBand and iWARP by the OpenFabrics Alliance, software stacks now exist that have open interconnect and protocol standards for HPC clusters, data centers, and storage systems. But convergence still seems a long way off. InfiniBand and iWARP are based on fundamentally different architectures, representing two approaches to high performance connectivity.
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Molecular Simulation of DNA Shows Unexpected Flexibility

Dec 08, 2006 | There is about 12 feet of DNA in a human cell but it is packaged into nucleosomes -- lengths of 147 base pairs each wrapped around eight special proteins. Virginia Tech researchers used novel methodology and the university's System X supercomputer to carry out what is probably the first simulation that explores the full range of motions of a DNA strand corresponding to the length of one nucleosome.
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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.

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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The IT Workforce Conundrum

Dec 08, 2006 | In the Information Society that we seem to be inhabiting, it has become a cliché to talk about the insatiable demand for information technology workers. The IT workforce shortage is an annoying reality, but it makes sense. In agricultural societies of the past, a significant percentage of the populace ended up as farmers to serve that economic model. Things are no different in this era; only the economic engine has changed.
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The Impact of Cluster Virtualization on HPC

Dec 08, 2006 | In part two of this interview, Don Becker, CTO of Penguin Computing and co-inventor of the Beowulf clustering model, and Pauline Nist, senior vice president of product development and management for Penguin Computing, describe how cluster virtualization changes the cost model of server resoures and how virtualization and clustering will evolve in the marketplace. They also discuss Penguin's role in this evolution.
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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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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.

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.

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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GPGPU Computing and the Heterogeneous Multi-Core Future

Dec 01, 2006 | The general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing phenomenon has been gaining momentum over the last three years, and has reached the point where it has gained acceptance as an application acceleration technique. More broadly, the GPGPU phenomenon belongs to a larger research and commercial area dubbed heterogeneous multi-core computing.
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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.

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.

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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European Cyberinfrastructure in the Making

Dec 01, 2006 | In Rome on last week, CASPUR (Consorzio per le Applicazioni del Supercalcolo Per Università e Ricerca) hosted a "Forward Look" workshop on quantum molecular sciences at the prestigious Accademia dei Lincei. This is part of the European Computational Science Forum: The Lincei Initiative: from computers to scientific excellence. The aim of the workshop was to develop a vision on how computational sciences will evolve in the coming 10 to 20 years and create an infrastructure of support.
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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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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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Commodity Processor Chaos or Convergence?

Dec 01, 2006 | The adoption of commodity GPUs and Cell processors into high performance computing is disrupting the comfortable framework of homogeneous x86 computing the industry has enjoyed for the past decade. Where is this technology taking us? Editor Michael Feldman talks about the evolution of GPU computing as seen from the perspective of two industry insiders and reviews some recent work in Europe using the Cell processor for molecular dynamics.
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The Impact of Cluster Virtualization on HPC

Dec 01, 2006 | Is virtualization the next "big thing" to impact high performance computing or is much of the buzz just hype? In part one of a two-part interview, HPC luminary Don Becker, CTO of Penguin Computing and co-inventor of the Beowulf clustering model, and Pauline Nist, senior vice president of product development and management for Penguin Computing, discuss how cluster virtualization can enable large pools of servers to appear and act as a single, unified system.
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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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IDC Meeting at SC06 Includes Five-Year Forecast

Nov 24, 2006 | During its analyst update breakfast meeting at SC06 last week, IDC unveiled a five-year revenue forecast for the HPC industry, projecting compounded annual growth of about 9 percent to $14.3 billion in 2010, from the 2005 total of $9.2 billion. IDC's five-year projection predicts slight growth for the capability segment and continued strong growth for all capacity segments, especially the departmental and workgroup markets.
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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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Ray Kurzweil Dazzles Crowd at SC06

Nov 24, 2006 | Addressing SC06 as the keynote speaker, Ray Kurzweil explained to a packed auditorium where he believes technology will lead us in the next several decades. The celebrated inventor and visionary described a future in which exponential progress in IT and biotechnology will have created a world that will be barely recognizable to the people of 2006.
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