Podcast: The HPC Year in Review

Dec 22, 2009 | Michael and Addison recap some of big HPC stories and trends in 2009.
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Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2009

Dec 18, 2009 | Highlights and lowlights of the year in HPC.
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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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Computing for a Better World

Dec 17, 2009 | Hamburg, Germany, is known worldwide for its harbor, its red-light district, the Reeperbahn, and the fresh sea breeze. On December 10, Hamburg added another feature of worldwide interest when an IBM supercomputer devoted to climate research was inaugurated, just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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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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HPC in 2009: Mergers, Acquisitions and Worse

Dec 17, 2009 | The dominant storyline in high performance computing this year was not about technology, but the economy. Eleven companies in the HPC space were either acquired or went out of business in 2009. We recap their stories here.
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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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The Week in Review

Dec 17, 2009 | Platform Computing helps CERN with cloud management; NCAR selects a construction company for new supercomputer center; and French aerospace research center Onera chooses SGI Altix systems. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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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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Japan Looks to Reinstate Supercomputer Funding

Dec 16, 2009 | Next-generation supercomputer project gets a reprieve.
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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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FTC Accuses Intel of Trying to Stifle Competition

Dec 16, 2009 | The New York Times | New charges filed against chip maker.
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Amazon Auctions Cloud Computation

Dec 16, 2009 | InformationWeek | Customers can bid for compute cycles on unused capacity.
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Workshop Focuses on Use of Manycore and Accelerator-based Computing for Advancing Science

Dec 16, 2009 | Online, at conferences and in theory, manycore processors and the use of accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs are being viewed as the next big revolution in high performance computing. If they can live up to the potential, these accelerators could someday transform how computational science is performed, providing much more computing power and energy efficiency.
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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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FTC Charges Intel with Anticompetitive Tactics

Dec 16, 2009 | Intel is back in hot water with government regulators. On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Intel, bringing new allegations of anticompetitive behavior against the chipmaker.
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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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Microsoft's Server Chief Talks Cloud (Q&A)

Dec 15, 2009 | CNET News | It's been a busy year for Bob Muglia.
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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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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

Dec 15, 2009 | The New York Times | "It's the data stupid."
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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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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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2009-2019: A Look Back on a Decade of Supercomputing

Dec 15, 2009 | As we turn the decade into the 2020s, we take a nostalgic look back at the last ten years of supercomputing. It's amazing to think how much has changed in that time. Many of our older readers will recall how things were before the official Planetary Supercomputing Facilities at Shanghai, Oak Ridge and Saclay were established. Strange as it may seem now, each country -- in fact, each university or company -- had its own supercomputer!
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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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Google Demos Image Rec 'Quantum Computer'

Dec 15, 2009 | The Register | Web giant hooks up with D-Wave to develop quantum computing application.
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Verari Systems in Limbo

Dec 14, 2009 | Server maker looking to "restructure the business."
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Verari Systems Staff Join Alumni Network Amidst 'Restructure'

Dec 14, 2009 | The Register | Server vendor scrambling to keep business afloat.
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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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Fastra Desktop Supercomputer Packs 13 NVIDIA Chipsets

Dec 14, 2009 | Electronista | Custom-built PC delivers 12 teraflops.
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Boulder Climate Center Will Build Supercomputer in Wyoming

Dec 14, 2009 | The Denver Post | Cheaper to house NCAR super out-of-state.
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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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Podcast: Larrabee Work Stoppage; Exascale and Climate Change

Dec 11, 2009 | Michael and Addison take a look at Intel's cancellation of Larrabee's 2010 debut, and also discuss the relationship between exascale computing and climate change research.
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Analysts Speculate on Larrabee Flap

Dec 11, 2009 | Intel's GPU work stoppage gets scrutinized.
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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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Wild New Design: Datacenter in a Silo

Dec 11, 2009 | Data Center Knowledge | One of the most unusual datacenter designs we've seen.
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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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Exaflops Needed to Solve Climate Crisis?

Dec 10, 2009 | Exascale computing. What is it good for? Certainly not to solve problems that need solving today.
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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

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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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Interview: Professor Dr. Achim Bachem

Dec 10, 2009 | SciDAC Review | PRACE director offers window into European HPC culture.
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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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The Week in Review

Dec 10, 2009 | Blue Waters' expense has some calling for project's justification; and new German weather system has official launch party. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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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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High-performance Computing Revs up Simulations like FEA, CFD

Dec 10, 2009 | Design World | Automotive and aerospace simulations get a boost from Windows HPC clusters.
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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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IBM Ponders the Exascale

Dec 09, 2009 | Over the next ten years of HPC history, the mainstream teraflop systems of today will evolve into the petaflop systems of tomorrow, while the leading-edge petaflop supercomputers will be replaced by exaflop machines. As the most diverse player in the HPC server business, IBM has some unique advantages as it charts a path toward the exascale milestone.
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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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Wales Gets £44 Million Supercomputing Institute

Dec 09, 2009 | computing.co.uk | Universities of Cardiff and Swansea to deliver 'HPC Wales.'
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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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Microsoft Creates New Server and Cloud Division

Dec 09, 2009 | Network World | Azure slated for commercial launch in February.
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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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Supercomputing Center to be Built in Chengdu

Dec 08, 2009 | People's Daily Online | Dawning petaflop super will be installed in 2011.
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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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