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Simulating Galaxies Taxes Researchers' HPC Cluster

Sep 16, 2010 | silicon.com | For cosmologists, no supercomputer is too big.
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Intel Pilots HPC Workstation Clustering Program

Sep 15, 2010 | eWeek | Cubicle Clustered Computing concept aimed at HPC's "missing middle."
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Dan Reed Speaks Out on Technical Clouds

Sep 14, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | Microsoft VP to deliver keynote at upcoming ISC Cloud event.
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Intel Demos Real-Time Ray Tracing with Knights Ferry

Sep 13, 2010 | THINQ | GPUs? We don't need no stinkin GPUs.
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The Mainstreaming of HPC

Sep 08, 2010 | The Register | Closing the gap between HPC and mainstream IT.
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Data Mined for Love Connection

Sep 07, 2010 | Technology Review | Clues left on social media sites help singles find love.
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Picking the Right Processor

Sep 03, 2010 | Desktop Engineering | Should engineers take advantage of GPU computing?
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HP, Hynix Start Memristor on Path to Commercialization

Sep 02, 2010 | HP Labs News | Could see first products in three years.
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TED Talks for the IT Crowd

Sep 01, 2010 | Computerworld | A hand-picked selection of video presentations from the TED conference -- because the next big thing has to start somewhere.
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LHC Compute Grid Teaches Some Valuble Lessons

Aug 30, 2010 | Ars Technica | CERN project adapts its computation and storage strategy as hardware gets cheaper and better.
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Godson CPUs Groomed for Supercomputing Duty

Aug 26, 2010 | EE Times | Chinese-made chip adds vector SIMD unit; delivers 128 gigaflops in 40 watts.
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Power7 Hub Chip Key to IBM's PERCS Super

Aug 25, 2010 | EE Times | Hot Chips presentation offers insights on supercomputer design.
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South Koreans Develop High-Performance Software Router

Aug 24, 2010 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Researchers employ GPGPUs to accelerate networking.
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Microsoft Tees Up Dryad For Commercial Launch

Aug 23, 2010 | ZDNet | Software giant pushes parallel programming project out of the lab.
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AMD Still Playing Catchup in GPU Computing Race

Aug 18, 2010 | The Inquirer | For GPGPU, NVIDIA still holds the cards.
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Modeling the Brain Within Reach Say Scientists

Aug 17, 2010 | Gizmodo | Speakers at Singularity Summit cheer on post-human intelligence.
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Passwords No Match for GPGPUs

Aug 16, 2010 | Georgia Tech Research Institute | GPU technology threatens IT security model.
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Crowded Clouds

Aug 12, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | Multitenancy complicates performance behavior of HPC workloads on shared clouds.
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Local HPC Datacenters Optional?

Aug 11, 2010 | Linux Magazine | Desktop HPC and cloud computing challenge in-house clusters..
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HPC Software Losing Ground to Hardware Parallelism

Aug 10, 2010 | Scientific Computing | Applications embarrassingly not parallel.
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Dell Intros GPGPU Expansion Chassis

Aug 09, 2010 | Dell - Inside Enterprise IT | New PowerEdge C410x can house up to 16 NVIDIA GPUs for HPC workloads.
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HPC Technology Makes Car Safety Job 1

Aug 05, 2010 | Computerworld | Automakers turn to computer simulations to design safer vehicles.
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Humans Out-Compute Supers at Protein Folding

Aug 04, 2010 | Ars Technica | The Singularity is not so near after all.
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AMD Warms Up Bulldozer

Aug 03, 2010 | The Bulldozer Blog | Chipmaker gives next-generation CPU its own blog.
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GPGPU Approach Lowers X-Ray Exposure

Aug 02, 2010 | Medical Daily | GPUs used to reconstruct tumor images with fewer CT scans.
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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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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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