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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InfiniBand and 10GbE Head for Showdown

Dec 21, 2007 | Will 10GbE reach critical mass in the datacenter next year? The beginnings of a viable 10GbE ecosystem are now emerging and a number of analysts think 2008 may be a watershed year for this technology. Meanwhile, InfiniBand has established itself in HPC and is looking to expand into the broader enterprise. The upcoming year will see initial battle lines being drawn in the struggle for interconnect share in the datacenter.
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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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The insideHPC Top Five Stories for 2007

Dec 21, 2007 | Contributor John West highlights the most popular stories posted at insideHPC.com in 2007, as determined by reader page views and clicks. From AMD to ZFS, John covered the gamut this year in his own inimitable style.
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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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The New Face of the TOP500

Dec 21, 2007 | In recent years, the TOP500 has shifted from a pure HPC list to one that includes systems in enterprise datacenters. While the application model for each domain is different, most of the technology trends are identical. The need for complex simulations in HPC and virtualization in the enterprise, together with the domination of multicore CPUs and the need for faster storage, mandates the use of a high throughput and low latency I/O.
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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, Read more...

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

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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Parting Shots at 2007

Dec 21, 2007 | The last 12 months of HPC happenings provided great fodder for HPCwire news coverage and commentary. For this final issue of 2007, editor Michael Feldman takes a look at some of the stories and developments that caught his attention.
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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

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

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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DataDirect Gears Up for Next Generation Storage Appliance

Dec 14, 2007 | Last month DataDirect Networks announced its 8th generation high performance storage offering, the S2A9900. The new system will double performance of the current S2A9550 and continue in the tradition of previous S2A technology in providing enterprise-class performance and reliability using inexpensive SATA disk hardware.
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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.

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

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

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.

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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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

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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The Week in Review

Dec 14, 2007 | SGI intros BioCluster; Idaho National Laboratory gets a high performance computing center; and Sun opens up the T2 processor design. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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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

AMD Winds Down Year on a Sour Note

Dec 14, 2007 | By any measurement, 2007 was a miserable time for the company. This week's revelation of the Barcelona problem is just the latest setback in a year that the company would like to forget.
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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.

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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Report from the 18th Machine Evaluation Workshop

Dec 07, 2007 | On November 27-28, Daresbury Laboratories hosted the 18th Machine Evaluation Workshop, a premier UK event dedicated to distributed and high performance scientific computing. HPCwire contributing author, Chris Lazou provides some highlights, including HPC benchmark behavior on systems based on the newest Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors.
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MSC.Software Names Robert A. Schriesheim to Board

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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

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.

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

NSF Hosts Workshop on Building Virtual Organizations

Dec 07, 2007 | Dec. 6 -- We invite you to participate in a NSF sponsored workshop, "Building Effective Virtual Organizations." This meeting will be held in Washington, DC, Jan. 15-16, with a reception...
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New IBM Technology Could Shrink Supercomputers

Dec 07, 2007 | Advancement in using light instead of wires for building supercomputers-on-a-chip
    
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Dec. 6 -- Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains"...
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IBRIX Takes Aim at New Vertical Markets

Dec 07, 2007 | IBRIX, one of the smaller players in the HPC storage market, is preparing to enter its next growth phase. With a revamped executive team, lead by CEO Bernard Gilbert, the company is looking to expand its market footprint.
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CEI Awarded SBIR Phase I to Study CFD Co-Processing

Dec 07, 2007 | APEX, N.C., Dec. 4 -- Computational Engineering International Inc. (CEI) was recently awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Award from the United States Army.

Buckyball Bowling with BigBen and Wiimo in Reno

Dec 07, 2007 | PSC scientists adapt the Wii remote controller to steer molecular dynamics

Mechdyne Installs Immersive Visualization Displays in Wales

Dec 07, 2007 | Dome and PowerWall displays support real-time stereo imaging of scientific, engineering images for academic and industry researchers

Research Forecasts Increased Chances for Stormy Weather

Dec 07, 2007 | Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the United States. The Purdue University-led team used climate models to examine future weather conditions favorable to formation of severe thunderstorms -- those that produce flooding, damaging winds, hail and sometimes spawn tornadoes.
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ACM Names 38 Fellows for Computing and IT Innovations

Dec 07, 2007 | NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized 38 of its members for their contributions to computing technology that have brought advances in...
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Scientists Solve Cosmological Puzzle

Dec 07, 2007 | HAMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 30 -- Researchers using supercomputer simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are born --...
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Chevron Selects Petrel Software From Schlumberger

Dec 07, 2007 | HOUSTON, Nov. 29 -- Schlumberger announced today that Chevron has selected Petrel seismic-to-simulation software as one of its next generation interpretation and earth modeling frameworks.

Supercomputer Simulation Aids in Search for Missing Matter

Dec 07, 2007 | Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The team performed one of the largest cosmological supercomputer simulations ever, cramming 2.5 percent of the visible universe inside a computer to model a region more than 1.5 billion light-years across.
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ACM Taps 20 Members for Achievements in Computing

Dec 07, 2007 | NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has named 20 of its members as recipients of a recently created recognition program for their contributions...
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Financing Announced for New HPC Facility at Argonne

Dec 07, 2007 | CHICAGO, Dec. 4 -- Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced a significant investment that will enable the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to house the...
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The Week in Review

Dec 07, 2007 | AMD pushes back Barcelona quad-core production; Red Hat adds distributed computing features; several beginnings mark a premature new year; and insideHPC creates an HPC scholarship resource. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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IBM Donates Blue Gene/P Super to South African Institute

Dec 07, 2007 | IBM announced that it will donate a 14-teraflop Blue Gene/P system to the Meraka Institute which will be hosted by the Center for High Performance Computing in Cape Town, South Africa, in an effort to spark scientific and socio-economic progress in the region. The supercomputer will be available free of charge to any qualifying African institution for use on advanced scientific projects.
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University of Nebraska Opens New Computing Center

Dec 07, 2007 | OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 5 -- Through dynamic and forward leaning partnerships, The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) will conduct the "virtual" opening of one of the world's largest and most powerful...
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Platform Computing Announces Platform Symphony 4

Dec 07, 2007 | Platform Computing announced the next version of its financial services software Platform Symphony 4, a solution designed to lower the barrier to adoption of high performance computing in the financial services industry.
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