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Finding Huge Potential in Rocks’ Tiniest Cracks
Dec 31, 2008 |
Houston Chronicle | A Houston-based company is using supercomputing power to reveal how gas and oil flows through underground rocks.
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Supercomputer Arrives in Butte
Dec 30, 2008 |
Montana's News Station | Montana's first supercomputer has arrived in Butte.
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Clustered PlayStations Solve Complex Astrophysics Problem
Dec 23, 2008 |
RedOrbit | Scientists are harnessing the computing power of a 16-PlayStation cluster they call the "PS3 Gravity Grid".
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Infiniband Goes the Distance
Dec 23, 2008 |
Goverment Computer News | Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that InfiniBand can be used to transport large datasets via a dedicated network thousands of miles in length with a throughput unmatched by high-speed TCP/IP connections.
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Cognitive Computing: Building A Machine That Can Learn From Experience
Dec 22, 2008 |
The University of Wisconsin-Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison research psychiatrist Giulio Tononi was recently selected to take part in the creation of a "cognitive computer."
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Low Latency Spending Moves Full Speed Ahead
Dec 22, 2008 |
Wall Street & Technology | Technologies that enable lower latency have been used to speed the trading process, but these same technologies can also be used for risk management.
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Modeling and Simulation Still Need a Push
Dec 19, 2008 |
Bio-IT World | Modeling and simulation in the biopharma industry remains underutilized. But what would encourage management to take the technology more seriously?
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New Xeon CPUs With Nehalem Core in SAP SD Benchmark
Dec 18, 2008 |
heise online | Newly released benchmark results for systems equipped with the Nehalem EP processor reveal impressive performance.
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The Army’s Brain Lives in Seattle
Dec 17, 2008 |
Seattle Weekly | Cray Inc. is improving soldiers’ armor, tanks, and supercomputers, thanks to millions in government contracts.
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Will OpenCL Endow 'Snow Leopard' Macs with Supercomputer-Like Speed?
Dec 17, 2008 |
Computerworld | Apple is likely to be one of the first beneficiaries of OpenCL, a new programming standard that enables GPUs to be used for general-purpose computing.
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How to Stand Out in the Supercomputing Crowd
Dec 16, 2008 |
ZDNet.co.uk | If you deploy the same high-performance computing systems as everyone else, how can you possibly gain an edge over your rivals?
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Environmental Groups, Scientists Cheer Obama Appointments
Dec 16, 2008 |
The Los Angeles Times | As part of the new energy and environment team at the White House, President-elect Barack Obama has chosen LBNL director Steven Chu to be Secretary of Energy.
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The Fastest Computers are Going Hybrid
Dec 16, 2008 |
GCN.com | The future of supercomputer design seems to be heading toward using multiple types of processors in a single system.
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Exascale Computing by 2015?
Dec 15, 2008 |
IEEE Spectrum | IEEE Fellow Peter Kogge explains the findings of a DARPA study on exascale computing.
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Supercomputer Segregates Storage Systems to Provide Large-Scale HPC
Dec 12, 2008 |
SearchStorage.com | The Sooner supercomputer at the University of Oklahoma employs multiple storage solutions to cater to different users.
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Vendors Ready Proteomics Software for Larger, More Complex Biomarker Studies
Dec 12, 2008 |
bio1nf0rm | Biomarker discovery has become big business and, in response, protein informatics vendors are making their software a lot more sophisticated.
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Local Company to Receive Grant for Wearable Supercomputer
Dec 11, 2008 |
Indiana Daily Student | An Indiana-based company was awarded a DoD grant to develop a notebook-sized "supercomputer."
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World Community Grid Burns Energy In Order To Save It
Dec 11, 2008 |
The Inquirer | IBM has teamed up with Harvard to harness the power of your computer and solve the world energy crisis, AIDS, cancer and global starvation.
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Intel Gearing Up For 32 nm 'Westmere' Chips
Dec 11, 2008 |
ChannelWeb | Intel says it's on track to release its first 32 nm chips at the end of 2009.
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We Can Compete in HPC, Say Chip Vendors
Dec 10, 2008 |
InternetNews.com | Despite complaints that x86 chips can't scale properly for high performance computing, Intel and AMD say they have solutions in the works.
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Inside Tsubame - The Nvidia GPU Supercomputer
Dec 10, 2008 |
PC World | The Tsubame supercomputer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is now getting a lot of its computing muscle from 680 Nvidia Tesla graphics cards.
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IBM's Infinite Research Problem
Dec 09, 2008 |
Forbes | Having conquered the petaflop realm with Roadrunner, IBM is already thinking about what needs to be done to design and build exaflop systems.
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IBM Drops Power7 Drain in 'Blue Waters'
Dec 09, 2008 |
The Register | The biggest problem operating HPC facilities today is the inefficiency of the data center itself.
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What Happens When Silicon Can Shrink No More?
Dec 09, 2008 |
New Scientist | The shrinking of silicon-based computing is becoming increasingly difficult. But other technologies are already in the works.
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Computing In The Clouds: Setting Expectations
Dec 08, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | Does Cloud Computing have a play in HPC? Join us for a pragmatic view of "the cloud" and how it may expand the horizons of HPC.
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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
- Bright Computing Named Winner of 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 20, 2013
- Cray and VBRX to Host Event for Upstream Applications in Oil and Gas
- Dell to Deliver Public Cloud Through Partner Ecosystem
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May 16, 2013
- 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
- Flow Science Releases FLOW-3D/MP 5.0
- 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
- HPC Simulations Target Nanoscale Materials Under Strain
- New IBM Center in Beijing to Speed Linux Applications on Power Systems
- OpenCL Software Development Kit Fosters FPGA Exploitation
- S&P Capital IQ and Kuberre Systems Sign Data Facilitator Agreement
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May 13, 2013
- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
- AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
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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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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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