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STEC's Solid State Drives Support HP Storage Array
Dec 10, 2010 |
STEC, Inc. today announced that its high capacity enterprise-class ZeusIOPS Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been qualified for integration into the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array platform.
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Trenton Joins NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner Program
Dec 09, 2010 |
With acceptance into the NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner (TPP) program Trenton is in position to create advanced computing solutions which incorporate NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPU computing products.
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Ethernet Vendors Demo'ed 10, 40, 100 GbE Interoperability at SC10
Dec 09, 2010 |
CommScope, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. recently showcased the industry's first-ever public demonstration of interoperability between 10, 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s) higher speed Ethernet sub-systems at last month's Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans, La.
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University of Manchester Trains Computer Scientists of the Future
Dec 09, 2010 |
The University of Manchester has been awarded a £2.2 million grant to establish the Centre for Doctoral Training in Computer Science, the first of its type in the UK.
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ORNL Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery
Dec 09, 2010 |
A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on the fast track to developing new drug treatments.
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Biomineralization Studies Aim to Replicate Natural Processes
Dec 09, 2010 |
A University of Akron researcher is leveraging advanced modeling and simulation techniques to more precisely understand how organic materials bond to inorganic materials, a natural phenomenon that if harnessed, could lead to the design of composite materials and devices for such applications as bone replacement, sensing systems, efficient energy generation and treatment of diseases.
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CIT 2011 and ScalCom 2011: Call for Workshop Proposals
Dec 09, 2010 |
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2011) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2011) will take place from
August 31 to September 2, 2011, in Pafos, Cyprus.
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Dataram Expands SAN Consultancy Services
Dec 09, 2010 |
Dataram announced the expansion of its SAN Consultancy Services to include assessment and optimization, installation and support, and vendor selection/evaluation.
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Absoft Pro Fortran Performance Pack Supports Mac OS and Windows
Dec 09, 2010 |
Absoft Corporation has announced general availability of a new Performance Pack for Absoft Pro Fortran v11.1 customers on Windows and Mac OS.
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Atlantik Systeme to Distribute Voltaire Products in Germany
Dec 08, 2010 |
Voltaire Ltd. today announced that it has signed an agreement with Atlantik Systeme to distribute its products in Germany.
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UK's Premiere Supercomputing Campus Seeks American Partners for Collaboration
Dec 08, 2010 |
John Bancroft, head of Business Development for the Science & Technologies Facility Council (STFC) located in the North of England, has been working in the US this month to identify and develop strategic partnerships for the much anticipated Hartree Centre.
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Purdue Computing Resources Rank Near Top Nationally
Dec 08, 2010 |
The most recent TOP500 ranking listed two Purdue supercomputers, Rossmann and Coates, as being in the world's top 150 largest machines.
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BlueArc, Aspera Provide Joint Solutions for Ultra High-speed WAN File Transfers
Dec 08, 2010 |
BlueArc Corporation and Aspera, Inc. today announced a new technology alliance to provide breakthrough transport and storage solutions that overcome the challenges of quickly moving large files and data sets over wide area networks (WANs).
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CD-adapco, R Systems Help Wilson to Throw the Perfect Spiral
Dec 08, 2010 |
Following the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of its soccer ball aerodynamics, Wilson has now turned its attention to the footballs.
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Report Finds K-12 Computer Science Education Declining
Dec 08, 2010 |
Computer-related technology is increasingly driving the US economy, yet computer science education is scant in most American elementary and secondary school classrooms and the number of introductory and Advanced Placement courses in computer science has actually declined in the last five years, according to a report released this fall.
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Nexsan Announces Participation at 2010 Gartner Data Center Conference
Dec 08, 2010 |
Nexsan today announced that the company will showcase its line of highly efficient and reliable storage systems to meet growing storage requirements at the 2010 Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas.
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HPTi Named 2011 Best Place to Work in Virginia
Dec 07, 2010 |
High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) was named one of the 2011 Best Places to Work in Virginia.
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Lockheed Martin Selects Appro CPU-GPU System for DoD Work
Dec 07, 2010 |
Appro announced that it has been awarded a subcontract for a 147.5-teraflop Appro 1U-Tetra supercomputer from Lockheed Martin in support of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
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Exludus Launches Application Profiling and Reporting Solution
Dec 07, 2010 |
eXludus Technologies today announced the availability of AppProfiler, an application profiling and reporting solution that provides detailed analytics on system resources consumed by applications.
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Whamcloud Announces Lustre Contract with ORNL
Dec 07, 2010 |
Whamcloud, a venture-backed company formed from worldwide high-performance computing (HPC) storage industry veterans, announced a contract signing with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Advanced Visual Systems Partners with Microsoft to Improve High Performance Data Visualization
Dec 06, 2010 |
Advanced Visual Systems, provider of data visualization software and solutions for business, engineering and research organizations, will soon debut ultra-high performance editions of its AVS/Express software.
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TACC Selects Bright Cluster Manager for FutureGrid Project
Dec 06, 2010 |
Bright Computing announced today that the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is using Bright Cluster Manager to manage its HPC Cluster in the FutureGrid project.
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AMAX Adds GPGPU Blade Cluster Offering
Dec 06, 2010 |
AMAX has announced the availability of the new ClusterMax SuperG-B1 GPGPU blade cluster solution for compute-intensive scientific and research deployments.
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Obsidian Launches File Migration System at Gartner's Data Center Event
Dec 06, 2010 |
As Obsidian Strategics continues to deliver high performance computing (HPC) technology into the enterprise datacenter, the company is introducing a new storage transport solution at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, December 6, 2010.
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U of Colorado's SC10 Cluster Competition Team Receives Fan Favorite Award
Dec 06, 2010 |
The HPC Advisory Council announced that the Student Cluster Competition team from the University of Colorado has received the Fan Favorite Award.
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May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
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- HybridCluster2.0 Self-Healing, Ultra-High Availability Capabilities Unveiled
May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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- Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Exascale Systems Call for Papers
May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
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May 13, 2013
- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
- AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
- ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
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Feature Articles
Exascale Advocates Stand on Nuclear Stockpiles
In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs
In a recent solicitation, the NSF laid out needs for furthering its scientific and engineering infrastructure with new tools to go beyond top performance, Having already delivered systems like Stampede and Blue Waters, they're turning an eye to solving data-intensive challenges. We spoke with the agency's Irene Qualters and Barry Schneider about..
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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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Short Takes
NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
May 22, 2013 |
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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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 |
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