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Reaching For the Exa-Scale
Oct 15, 2008 |
International Science Grid This Week | Exa-scale computing is probably years away. But GPUs and volunteer grids may provide a shortcut.
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Hazy Computing
Oct 15, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | Today machines manage what we cannot. Are we dependent upon results or processes we do not understand?
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New Visualization Laboratory Debuts on UT Austin's Main Campus
Oct 14, 2008 |
Texas Advanced Computing Center | TACC has unveiled a new visualization laboratory capable of reproducing terascale data sets with exceptional clarity and resolution.
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High-Performance Nonsense
Oct 13, 2008 |
Computerworld | Microsoft will have to overcome Windows' historical baggage if its new HPC Server 2008 offering is to be acceptable to users.
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Grids Get Down to Business
Oct 13, 2008 |
ICT Results | New technology developed by European researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives easy access to grid resources.
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ORNL's Breakthroughs in Cray Machines Make it Hard to Beat
Oct 13, 2008 |
Knoxville News Sentinel | Oak Ridge National Laboratory has petaflop computing in sight as it upgrades its 'Jaguar' supercomputer.
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E-Science: Massive Experiments, Global Networks
Oct 09, 2008 |
Christian Science Monitor | Worldwide computer grids mean even small-timers can contribute to 'big science.'
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Bull Juices Supers With German Engineering
Oct 09, 2008 |
The Register | French server maker Bull has acquired German HPC expert Science + Computing AG.
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IBM Wants to Make a Difference
Oct 09, 2008 |
ITWeb, South Africa | IBM's donation of a $1.6 million supercomputer is in response to the growing innovation opportunities on the African continent.
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Voltaire Expects Revenue Dive
Oct 08, 2008 |
The Register | InfiniBand supplier Voltaire expects sharply lower third quarter 2008 revenues and a net loss for the period, due to delays on two multi-million dollar orders from financial institutions.
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Don't Be Fooled By Pretty Pictures
Oct 08, 2008 |
Forbes | CFD models used to figure out cooling requirements in the datacenter may not always be reliable.
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IBM's Quarterly Earnings Cast Light in a Darkening Economic Cloud
Oct 08, 2008 |
The New York Times | Amid the deepening economic anxiety, IBM delivered a dose of reassuring news on Wednesday evening after the close of the stock market.
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Supercomputer Debuts
Oct 07, 2008 |
The Republican | Take every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth, cram them into a small room on the University of Massachusetts campus, and you would not have nearly the computing brain power of Cyclops, the university's new $120,000 supercomputer.
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AMD to Split Into Two Operations
Oct 07, 2008 |
The New York Times | Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it would split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them.
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Lustre to Battle Corruption
Oct 07, 2008 |
GCN.com | Sun Microsystems has been busy building a lot more intelligence into Lustre, a file system used for large-scale cluster computing.
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Oracle and HP's Database Machine Predicated on Voltaire
Oct 06, 2008 |
The Register | Does the HP Oracle Database Machine represent InfiniBand's big chance to break out its HPC niche?
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3D Imaging Spreads to Fashion and Beyond
Oct 06, 2008 |
BusinessWeek | A body scan can save a lot of time in the fitting room, and fields from medicine to architecture are adopting 3D computing applications.
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Structural Engineers and Computer Scientists Hope to Integrate Disciplines to 'Revolutionize Building Construction'
Oct 03, 2008 |
UCSD News | Despite the evolution of computer science over the past 30 years, structural engineering -- hindered by a reluctance to adapt to digital innovations -- has remained relatively unchanged as a discipline.
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Credit Crisis Spreads a Pall Over Silicon Valley
Oct 02, 2008 |
New York Times | Silcon Valley is starting to feel the effects of the credit crunch.
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Google: 'The World's Most Efficient Data Centers'
Oct 01, 2008 |
Data Center Knowledge | Google today disclosed details of its data center energy usage, confirming that it operates some of the most efficient facilities in the world.
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What He Said
Oct 01, 2008 |
Linux Magazine | Another voice of concern over parallel programming. Plus a wild idea.
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Windows 7 to Get Parallel-Processing Tweaks
Sep 30, 2008 |
ZDNet | Making Windows parallel-processing friendly may begin in earnest with Windows 7, but it won't be accomplished in one fell swoop.
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AMD Says New 'Shanghai' Chip is Ready to Go
Sep 29, 2008 |
CNET News | AMD said Monday it is set to roll out its next-generation "Shanghai" chip--minus the mistakes of the last generation.
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Software Holding Back Spread of Multicore Chips
Sep 29, 2008 |
Computerworld | Software vendors are slow to take on the heady challenge of upgrading their apps.
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Russian Code Breakers
Sep 29, 2008 |
Forbes | Applications outsourcing is no longer just about India. Companies are sprouting up all over Eastern Europe and Russia, fueled by a deep heritage in math and science.
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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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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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