Developers Tout GPI Model for Exascale Computing

Jun 19, 2013 | Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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CANARIE Expands 100G Research & Education Network with Ciena

Jun 19, 2013 | Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, has deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform equipped with third generation WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors to support the 100G (100 Gigabits per second) upgrade and network expansion of a route connecting Montreal and New York.
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Strong Gains for Co-Processors and Big Data at HPC Sites

Jun 19, 2013 | The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing Big Data analysis as part of their HPC workloads, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Study of HPC End-User Sites.
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Bull Delivers First European Supercomputer Based on Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 Processors

Jun 19, 2013 | The first stage of the bullx supercomputers ordered by the French weather forecasting agency has now been installed at Météo-France's site in Toulouse and will be fully available for production this year.
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Eurotech Introduces New Version of Aurora Tigon Supercomputers

Jun 19, 2013 | Eurotech, a leading company in embedded and supercomputing, introduced at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) in Leipzig (17-20 of June), the new version of the Aurora Tigon supercomputers, powered by the coprocessors Intel Xeon Phi 5120D, announced to the market in the occasion of the German exhibition.
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My Supercomputer is Bigger Than Yours!

Jun 18, 2013 | Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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AMD Unveils Server Strategy and Roadmap

Jun 18, 2013 | AMD today publicly disclosed its strategy and roadmap to recapture market share in enterprise and data center servers by unveiling innovative products that address key technologies and meet the requirements of the fastest-growing data center and cloud computing workloads.
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Supercomputers: Not Always the Best for Big Data

Jun 18, 2013 | The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Gordon Flashes Its Versatility in HPC Workloads

Jun 18, 2013 | Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Alternatives Emerge as Linpack Loses Ground

Jun 18, 2013 | Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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2013 International Supercomputing Conference Opens in Leipzig

Jun 18, 2013 | The 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) opened its 28th year — in the city of Leipzig to about 2362 attendees, with more still registering.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces 2nd Annual Spain Supercomputing Conference

Jun 18, 2013 | The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, today announced that the HPC Advisory Council, in conjunction with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, will host the 2nd Annual HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference 2013 at the Campus Diagonal Nord, Barcelona, Spain, on September 12th, 2013.
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EADS Announces 'Join the Spirit' Award Winners

Jun 18, 2013 | EADS Innovation Works has announced the winners of its "Join the Spirit" high performance computing competition at a prize giving ceremony held during the 50th Paris Air Show.
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AMAX ClusterMax Cluster and ServMax Server Solutions Updated

Jun 18, 2013 | AMAX, a leading innovator of High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, announced the update of its ClusterMax & ServMax Many Core HPC Solutions, high-performance solutions supporting the latest Intel Xeon Phi 7120P and 3120P Coprocessors, in addition to the already released 5110P model.
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IDC Announces New Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

Jun 18, 2013 | International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced the fifth round of recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award at the ISC'13 supercomputer industry conference in Leipzig, Germany.
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Xyratex Enhances ClusterStor Operating System, Unlocks More Value for Scale-Out HPC Storage

Jun 18, 2013 | Xyratex Ltd., a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced that it has released version 1.3 of the operating system software for its industry-leading ClusterStor 6000 high-performance computing (HPC) storage solution.
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Researchers Deploy GPUs to Build World's Largest Artificial Neural Network

Jun 18, 2013 | NVIDIA today announced that it has collaborated with a research team at Stanford University to create the world’s largest artificial neural network built to model how the human brain learns. The network is 6.5 times bigger than the previous record-setting network developed by Google in 2012.
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Cray Launches Complete Lustre Storage Solution Across HPC and Big Data Computing Markets

Jun 18, 2013 | At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the launch of Cray Cluster Connect – a complete Lustre storage solution for x86 Linux clusters.
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Azul Systems and Solarflare Partner to Eliminate Java Application Jitter for Capital Markets

Jun 18, 2013 | Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today entered into a technical partnership with Solarflare, a leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware.
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Mellanox Technologies Names Board Chairman

