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Violin Memory Sees Ten-Fold Growth in EMEA
Nov 28, 2011 |
Violin Memory, provider of the world’s fastest and most scalable Memory Arrays, has just announced an 10x quarter on quarter growth in EMEA sales.
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HyperTransport Consortium Presents at Server Design Summit
Nov 28, 2011 |
The HyperTransport Technology Consortium will present "CPU vs. Cluster Power Consumption" in Session 1-102 at the Server Design Summit.
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Myricom Announces New 10GbE Adapter Aimed at Cybersecurity, High-Frequency Trading
Nov 28, 2011 |
Myricom announces a new Myri-10G 10-Gigabit Ethernet network adapter specifically designed for applications such as cybersecurity and high frequency trading.
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GPU Systems Releases Libra Generic Accelerated Computing with Libra SDK
Nov 25, 2011 |
GPU Systems has launched Libra SDK, new technology and compute platform for HPC/supercomputing.
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European Researcher Sees Path to Low-Power Quantum Computers
Nov 23, 2011 |
By 2017, quantum physics will help reduce the energy consumption of our computers and cellular phones by up to a factor of 100.
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Greenest Petaflop Supercomputer Uses NVIDIA GPUs
Nov 23, 2011 |
NVIDIA today announced that, for the second year in a row, the world's most energy efficient petaflop-class supercomputer is powered by NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.
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PRACE Awards 91 Million Supercomputer Processor Core Hours Across 35 Projects
Nov 23, 2011 |
Europe’s HPC infrastructure PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, announced that 35 projects will share 91 million processor core hours awarded by the most recent DECI (Distributed European Computing Initiative) call.
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IU Team Demonstrated 100GbE Network Technology at SC11
Nov 22, 2011 |
An Indiana University team demonstrated an experimental network to support testing by several universities during the SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS), part of this year's SC11 conference..
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HPC Links Announces Open VERTEX 1.0 Hybrid HPC Software Platform
Nov 22, 2011 |
HPC Links Pvt. Ltd. is offering a new open source hybrid supercomputing software product named Open VERTEX 1.0.
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Dell Says Latest Opteron-Based PowerEdge Servers Outperform Competition
Nov 22, 2011 |
The Dell PowerEdge C6145 can deliver up to 281 percent more performance per U compared the HP Proliant DL980 G7, in a quarter of the rack space/
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HPC Project, SGI Announce Partnership Agreement
Nov 22, 2011 |
HPC Project and SGI announced that they have signed a partnership agreement to integrate and cross-distribute some of their products.
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Intilop Demos Third-Generation 10Gbit TCP Offload Engine at Low Latency Summit
Nov 22, 2011 |
At the recent Low Latency summit in NYC, Intilop observed tremendous interest for their industry-leading ultra low latency 10G Nano-TOE series of TCP Offload Engine IP products.
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C-DAC Receives HPC Innovation Excellence Award from IDC
Nov 22, 2011 |
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has been given the IDC HPC Innovation Excellence Award announced at the International Data Corporation (IDC) briefing at SC11.
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MulticoreWare Releases OpenCL Tools for Heterogeneous Programming
Nov 21, 2011 |
MulticoreWare Inc. (MCW) announced the beta availability of key OpenCL tools and libraries for developers worldwide by download from the MCW website..
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Gordon Bell Prize Awarded to Research Group Using K Supercomputer
Nov 21, 2011 |
A research group from RIKEN, the University of Tsukuba, the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Limited announced that research results obtained using the "K computer" were awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at SC11.
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World Community Grid to Use IBM Watson's Jeopardy Prize Money for Malaria Research
Nov 21, 2011 |
Scripps Research and IBM are encouraging anyone in the world with a personal computer to join World Community Grid, a sort of "supercomputer of the people" that will crunch numbers and perform simulations for "GO Fight Against Malaria."
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Stanford Brings Folding@home Application to Supercomputers
Nov 21, 2011 |
The new distributed framework for supercomputers, called Copernicus, is being used to bring Folding@home to supercomputers.
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CERN Evaluating Spectra Logic Tape Technology for Storage of Large Hadron Collider Data
Nov 21, 2011 |
Spectra Logic, announced today that CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is evaluating Spectra Logic tape library technology.
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Ziosoft/Qi to Showcase 4D Imaging Technology at Radiology Congress
Nov 21, 2011 |
Ziosoft/Qi Imaging, the leader in supercomputing visualization and functional analytics, will showcase the company’s PhyZiodynamics inVivo technology at the annual Radiology Society of North America Congress.
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Cray Enters Integrated Storage Market
Nov 17, 2011 |
Cray announced the latest addition to its line of high performance computing products with the launch of the Cray Sonexion 1300 system -- an integrated file system, software and storage product.
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GPC Announces Vibration Management System for Improving Storage Performance
Nov 17, 2011 |
Green Platform Corporation announced today the availability of its new (VMS) Vibration Management System for beta testing in "Big Data" environments.
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C-DAC Launches India-Armenia Center of Excellence
Nov 17, 2011 |
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India launched the "India – Armenia Center of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology" at Yerevan, Armenia, on November 7, 2011.
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CAPS Announces Two More HMPP Competence Centers in US and Europe
Nov 16, 2011 |
After having launched the first HMPP Competence Center in Asia earlier this year with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CAPS is proud to announce two new HMPP Competence Centers in Europe and US as a relay between the scientific and academic communities.
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Mellanox Highlights Performance on FDR 56Gbps InfiniBand and 40GbE Solutions
Nov 16, 2011 |
Mellanox Technologies announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions, which lead the industry with bandwidth (>12GB/s) and latency (<0.7us) performance with PCI Express 3.0 support, now accelerate multiple, large-scale system deployments.
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Purdue Has Fastest Campus Supercomputer in US
Nov 16, 2011 |
The nation's fastest campus supercomputer has been built at Purdue University.
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May 23, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 20, 2013
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May 16, 2013
- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
- Kitware Develops Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Next HPC Installation Step Initiated at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
- HybridCluster2.0 Self-Healing, Ultra-High Availability Capabilities Unveiled
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
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
- Flow Science Releases FLOW-3D/MP 5.0
- NEC Establishes NEC Ukraine to Strengthen Operations in Russia and the CIS
- Fujitsu Receives Supercomputer Order From Nagoya University
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- Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Exascale Systems Call for Papers
May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
- HPC Simulations Target Nanoscale Materials Under Strain
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May 13, 2013
- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
- AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
- ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
- Special ISC’13 Session to Probe the Thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project
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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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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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