Xilinx Extends Comprehensive DSP Portfolio with New Development Kits

Dec 06, 2010 | Xilinx, Inc. today announced the availability of three new development kits that further extend the ability of digital signal processing developers to easily adopt FPGAs in order to reach the highest levels of signal processing performance, optimize for cost and power and relieve system bottlenecks through co-processing.
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Altera Unveils Process Technology Strategy for 28-nm Product Portfolio

Dec 06, 2010 | Altera Corporation today announced its 28-nm process technology strategy targeting its 28-nm product portfolio.
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Panasas Strengthens Executive Leadership Team

Dec 06, 2010 | Panasas, Inc. today announced the appointments of Bill Ribera to vice president of worldwide sales and Celeste Baranski to senior vice president of engineering, deepening its executive bench.
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OCF Announces Cluster On Demand Service

Dec 06, 2010 | OCF plc has announced enCORE, a compute on demand service that uses available processing power from academic and research-based high performance server clusters.
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Bredesen Dedicates Joint Research Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dec 06, 2010 | Governor Phil Bredesen today joined officials from the University of Tennessee and the Department of Energy in dedicating a new state-funded research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Imec Reports Progress in Deep Sub-Micron Scaling for Logic and Memory

Dec 06, 2010 | At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, imec's advanced CMOS research program reports promising advances in scaling logic, DRAM and non-volatile memory.
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Cedar Falls Utilities Deploys Altair's HiQube Technology

Dec 03, 2010 | Altair Engineering announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Digital Commerce Technologies Inc. (DCTI) to resell and provide implementation services in the Americas for HiQube, the company's optimization-driven, data analytics solution.
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Time on Nation's Fastest Computer for Energy Research

Dec 03, 2010 | Scientists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been awarded massive allocations on the nation's most powerful supercomputer to advance innovative research in improving the combustion of hydrogen fuels and increasing the efficiency of nanoscale solar cells.
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DDN Expands Global Footprint and Leadership Across Listing of World's Fastest Supercomputers

Dec 03, 2010 | DataDirect Networks today announced that the company has significantly increased its adoption by the world's fastest supercomputers, as ranked by the November 2010 36th edition of the TOP500 list.
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SensAble Announces Newest Version of FreeForm 3D Modeling System

Dec 02, 2010 | SensAble Technologies announced the availability of a new version of its FreeForm 3D modeling system that streamlines digital workflows for both designers and engineers who create complex, organically-shaped products.
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SAAHPC 2011 Announces Call For Papers

Dec 02, 2010 | The 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing will be held July 19-21, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn., bringing together developers of hybrid computing architectures and computing accelerators and experts involved with the development of applications on such systems to exchange ideas and discuss issues and emerging challenges.
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German GPU-CPU Supercomputer Managed with Bright Cluster Manager

Dec 02, 2010 | Bright Computing announced today that Goethe University Frankfurt is using Bright Cluster Manager to manage its new LOEWE-CSC supercomputer.
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OLCF Announces Approximately a Billion Hours for 2011 INCITE Projects

Dec 02, 2010 | The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will provide more than 950 million processor hours via the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
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Argonne Scientists Awarded Supercomputing Time to Enable Scientific Breakthroughs

Dec 02, 2010 | Four researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory lead projects that have been awarded a total of 65 million hours of computing time on Argonne's energy-efficient Blue Gene/P ("Intrepid") supercomputer.
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HyperTransport Consortium Unveils HyperShare Platform

Dec 01, 2010 | The HyperTransport Consortium today unveiled a new design platform based on HyperTransport technology that has the potential to dramatically lower cost and energy consumption in the data center.
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AMD and Industry Leaders Demonstrate ATI FirePro Professional Graphics Momentum at Autodesk University 2010

Dec 01, 2010 | Today, AMD is exhibiting at Autodesk University 2010 in Las Vegas demonstrating its latest ATI FirePro professional graphics products for CAD and Digital Content Creation (DCC) users.
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IBM Says Breakthrough Chip Technology Will Light the Path to Exascale Computing

Dec 01, 2010 | IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), resulting in smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.
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Internet2 Donates Bandwidth to Support Next Generation Internet Research

Dec 01, 2010 | Internet2 and the GENI Project Office announced today that Internet2 will donate bandwidth on its national backbone to support GENI subcontractors and the GENI Project Office.
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CERN Selects Brocade to Bolster Network Performance and Support Growth Plans

Dec 01, 2010 | Brocade today announced that CERN has selected Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a network infrastructure upgrade to support its high throughput computing (HTC) requirements and a data environment that exceeds 15 petabytes per year.
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T-Platforms to Build Russia's First Petaflops Supercomputer

Dec 01, 2010 | T-Platforms Group has won an open tender to deliver and install the second phase of expansion of the powerful Lomonosov supercomputer at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).
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Scientists Ratchet Up Understanding of Cellular Protein Factory

Dec 01, 2010 | Theoretical biologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have used a New Mexico supercomputer to aid an international research team in untangling another mystery related to ribosomes -- those enigmatic jumbles of molecules that are the protein factories of living cells.
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Jaguar Helps Develop New Nuclear Power Capabilities

Nov 30, 2010 | Jaguar is virtually paving the way toward the development of a new generation of nuclear power reactors.
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ISC Issues Call for Papers

Nov 30, 2010 | ISC'11, the 26th International Supercomputing Conference (June 19 – 23), urges all engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government seeking an opportunity to share their research results in the computing and scientific disciplines to submit their original work by Sunday, January 23, 2011.
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Jaguar Pounces on Child Predators

Nov 30, 2010 | To accelerate the acquisition of information needed to arrest child predators, law enforcement officers have teamed with data analytics experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a project that will use Jaguar, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, to speedily analyze the activities on file-sharing networks that pinpoint porn producers.
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DOE Announces Awards for INCITE Program

Nov 30, 2010 | US Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the largest ever awards of the Department's supercomputing time to 57 innovative research projects -- using computer simulations to perform virtual experiments that in most cases would be impossible or impractical in the natural world.
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