Jun 18, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the appointment of Irwin Federman as non-executive chairman of the company’s board of directors. Mr. Federman has served as a member of Mellanox’s Board of Directors since its inception in June 1999, and is currently the company’s lead director.
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Podcast: A New Top of the Top500; ISC Kicks Off in Leipzig

Jun 17, 2013 | Intersect360's Chris Willard fills in for Nicole as he and Addison discuss the opening day of ISC13 from Leipzig, Germany in this special edition of HPCwire soundbite.
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Intel Snaps New Grips to HPC Hook

Jun 17, 2013 | Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Supercomputers: Still the King of the HPC Hill

Jun 17, 2013 | The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Cirrascale Announces Expanded Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Product Family

Jun 17, 2013 | Cirrascale Corporation, a premier developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage infrastructure for conventional and modular data centers, today announced its upgraded VB5400 blade server featuring expanded support to handle up to eight of the newly released Intel Xeon Phi 5120D, 3120A, 3120P, 7120P, and 7120X coprocessors (formerly codenamed “Knights Corner”).
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AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 Powers Rubicon Project

Jun 17, 2013 | AMD announced that its SeaMicro SM15000 server is the foundation for Rubicon Project’s REVV, the world’s largest, fastest and easiest-to-use independent real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads.
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World Premiere for Turbocharged Data Speed

Jun 17, 2013 | Introduced at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, a collaboration of industry and research co-managed by T-Systemsand Alcatel-Lucent showed the way ahead. Optical data transmission at top performance levels, combined with high-speed flash memory technologies and a distributed high-performancefile system, allow applications to communicate with one another using a 400 Gbit/s data path in a world premiere.
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Mellanox's FDR InfiniBand Solution with NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA Technology Provides Superior Performance

Jun 17, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the next major advancement in GPU-to-GPU communications with the launch of its FDR InfiniBand solution with support for NVIDIA GPUDirect remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology.
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Purdue Builds Nation's Fastest Campus Supercomputer - Again

Jun 17, 2013 | For the third year in a row, Purdue University has confirmed its lead in the rarified realm of supercomputing by unveiling Conte, the nation's fastest university-owned supercomputer, developed in a collaboration with HP, Intel, and Mellanox.
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Colfax Announces New Line of Servers and Workstations Supporting Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Jun 17, 2013 | Colfax International announced support for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors across its new line-up of ServEdge servers and ProEdge workstations that deliver coprocessor density, compute power and efficiency, enabling researchers and scientists to achieve breakthrough innovations & discoveries for highly-parallel workloads.
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Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputers to Feature New Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors x100 Family

Jun 17, 2013 | At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Cray CS300 line of cluster supercomputers is now available with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor x100 family.
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Intel Powers the World's Fastest Supercomputer, Reveals HPC Technologies

Jun 17, 2013 | A system built with thousands of Intel processors and co-processors was just named the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 41st edition of the Top500 list of supercomputers.
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Supermicro Announces Support for New Intel Xeon Phi x100 Product Family

Jun 17, 2013 | Supermicro announces the industry's widest range of server solutions supporting Intel's new Xeon Phi coprocessors this week in Leipzig, Germany, at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC).
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IDT RapidIO 20 Gbps-Per-Port Switches Provide High Performance Interconnect for Supercomputer

Jun 17, 2013 | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), the Analog and Digital Company delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that the IDT CPS-1848 and CPS-1616 Gen 2 Serial RapidIO switches provide the key system interconnect for the low-power BrownDwarf Supercomputer developed by nCore HPC and Prodrive.
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Colorado State University Engineering Professors Receive Award to Design Green Supercomputers

Jun 17, 2013 | Sudeep Pasricha, H. J. Siegel, Tony Maciejewski and Pat Burns, engineering professors at Colorado State University, have received $850,000 from the National Science Foundation for research that will enable the next generation of green supercomputing.
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IDC Market Study Shows Strong Gains for Co-Processors and Big Data at HPC Sites

