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Voltaire Announces Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager
Dec 08, 2009 |
Voltaire Ltd. today announced the Voltaire Grid Control Plug-in, a software-based plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager that enables management, monitoring and analysis of Voltaire's InfiniBand I/O fabrics in Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) Database environments.
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CHPC National Meeting, 5th BELIEF Symposium Announce Shared Event
Dec 07, 2009 |
The 2009 national meeting of the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) combined with the 5th BELIEF (Bringing European eLectronic e-Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers) Symposium, takes place from Dec. 7-9, 2009, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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siCluster High Performance Storage Cluster Installed at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Dec 07, 2009 |
Scalable Informatics has announced the first customer installation of the siCluster storage cluster product.
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ParaPLoP 2010: Call for Papers
Dec 07, 2009 |
Parallel programming enthusiasts are invited to submit papers for ParaPLoP 2010, a PLoP-style workshop on parallel programming patterns to be held March 30 through April 1, 2010, in Carefree, Arizona.
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Tufts University to Lead Research Team for 'Digging into Data Challenge' Grant
Dec 07, 2009 |
A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning thousands of years.
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Sporting Index Selects Platform Computing
Dec 07, 2009 |
Platform Computing today announced that Sporting Index has selected Platform Symphony for high-performance grid computing.
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Impulse Delivers FPGA-Based Financial Feed Handling Solution
Dec 07, 2009 |
Impulse Accelerated Technologies today announced that it has delivered an FPGA-based financial feed and network packet parsing solution to Athena Capital Research LLC, a quantitative investment manager based in New York City.
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ANSYS 12.1 Enhancements Support Fast Product Design and Validation
Dec 07, 2009 |
ANSYS, Inc. today announced the availability of ANSYS 12.1 technology to support customers in Simulation Driven Product Development.
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Ranger Helps Turn Environmental Information into Action
Dec 07, 2009 |
Patrick Reed of Penn State is using TACC's Ranger supercomputer to test an observational framework that will improve our understanding of long-term environmental change.
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SANReN's National Backbone Network Completed Ahead of Schedule
Dec 07, 2009 |
The Department of Science and Technology and CSIR have announced that work on the national backbone network of the South African National Research Network (SANReN) has been completed ahead of schedule.
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Scalable Informatics Introduces siCluster
Dec 07, 2009 |
Scalable Informatics announces the availability of its new siCluster storage cluster product.
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DEISA Call for HPC Proposals Is Now Open
Dec 04, 2009 |
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) announces the opening of DECI-6, the 6th annual competition for European computational scientists who can apply for single-project access to computational resources in the European HPC infrastructure operated by DEISA.
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NSF Workshop on HPC Center Sustainability Announced
Dec 04, 2009 |
Cornell University is hosting a National Science Foundation-sponsored "Workshop on High Performance Computing Center Sustainability" from May 3-5, 2010.
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Chelsio Delivers Virtual Multi-Port Software Driver
Dec 04, 2009 |
Chelsio Communications today announced Virtual Multi-port Software, a new driver that gives users of VMware ESX 4.0 the flexibility for virtual consolidation of existing Gigabit links over Chelsio 10Gb Unified Wire adapters.
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FCIA Sponsors Third FCoE Plugfest
Dec 04, 2009 |
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of its third FCoE Plugfest the week of Nov. 16th at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab.
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Darkstrand Adds Business Leaders to Board of Directors
Dec 04, 2009 |
Darkstrand announced Lisa Pollina and Robert B. Shapiro to Darkstrand's Board of Directors.
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Fujitsu's Next-Gen Supercomputer a Success Despite Funding Freeze
Dec 03, 2009 |
Fujitsu Ltd. successfully operated a prototype of its next-generation supercomputer, in spite of a Japan government panel's decision to freeze funding for the project.
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Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to 'See'
Dec 03, 2009 |
Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.
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Carnegie Mellon CyLab to Join Industry Consortium
Dec 03, 2009 |
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab will join Northrop Grumman Corp. and two other research universities to form the Cybersecurity Research Consortium to address the nation's most critical cyber threats.
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ESI Announces the Sheet Metal Forming Simulation Suite Version 2009
Dec 03, 2009 |
ESI Group announced today the release of its Sheet Metal Forming Simulation Suite Version 2009, including PAM-STAMP 2G and PAM-TUBE 2G.
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AMD, SiSoftware Collaborate on an Industry Benchmark Suite for OpenCL
Dec 03, 2009 |
AMD today announced its involvement in the development of one of the first industry benchmark testing suites for OpenCL.
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PRACE Award 2010: Call for Papers Has Started
Dec 03, 2009 |
The call for papers for the PRACE Award 2009 has begun.
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New Software to Simulate Future Financial Crises
Dec 03, 2009 |
Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy.
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University of Edinburgh Joins Cray's Exascale Research Initiative
Dec 03, 2009 |
The University of Edinburgh is to join Cray's Exascale Research Initiative with the creation of its Exascale Technology Centre at EPCC, the supercomputing centre at The University of Edinburgh.
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Internet2 and National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Enter Partnership
Dec 03, 2009 |
The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education and Internet2 have signed a letter of agreement for reciprocal membership.
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May 21, 2013
- Cyber Network Gears Up for Growth in the Cloud With IBM PureSystems
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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
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May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
- Durham University Cluster Boosts Study of the Stars
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- Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
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- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
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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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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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