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Intel's Core i7 Passes Muster

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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Multicore: New Chips Mean New Challenges for Developers

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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The Energy Impact of Grid Computing

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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Why Apps Can't Run Faster

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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Is Apple Preparing a Supercomputer Push?

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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Is Supercomputing Just About Performance?

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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High Performance Computing Puts Ferrari in Pole Position in Formula One Stakes

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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Argonne's Intrepid Weathermen

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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Microsoft Releases Developer Tools for Parallel Computing, Concurrency and Coordination

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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Breakthroughs of the Pedestrian Nature

Oct 29, 2008 | Linux Magazine | Consider those forgotten breakthroughs that helped make HPC clusters possible.
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How Supercomputers Still Influence Programming

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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Iceland Aims at World’s Green Datacenter Hub

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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Super Computer

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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Scalable Quantum Computing in the Next 5 Years?

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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Don't Be Tempted by SGI

Oct 27, 2008 | Barron's | Silicon Graphics is once again having trouble making ends meet in the competitive supercomputer business.
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Venture Capital Financing Slows Amid Economic Downturn

Oct 24, 2008 | The Wall Street Journal | Silicon Valley technology startups are adopting a new business plan: deferral.
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The Case For A Case

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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Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up

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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IBM-Intel Joint Venture at Dubai Internet City

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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Dear Mr. President: Let's Talk Tech

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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DOD Seeks Improved Collaboration

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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Multicore Programming Explained

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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At the Nexus of Grid, Cloud and HPC

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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NSF & DOE: Going Steady or Just Dating Now and Then?

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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Liquid Computing Drops IQ for Ethernet

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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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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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon

Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause

Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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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 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island

May 09, 2013 | The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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