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Pleiades Shines Light on Dark Matter

Oct 03, 2011 | The Pleiades supercomputer at NASA Ames Research center has enabled one of the largest simulations of galaxy formation.
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Marshall Scores “BigGreen” GPU Cluster

Sep 29, 2011 | Marshall University | Marshall University shares details about new capabilities to drive simulation and parallel computing projects.
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Another Super for Aussie Research

Sep 28, 2011 | Computerworld Australia | Academic consortium buys GPU-equipped SGI cluster.
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Shifting Tides for Russia’s HPC Market

Sep 21, 2011 | CNews | Once the clear leader in Russia, HPC vendor T-Platforms is facing new competition from IBM and HP.
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Why Fortran Still Matters

Sep 20, 2011 | Intelligence in Software | Steve Lionel, aka, "Doctor Fortran" defends the venerable programming language and its modern relevance.
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Intel CTO Talks Up Many-Core Future

Sep 19, 2011 | Forward Thinking | Justin Rattner highlights upcoming Intel technology at IDF.
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Wanted: Good Use for Supercomputer

Sep 15, 2011 | Slashdot | A recent question about what to do with a new cluster generated a wealth of information from HPC users.
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SGI CEO Sets Course Around HP, IBM

Sep 14, 2011 | Times of India | SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea sees new opportunities as much larger competitors seek coherent strategies.
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No End in Sight for Discrete GPUs

Sep 12, 2011 | TG Daily | Analyst Jon Peedie produced a report on the GPU market, noting that reports of the death of dGPUs are greatly exaggerated.
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Ember Sheds Light on Solar Cell Research

Sep 08, 2011 | iSGTW | Recent research on the Ember supercomputer could deliver cheaper, organic solar cells.
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Hitachi Data System Snatches Up Blue Arc

Sep 07, 2011 | Data Center Knowledge | Today HDS announced that it had acquired NAS vendor Blue Arc.
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Justifying the Cost of SSDs

Sep 06, 2011 | ComputerWorld | While SSDs are expensive, prices are falling and some users are seeing remarkable returns from their investment.
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Australia’s Super Demand

Sep 05, 2011 | TechWorld Australia | Climate researchers in Australia are feeling the pinch of resource constraints.
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Panasas CTO Predicts 2018 SSD Success

Sep 01, 2011 | Panasas | Garth Gibson outlined the role of SSDs as storage vendors work toward the exascale vision on 2018.
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UHPC Developments Move DARPA Closer to Goals

Aug 30, 2011 | Discover Magazine | The Ubiquitous High Performance Computing initiative from DARPA is sparking a rethink of data movement efficiency.
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IBM Builds 120-Petabyte Storage Array

Aug 29, 2011 | System will be the largest single storage array in world.
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Shaking on Solid Ground

Aug 24, 2011 | GuruFocus | Swimming upstream against trends and relying on government funding puts Cray on shaky ground, even during solid financial gains.
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China Making Strides Toward Exascale

Aug 23, 2011 | China Daily | A major Chinese newspaper reported today that plans are place to begin pursuing exascale ambitions with a practical application focus.
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A Visual History of Supercomputing

Aug 22, 2011 | Peer1 Hosting | A recent infographic traced the course of high performance computing.
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Simulation Lab Gets Pushback on Chinese-Made Computer Parts

Aug 18, 2011 | The Washington Times | Huawei falls under scrutiny for deal with National Center for Computational Engineering.
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Intel Opens Up Cilk Plus

Aug 17, 2011 | Intel Software Blogs | Language could pave the way for native parallelism in C and C++.
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University Cluster Rings in Benefits

Aug 16, 2011 | Network World | Clemson University is finding ways to maximize its high performance computing resources.
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Searching for Blue Waters' Replacement

Aug 15, 2011 | Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette | Wanted: 10-petaflop supercomputer. Willing to offer $300 million. Firm.
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Programming Hopper

Aug 11, 2011 | NERSC director Kathy Yelick shares insights on programming petascale systems like the Hopper system.
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DOE Focuses on Scientific Data Integration

Aug 10, 2011 | Internet Evolution | A Department of Energy project has taken aim at shattering isolated silos of biological data via an integrated "knowledgebase" known as Kbase.
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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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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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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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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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