Jun 17, 2013 | The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing Big Data analysis as part of their HPC workloads, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Study of HPC End-User Sites.
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Altair's PBS Professional Deployed on Cray XC30 Supercomputer at JAIST

Jun 17, 2013 | Altair, a global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced that its industry-leading workload management product, PBS Professional, has been selected to manage workload for the Cray XC30 supercomputer recently put into production by the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST).
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Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Solutions Deliver Leading Application Performance and Scalability

Jun 17, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions deliver unmatched application performance over competing interconnect solutions.
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Podcast: A Conversation with the Founding Fathers of the Top500

Jun 17, 2013 | In this special edition of HPCwire Soundbite live from ISC13 in Leipzig, Germany, Nicole and Addison sit down with Top500 founders Horst Simon, Jack Dongarra, Hans Meuer, and Erich Strohmaier to discuss the implications of this year's newly released list and the future trends of the Top500.
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MilkyWay-2 Wins #1 Supercomputer in the World According to Top500.org

Jun 17, 2013 | Marking a new era in supercomputing, the MilkyWay-2 system today was recognized as the most powerful supercomputer in the world according to top500.org.
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Acceleware Showcases High Performance Optimization Techniques at ISC'13

Jun 17, 2013 | Acceleware Ltd., a leading developer of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, will be exhibiting at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'13) June 16-20 in Leipzig, Germany. The Acceleware booth (#614) will feature the company's market leading consulting and training services for high performance computing.
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Penguin Computing, Calxeda, and Inktank Partner to Deliver Large-Scale Storage on ARM-based Servers

Jun 17, 2013 | Penguin Computing announced that it is developing a highly efficient large-scale cloud storage deployment with industry partners Calxeda and Inktank.
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SGI and DoD Launch Supercomputer Spirit, the Fastest System in the Department

Jun 17, 2013 | SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing and big data, today announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has deployed the SGI ICE X high performance computing (HPC) system for its supercomputer Spirit, making it the 14th fastest supercomputer in the world according to TOP500 (www.top500.org).
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Mellanox Demonstrates World's First InfiniBand Connectivity With NVIDIA Tegra ARM Processor

Jun 17, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced it will showcase the world's first technology demonstration of ConnectX-3 FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions running on the SECO ARM development platform featuring NVIDIA Tegra processors.
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e2v Adds the P2041 and P3041 Quad-Core Processors to its Portfolio of QorIQ Products

Jun 17, 2013 | e2v, a leading global provider of hi-rel semiconductor solutions, has announced the availability of their P2041 and P3041 processors. These are extended-reliability versions of Freescale's quad core QorIQ processors for power-sensitive and computation intensive applications for demanding environments such as aerospace and defence.
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Adaptive Computing to Manage Computing Workloads for HPC

Jun 17, 2013 | Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of policy-based optimization software for High-Performance Computing (HPC) and private cloud environments, today announced at ISC 2013 in Leipzig, Germany, it will manage computing workloads in the Baden-Württemberg High Performance Computing Competence Centers (bwHPC), funded to a large part by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) in Baden-Württemberg.
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Xyratex to Showcase New HPC Storage Offerings and Value at ISC'13

Jun 17, 2013 | Xyratex Ltd., a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced it will showcase the new ways it is delivering value to HPC storage users at the upcoming 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '13), to be held June 16-20 in Leipzig, Germany.
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NAG Showcases New Parallelized Numerical Solvers at ISC'13

Jun 17, 2013 | The NAG Library for SMP & Multicore has been extended and now includes even more parallelized algorithms enabling users of shared memory systems to solve their numerical problems faster.
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Tabor Communications and EMI Partner to Publish HPCwire Japan

Jun 17, 2013 | Tabor Communications announced that it has entered into a memo of understanding with Easy Management Inc. (EMI) of Japan to publish and distribute a localized version of HPCwire.
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Top 500 Results Reveal Global Acceleration, Balance Shift

