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Altair Adds CB Technologies As Channel Partner
Dec 22, 2008 |
Altair has added CB Technologies as a new channel partner. CB Technologies will be promoting and selling Altair's PBS Professional.
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Voltaire Ranked on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500
Dec 22, 2008 |
Voltaire has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2008, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
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Humanities and HPC Connect at NERSC
Dec 22, 2008 |
High performance computing and the humanities are finally connecting -- with a little matchmaking help from the Department of Energy and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Computing in a Molecule
Dec 22, 2008 |
Atomic-scale computing, in which computer processes are carried out in a single molecule or using a surface atomic-scale circuit, holds vast promise for the microelectronics industry.
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Brocade Completes Acquisition of Foundry Networks
Dec 19, 2008 |
Brocade today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks, a performance and total solutions leader for network switching and routing for $16.50 per share in cash.
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SPADAC Launches Signature Analyst 3.1
Dec 19, 2008 |
SPADAC, a leading provider of spatially enhanced technology solutions, today announced the release of Signature Analyst 3.1, the latest version of its patented and commercially-available geospatial predictive analysis tool.
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NVIDIA Releases Version 2.1 Beta of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK
Dec 19, 2008 |
NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK.
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Blade.org Advises Blades Are Ready for Network Convergence
Dec 19, 2008 |
Datacenters are in for sweeping changes in the next five years, especially as the multitude of networks that compose the modern business begin to converge into a single digital thoroughfare, according to a whitepaper released today by Blade.org.
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NOAA Issues RFI for HPC Systems
Dec 19, 2008 |
NOAA anticipates acquiring advanced high performance computing systems to meet its operational and research and development computing requirements.
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2009 DOE INCITE Projects Allocated at ORNL
Dec 19, 2008 |
In 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will make nearly 470 million processor hours available on Jaguar, its Cray XT supercomputer, under the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program.
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1,500 Orgs, 85 Countries Shape MapleSim
Dec 19, 2008 |
MapleSim, the new high-performance multi-domain modeling and simulation tool from Maplesoft, is now available for purchase globally.
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Argonne Facility Helps Researcher Win Sackler Prize
Dec 18, 2008 |
David Baker, University of Washington (UW) professor of biochemistry and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics.
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QLogic Storage Solutions Support IBM BladeCenter
Dec 18, 2008 |
QLogic has announced availability of an innovative, cost-effective suite of end-to-end 8Gb Fibre Channel networking solutions for IBM BladeCenter that includes the QLogic 20 Port 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module, QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel Intelligent Pass-Thru Module and the QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel/1GbE combo mezzanine card.
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Argonne Advancing DOE INCITE Research Projects
Dec 18, 2008 |
Based on their potential for breakthroughs in science and engineering research, twenty-eight projects have been awarded 400 million hours of computing time at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) through the Department of Energy's (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
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PRACE Award 2009: Call for Papers Has Started
Dec 18, 2008 |
The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 has begun. It will be the second time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Opening Session.
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SSOKU09 Conference Registration Deadline: Jan. 7
Dec 18, 2008 |
The SSOKU09 Conference, jointly organised by the projects 3S and CHALLENGERS, will set the foundation for an annual European Summit on Software Services and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities technologies.
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Argonne Duo to Explore Alternative Sources of Energy
Dec 18, 2008 |
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NERSC to Provide Resources to INCITE Projects
Dec 18, 2008 |
Researchers tackling some of the most challenging scientific problems, from improving energy efficiency in combustion devices to developing new particle accelerators for scientific discovery to studying properties of new materials, have been awarded access to supercomputing resources at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
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Supercomputer Time Allocation to Boost Simulations of Exploding Stars
Dec 18, 2008 |
The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated 70 million processor hours on the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory to the University of Chicago's Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes.
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Synopsys, STMicroelectronics Partner on 32-nm Design Flow
Dec 18, 2008 |
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced early results of its 32-nanometer (nm)-centric joint collaboration with STMicroelectronics, a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications.
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Sun Introduces Sun Rapid Solutions
Dec 18, 2008 |
Sun has announced the availability of Sun Rapid Solutions, a new set of solutions designed to meet rapidly changing business needs. The three solutions target specific customer network infrastructure requirements around global Web buildout, datacenter efficiency and high performance computing.
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Netweb Launches FS2 Storage Solution
Dec 18, 2008 |
Netweb Technologies announces FS2, the next generation unified flexible storage solution which is an innovative initiative in the storage market and bound to revolutionize the traditional SAN and NAS market.
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DOE Awards Supercomputer Access to Cutting-Edge Projects
Dec 18, 2008 |
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announced today that 66 projects addressing some of the greatest scientific challenges have been awarded access to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories.
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Paradigm Donates Geolog Software to Irkutsk State Technical University
Dec 17, 2008 |
Paradigm, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, announced today its donation of well log and petrophysical analysis software to the Irkutsk State Technical University (ISTU) in Eastern Siberia.
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Dartmouth Researchers Develop Tool to Untangle Complex Data
Dec 17, 2008 |
A group of Dartmouth researchers have developed a mathematical tool that can be used to unscramble the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of legislators over their careers, second-by-second activity of the stock market, or levels of oxygenated blood flow in the brain.
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June 19, 2013
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June 14, 2013
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June 12, 2013
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Short Takes
Developers Tout GPI Model for Exascale Computing
Jun 19, 2013 |
Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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Supercomputers: Not Always the Best for Big Data
Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Gordon Flashes Its Versatility in HPC Workloads
Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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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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