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Vanderbilt HPC Center to Add GPU Cluster

Jul 29, 2010 | Vanderbilt News | University opts for GPGPU technology to support scientific research.
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Intel Demos 50 Gbps Silicon Photonics Prototype

Jul 27, 2010 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/27/integrated_silicon_photonics/ | Chip maker aims to revolutionize computing with integrated photonics devices.
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Processor Cycles for Free

Jul 26, 2010 | Jon Peddie Research | Share of compute cycles from GPUs dwarfs contribution from x86 CPUs.
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Nvidia: Intel Has No Particular Advantages in Heterogeneous Multi-Core Technologies

Jul 23, 2010 | X-bit Labs | Nvidia Fellow David Kirk takes a swipe at Intel's heterogeneous computing plans.
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Predicting Success with Niwa Supercomputer

Jul 22, 2010 | The Dominion Post | New Zealand super will be devoted to weather forecasting and bioscience.
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Reports of Grid's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Jul 21, 2010 | International Science Grid This Week | OGF President Craig Lee offers his take on the grid versus cloud controversy.
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Delivering HPC to the New Main Street

Jul 20, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center aims to democratize HPC via computing on-demand model.
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Advanced Vector Extensions Will Debut at IDF

Jul 20, 2010 | The Inquirer | Sandy Bridge architecture will usher in AVX instructions.
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Computing Expansion

Jul 19, 2010 | Buffalo News | University at Buffalo supercomputer slated for major upgrade.
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Cray's Supercomputers Help Put Wisconsin Technology on the World Map

Jul 19, 2010 | WTN News | Supercomputer maker became high-tech catalyst for Chippewa Valley.
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Cloudy Costs for Amazon’s New HPC Offering

Jul 16, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | Running the numbers on the company's HPC product.
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U of R Researchers Excited to Use New Supercomputer on Campus

Jul 15, 2010 | The Regina Leader-Post | Canadian super will be tapped for tar sands research.
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Intel Claims Fastest Transition of Server Market, Ever

Jul 14, 2010 | Computerworld Australia | Chip maker reports $2.9 billion profit for quarter.
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Summer Language Seminar: The R Project

Jul 14, 2010 | Linux Magazine | The R language is more than just a statistical plotting tool.
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UTC SimCenter Called ‘Gold Mine’ for Local Economy

Jul 14, 2010 | Chattanooga Times Free Press | University research center could become economic catalyst for Chattanooga.
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The Green Corollary to Moore's Law

Jul 13, 2010 | The Atlantic | Researcher finds electrical efficiency of computing parallels Moore's Law.
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Amazon Adds HPC Capability to EC2

Jul 13, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | Amazon tailors new offering for high performance computing customers.
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Supercomputers Say BP Oil Spill Will Spread Up the East Coast

Jul 12, 2010 | DailyFinance | Models predict oil spill could reach Carolinas, Georgia and Northern Florida by October.
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NEC Aims to Double Supercomputer Share by 2014 on Europe Sales

Jul 08, 2010 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek | Computer maker looks to tap rising demand for HPC in Germany, France, and the UK.
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Japanese Supercomputer Ranked 1st in Little Green500 List

Jul 08, 2010 | Tech-On English | Grape-DR machine delivers 815 megaflops per watt.
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Google Patents Liquid-Cooled ‘Server Sandwich’

Jul 07, 2010 | Data Center Knowledge | Custom motherboard assembly is latest innovation from search giant.
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HP Heading for HPC Top Ten?

Jul 07, 2010 | The Register | Multi-petaflop TSUBAME super at Tokyo Tech will sport HP hardware.
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Intel Defends iCore Performance vs Parallel Processing

Jul 06, 2010 | Computerworld | A recent report found the Core i7 couldn't match the parallel processing performance of an NVIDIA GPU.
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The World According to Jim Goodnight: Blade Switch Slashes Job Times

Jul 06, 2010 | The Australian | SAS unveils patent-pending In-Memory Analytics platform,
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Renting HPC: What's Cloud Got to Do with It?

Jul 01, 2010 | HPC in the Cloud | HPC-as-a-Service is not new and not very cloud-like.
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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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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede

The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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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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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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