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Intel Cites Advance in Using Silicon in Data Products; Claim Is Challenged
Dec 08, 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal | Intel Corp. is claiming another advance in creating optical communications components from silicon, an effort designed to reduce the cost and increase the speed of transmitting computer data.
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More Than 16 Cores May Well Be Pointless
Dec 07, 2008 |
Ars Technica | Solving the "memory wall" problem is going to be key to unleasing the performance of manycore microprocessors.
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Performance Trends Favor Solid-State Storage
Dec 05, 2008 |
Byte and Switch | Solid-state drives are destined to take a prominent role in storage infrastructure, but several issues remain unresolved.
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Supercomputer is Brought a Step Closer to Your Desk Top
Dec 05, 2008 |
The Times | NVIDIA Tesla-based personal supercomputers debuted in Britain this week.
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How to Run a Million Jobs
Dec 03, 2008 |
International Science Grid This Week | At SC08, several experts organized an informal session to share information on up-and-coming solutions for expressing, managing, and executing “megajobs.”
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Server Revenues Down In Tough Economy
Dec 02, 2008 |
InformationWeek | Gartner reported worldwide server revenue fell in the third quarter, as companies put off buying more expensive computer systems in the slow economy.
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Dawning 6000 to Use Chinese-Made Loongson Processor
Nov 28, 2008 |
People's Daily Online | Currently under development, the Dawning 6000 HPC system will be based on the Chinese-made "Loongson" microprocessor.
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Can Supercomputers Help Save the Economy?
Nov 27, 2008 |
Computerworld | The use of supercomputers to increase the industrial might of the U.S. has amounted to little more than an asterisk from a financial standpoint in both the federal budget and the economy as a whole.
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IBM to Establish 'Collaboratory' in Dublin
Nov 26, 2008 |
Science Business | IBM is getting ready to set up a supercomputing research “collaboratory” in Dublin, Ireland.
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Texan Prof Sees Big Future for Graphene Storage
Nov 25, 2008 |
The Register | A Rice University professor believes that his proposed graphene arrays could be many times denser and faster than existing storage tech, and they'd be more reliable too.
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Quantum Computing Spins Closer
Nov 24, 2008 |
Dr. Dobbs Portal | Researchers set a new speed record for the time it takes to rotate the spin of an individual electron.
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Man Vs. Machine On Wall Street
Nov 24, 2008 |
Forbes | A small biotech company thinks it can make trading desks better by eliminating the people.
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Will Electric Professors Dream of Virtual Tenure?
Nov 24, 2008 |
The Chronicle of Higher Education | New computing inventions may exponentially extend researchers' productivity — and might even teach.
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Super Micro Computer: A One-Man, or at Least One-Family, Powerhouse
Nov 24, 2008 |
The New York Times | Server maker Super Micro Computer lives by two principles: give customers what they want, and do it as fast as humanly possible.
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AMD Banks on Flood of Stream Apps
Nov 13, 2008 |
vnumet.com | AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU).
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Migrating Software Into Hardware
Nov 13, 2008 |
EDN | EDN talks with David Stewart, founder and chief executive officer of CriticalBlue, about hardware/software co-design, multicore programming, and more.
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We Have to Expand the Market not Served by Our Technology
Nov 13, 2008 |
Livemint | In Bangalore, president and MathWorks co-founder Jack Little spoke about how Indian companies, science and engineering students could use technology to innovate.
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Become a Lazy SOB Administrator
Nov 12, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | One of the often cited difficulties in deploying and operating HPC systems is finding experienced cluster administrators.
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Cloud Computing as the Enabler of HPC
Nov 12, 2008 |
Ovum | The introduction of cloud services by Wolfram Research is another demonstration that HPC has come of age.
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Supercomputing Budgets: Fighting the Financial Storm
Nov 12, 2008 |
ZDNet.co.uk | How are financial realities affecting supercomputing? HPC expert Andrew Jones takes a closer look.
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Library of Flames Illuminates Design of Advanced Combustion Devices
Nov 07, 2008 |
National Center for Computational Sciences | With the help of supercomputers, next-generation engines and industrial burners may use less fuel, emit fewer pollutants.
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UI Breaks Ground on Blue Waters Data Processing Center
Nov 06, 2008 |
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette | Work has begun on the building that will house "Blue Waters," the multi-teraflop supercomputer scheduled to be deployed in 2011.
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Supercomputer Makes A Big Impact At Audi
Nov 05, 2008 |
The Auto Channel | Supercomputing used to perform crash test simulations has become a critical technology for automaker Audi.
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Will Machines Outsmart Man?
Nov 05, 2008 |
guardian.co.uk | Some scientists believe the point of 'the Singularity' - where artificial intelligence surpasses that of a human's - is closer than you may think.
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'Games Need to be Taken Seriously'
Nov 05, 2008 |
Financial Times | NVIDIA founder Jen-Hsun Huang says GPUS are returning to their scientific and industrial roots.
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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 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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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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