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Aug 09, 2011 |
Earthtechling | The "Buckeye Bullet" is being completely redesigned with aerodynamics, shock, and drag testing being done at OSC.
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Aug 08, 2011 |
El Reg | In the next two weeks Cray will lose long-time CTO, Steve Scott as he moves on to one of the supercomputer maker's technology partners.
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Aug 03, 2011 |
NPR | This week National Public Radio is airing a short series on high performance computing, with today's installment focusing on the top-ranked Chinese system.
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Aug 02, 2011 |
New York Times | A new study that contradicts the influential EPA report about a doubling of data center energy consumption made waves this week.
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Aug 01, 2011 |
Las Cruces-Sun News | A researcher at the New Mexico State University is modeling new ways to address common challenges with data-intensive, graph-based problems.
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Jul 28, 2011 |
Technology Review | A new language could improve the quality of parallel code and automate some of the trickiest elements of multicore programming.
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Jul 26, 2011 |
ComputerWorld | Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been vocal about the role of supercomputing in supporting his country's competitiveness.
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Jul 25, 2011 |
Technology Review | Researchers at Internet2 and ESNet are making use of idle network infrastructure to develop strategies for next-generation Internet use.
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Jul 21, 2011 |
The National Science Foundation recognized the work of researchers shaping the future of high performance computing.
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Jul 20, 2011 |
Researchers in high-energy physics are gearing up to test theories on Argonne, Oak Ridge iron.
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Jul 19, 2011 |
GenomeWeb | The San Diego Supercomputer Center is home to a potential proving ground for flash-based systems.
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Jul 18, 2011 |
BSN | Sources suggest that December could be the month that NVIDIA's Project Denver finds its way to silicon.
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Jul 15, 2011 |
Global Security Newswire | Not everyone is on board with the NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program.
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Jul 14, 2011 |
General Electric | General Electric is discussing some lessons learned from its Advanced Computing Lab in a series of learning sessions.
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Jul 12, 2011 |
MSNBC | Researchers at NASA, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are collaborating on a space fence to keep space junk at bay.
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Jul 11, 2011 |
ECN | A recent ornithology research endeavor harnessed the Teragrid for 70,000 hours of compute time.
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Jul 07, 2011 |
Ars Technica | A climate researcher has posited the idea that without more sophisticated, less conservative climate models, we could find big change striking with little warning.
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Jul 06, 2011 |
Scientific Computing | Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are finding ways to simulate tornado formation using more variables with help from supercomputers.
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Jul 05, 2011 |
Scientific American | Real-time weather information is feeding new opportunities for efficient irrigation and watering systems.
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Jul 04, 2011 |
Military and Aerospace Electronics | High performance computing vendors weighed in this week on the widening avenues for HPC adoption in aerospace and military.
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Jun 30, 2011 |
ComputerWorld | Roadrunner and Cielo have been taken offline due to the excessive smoke and lingering fire threat at Los Alamos National Lab.
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Jun 28, 2011 |
Northeastern University | Northeastern University junior finds way to increase supercomputer efficiency.
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Jun 27, 2011 |
Cluster Monkey | The Portland Group's directives-based approach to programming accelerators.
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Jun 27, 2011 |
Los Alamos National Lab | Los Alamos Supercomptuers are in the path of a wildfire, which has closed in to less than a mile away from the southern border.
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Jun 16, 2011 |
NewElectronics | A metagenomics project in Denmark is making use of the shared memory capabilities of the Altix UV 1000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.