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Nov 04, 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal | Intel Corp.'s next big shift in chip design is receiving strong early reviews from Web sites that test computer hardware.
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Nov 04, 2008 |
InfoWorld | More and more help is available so developers can write applications for the new generation of processors.
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Nov 04, 2008 |
EE Times Asia | Donating unused PC cycles to a grid can make good use of idle resources, but the extra energy required for this "free" computing should not be ignored.
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Nov 03, 2008 |
Forbes | Multicore processors pose a fundamental problem for companies expecting performance gains with every new server that's introduced, and it's an even bigger problem for those selling the servers.
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Oct 31, 2008 |
Apple Eclectic | New developements at Apple Computer suggests the company may be making an HPC play, reports Apple Eclectic's Max Hertz.
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Oct 30, 2008 |
ZDNet.co.uk | Does HPC stand for high-performance computing, or is it high-powered? Or high-productivity?
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Oct 30, 2008 |
Siliconrepublic.com | Ferrari 's Formula One team relies on HPC servers running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Oct 29, 2008 |
Southtown Star | Our best defense against tornados, floods, hurricanes and other meteorological chaos might be found inside the rusting steel exterior of Building 369 at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Oct 29, 2008 |
CIO | Microsoft's new set of libraries promises to help developers exploit multicore processing without requiring anyone to become a threading and distributed computing guru.
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Oct 29, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | Consider those forgotten breakthroughs that helped make HPC clusters possible.
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Oct 29, 2008 |
TechRepublic | Want to know what programmers may be doing 20 years from now? Take a look at what supercomputers are doing today.
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Oct 29, 2008 |
Greentech Media | Cold air and geothermal power — Iceland hopes these two geographic facts of life will allow it to become a global power in datacenters.
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Oct 28, 2008 |
Salina Journal | The petaflop machine Cray is installing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world to be employed for open science.
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Oct 28, 2008 |
Ars Technica | New research has figured out a way to manage atomic states with laser light, which could result in the development of a practical quantum computer.
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Oct 27, 2008 |
Barron's | Silicon Graphics is once again having trouble making ends meet in the competitive supercomputer business.
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Oct 24, 2008 |
The Wall Street Journal | Silicon Valley technology startups are adopting a new business plan: deferral.
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Oct 22, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | The case for a personal cluster case. Can HPC growth be enhanced with only a few pieces of bent metal?
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Oct 22, 2008 |
New York Times | Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief architect Andy Bechtolsheim has joined Arista Networks, a startup that offers high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches.
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Oct 22, 2008 |
Gulf News | IBM and Intel on Wednesday announced they are opening a high performance computing centre at IBM's Dubai Internet City (DIC) building.
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Oct 21, 2008 |
Computerworld | Both presidential candidates have outlined policy initiatives that they say will make the U.S. more competitive in science and technology.
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Oct 20, 2008 |
FCW.com | A new contract for the Defense Department’s high-performance computing program seeks to improve collaboration among government agencies, industry and academia.
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Oct 17, 2008 |
ElectronicsWeekly.com | Programming general purpose multi-core processors is generally regarded as impossible, but XMOS Semiconductor has done it and is applying it in practical applications.
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Oct 17, 2008 |
On-Demand Enterprise | What’s the big difference between cloud computing and grid computing? The goal of cloud computing is to put system administrators out of work.
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Oct 16, 2008 |
Knoxville News Sentinel | Oak Ridge National Laboratory will soon be the proud owner of two petaflop supercomputers -- one from the DOE and one from the NSF. At some point, they may be hooked together.
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Oct 16, 2008 |
The Register | To appeal to the broader market, Liquid Computing ditched the proprietary interconnect in its LiquidIQ offering and adopted Ethernet.
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Jun 19, 2013 |
Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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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.
Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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