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HPTi Receives Award for Family-Friendly Workplace

Dec 21, 2007 | High Performance Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of the 15th Annual CARE (Companies As Responsive Employers) Awards, which recognize outstanding companies that provide family-friendly workplace policies and benefits.
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SGI Introduces BioCluster for Life Sciences

Dec 14, 2007 | With clusters the fastest growing segment of the computer market in biosciences according to the IDC industry analyst report "HPC Market and Research Overview: 2006 and Beyond," SGI introduces the SGI BioCluster, a powerful and accelerated workflow solution for pharmaceutical, life sciences and higher education researchers.
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Violin Memory, AMD Team Up on Terabyte-Scale Server Memory

Dec 14, 2007 | Violin Memory Appliances Support AMD Processors and Cache Coherent HyperTransport Technology

ISELIN, N.J., Dec. 10 -- Violin Memory, Inc. today announced a technology alliance with AMD that will combine...
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U of Nebraska Computing Center Deploys Force10 Solution

Dec 14, 2007 | SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 13 -- Force10 Networks, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that the Peter Kiewit Institute's (PKI) Holland Computing Center at the University...
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TACC Ramping Up Staff to Deploy Ranger

Dec 14, 2007 | AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 11 -- The "Ranger" supercomputer, funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure as the first of the new Track2 HPC acquisitions, is scheduled to be...
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LNXI Promotes Bryan Koehler to CFO

Dec 14, 2007 | SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 10 -- LNXI (Linux Networx, Inc.), an award-winning provider of Linux-based, production-ready High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, is pleased to announce that the company...
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Intel Marks 60th Anniversary of the Transistor

Dec 14, 2007 | SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Intel Corporation on Dec. 16 celebrates the 60th anniversary of the transistor, the building block of today's digital world. Invented by Bell Labs and...
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Louisiana Hospitals Get Funding for High-Speed Data Sharing

Dec 14, 2007 | $15 million FCC grant to connect hospitals to state's fiber optic network

BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 10 -- With a click of a mouse and several quick keystrokes, doctors in Louisiana's...
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UD Prof Receives 2 Major Honors for Supercomputer Research

Dec 14, 2007 | Dec. 12 -- In recognition of his significant research achievements relating to supercomputers, Guang Gao, Distinguished Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been named...
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NYSE Selects HP Servers for Online Stock Trading

Dec 14, 2007 | PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 11 -- HP today announced that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has selected HP servers to improve the efficiency of its online stock...
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Research Team Sets Records in Weather Simulation

Dec 14, 2007 | A team of researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and IBM Watson Research Center has set U.S. records for size, performance and fidelity of computer weather simulations, modeling the kind of "virtual weather" that society depends on for accurate weather forecasts.
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Submissions Sought for RSSI'08

Dec 14, 2007 | Dec. 12 -- The fourth annual Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute (RSSI'08) will be held July 7-10, 2008, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) at the...
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The Green Grid Announces First General Members' Meeting

Dec 14, 2007 | PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 11 -- The Green Grid today announced it will hold The First Annual Green Grid General Members' Meeting and Technical Forum one year after its formal launch....
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Force10 Helps Power 6 of the 15 Fastest Supers

Dec 14, 2007 | SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Force10 Networks, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it provides the high performance foundation for 41 of the fastest...
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IPTV Corp. Appoints Supercomputing Pioneer to Board

Dec 14, 2007 | LOS ANGELES and LONDON, Dec. 6 -- IPTV Corporation has appointed world renowned technologist Dr. Steve Chen as a member of its Board of Directors.

Dr. Chen is widely...
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AMD Names Vice President of Accelerated Computing

Dec 14, 2007 | Industry veteran Mike Uhler to lead R&D on system co-processors and on-chip accelerator cores

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 10 -- AMD announced respected industry veteran Mike Uhler, former CTO of...
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AMD Releases Study Detailing Datacenter Energy Use

Dec 14, 2007 | Study details Asian datacenter energy use growing significantly faster than world average, while Western Europe growth is relatively stable

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12 -- AMD today released a...
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Wombat Delivers All of OPRA in a 1U Server

Dec 14, 2007 | NEW YORK, Dec. 7 -- Wombat, the low latency technology experts, today announced a remarkable milestone in middleware technology that provides market-leading density on open, standard x86 hardware....
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Brookhaven Lab Installs BlueArc Storage Cluster

Dec 14, 2007 | SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12 -- BlueArc Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced that Brookhaven National Lab (Brookhaven), a multi-program laboratory operated for...
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DEISA, GridAustralia Demo HIV Drug Simulations Over Grid

Dec 14, 2007 | DEISA, and GridAustralia-APAC, joined by Monash University, have demonstrated interoperation of their HPC infrastructures with distributed simulations on the effectiveness of drugs on mutants of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Given this information, patients who develop drug resistance can be given the next best effective drug for their HIV strain while reducing the danger of further resistance enhancements.
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CITI Renamed to Honor Ken Kennedy

Dec 14, 2007 | Dec. 7 -- Rice University's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) has been renamed in honor of its founder and Rice alumnus, Ken Kennedy '67, who died Feb. 7.

The new...
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IBM, Partners Target 32 nm Process Technology

Dec 14, 2007 | ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 10 -- IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- today announced an innovative approach to...
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OSCAR'08 Call for Papers

Dec 14, 2007 | The 6th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems (OSCAR '08) will be held June 9-11, 2008, in conjunction with the 22nd Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing...
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Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference

Dec 14, 2007 | Dec. 10 -- The Manchester Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference, now in its fourth year, is broadening its scope to include many-core processor architectures, and will now be known as the Many-core...
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Stanford Researchers Develop Quantum 'Light Switch'

Dec 14, 2007 | A team of scientists has succeeded in directly probing a solid quantum system with light. This finding could be a milestone on the road to building a functional "quantum computer," a machine where information is coded in individual particles that flip between different states instead of in transistors switching on and off. The finding could lead to better quantum cryptography and faster optical data connections.
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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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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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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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