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SGI to Resell Totalview Technologies' Debugging Tools
Dec 21, 2007 |
NATICK, Mass., Dec. 17 -- TotalView Technologies, the world's leading provider of scalable debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core era, today announced that SGI, a leader in...
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Physiomics Gets Access to Swansea University Supercomputer
Dec 21, 2007 |
Physiomics plc, a UK-based systems biology company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of Life Science of Swansea University, which will give the company access to the "Blue C" supercomputer.
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NextComputing Adds Quadro FX 5600 to Flextop Computers
Dec 21, 2007 |
Dec. 13 -- NextComputing, designers of high-performance, portable graphics workstations, announces the addition of NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5600 graphics board by PNY Technologies, Inc. to their line up...
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NVIDIA Launches New Community Site for HPC Developers
Dec 21, 2007 |
Dec. 19 -- Further strengthening its commitment to the growing community behind its Tesla family of GPU Computing products and CUDA software development tools, NVIDIA has launched CUDAZone,...
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Chelsio Delivers 10GbE Storage Adapter for Optical Module
Dec 21, 2007 |
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 19 -- Chelsio Communications Inc., a leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet unified wire solutions, today announced general availability of S310E-SR+, a new version of its...
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Selects Cray XT4
Dec 21, 2007 |
SEATTLE, Dec. 18 -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the selection of a Cray XT4 system by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). With more...
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Purdue to Offer HPC Curriculum
Dec 21, 2007 |
Purdue University is developing courses that will focus on high performance computing, making it one of a few universities nationwide to offer such curriculum. The specialization will be offered in the Department of Computer and Information Technology.
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Toshiba and IBM Extend Semiconductor R&D Collaboration
Dec 21, 2007 |
EAST FISHKILL, NY, and TOKYO, Dec. 18 -- IBM and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they have entered into a joint development agreement on 32nm bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor...
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RENCI Dataset Aids Storm Surge Prediction and Management
Dec 21, 2007 |
Researchers at the Renaissance Computing Institute have compiled new data on ocean floor and coastal typography that will help, state and local emergency managers and scientists who model, predict, plan for and respond to floods and storms along the North Carolina coast.
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UCLA Team Finds Way to Build Faster Integrated Circuits
Dec 21, 2007 |
A team of UCLA scientists has now demonstrated substantial improvements in integrated circuits, achieved not by costly improvements in manufacturing but by improved computer-aided design software based on better mathematical algorithms.
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Luxtera Wins 2007 CONNECT Most Innovative New Product Award
Dec 21, 2007 |
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 18 -- Luxtera Inc., the world leader in CMOS Photonics, today announced it was named the winner of the 2007 CONNECT Most Innovative New Product...
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Supermicro Delivers 1U Servers With Latest Xeons
Dec 21, 2007 |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 20 -- Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader in application optimized, high-performance server and workstation solutions, today announced high-volume availability of its latest 1U Twin 6015TW...
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Acceleware to Host Seismic Market Launch Event
Dec 21, 2007 |
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 19 -- Acceleware Corp., a leading developer of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, today announced that they will host a seismic market launch event: "High Performance...
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Sandia Supers Offer New Explanation of Tunguska Disaster
Dec 21, 2007 |
Supercomputer simulations performed at Sandia National Laboratories suggest that the stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates.
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Cranes Software Releases 64 bit FEA Suite on Windows
Dec 21, 2007 |
BANGALORE, India, Dec. 20 -- Cranes Software International Limited today announced the release of NISA 64 bit version (NISA V15.5x64) on Microsoft Windows. NISA is a family of Finite Element...
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Internet2 Names New Executive Director of Network Services
Dec 21, 2007 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 17 -- Internet2 today announced that Robert (Rob) Vietzke will join its staff as the Executive Director of Network Services, reporting directly to the...
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Germany's HLRN Taps SGI for New HPC Systems
Dec 21, 2007 |
BERLIN and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 19 -- Under a new contract signed this month, SGI will equip the North German Group for High- and Highest-Performance Computers (HLRN,
Light Speed Communications for Supercomputers
Dec 21, 2007 |
The performance of tomorrow's supercomputers will be dictated by their ability to exchange large volumes of data quickly between the hundreds of thousands of processors. Using optical networks to transfer data throughout the system using light, researchers have succeeded in demonstrating the world's most advanced optical packet switch.
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Grid.org Community Sees Strong Growth In First Month
Dec 21, 2007 |
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 -- Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, grew to 481 members and recorded more than 900 downloads of the free open-source Cluster Express...
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Panasas Storage Installed at University of Nebraska
Dec 21, 2007 | Holland Computing Center at the Peter Kiewit Institute turns to Panasas parallel storage to tackle global challenges and teach parallel programming
FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 17 -- Panasas, Inc., the...Read more...
XtremeData Announces FPGA Accelerator for AMD Socket F
Dec 21, 2007 |
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Dec. 17 -- XtremeData, Inc. today announced it is now shipping the first AMD Socket F (1207) based In-Socket Accelerator. The device is compatible with the newest Quad-Core...
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Chelsio Ships 10 GbE Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter
Dec 21, 2007 |
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 14 -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet unified wire solutions, today announced availability of its T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, which enable...
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Platform Solutions to Resell NEC Servers, Storage
Dec 21, 2007 |
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 17 -- Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), developer of Open Mainframe Servers, and NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management...
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NNSA Proposes Scale Back of Nuclear Weapons Complex
Dec 21, 2007 |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Saying that the nation's aging Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex is too big and too costly, the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) top official...
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LNXI Announces Diskless Cluster System
Dec 21, 2007 |
LNXI has announced its LS-1 for Secure Environments (LS-1 SE), a diskless, clustered HPC system optimized for projects in which proper data destruction is essential. LNXI's solution offers users a way to pool compute power for various secure environment projects without having to destroy entire systems to ensure all project-related data has been eliminated.
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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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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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Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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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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