NVIDIA Releases CUDA Compiler Source Code

Dec 13, 2011 | NVIDIA will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support CUDA applications on alternative processor architectures.
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Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Installs GPU Cluster

Dec 13, 2011 | The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) has installed a new graphics processing unit (GPU) system that it hopes will enable researchers to take advantage of this new technology for innovation and improved performance for research.
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Energy Firm Using Red Hat Storage to for Weather Prediction Data

Dec 13, 2011 | Red Hat, Inc. announced that Pattern Energy Group LP, a wind energy and transmission company, is using Red Hat Storage, formerly Gluster, technology to manage business-critical weather prediction data.
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HPC Advisory Council, Swiss Supercomputing Centre to Host HPC Conference

Dec 13, 2011 | The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012.
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NVIDIA Kicks Off GPU Technology Conference Asia on Wednesday

Dec 13, 2011 | NVIDIA kicks of GTC Asia on Dec 14, the next major event in its international series of GPU Technology Conference (GTC) events focused on the latest advances and research in science, academic and commercial fields enabled by GPU computing
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Survey Counts Cost of European Research Computing Services

Dec 12, 2011 | A major survey to understand the cost of European academic computing services was launched today.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces Israel Supercomputing Conference 2012

Dec 12, 2011 | The HPC Advisory Council will host the HPC Advisory Council Israel Supercomputing Conference 2012 at the Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel on February 7, 2012.
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QLogic InfiniBand Powers Top LLNL Cluster

Dec 12, 2011 | QLogic announced that its 12000 Series switches and 7300 Series adapters have helped propel a cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to the number 15 position on the recently-announced list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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Mitrionics Teams with Russian FPGA-Card Manufacturer Rosta

Dec 12, 2011 | Mitrionics AB, developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor, the Mitrion-C programming language and the Mitrion Software Development Kit for FPGA-based reconfigurable computing, today announced a new partnership with the leading Russian FPGA-card manufacturer Rosta.
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French Atomic Energy Authority Releases NFS Server with HPC Features

Dec 09, 2011 | The Military Applications Department of the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA/DAM) has developed a generic NFS server running in User Space and named “NFS-Ganesha”.
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IBM Contributes Massive Chemical Database to NIH

Dec 09, 2011 | IBM is contributing a massive database of chemical data extracted from millions of patents and scientific literature to the National Institutes of Health.
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ACM Names Indiana University's Geoffrey Fox 2011 Fellow

Dec 09, 2011 | The Association for Computing Machinery has recognized Indiana University Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Fox for his exceptional contributions to computing by naming him a 2011 Fellow.
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RENCI and Duke to Build Experimental Network

Dec 08, 2011 | RENCI at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University in partnership with IBM will lead a new project to build a nationwide test bed for networking and networked cloud computing.
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SKIF Aurora SUSU Supercomputer is Most Energy-Efficient HPC System in Russia

Dec 08, 2011 | The SKIF Aurora SUSU supercomputer built by the Russian developer and vendor RSC Group became the most energy efficient Russian HPC system according to a latest edition of Green500 list.
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ANSYS Launches Version 14.0 of Engineering Simulation Technology Suite

Dec 08, 2011 | ANSYS has launched the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite, ANSYS 14.0.
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Association for Computing Machinery Names 2011 ACM Fellows

Dec 08, 2011 | ACM has recognized 46 of its members for their contributions to computing that have provided fundamental knowledge to the computing field and generated multiple technology advances in industry, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and education.
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AccelerEyes Releases Jacket 2.0

Dec 08, 2011 | AccelerEyes announces the release of Jacket version 2.0, adding GPU computing capabilities for use with MATLAB..
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University of Bordeaux Installs Dell HPC Cluster

Dec 07, 2011 | ClusterVision, has announced the formal opening of "Avakus", the new University of Bordeaux HPC Cluster, a 38.8 Tflops supercomputer is installed at the Université Bordeaux 1 Sciences et Technologies IT facility in Talence, France.
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TACC Expands Datacenter for Stampede Supercomputer

Dec 07, 2011 | The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin today announced that it is expanding the center's current high-performance computing (HPC) data center to house the new Stampede supercomputer,
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RAID Inc. Announces Study on How HPC Clusters, Big Data Can Benefit From Parallel File Systems

Dec 07, 2011 | Dr. Ercan Kamber, CTO of RAID Inc., releases his research on how HPC clusters and big data can benefit from parallel file systems and the differences in storage architecture between Lustre and GPFS.
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NASA Team Demos Data Superhighway of the Future

Dec 07, 2011 | At SC11 last month, a team of Goddard network engineers demonstrated how the Internet will be used in the future to conduct research involving extraordinarily large transfers of data.
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NVIDIA Announces Initial Results of Directives-Based GPU Computing Program

Dec 07, 2011 | NVIDIA announced results from the first wave of the new "2x in 4 Weeks. Guaranteed." program, which promotes that programmers can, within a month, at least double their speed in running applications by using The Portland Group (PGI) directives-based compiler and NVIDIA GPUs.
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TACC Generates Insights from Data-Driven Science

Dec 07, 2011 | Research centers like the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) now dedicate expert staff and systems to explore data-driven science with the goal of finding needles of insight in digital haystacks.
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ORNL Supercomputer Reveals Nature of Drug Detoxification Enzymes

Dec 07, 2011 | Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are giving scientists unprecedented access to a key class of proteins involved in drug detoxification.
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HPC Integrators Intros 'One Rack Service Pack' for Small Clusters

Dec 07, 2011 | HPC Integrators is introducing the One Rack Service Pack that packages together essential HPC system monitoring and management services designed for cluster computing systems of under 150 nodes.
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