Jun 17, 2013 | The Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers has just been announced. Not surprisingly, since it's been reported on prior to the official announcement, the Chinese Tianhe-2 system tops the list. And that is an understatement. We talk with Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Hans Meuer and others from the....
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HPC Storage – Deliver Solutions Faster to Market in Today’s Economy

Jun 17, 2013 | Being competitive in today’s economy means companies need to accelerate the time it takes to go from concepts to profitable products and services. There is no shortage of new services, novel methods and innovations to help solve the problems we face; yet, to affect real change, faster market solutions need to be pragmatic and affordable.
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Podcast: Intel Ushers Lustre into the Mainstream; A Look Ahead to Germany and ISC13

Jun 14, 2013 | Isaac and Addison discuss Intel's big data push and the upcoming International Supercomputing conference in Germany.
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TACC Longhorn Takes On Natural Language Processing

Jun 14, 2013 | For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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Samplify APAX Storage Library Accelerates Disk Throughput and Expands Storage Capacity

Jun 14, 2013 | Samplify, the leading intellectual property company for accelerating memory, storage, and I/O bottlenecks in computing, consumer electronics and mobile devices, announces the availability of its APAX HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) Storage Library for high-performance computing (HPC), Big Data, and cloud computing applications. With APAX HDF, HPC users can accelerate disk throughput by 3-8X and reduce the storage requirements of their HDF-enabled applications without having to modify their application software.
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Silicon Mechanics Announces Availability of Seagate Constellation ES.3 Hard Drive

Jun 14, 2013 | Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces the availability of the new Seagate Constellation ES.3 hard drive. The ES.3 provides reliable high-density storage, ideal for use in backup archival storage or other Tier 3 applications, including high-capacity RAID storage and mainstream enterprise external storage arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS), as well as enterprise backup and restore — D2D, virtual tape.
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ESI Opens Offices on the Ter@tec Campus Dedicated to Simulation and High Performance Computing

Jun 14, 2013 | ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces the opening of new offices on the Ter@tec Campus, the largest computing center in Europe, based just outside Paris.
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Six Can't Miss Sessions for ISC'13

Jun 13, 2013 | Outside of the main attractions, including the keynote sessions, vendor showdowns, Think Tank panels, BoFs, and tutorial elements, the International Supercomputing Conference has balanced its five-day agenda with some striking panels, discussions and topic areas that are worthy of some attention....
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Ace Computers' Massive Military Build Shows Custom Computers Reign

Jun 13, 2013 | As technology resellers’ profits cool, custom technology sales are heating up; Ace Computers’ recent 800-plus unit order from the U.S. military is a good example. This trend toward custom is driven largely by organizations that require large numbers of workstations (desktops), massive computing power or both.
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Titan Didn't Redo LINPACK for June Top 500 List

Jun 13, 2013 | Titan, the Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge National Lab that debuted last fall as the fastest supercomputer in the world with 17.59 petaflops of sustained computing power, will rely on its previous LINPACK test for the upcoming edition of the Top 500 list.
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Worldwide High Performance Computing 2012 Total Market Model and 2013-17 Forecast

Jun 13, 2013 | This Intersect360 Research report presents the 2012 total market model and five-year forecast for the overall High Performance Computing (HPC) market, including servers, storage, services, software, networks and other products. The forecast horizon is from 2013 through 2017, with compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) using 2012 as a base.
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ISC Big Data and Cloud Newsletter

Jun 13, 2013 | In his keynote titled “HPC and Supercomputing – On our Way towards a New Utility,” Jason Stowe, the CEO of Cycle Computing, will be talking about what will happen when scientists and researchers are no longer limited by fixed-size compute and data capacity.
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Silicon Mechanics Partners with Acellera on Biomolecular Simulation Hardware-Software Appliance

Jun 13, 2013 | Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it has launched a partnership with Acellera to assemble the MetroCubo hardware-software appliance for running Acellera’s ACEMD bio-molecular simulation software.
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Army Supercomputing Center Signals Growth in Soldier Protection Solutions

