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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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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
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May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
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- HybridCluster2.0 Self-Healing, Ultra-High Availability Capabilities Unveiled
May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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May 14, 2013
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- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
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Exascale Advocates Stand on Nuclear Stockpiles
In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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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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Short Takes
NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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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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