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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