Jun 13, 2013 | Supercomputers Army Research Laboratory engineers rely on to influence the direction of future armor solutions and other unprecedented capabilities for the Soldier moved into a space large enough to house five supercomputers each with 4,000 to 20,000 processors each. In the next four years, the center will quadruple its computing capacity.
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OpenSFS to Highlight Lustre in New Markets at ISC13 by Hosting Participatory Community Events

Jun 13, 2013 | Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS), the premier participant-supported, vendor-neutral, and non-profit organization supporting and coordinating the High Performance Computing (HPC) open source file system community, announced today, in cooperation with the European Open File System (EOFS) community group, its expanded participation in International Supercomputing (ISC) 2013.
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HPCAC and ISC to Showcase HPC Coders and Cluster Administrators

Jun 13, 2013 | The HPC Advisory Council (HPCAC), a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), today announced its 2nd Annual HPCAC-ISC 2013 Student Cluster Challenge will be a major highlight during ISC’13.
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Cray Launches New Hadoop Solution on Cray CS300 Line of Cluster Supercomputers

Jun 13, 2013 | Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the launch of a new Hadoop solution, which will allow customers to apply the combination of supercomputing technologies and an enterprise-strength approach to “Big Data” analytics to high-value Hadoop applications.
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AMD's SeaMicro Servers Accelerate Biomolecular Research to Provide HPC

Jun 13, 2013 | AMD today announced that the Gene Center of the University of Munich (Ludwig Maximilians University, or LMU) has accelerated its research capabilities using AMD's SeaMicro servers to gain a computational edge for its groundbreaking discoveries.
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Lawrence Livermore's Vulcan Available for Collaborations With Industry and Academia

Jun 13, 2013 | The Vulcan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now available for collaborative work with industry and research universities to advance science and accelerate the technological innovation at the heart of U.S. economic competitiveness.
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Acceleware Releases AxRTM 6.0

Jun 13, 2013 | Acceleware Ltd. a leading developer of high performance computing applications, announced the release of AxRTM 6.0 at the 75th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) conference.
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BSC Building First Supercomputer to Combine ARM CPUs, GPU Accelerators, and InfiniBand

Jun 12, 2013 | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will deploy its next prototype system, advancing the roadmap towards the successful introduction of ARM processors in High Performance Computing. In July, BSC will install the first hybrid accelerator cluster composed of ARM Cortex-A9, NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU and Mellanox QDR InfiniBand.
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Top Supercomputer Signals Growth of Chinese HPC Industry

Jun 12, 2013 | At 31 petaflops of sustained LINPACK capacity, the new Chinese Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be the fastest supercomputer in the world when this month's Top 500 list comes out, as we reported previously in HPCwire.
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Intel Says Haswell Chips Offer ISVs Full OpenCL Compatibility

Jun 12, 2013 | HPC system makers are lining up to announce compatibility with the new fourth generation Intel Core processor, codenamed "Haswell." The new Iris GPUs based on the Haswell architecture are giving Intel new credibility in the graphics processing department.
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Intel Carves Mainstream Highway for Lustre

Jun 12, 2013 | Today Intel announced some new pitches to push Lustre in front of enterprise eyeballs with usability features for Lustre and a total rip and replace for the native Hadoop file system designed to appeal to the HPC-oriented Hadoop set. We talked with Brent Gorda, former CEO and founder of Whamcloud, which Intel acquired just a tick under a year ago about how....
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Australia Buys Cray Supercomputer to Model New Submarine

Jun 12, 2013 | A Cray supercomputer will help with the design of Australia's next-generation submarine platform. The government's Department of Defence is expected to take delivery on the new system in July.
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First Open Source Release of E-iRODS Announced by RENCI

Jun 12, 2013 | RENCI announced this week the release of E-iRODS 3.0, the first open source release of E-iRODS software to be managed and overseen by the iRODS Consortium, an alliance of organizations working together to fund and guide the continued development of the iRODS/E-iRODS platform.
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Cycle Computing CEO to Speak on Utility HPC at Cloud Slam and LiveStream Event

