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Bill St. Arnaud Steps Down as Chief Research Officer of CANARIE
Dec 15, 2009 |
CANARIE announced today that after a 15 year tenure as Chief Research Officer of CANARIE, Bill St. Arnaud will be stepping down in January 2010 to pursue new opportunities in research and education networks.
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New PRACE Training Material Available
Dec 15, 2009 |
PRACE has produced 48 hours of high performance computing training videos that can be downloaded free of charge.
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Gridstore Launches Network Attached Storage Grid
Dec 15, 2009 |
Gridstore today launched the beta of its new NASg storage platform designed to eliminate the risk, cost and complexity of traditional siloed storage solutions.
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Unilever Joins Forces with STFC for Product R&D
Dec 15, 2009 |
The computational science expertise of STFC Daresbury Laboratory is to play a key part in enabling global giant Unilever to research and develop innovative new products for their customers.
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EDGeS Connects More Than 100,000 Computers to EGEE
Dec 15, 2009 |
The EDGeS infrastructure that connects Desktop Grids to EGEE and other Service Grids, announced that the total number of computers connected to the Desktop Grids in EDGeS, has surpassed the 100,000.
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Volker Springel Awarded 2009 Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize for Physics
Dec 14, 2009 |
The astrophysicist Volker Springel has been honored with this year's Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize for Physics for his important research in astrophysics.
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NVIDIA, National Taiwan University Aim to Unlock Secrets of Universe
Dec 14, 2009 |
A research team at National Taiwan University is achieving breakthrough results in learning about the early evolution of the universe by harnessing NVIDIA Tesla parallel processors.
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Clemson University Leads $6M Technology Initiative
Dec 14, 2009 |
Clemson University is leading a cyberinfrastructure project that has earned a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
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NCAR Selects Construction Firm for Supercomputing Center
Dec 14, 2009 |
The National Center for Atmospheric Research announced the selection of a construction management and general contracting firm for the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center project.
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Queensland University of Technology Selects Mitrion Platform
Dec 14, 2009 |
Mitrionics, Inc. today announced that the Queensland University of Technology High Performance Computing group has selected the Mitrion Accelerated Computing Platform to explore several projects designed to accelerate algorithms in different application areas.
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NYSE Technologies, CMC Markets Agree to Implement OneTick
Dec 14, 2009 |
NYSE Technologies today announced that CMC Markets, a global leader in spread betting trading strategies, has selected the OneTick tick capture and time-series analysis application.
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Pandemic Toolkit Offers Flu with a View
Dec 14, 2009 |
As communities brace for rising wintertime influenza cases, scientists are developing a mathematical and visual analytic toolkit to help health officials quickly analyze pandemics and craft better response strategies.
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University of Mississippi Implements MathWorks Software Campus-Wide
Dec 14, 2009 |
The University of Mississippi has implemented a campus-wide license of MATLAB and several other technical computing products from The MathWorks.
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Onera Chooses SGI Altix Supercomputers
Dec 14, 2009 |
SGI has announced that Onera (Centre Français de Recherches Aérospatiales), the French aerospace research center, chose SGI Altix to significantly boost its computing power.
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NSF Awards SDSC, ASU $1.7M for National OpenTopography LiDAR Facility
Dec 14, 2009 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and Arizona State University have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to operate an Internet-based national data facility for high-resolution topographic data acquired with LiDAR technology.
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Darkstrand Appoints New Board Members, Names CFO
Dec 11, 2009 |
Today Darkstrand announced the addition of Glenn W. Sturm, Gene Shrader and Thomas G. Pierce to the leadership team.
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3D Microchips for More Powerful and Environmentally-Friendly Computers
Dec 11, 2009 |
The CMOSAIC project aims to boost the computing performance of central processors by a factor 10 while consuming less energy.
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Fina Technologies Announces Completion of Series A Financing
Dec 11, 2009 |
Fina Technologies today announced that it has completed a $4.5 million Series A financing, which includes a lead investment by Reed Elsevier Ventures and an investment from the venture capital firm Excel Venture Management.
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Grant Supports Computational Analysis Of Manuscripts, Maps and Quilts
Dec 11, 2009 |
The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) is pleased to announce that Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions has been an awarded funding through the Digging Into Data (DID) Challenge.
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Call for Chapter Proposals Issued for CSE Handbook
Dec 11, 2009 |
The editor of the "Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice" is seeking proposals for the contribution of chapters.
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NLR Helps Enable SC09 Bandwidth Challenge Winners
Dec 11, 2009 |
National LambdaRail (NLR) provided ultra-high speed, wide-area network infrastructure and services for winners in all categories of the prestigious Bandwidth Challenge awards at SC09.
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Wide Area InfiniBand Used in the Winning Bandwidth Challenge Entry at SC09
Dec 11, 2009 |
Obsidian's Longbow X100 devices maintained a coast-to-coast 20Gbits/s InfiniBand link from Supercomputing in Portland to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC in a challenge entry prepared by NRL and the University of Illinois at SC09.
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Simulations Plus Appoints New Director of Life Sciences
Dec 11, 2009 |
Simulations Plus, Inc. announces the appointment of Robert D. Clark, Ph.D., to the position of Director, Life Sciences.
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Gropp, Vaidya Named IEEE Fellows
Dec 10, 2009 |
University of Illinois computer science professor Bill Gropp and computer science affiliate professor Nitin Vaidya (ECE) have been named IEEE Fellows for the class of 2010.
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PhD Student Wins HPC Fellowship at SC09
Dec 10, 2009 |
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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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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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