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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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May 22, 2013
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May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Feature Articles
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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Short Takes
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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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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