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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dec 15, 2008 |
Supermicro introduced its new server/storage solutions truly optimized for small office, home office (SOHO) environments.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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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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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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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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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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May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.