Jun 12, 2013 | Cycle Computing, the leader in utility high performance computing (HPC) software, announced today that CEO Jason Stowe will speak at Cloud Slam ‘13.
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NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi Launches at ISC13

Jun 12, 2013 | The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) today announces the availability of its latest mathematical and statistical library, the NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi, ahead of their attendance, next week, at Europe’s largest supercomputing event, ISC13.
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NAG HPC Applications Performance and Scalability Expertise Acknowledged

Jun 12, 2013 | NAG is delighted to reveal that not only are these customers coming back for more (to date, all customers have renewed rather than let their contract expire, with a number of customers asking for expansions), but some customers have come to regard NAG HPC Expertise as one of the key assets that make up their competitive advantage in the provision and use of HPC compared to their competitors.
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Titan Completes Acceptance Testing

Jun 12, 2013 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world's most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.
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Silicon Mechanics Announces Intel SSD Data Center S3500 Series High Performance Hard Disk Drives

Jun 12, 2013 | Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it now offers the Intel SSD Data Center S3500 Series, a high-performance 6 Gb/s SATA SSD with enterprise features, including fast and consistent performance, stress-free data protection, and a broad range of capacities. The DC S3500 is also ideal for big data (Apache Hadoop), virtualization, email, web server, CDN, and cache accelerator applications.
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Bright Cluster Manager 6.1 Delivers Full Support for the Intel Xeon Phi and Amazon VPC

Jun 12, 2013 | Bright Computing, the leading, vendor-independent provider of management solutions for clusters and clouds, announced today general availability of Bright Cluster Manager 6.1.
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RAID Launches Ultra-Dense, High Performance 4U 60-Bay Dual Server Node Solution

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Adaptive Computing Launches Workload Optimization Pack for Cluster Platforms

Jun 12, 2013 | Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and private cloud workload management software, today announced it has launched the Adaptive Workload Optimization Pack for high performance computing Cluster Platforms.
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IBM Expands Support for Linux on Power Systems Servers

Jun 12, 2013 | At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, IBM announced new initiatives to further support and speed up the adoption of the Linux operating system across the enterprise.
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TotalView Offers Debugging Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

Jun 12, 2013 | Rogue Wave Software, the largest independent provider of cross-platform software development tools and embedded components for the next generation of HPC applications, announced the release of its leading parallel debugger, TotalView 8.12. This version of TotalView offers official support for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, Cray XC30 series supercomputers, and Apple OS X Lion and Mountain Lion platforms. The release of TotalView 8.12 is part of Rogue Wave’s commitment to improve developer productivity on advanced architectures.
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Scalable Informatics siFlash Dominates STAC-M3 Benchmarks

Jun 11, 2013 | Scalable Informatics, Inc. (Scalable), a leading provider of high performance, tightly-coupled storage and compute solutions for a wide range of data, I/O, and process-intensive applications, today announced STAC reports KDB130528 and KDB130529, describing record-setting results for their siFlash and JackRabbit storage systems.
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Netlist to Present the Advantages of HyperCloud Memory at IBM's Edge2013 Conference

Jun 11, 2013 | Netlist, Inc., a leading provider of high performance and hybrid (DRAM to Flash) memory solutions for the cloud computing and storage markets, announced today that Chris Lopes, co-founder of Netlist, will present at IBM's Edge2013 Conference in Las Vegas, NV on June 11 - 13, 2013.
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Panasas Launches High Performance File Transfer Software

Jun 11, 2013 | Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, has introduced Panasas DataRunner, high performance file transfer software, designed to overcome the data movement challenges found in today’s distributed scale-out storage environments.
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CoolIT Selected to Host Birds of a Feather Session at ISC13

