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Dec 10, 2009 |
Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
Fusion-io today announced the company's core ioMemory technology will serve as the basis for a solid-state storage solution offered exclusively in IBM's family of System x servers.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will build and operate a new National User Facility for Net-Zero Energy Buildings using a competitively-selected award of $15.9 million in stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
Many scientists are working now with the Blue Waters team so they are ready to use the massive sustained-petaflop supercomputer when it comes online in 2011.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
The HyperTransport Consortium today released two new HyperTransport connector/cable specifications that enable more innovative ways of implementing and interconnecting HyperTransport links in datacenter and high-performance computing platforms.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
MIT professors, students and alumni have joined representatives from nearly 200 nations at the international U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where they will present research, collaborate with other schools on climate change projects and report live from the event.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
Researchers across Canada will soon have access to state-of-the-art high performance computing clusters at the Universities of Victoria and Calgary.
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Dec 10, 2009 |
BELIEF invites the submission of articles for Issue 4 of Zero-In magazine.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
Under the motto "Making Grid Computing Easier," the XTREEMOS project has released the second version of its Linux-based grid operating system.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
The Florida State University Board of Trustees today selected alumnus Eric J. Barron, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to serve as the university's 14th president.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
An international team of high-energy physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by Caltech joined forces to capture the Bandwidth Challenge award for massive data transfers during SC09.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
SGI today announced that deciBel Research, a high-technology company that provides advanced radar systems and sensor technologies to the U.S. Department of Defense, has purchased ICE Cube, SGI's modular datacenter.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
Internet2 announced today that after twelve years of service, president and CEO Douglas Van Houweling has asked the Board of Trustees to begin the process of identifying a successor.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
Intel Corp. is now a shareholder of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
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Dec 09, 2009 |
ISC'10, the 25th International Supercomputing Conference, urges all researchers seeking an opportunity to share their research results in the computing and scientific disciplines to submit their original work by Monday, January 11, 2010.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
The Southampton supercomputer will enable highly complex computations in fields ranging from cancer research to climate change to socio-economic modelling.
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Dec 09, 2009 |
U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of California, San Diego.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Panasas, Inc. and Arista Networks today announced that they are working together to optimize non-blocking 10-Gigabit Ethernet as the network of choice for high-performance storage systems.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Force10 Networks today announced the addition of two new line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) and GbE line cards for use within its ExaScale virtualized core switch/routers that incorporate flexible pluggable transceiver modules.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Dawning Information Industry Co. and the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announce a partnership to develop high performance computing resources for Chinese industries and research areas.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Loongson Technology Co. achieved first-pass silicon success on its 65-nanometer, multicore, high-performance Loongson-3 CPU design using Synopsys' CustomSim circuit simulator.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
At SC09 in Portland, a research team led by the Open Cloud Consortium won the SC09 Bandwidth Challenge by showing wide area large data clouds operating at over 100 Gbps.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Napatech today announced the availability of unique features that provide visibility into tunnels for network monitoring and analysis of value-added services running over IP, such as VOIP, VPN and mobile data.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
The EELA-2 project has created a Bridge that connects the OurGrid middleware to gLite, the middleware that is also used by the large European EGEE Grid.
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Dec 08, 2009 |
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced its new Sun Fire X4640 server, based on the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivered outstanding performance on industry-standard benchmarks.
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During a conversation this week with Cray CEO, Peter Ungaro, we learned that the company has managed to extend its reach into the enterprise HPC market quite dramatically--at least in supercomputing business terms. With steady growth into these markets, however, the focus on hardware versus the software side of certain problems for such users is....
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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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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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