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Ontario Research Network Gets New Chair
Dec 14, 2007 |
TORONTO, Dec. 7 -- Maxim Jean-Louis, one of Ontario's most accomplished education leaders, takes over as chair of the board of the Optical Regional Advanced Network of Ontario...
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MIT Cycling Team Sets Record in Human Powered Computation
Dec 14, 2007 | Event highlights range of energy initiatives at MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 11 -- A team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology cyclists highlighted the range of energy activities at MIT in...Read more...
Xilinx Powered SGI System Accelerates Bioninformatics App
Dec 14, 2007 |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Xilinx, Inc., the world's leading provider of programmable solutions, today announced that an SGI RASC (Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing) enabled SGI Altix...
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ClearSpeed Appoints Andrew Kroese as CFO and Board Member
Dec 14, 2007 |
BRISTOL, England, Dec. 10 -- ClearSpeed Technology, the world leader in acceleration for high performance computing (HPC), today announced that Andrew "Andy" Kroese has joined as chief financial...
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British Computer Society Awards Scottish Supercomputer
Dec 14, 2007 |
EDINBURGH, UK, Dec. 12 -- A unique supercomputer called 'Maxwell' -- built in Scotland by the FHPCA with the support of Scottish Enterprise -- has been recognised at...
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Scali Announces SPEC MPI2007 Benchmark Results For Windows
Dec 14, 2007 |
Marlborough, Mass., Dec. 6 -- Scali, the leader in higher performance computing software, today announced that the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has published new benchmark results provided...
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New Computational Technique Can Predict Drug Side Effects
Dec 14, 2007 |
Early identification of adverse effects of drugs before they are tested in humans is crucial in developing new therapeutics, as unexpected effects account for a third of all drug failures during the development process. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel technique using computer modeling to identify potential side effects of pharmaceuticals.
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INL Opens High-Speed Computing Center
Dec 14, 2007 | New modern INL high-performance computing center and supercomputer significantly enhance nuclear energy research
Dec. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory is opening its High-Performance Computing...Read more...
UQ Researchers Break New Ground in Earthquake Predictions
Dec 07, 2007 |
Researchers from University of Queensland's Earth Systems Science Computational Centre (ESSCC), who were able to predict a series of three large Sumatran earthquakes that occurred in September, will present their research at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held from Dec. 10-14. The predictions were made using advanced computer simulation software developed utilising the ESSCC's Altix supercomputer.
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IDC Reports Strong HPC Server Growth in 3Q07
Dec 07, 2007 |
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 4 -- Thanks to starting prices as low as $10,000 and evolving R&D practices, high performance computing (HPC) systems -- formerly called supercomputers -- have become far...
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Altair, Phoenix Integration to Create CAE Software Solution
Dec 07, 2007 |
TROY, Mich., and WAYNE, Pa., Dec. 4 -- In response to customer requests, Altair Engineering and Phoenix Integration have developed a unified software solution for aerospace and defense organizations using...
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Cray Receives First Order for XT5 Super
Dec 07, 2007 |
SEATTLE and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 4 -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the selection of a Cray XT5 system by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). The...
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Vijay Samalam Named IT Director at Janelia Farm
Dec 07, 2007 | Dec. 4 -- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has appointed Dr. Vijay K. Samalam as director of scientific computing and information technology at the Janelia Farm Research Campus.
Samalam will be...Read more...
Geophysical Services Company Chooses TotalView Debugger
Dec 07, 2007 |
NATICK, Mass., Dec. 3 -- TotalView Technologies, the world's leading provider of scalable debugging and analysis software solutions for the multi-core era, today announced that OpenGeoSolutions, a geophysical...
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ALGOR Upgrades FEA Software
Dec 07, 2007 |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28 -- ALGOR, Inc., a leading provider of design, analysis and simulation software, announced that its latest, major finite element analysis (FEA) software release, ALGOR V21, significantly upgrades...
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MSC.Software Names Robert A. Schriesheim to Board
Dec 07, 2007 |
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Paradigm Signs Multi-Year Agreement With Chevron
Dec 07, 2007 |
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Nov. 29 -- Paradigm, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry, and Chevron Corp., today announced that...
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The Green Supercomputer
Dec 07, 2007 |
Dec. 5 -- The Herkules supercomputer is not only powerful, but also kind to the environment. It consumes considerably less electricity than similar supercomputers. In terms of energy efficiency, it...
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Interactive Supercomputing Releases Star-P 2.6
Dec 07, 2007 |
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 4 -- Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. (ISC) today announced a new version of its Star-P software that improves parallel application performance and expands support for programming...
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ESI Group Announces Advanced CFD, Multiphysics Software
Dec 07, 2007 | Honeycomb meshing for complex 3D geometries and new fuel cell chemistry models allow faster, more realistic simulations
PARIS, Dec. 3 -- ESI Group, a leading global solution provider in physics-based...Read more...
ANSYS Announces Distribution Extension with LSTC
Dec 07, 2007 |
SOUTHPOINTE, Pa., Dec. 4 -- ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced a multi- year extension to its existing...
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Clemson Researchers Advance Silicon Manufacturing Process
Dec 07, 2007 | CLEMSON, S.C., Dec. 3 -- The next generation of laptops, desk computers, cell phones and other semiconductor devices may get faster and more cost-effective with research from Clemson University.
"We've developed...Read more...
Japanese University Links to Nationwide Network
Dec 07, 2007 |
TOKYO, Dec. 6 -- Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Japan's University of Tsukuba has connected to Japan's nationwide SINET3 research and education (R&E) network...
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Former Head of IBM Research Joins New Venture Partners Board
Dec 07, 2007 |
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Dec. 6 -- New Venture Partners LLC ("New Venture Partners"), the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spinouts, today announced that Dr. Paul...
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Lightwire's Silicon Photonics Headed to Singapore Fab
Dec 07, 2007 | New approach to 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps optical solutions will lead to advanced, low-cost silicon photonic devices by mid-2008
ALLENTOWN, Pa., and SINGAPORE, Nov. 27 -- Lightwire,...Read more...
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May 22, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs
In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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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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Short Takes
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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