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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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Intel Snaps New Grips to HPC Hook

Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Top 500 Results Reveal Global Acceleration, Balance Shift

The Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers has just been announced. Not surprisingly, since it's been reported on prior to the official announcement, the Chinese Tianhe-2 system tops the list. And that is an understatement. We talk with Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Hans Meuer and others from the....
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Six Can't Miss Sessions for ISC'13

Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention....
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Short Takes

Supercomputers: Still the King of the HPC Hill

Jun 17, 2013 | The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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TACC Longhorn Takes On Natural Language Processing

Jun 14, 2013 | For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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Titan Didn't Redo LINPACK for June Top 500 List

Jun 13, 2013 | Titan, the Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge National Lab that debuted last fall as the fastest supercomputer in the world with 17.59 petaflops of sustained computing power, will rely on its previous LINPACK test for the upcoming edition of the Top 500 list.
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Top Supercomputer Signals Growth of Chinese HPC Industry

Jun 12, 2013 | At 31 petaflops of sustained LINPACK capacity, the new Chinese Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be the fastest supercomputer in the world when this month's Top 500 list comes out, as we reported previously in HPCwire.
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Intel Says Haswell Chips Offer ISVs Full OpenCL Compatibility

Jun 12, 2013 | HPC system makers are lining up to announce compatibility with the new fourth generation Intel Core processor, codenamed "Haswell." The new Iris GPUs based on the Haswell architecture are giving Intel new credibility in the graphics processing department.
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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.

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HPCwire Live! Atlanta's Big Data Kick Off Week Meets HPC

Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?

Webinar: Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch, the Most Efficient 40GbE Aggregation Switch Solution

Join our webinar to learn how IT managers can migrate to a more resilient, flexible and scalable solution that grows with the data center. Mellanox VMS is future-proof, efficient and brings significant CAPEX and OPEX savings. The VMS is available today.