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Force10 Powers Networks of Indian Film and Software Provider
Dec 08, 2008 |
Force10 Networks announced that B.A.G. Films and Media Ltd., also known as B.A.G. Films Ltd., has deployed C300 resilient switches and S50N access switches at their headquarters in Noida, India.
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StatSoft Certifies REvolution Computing R Language
Dec 08, 2008 |
As part of its ongoing plans and efforts to enable the use of the R language within STATISTICA, StatSoft has certified REvolution R as compatible with the STATISTICA software platform.
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Intel Announces Silicon Photonics Advancement
Dec 08, 2008 |
Intel researchers have made the next advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that could lower costs and improve performance as compared to commercially-available optical devices.
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Emulex Appoints Steve Daheb Chief Marketing Officer
Dec 08, 2008 |
Emulex Corp. today announced the appointment of Steve Daheb to the role of company chief marketing officer (CMO).
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CUDA Cleans Up at SC08 Industry Awards
Dec 08, 2008 |
This year at SC08, NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and the NVIDIA CUDA architecture were recognized in multiple categories, an indicator that GPU computing technology is making a real and significant impact in the HPC industry.
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Scientists Have a New Tool for Hurricane Research
Dec 08, 2008 |
Scientists, students, and applications users seeking on-the-fly visualizations and analysis of hurricane-related satellite and model data can now get access to it via the NASA Hurricane Data Analysis tool on-line.
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NVIDIA Adds OpenCL to Its GPU Computing Toolkit
Dec 08, 2008 |
NVIDIA has announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group.
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AMD Adopts OpenCL 1.0 Specification
Dec 08, 2008 |
AMD today announced its intent to rapidly adopt the OpenCL 1.0 programming standard and integrate a compliant compiler and runtime into the free ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK).
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Ciena Demonstrates Leadership in 100G Technology
Dec 08, 2008 |
Ciena Corp. has announced a significant milestone in innovation with the successful demonstration of the industry's first true, single wavelength 100G optical transmission during the Supercomputing Conference 2008 (SC08), held in late November.
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NCSA, Nimbis Sign Collaborative Agreement
Dec 08, 2008 |
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois will collaborate with Nimbis Services Inc. to increase the high-performance computing capabilities and enhance the productivity of leading companies and their suppliers.
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SGI Upgrades Altix Shared Memory Architecture
Dec 08, 2008 |
With 8TB of global shared memory, SGI Altix systems are able to hold entire data sets in memory and eliminate many types of application and system I/O -- accelerating scientific research and I/O bound business computing problems.
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Durham University Joins UK National Grid Service
Dec 08, 2008 |
The UK National Grid Service (NGS) expanded further in November as Durham University joined as an affiliate member.
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The Khronos Group Releases OpenCL 1.0 Spec
Dec 08, 2008 |
The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL 1.0 specification, the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.
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IBM and Harvard Researchers Launch Solar Cell Project
Dec 08, 2008 |
IBM and researchers from Harvard University are launching a new World Community Grid project to discover organic materials to create a more efficient and lower cost solar cell.
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Venture Firms Invest in Va. Tech Professor's Invention
Dec 05, 2008 |
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. announces that Valhalla Partners and Virginia's Center for Innovative Technologies (CIT) GAP Funds have invested in MiserWare Inc., a Blacksburg, Va. software company based on power-saving technologies for computing devices invented by Kirk Cameron, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
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HPC Project Winners Announced at Rusnanotech
Dec 05, 2008 |
A ceremony of awarding the winners of high-performance computing project contest held by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and Intel took place today. The contest was aimed at fostering the teams of scientists using the supercomputing power in their work.
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Amazon Web Services Offers to Host Public Data Sets Free of Charge
Dec 04, 2008 |
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., has launched "Public Data Sets on AWS," providing access to a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.
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IllinoisRocstar Partners with NCSA
Dec 04, 2008 |
A company that spun off from the University of Illinois' Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets is the latest member of the Private Sector Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
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PANDUIT Sponsors QLogic NETtrack Developer Center
Dec 04, 2008 |
PANDUIT, a world-class developer and provider of leading edge physical infrastructure solutions, announces its sponsorship of the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center.
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DEISA Announces Extreme Computing Awards
Dec 04, 2008 |
Forty-two scientific projects have recently been awarded supercomputing resources through DEISA, the EU's unique infrastructure of supercomputing systems.
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Univa UD Launches Cloud Extension for Virtual HPC Management
Dec 04, 2008 |
Univa UD has announced the availability of UniCloud, an extension to Univa UD systems software that ushers in a pay-per-use and Web service model for high performance computing users.
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HP Wins DARPA Computer Security System Contract
Dec 04, 2008 |
HP has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense -- to develop a scalable network monitoring system.
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Altair Offers Free HyperWorks Training
Dec 04, 2008 |
Altair Engineering, a global provider of technology and services, announced that it will offer free technology training courses and licenses for advanced software to displaced engineers in Michigan who want to expand their skills in computer-aided engineering (CAE) as a way of increasing their marketability to employers.
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DataDirect Makes Deloitte's Technology Fast 500
Dec 04, 2008 |
DataDirect Networks has announced that it was ranked number 427 -- an increase of 24 places -- on Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America.
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Progeniq Announces Accelerated Computing Solutions
Dec 03, 2008 |
Progeniq Pte Ltd, a leader in accelerated computing solutions, today announced the launch of the "Powered-By-Progeniq" program.
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May 23, 2013
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May 20, 2013
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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
- Kitware Develops Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Next HPC Installation Step Initiated at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
- 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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- NEC Establishes NEC Ukraine to Strengthen Operations in Russia and the CIS
- Fujitsu Receives Supercomputer Order From Nagoya University
- Avere Systems Helps Framestore Create Extraordinary Visual Effects for Blockbuster Films
- Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Exascale Systems Call for Papers
May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
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May 13, 2013
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- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
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Feature Articles
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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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede
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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Short Takes
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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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications
May 10, 2013 |
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