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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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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
- Bright Computing Named Winner of 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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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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- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
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- 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
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May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
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- OpenCL Software Development Kit Fosters FPGA Exploitation
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May 13, 2013
- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
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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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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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