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Researchers Develop Optical Device for On-Chip Communication
Dec 22, 2011 |
Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.
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Chinese Astronomical Observatory Selects Bright Cluster Manager
Dec 22, 2011 |
Bright Computing today announced that Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) has selected Bright Cluster Manager for its high performance computing (HPC) cluster.
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Los Alamos, EMC Ink Deal to Develop New HPC Technology
Dec 21, 2011 |
Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced the signing of a new Umbrella CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with EMC Corporation.
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T-Platforms to Build 10-Petaflop Supercomputer for Moscow State University
Dec 21, 2011 |
T-Platforms will design a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops (10^15 floating point operations per second) for M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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CAPS to Add Compiler Support for Intel MIC
Dec 21, 2011 |
CAPS will add a new back-end to its HMPP directive-based compiler that will allow developers to unleash the performance of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. First
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Researcher Uses OSC Resources to Refine Turbine Simulation Software
Dec 21, 2011 |
Jen-Ping Chen, Ph.D., an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The Ohio State University, is working to improve the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that engineers use to simulate and evaluate the operation of turbomachinery.
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Arctur-I Supercomputer Reconfigured for Large-Memory Simulations
Dec 21, 2011 |
The Arctur-I supercomputer has been reconfigured to support simulations require a lot of RAM.
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Scientists Develop Biologically Inspired Computer Model for Object Recognition
Dec 20, 2011 |
A team of scientists at describes how, after measuring human performance of object recognition, they created a computer model to also attempt to pick out the shapes.
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Boston India Showcases Latest CPU/GPU Solutions for HPC
Dec 20, 2011 |
Boston IT Solutions will be showcasing their latest range of GPU and CPU based solutions optimised for the high performance computing arena at HiPC 2011 .
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Data Repository for UT Researchers to be Deployed
Dec 20, 2011 |
The University of Texas at Austin is working with The University of Texas at Arlington to deploy a data repository in January to increase connectivity, computing capacity and collaboration among all 15 institutions in The University of Texas System.
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Bielefeld University to Deploy New Supercomputer for High-Energy Physics
Dec 19, 2011 |
Bielefeld University's Faculty of Physics is getting a new high-performance computer to learn about the properties of matter as it existed in the early universe immediately after the Big Bang.
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IBM to Deliver 96-Teraflop Supercomputer to Slovak Academy of Science
Dec 19, 2011 |
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the Slovak Academy of Science has chosen IBM technology to launch an important high-performance computing project in Slovakia.
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New Saudi Arabian Supercomputing Facility to Use Allinea Debugging Tools
Dec 19, 2011 |
Tools from Allinea Software will play a key role in the development of software at a new supercomputing facility at the aeronautical engineering department, King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Saudi Arabia.
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Optical Internetworking Forum to Host Next Generation Interconnect Workshop
Dec 19, 2011 |
The Optical Internetworking Forum (OI) is hosting a workshop focusing on electrical and optical interconnects that will be needed for the next generation communication and computing systems.
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ANSYS Scored Highly by Investor's Business Daily
Dec 19, 2011 |
ANSYS, a developer of engineering simulation software, is one of only six technology businesses worldwide to receive the highest possible score in a new list of stock ratings published by Investor's Business Daily.
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Altair Engineering Opens Datacenter for HyperWorks On-Demand Offering
Dec 19, 2011 |
New center in Troy, Mich., will manage large-scale high-performance computing jobs for customers
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Cray XMT Supercomputer Installed at Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing
Dec 15, 2011 |
Noblis, a leading science, technology, and strategy organization, announced that a next-generation Cray XMT supercomputer has been delivered to the Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing (CAHPC) in Danville, Va.
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Mark J. Barrenechea Resigns as CEO of SGI
Dec 15, 2011 |
SGI's Board of Directors today announced that Mark J. Barrenechea has tendered his resignation as president, chief executive officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2012.
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J.P. Morgan Deploys Maxeler Dataflow Supercomputer for Fixed Income Trading
Dec 15, 2011 |
Maxeler Technologies announced that it has gone live with a supercomputer solution for fixed income trading operations at J.P. Morgan.
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MSC Software Releases GPU-Accelerated Version of Nastran
Dec 14, 2011 |
MSC Software Corporation has launched a GPU-accelerated version of the MSC Nastran 2012, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) application, which is used in a wide range of engineering simulation tasks.
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PGI to Release CUDA-x86 Compiler in January
Dec 14, 2011 |
The Portland Group announced that a performance-optimized PGI CUDA C/C++ compiler for multicore x86 platforms (CUDA-x86) will ship with its PGI 2012 release due out in January 2012.
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Netlist Claims Its Memory Technology Outperforms LRDIMM on New Intel-Based Servers
Dec 14, 2011 |
Netlist, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of high-performance memory subsystems, today announced results of side-by-side testing of its HyperCloud modules versus LRDIMM.
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Texas A&M University Selects Bright Computing for HPC Cluster
Dec 14, 2011 |
Bright Computing today announced that the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University has selected Bright Cluster Manager to manage its AMD Opteron-based HPC Cluster.
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Researchers Set Record for Network Data Transfer at SC11
Dec 14, 2011 |
Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology.
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BGI Employs NVIDIA GPUs to Crunch Genomics Data
Dec 13, 2011 |
NVIDIA announced that BGI, the world's largest genomics institute, has slashed the time to analyze batches of DNA sequencing data from nearly four days to just six hours using a NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based server farm.
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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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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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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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