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Spectra Logic Announces New Headquarters Facility in Boulder, Colo.

Dec 18, 2009 | Spectra Logic, celebrating 30 years of data storage innovation, announced today that it is expanding its facilities at a new worldwide headquarters location in Boulder, Colo., in the spring of 2010.
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LHC Ends 2009 Run on a High Note

Dec 18, 2009 | At its 153rd session today, the CERN1 Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
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DoD Awards Endicott Interconnect Technologies Contract Modifications Totaling $66.1M

Dec 18, 2009 | The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Endicott Interconnect Technologies a $50.3 million contract modification to produce card frame assemblies for a high reliability, high performance computing application.
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Appistry: Cloud Computing Growing Pains in 2010

Dec 18, 2009 | Appistry says 2010 will see more real applications deployed in the cloud and more traditional IT failures incorrectly attributed to the cloud, in addition to the first massive, public cloud security breach.
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2010 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing Accepting Nominations

Dec 18, 2009 | The IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research.
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Acumem Secures Additional Funding for Innovative Technology

Dec 17, 2009 | Acumem has secured additional funding that enables the company to continue to focus on accelerating its ongoing development of its cutting-edge energy efficiency technology.
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CLC bio Releases Beta of de novo Assembler

Dec 17, 2009 | Last week CLC bio released the beta version of its long-awaited assembly algorithm for de novo assembly to selected customers and now it's publically available.
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Knowledge Computing Offers New Perspectives in Scientific Computing

Dec 17, 2009 | Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) and Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) have used automated annotation software on grid-connected supercomputers to perform powerful queries in more than 50,000 pharmaceutical patents.
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Call for Proposals for PRACE Prototype Testing

Dec 17, 2009 | PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC Petascale systems. PRACE partners have installed six systems of different architectures that are now available for assessment.
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DoD Awards Endicott Interconnect Technologies $39.5M R&D Contract Modification

Dec 17, 2009 | Endicott Interconnect Technologies announced that the company has been awarded a $39.5 million research & development contract modification by the U.S. Department of Defense for phase 2 development of electronic packaging technologies.
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The Scilab Consortium Launches Scilab 5.2

Dec 17, 2009 | The Scilab Consortium announces the release of Scilab 5.2, new version of its free and open source platform for numerical computation.
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IU Informaticists Model Human Mobility During Global Epidemic

Dec 17, 2009 | The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer refined views of epidemics that could aid in public health emergency decision making, according to new research published by a team led by informaticists at Indiana University.
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Tata Sons' CRL Partners with Force India

Dec 17, 2009 | Computational Research Laboratories and Force India Formula One Team today announced an exclusive three-year multi-million dollar partnership deal to offer a fully automated CFD solution to aid the design of the team's next-generation race cars as well improve aerodynamic efficiency in the current racing models.
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Boston India Showcases Latest Solutions at HiPC Conference

Dec 17, 2009 | Boston IT Solutions has announced its participation as a Silver sponsor at the HiPC international conference on high performance computing.
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New Datacenter Opens at Indiana University

Dec 17, 2009 | SmithGroup is proud to announce the opening of the new datacenter at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Dot Hill Virtual RAID Adapter Technology Selected by TYAN

Dec 17, 2009 | Dot Hill Systems today announced that TYAN has selected Dot Hill RAIDCore VRA technology to be featured in its newest server platforms.
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Scientists Explore Energy Efficiency in Multi-Scale Computing Systems

Dec 17, 2009 | The University of California, San Diego and nine other universities are members of a new research center charged with finding ways to improve the design of computing systems ranging from large datacenters to tiny brain sensors.
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LSI Samples 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip IC

Dec 16, 2009 | LSI Corp. today announced it is sampling the LSISAS2208 dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) IC to OEM customers.
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Texas A&M Deploys ADVA's FSP 3000 Platform

Dec 16, 2009 | Texas A&M University is laying the groundwork to meet its future networking needs with the installation of a new Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) built on ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 platform.
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Acumem Launches ThreadSpotter 2010

Dec 16, 2009 | Acumem today announced the launch of its new Acumem ThreadSpotter 2010 product.
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Fixstars Releases Beta of 'FOXC' OpenCL Compiler for x86

Dec 16, 2009 | Fixstars Corporation announced the release of the beta version of its OpenCL Compiler "FOXC" for the x86 architecture starting today.
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UK Science Agency Announces £2.4 Billion Investment Strategy

Dec 16, 2009 | The Science and Technology Facilities Council today announced a five-year £2.4 billion investment strategy in world-leading multi-disciplinary science and technology, designed to deliver maximum scientific, societal, international and economic benefit for the United Kingdom in the current tougher financial environment.
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Cisco Saves by Improving Exhaust Recirculation in Datacenter

Dec 16, 2009 | Cisco Systems achieved an estimated saving of $120,000 per year in energy costs by simulating a datacenter using Future Facilities' Virtual Facility (VF) simulation methodology.
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SGI Extends Support to Verari Customers

Dec 15, 2009 | SGI today announced that it will provide customized support to Verari Systems customers on a global basis, beginning immediately.
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European Grid Interoperability Goes Global

Dec 15, 2009 | In October this year, OMII-UK and the NGS began work on a demonstrator to show that open standards adopted by different middleware platforms are the route to interoperability across service providers -- potentially from around the world.
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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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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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