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Dinosaurs Hop, Skip and Jump into 21st Century
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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Fusion-io Debuts Faster, Cooler Solid-State Technology
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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Berkeley Lab Awarded $15.9M in Funding for Net-Zero Energy Buildings
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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What Will Scientists Do with Blue Waters?
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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HyperTransport Consortium Extends Signal Transmission Distance by 6x
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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MIT Goes to Copenhagen to Speak on Climate Models
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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WestGrid, Compute Canada Invest Nearly $13M in HPC at UVic and UofC
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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Zero-In Magazine Issue 4 Invites Submissions
Dec 10, 2009 |
BELIEF invites the submission of articles for Issue 4 of Zero-In magazine.
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XTREEMOS Project Launches New Grid OS
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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NCAR Director Eric J. Barron Named President of FSU
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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High Energy Physicists Set New Record for Network Data Transfer
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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SGI to Support Federal 'JLENS' Defense Program
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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Internet2 Announces CEO Search
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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Intel and DFKI Cooperate on 3D Internet
Dec 09, 2009 |
Intel Corp. is now a shareholder of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
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ISC Scientific Session: Final Call for Papers
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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Southampton Supercomputer to Crunch Complex Computations
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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UC San Diego Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
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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Panasas, Arista Partner to Optimize Ethernet Storage at LANL
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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Force10 Networks Intros Flexible New Exascale Line Cards
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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NAG, Dawning Launch Strategic Partnership for HPC and Scientific Research
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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Loongson Uses Synopsys CustomSim Circuit Simulator
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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Open Cloud Testbed Wins Bandwidth Challenge at SC09
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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Napatech Brings Intelligence to Network Monitoring
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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EELA-2 Project Connects OurGrid to gLite over EDGeS Bridge
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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Sun Sets Records with New x64 Server
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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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 09, 2013
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CERN, Google Drive Future of Global Science Initiatives
Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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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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Short Takes
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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