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Ohio Supercomputer Steamlines 400-MPH Electric Car
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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Cray to Lose CTO Scott
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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NPR Highlights Supercomputing Race
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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Data Centers Consuming Less Power than Predicted
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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Research Targets Graph-Based Computing Problems
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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New Language Seeks to Tackle Parallel Challenges
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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Russian President Hails HPC
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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New Hope for Dark Fiber
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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HPC Research Rakes in NSF Awards
Jul 21, 2011 |
The National Science Foundation recognized the work of researchers shaping the future of high performance computing.
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Shedding Light on High-Energy Physics
Jul 20, 2011 |
Researchers in high-energy physics are gearing up to test theories on Argonne, Oak Ridge iron.
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Trestles Crosses into Flash Territory
Jul 19, 2011 |
GenomeWeb | The San Diego Supercomputer Center is home to a potential proving ground for flash-based systems.
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Project Denver Within Reach
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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Nuclear Deterrence: In Supercomputing We Trust
Jul 15, 2011 |
Global Security Newswire | Not everyone is on board with the NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program.
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GE to Share Supercomputing, Engineering Insights
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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Cosmic Debris Faces New Enemy
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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Supercomputing for the Birds
Jul 11, 2011 |
ECN | A recent ornithology research endeavor harnessed the Teragrid for 70,000 hours of compute time.
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Outside the Climate Change Model Box
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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Kraken, Nautilus Mine for Tornado Clues
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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Supercomputer Feeds Smart Irrigation Systems
Jul 05, 2011 |
Scientific American | Real-time weather information is feeding new opportunities for efficient irrigation and watering systems.
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HPC Finding Further Inroads in Military, Aerospace
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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LANL Update: Supers Taken Offline
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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Student Fashions Technique to Capture InfiniBand Processes
Jun 28, 2011 |
Northeastern University | Northeastern University junior finds way to increase supercomputer efficiency.
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GPGPU Acceleration: The PGI Option
Jun 27, 2011 |
Cluster Monkey | The Portland Group's directives-based approach to programming accelerators.
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Los Alamos Supercomputers in Wildfire Path
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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SGI System Supports Metagenomics Research
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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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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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 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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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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