NVIDIA Names 20 New CUDA Research and Training Centers

Dec 23, 2010 | NVIDIA today announced the addition of 20 new CUDA Research Centers and CUDA Teaching Centers, underscoring the continued growth of GPU computing across the globe.
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Scientific Discovery from IBM Labs Moves Racetrack Memory Closer to Reality

Dec 23, 2010 | IBM Research is the first to measure the movement and processing of digital data as a magnetic pattern on nanowires 1,000 times finer than a human hair.
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Voltaire Signs Software License and Development Agreement with IBM

Dec 22, 2010 | Voltaire Ltd. today announced a license and development agreement with IBM Corporation.
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Biogemma, GenomeQuest, and SGI Create First HPC Solution Deployed for Agriculture Genomics

Dec 22, 2010 | Biogemma, GenomeQuest, and SGI today announced a collaboration that has resulted in the first high-performance computing solution deployed for agriculture genomics.
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COMPETES Reauthorization Bill Passes Congress

Dec 22, 2010 | Today, Research and Science Education Subcommittee Chairman Dan Lipinski (IL-3) helped lead passage of bipartisan legislation to create jobs and maintain America’s economic leadership by increasing investment in science education, advanced research, and manufacturing innovation.
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New Journal Promotes Computational Science Education

Dec 21, 2010 | A new online publication unveiled this week, the Journal Of Computational Science Education (JOCSE), will publish peer-reviewed articles focusing on various aspects of teaching computational science -- the application of computing, especially supercomputing, to the solution of complex scientific and engineering problems.
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LSU Buys Power7-Based HPC Cluster

Dec 21, 2010 | LSU's Center for Computation & Technology and the Department of Chemical Engineering have joined forces and purchased an IBM Power7 system in an effort to advance computational science research at CCT and LSU.
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Zircon Computing Announces Record High Performance Data Analytics Benchmark Results on SGI Altix UV 1000

Dec 20, 2010 | Zircon Computing today announced the results of two recently completed benchmarks in which Zircon collaborated with SGI on a key initiative to optimize the performance of two applications on the SGI Altix UV 1000 platform comprising 512 cores, 1,024 threads, and 4 terabytes (TB) of memory.
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Interactive Tool Helps Java Developers Write Safe, Parallel Programs

Dec 17, 2010 | Computer science researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have released a new, interactive tool that simplifies writing safe parallel programs in Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ) -- a modern type and effect system based on the Java programming language.
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IU Researchers Helped Develop Graph 500 Benchmark

Dec 17, 2010 | Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University announced that Andrew Lumsdaine and Jeremiah Willcock of its Open Systems Lab (OSL) are part of an international team that developed the "Search" benchmark for the Graph 500 List.
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Instrumental, Inc.'s Board of Directors Unanimously Approves Merger Agreement

Dec 17, 2010 | Instrumental, Inc., provider of high-performance computing (HPC) consulting services, announced today that its board of directors unanimously approved a buyout merger agreement to cash out all of the company's stockholders, with the exception of four of its directors and officers.
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Information Technology Needs Fundamental Shift to Continue Rapid Advances in Computing and Help Drive US Competitiveness

Dec 17, 2010 | The rapid advances in information technology that drive many sectors of the US economy could stall unless the nation aggressively pursues fundamental research and development of parallel computing -- hardware and software that enable multiple computing activities to process simultaneously, says a new report by the National Research Council.
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SGI Accelerates Compute Performance with Overclocking Added to Rackable Half-Depth Servers

Dec 17, 2010 | SGI today announced a new overclocking platform for the Rackable half-depth server line that will bring increased CPU frequency speeds to high frequency trading, compute, and other applications that require more than the fastest available processors.
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Computer Science Team Places Third in Supercomputing Competition

Dec 16, 2010 | A team of Kansas State University computer science students put their knowledge of computer systems and programming to the test recently to take third place in the SC10 Student Programming Competition.
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Supercomputing Helps Buildings Stand Up to Earthquakes

Dec 16, 2010 | A next generation of design criteria for buildings located in geographic regions where earthquakes are known to occur, either rarely or frequently, is under development at Virginia Tech through a research contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Scientists Identify the Largest Network of Protein Interactions Related to Alzheimer's Disease

Dec 16, 2010 | Scientists at IRB Barcelona and the Joint Programme IRB-BSC have discovered 200 new interactions between proteins that could be related to Alzheimer's disease.
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New Scilab Release Adds Improved Ergonomics, Parallel Execution

Dec 16, 2010 | Scilab 5.3.0 delivers significant performance improvements with a Scilab text editor refactorized, some major ergonomics improvments of Xcos and ATOMS existing tools, new GUI functionalities and the first high performance computing features.
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LSU CCT Group Develops New Cyberinfrastructure Environment

Dec 16, 2010 | The LSU Advanced Networking Lab (LANET) has developed a new cyberinfrastructure environment to bridge the gap between physical networks and large-scale scientific discovery.
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UT System Commits $23M to Improve Cyberinfrastructure at All 15 UT Institutions

Dec 16, 2010 | The University of Texas System Board of Regents has unanimously approved $23 million for improvements that will increase connectivity and computer capacity for all 15 University of Texas institutions, support research projects, and foster stronger collaborations among scientists in Texas and around the world.
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Coalition Of Lustre Users Announces Open Registration for LUG 2011

Dec 16, 2010 | LUG 2011 will be held in Orlando, Florida, from Tuesday, April 12, 2011, through April 14, 2011 at the Marriott World Center Golf and Spa resort.
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Zircon Computing Announces Accelerated Distributed Networking Results for Multicore AMD Opteron Processors

Dec 16, 2010 | Zircon Computing today announced the results of a recently completed project in which Zircon and AMD collaborated on a key initiative to optimize the performance of Zircon's latest software release on the multicore AMD Opteron platform.
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LSU Center for Computation & Technology Names New Deputy Director

Dec 16, 2010 | The LSU Center for Computation & Technology named Honggao Liu, Ph.D., as the center's new deputy director effective December 13.
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Open Source Parallel Filesystem Group Launched in Europe

Dec 16, 2010 | The European Open Filesystem (OSF) was initiated at the headquarters of ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH in Munich.
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NAFEMS Workshop Promotes Adoption of High Performance Computing for Engineering Simulation

Dec 16, 2010 | As part of the biennial NAFEMS World Congress, NAFEMS will be holding a special workshop titled "High Performance Computing for Engineering Simulation," from May 23-26, 2011, in Boston.
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Frontline Systems Announces New Versions of Solver Platforms

Dec 15, 2010 | Frontline Systems is shipping Risk Solver Platform V10.5 for Microsoft Excel and Solver Platform SDK V10.5, the latest versions of its products featuring optimization for resource allocation, Monte Carlo simulation for risk analysis, and robust optimal decision-making under uncertainty.
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