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Cornell Receives IDC Innovation Award for MATLAB-Powered Research
Dec 07, 2011 |
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) received an HPC Innovation Excellence Award from the International Data Corporation (IDC) during SC11,
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Avetec DICE Program Delivers Report on eXludus Multicore Manager
Dec 06, 2011 |
Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program recently conducted an in-depth investigation of the eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager technology.
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Texas Memory Systems Intros RamSan-720
Dec 06, 2011 |
Texas Memory Systems has introduced its new RamSan-720 system, offering 12 TB of flash capacity, 5 GB/s of bandwidth, and no single point of failure.
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HPC Center in Poland Acquires GPU Cluster from SGI
Dec 06, 2011 |
The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) has purchased a 224-teraflop SGI high performance computing solution.
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Boeing Deploys Bright Cluster Manager on HPC Clusters
Dec 06, 2011 |
Bright Computing announced that Boeing has acquired a site license for Bright Cluster Manager.
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Phoenix to License Unused Network Capacity from National LambdaRail
Dec 06, 2011 |
National LambdaRail (NLR), the leading research and education high performance communications network in the United States, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the city of Phoenix to license its unused, excess fiber optic capacity.
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IBM Researchers Demo Advancements in Graphene, Racetrack Memory and Carbon Nanotube Computing
Dec 05, 2011 |
Today at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM scientists unveiled several exploratory research breakthroughs that could lead to major advancements in delivering dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips.
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SeaMicro Receives 'Rising Star' Award for Low-Power Server Technology
Dec 05, 2011 |
SeaMicro, today announced that it has received the Rising Star Award in the Platts Global Energy Awards.
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Volex Cable in Interoperability Demo at SC11
Dec 02, 2011 |
Volex plc provided quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP) cable assemblies to support the live demonstration organised by Orange Silicon Valley, the InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance at the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle last month.
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Royal Society Publishes E-Science Theme Issue
Dec 02, 2011 |
Royal Society Publishing has recently published e-Science: novel research, new science and enduring impact, compiled and edited by David W Walker, Malcolm P Atkinson, John M Brooke and Paul Watson.
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UK Invests £158 Million in High-Tech Infrastructure
Dec 01, 2011 |
UK scientists and businesses will have access to the most sophisticated technology keeping them at the cutting edge of research and development, as details of the Government’s multi-million pound e-infrastructure investment were announced today by David Willetts.
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Researchers Tout Co-Design Approach for Ultra-Efficient Supercomputing
Dec 01, 2011 |
To build next-generation supercomputers, researchers are looking to the world of consumer electronics like microwave ovens, cameras and cellphones, where everything from chips to batteries to software is optimized to the device's application.
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First XSEDE Conference Set for July in Chicago
Dec 01, 2011 |
XSEDE12, the first conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the InterContinental hotel in downtown Chicago.
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Intel Announces Cash Awards Program for Young Entrepreneurs
Dec 01, 2011 |
Intel Corporation will debut Intel Innovators, a Facebook platform that encourages young entrepreneurs to share their business ideas for the chance to win up to $100,000 for the next 3 months.
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IBM to Debut 3D Chipmaking in Production of Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube
Dec 01, 2011 |
IBM and Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that Micron will begin production of a new memory device built using the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon vias (TSVs).
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Cancer Researchers Uses Platform LSF in Genomics Research
Nov 30, 2011 |
Platform Computing announced that Cancer Research UK, a world leader in the study of cancer, has turned to Platform LSF to help drive forward its human genome research project at the Cambridge Research Institute (CRI).
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Supercomputer Models Construction of Mollusc Shells
Nov 30, 2011 |
One of the first tasks for Warwick's new £1.3 million super computer is to use its monster megabytes to analyse the natural properties of the tiny mollusc shell.
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Kyoto University Orders Cray Supercomputer
Nov 29, 2011 |
Cray has been selected to provide a new supercomputer to the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University.
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Argonne's Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes Win E.O. Lawrence Award
Nov 29, 2011 |
Argonne National Laboratory researchers Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes have been named winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors midcareer scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development.
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PSC, SGI Team Up on Shared-Memory Supercomputer
Nov 29, 2011 |
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) acquired an SGI UV1000 in July 2010 with help from an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Named Blacklight, this system has 32 terabytes of memory partitioned into two connected 16-terabyte shared-memory nodes, in effect, the two largest shared-memory systems in the world.
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Next Generation PCIe 4.0 Will Double Throughput
Nov 29, 2011 |
PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express (PCIe) industry-standard input/output (I/O) technology, today announced the approval of 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) as the bit rate for the next generation of PCIe architecture, PCIe 4.0.
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Cray Storage Solution to be Based on Xyratex Technology
Nov 29, 2011 |
Cray is using Xyratex’ innovative HPC data storage architectures as the basis for the Cray Sonexion storage system
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Tokyo Tech Awarded Gordon Bell Prize
Nov 29, 2011 |
NVIDIA today announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Global Scientific Information Computing Center (GSIC) has received the Gordon Bell Prize, the supercomputing industry's highest honor, with its NVIDIA Tesla GPU-accelerated supercomputer.
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Swift Engineering Receives IDC Innovation Excellence Award
Nov 29, 2011 |
Swift Engineering, Inc. was awarded International Data Corporation’s (IDC) ‘Innovation Excellence Award’ at the annual Supercomputing 2011 conference in Seattle, Washington for its continued development of next-generation virtual simulation engineering and analysis for aerospace and motorsports vehicles.
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Green500 Shows Continuing Trend Toward Environmentally Friendly Supercomputers
Nov 28, 2011 |
The latest Green500 List shows two continuing trends despite seven of the world’s Top 10 greenest supercomputers changing up from the previous June 2011 rankings: Many supercomputers are aggregating many low-power processors such as the IBM BlueGene/Q, while others are using more energy-efficient accelerators, typically from the gaming/graphics market.
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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
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May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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Exascale Advocates Stand on Nuclear Stockpiles
In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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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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Short Takes
NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'
May 23, 2013 |
The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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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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