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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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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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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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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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May 10, 2013 |
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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