SensAble Technologies Releases OpenHaptics Version 3.0

Dec 17, 2008 | SensAble Technologies announced the immediate availability of OpenHaptics version 3.0, a software development toolkit that dramatically simplifies and speeds the touch-enabling of computer applications.
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Poor-man's Supercomputing Goes Commercial

Dec 17, 2008 | Grid computing technology has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a groundbreaking European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications.
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NVIDIA CUDA Advances Scientific Research

Dec 17, 2008 | Once thought of as a technology used only for computer games, NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) with CUDA technology are now being used for the serious business of scientific computation.
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The Economics of Data Preservation

Dec 17, 2008 | A blue ribbon task force, commissioned late last year to identify sustainable economic models to provide access to the ever-growing amount of digital information in the public interest, has issued its interim report. The report calls the current situation urgent, and details systemic pitfalls in developing economic models for sustainable access to digital data.
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Hundreds Converge at Power Architecture Conferences

Dec 16, 2008 | Power.org, the organization that promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture technology, today announced that its Asian Power Architecture Conferences drew record attendance to hear the latest developments on Power Architecture expertise and technology and participate in hands on training for next-generation product design.
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Voltaire Switches Accelerate Energy-Efficient Supercomputers

Dec 16, 2008 | A new report announced last month found that Voltaire Ltd.'s switching technology is connecting the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, according to the latest supercomputing "Green500 List" announced by the Green500.org.
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Grid Applications: A New Way To Do Business

Dec 16, 2008 | Grid technology developed by European researchers offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and 'virtually' around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety of applications.
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PRACE Hosts First Scientific Conference

Dec 16, 2008 | The first PRACE Scientific Conference was held on Nov. 26, 2008, in Lyon in conjunction with ICT 2008, the largest research event for information and communication technologies in Europe.
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Altair Adds DSHplus from FLUIDON to HyperWorks

Dec 16, 2008 | Altair announced today the addition of the DSHplus suite from FLUIDON, a leader in simulation of fluid power systems, to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC), bringing the total applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 46, including 18 third-party software solutions.
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Mellanox InfiniBand Supports RAID Storage Solution

Dec 16, 2008 | Mellanox Technologies and RAID Inc. announced that Mellanox's ConnectX 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters deliver the leading I/O performance for RAID's X2-IB.
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PRACE Arranges Winter School on Petascale Computing

Dec 15, 2008 | PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, organizes a Winter School on Petascale Computing from Feb. 10-13, 2009, at the training Center of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE Academy) in Athens, Greece.
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Supermicro Unveils SOHO Server/Storage

Dec 15, 2008 | Supermicro introduced its new server/storage solutions truly optimized for small office, home office (SOHO) environments.
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Siemens PLM Software Announces Breakthrough

Dec 15, 2008 | Siemens PLM Software has announced a computational breakthrough in implicit finite element analysis (FEA) technology. Using commercially available hardware, the current production version of the company's NX NASTRAN software was able to solve a structural analysis problem with a half-billion equations "virtually overnight."
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Solarflare Granted Patent for 10GBASE-T Silicon

Dec 15, 2008 | Solarflare announced it has been granted Patent #7,460,662 by the United States Patent and Trade Office. The patent adds value and robustness to Solarflare's 10GBASE-T transceiver by improving rejection of electromagnetic interference from cell phones and Wi-Fi access points, while enabling lower power silicon.
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Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Energy Efficent

Dec 15, 2008 | Several innovative steps designed to maximize the efficiency of Argonne's new Blue Gene/P high-performance computer have saved many taxpayer dollars while reducing the laboratory's environmental footprint.
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Accelrys Releases Materials Studio 4.4

Dec 15, 2008 | Accelrys has announced the release of Materials Studio 4.4, the newest version of its materials modeling and simulation platform.
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EPSRC Science and Innovation Awards 2008

Dec 12, 2008 | Five-year grants totalling £20m will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science and Innovation Awards.
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Carolina Entrepreneurs Launch Business Ideas at RENCI

Dec 12, 2008 | Carolina Launch Pad, the new pre-commercial incubator for UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff and students, is underway and its five inaugural ventures moved into office space at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in early December.
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UC and P&G Create Computer Simulation Center

Dec 12, 2008 | A collaborative effort between Procter & Gamble and the University of Cincinnati has developed a center of expertise in computer simulation.
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Acceleware to Complete Private Placement

Dec 11, 2008 | Acceleware announced that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of up to 8,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per share for gross proceeds of up to $400,000.
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Tabor Communications Announces Second Annual HPC Horizons Summit

Dec 11, 2008 | Tabor Communications, Inc., a leading international media, research, and market intelligence company, today announced the dates and location for its second annual HPC Horizons Summit, a global forum dedicated to advancing the usage of High Productivity Computing.
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SIMDAT Project Enables Virtual Organizations

Dec 11, 2008 | European researchers have developed a suite of tools that make it simple, safe and secure to deploy grid computer systems across corporations and throughout the supply chain.
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SGI Adjusts Business Plan, Reduces Workforce

Dec 11, 2008 | Today Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) announced that it has revised its business plan to reduce operating costs in the face of a global recession, while continuing to address customer demands for its compute, visualization and data management solutions.
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eScience Award Recognises Innovation

Dec 11, 2008 | The inaugural Jim Gray eScience Award was presented to Carole Goble, professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, at the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop held in Indianapolis, this week.
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DEISA Announces Virtual Community Support Initiative

Dec 11, 2008 | Within the current EU FP7 DEISA2 project, the well-known DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) for single project support is tasked with starting the support for Virtual Communities, in particular organised scientific communities and suitable EU FP7 projects from computational science.
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