Jun 11, 2013 | CoolIT Systems Inc., a supplier of direct contact liquid cooling (DCLC) solutions for high-performance desktops, enterprise servers and datacenters has been selected to present a session titled "Building Liquid Cooling Technology Standards" at the International Supercomputing Show.
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Calxeda and Inktank Team to Deliver Transformative Ceph-Based Storage Platform

Jun 11, 2013 | Calxeda, a leader in the low power server market, today unveiled its partnership with Inktank, the company delivering the Ceph Distributed Storage System. The companies are working together to optimize Ceph’s performance and stability on the Calxeda server architecture in order to provide the market with a transformative storage platform.
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MEGWARE and Chemnitz University of Technology in International Battle for Supercomputing Title

Jun 11, 2013 | A team of six Chemnitz students will battle it out with eight other teams in the "Student Cluster Challenge" at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in mid June 2013 to extract the maximum possible performance from a homemade supercomputer. The team will receive technical support in their efforts from Chemnitz supercomputer manufacturer MEGWARE.
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Ingram Micro's Artizen Portfolio Simplifies High Performance Solutions

Jun 11, 2013 | Ingram Micro Inc. is pleased to announce its exclusive Artizen portfolio of custom-built, high performance computing solutions are enabling U.S. channel partners to more easily and cost effectively address the market's growing demand for greater computing power.
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Intel Introducing New Lustre Solution

Jun 11, 2013 | Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS), the premier participant-supported, vendor-neutral, non-profit organization supporting and coordinating the High Performance Computing (HPC) open source file system community, is helping promote Intel's June 12th San Francisco Lustre event titled "Moving Lustre Forward." Intel will be announcing their new Lustre product, Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software.
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Europe and US Exascale Thought Leaders to Join US DOE X-Stack Members at ISC

Jun 11, 2013 | E.T. International, Inc. (ETI), a provider of system software solutions and performance acceleration services for Extreme and Exascale announces that Dr. William Harrod, the Division Director for the US Department of Energy/Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research, and Dr. Jean Gonnard, Computer Simulation and IT Project Director of the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) will be joined by a panel of members of selected US DOE X-Stack program teams in a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session “Achieving Exascale through Innovations in Runtime System Software” in session 14 on Wednesday, June 19 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM in Hall 4 at ISC ’13 in Leipzig, Germany.
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Innodisk Exhibits at International SuperComputing 2013

Jun 11, 2013 | Innodisk, a designer and manufacturer of DRAM and flash storage solutions, is pleased to announce its attendance and exhibition at International SuperComputing Conference (ISC) 2013 in Leipzig, Germany on June 16-20.
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Asetek Showcases Latest Datacenter Efficiency Solutions at ISC

Jun 11, 2013 | Asetek will showcase its latest energy saving datacenter liquid cooling solutions at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) in Leipzig, Germany – June 17-20, 2013.
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UC San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program

Jun 11, 2013 | The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses as well as external academic, non-profit, and corporate users.
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Tabor Communications Further Strengthens its Digital Marketing Strategy

Jun 11, 2013 | Tabor Communications Inc., (TCI), a leading international media, advertising, and communications companyannounced today the appointment of Matt Walters to director of demand generation and audience development.
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Solarflare to Speak at STAC Summits in Chicago, New York, and London

Jun 11, 2013 | Solarflare, the leading provider of application-intelligent networking software and hardware, today announced three executives will speak at the STAC Summits in Chicago, New York and London.
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Seneca Expands its Presence in the Digital Broadcast Market by Joining the Sports Video Group

Jun 11, 2013 | Seneca, a leading custom computer and appliance manufacturer providing expertise in designing, building, and integrating systems for the digital broadcast market, today announced its participation in the Sport Video Group (SVG).
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The 5 Minute Guide to Parallel and Vector Software Programming

Jun 10, 2013 | Learning how to write parallel and vector HPC programs will take a lot longer than five minutes. But with a series of five-minute videos introduced this week, Intel's director and parallel programming evangelist James Reinders gives prospective parallel and vector programmers an introduction to the tools and techniques they'll use to write code for the chip giant's latest processors and coprocessors.
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