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Aussie Supercomputers Under Fire
Jun 15, 2011 |
iTnews.com.au | Victoria's auditor-general is questioning the value of a $100 million outlay for a life sciences supercomputing facility in the Australian state.
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Jaguar Reveals Parkinson's Roots
Jun 14, 2011 |
ORNL | Researchers harnessed the Jaguar supercomputer to explore link between copper and a chronic degenerative disease.
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CERN Centers Origin of Life Research
Jun 13, 2011 |
International Science Grid This Week | Although usually considered a physics facility, biologists harness the computational resources at CERN to conduct research into the beginnings of life.
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Bringing Natural Language Processing Home
Jun 09, 2011 |
JACR | Computers capable of conversing naturally have always captured our imaginations but this concept is moving closer to reality with new developments.
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Bringing High Definition to Data
Jun 06, 2011 |
AMD | When AMD asked the question "what would yo do with 48 cores" it got back some interesting answers from the world of high volume rendering.
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GPGPUs Bloom in Scotland
Jun 01, 2011 |
EPCC News | Spring issue of EPCC News shines spotlight on GPUs in high performance computing.
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AMD Hitches Hopes to Fusion
Jun 01, 2011 |
Bit-Tech | AMD execs answer tough questions about tying the future of AMD to GPGPU movement.
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Researchers Scale Silicon Wall
May 27, 2011 |
TACC | As the limitations of silicon at the nanoscale become apparent, new materials are emerging to address the performance gap.
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Advanced Modeling Benefits Wind Farms
May 25, 2011 |
Renewable Energy World | Advanced computing resources optimize the site selection of wind farms.
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IBM's PERCS for Financial Services
May 23, 2011 |
Forbes | An IBM representative informed Forbes that it financial services companies are interested in corporate PERCS.
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URSA Supercomputer Illustrates Plant Processes
May 18, 2011 |
The Financial | A physics researcher at Georgia State University used the school's URSA super to simulate photosynthesis.
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Europe Issues Call to HPC Action
May 17, 2011 |
PlanetHPC.eu | A recent document from the University of Edinburgh outlined key challenges for Europe's future in high performance computing.
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Enter the Insight Age
May 16, 2011 |
GigaOm | According to HP, we are transitioning from the Information Age to the Insight Age, which signals a need for new architectures.
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Roadblocks Ahead for GPGPU Adoption
May 13, 2011 |
ZDNet | The adoption curve for GPU computing is being slowed by programming and ISV challenges according to NVIDIA Chief Solution Architect.
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Inside the National Petascale Computing Facility
May 12, 2011 |
A look behind the scenes at the Blue Waters supercomputer's new digs at NCSA.
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The Genomics Conundrum
May 11, 2011 |
Chemical & Engineering News | DNA sequencing technology outruns genomic analysis.
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Apple's iPad Gets a Linpack Workout
May 10, 2011 |
The New York Times | Tablet delivers 1990s-era TOP500 performance.
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Finance Firms Latch onto GPU Computing
May 09, 2011 |
Forbes | Turning the erstwhile graphics engine into a money-making machine.
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Researchers Induce Virtual Schizophrenia
May 05, 2011 |
Researchers have replicated the language processing end of a mental illness using neural network simulations.
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Cisco Lifts Lid on Containers
May 04, 2011 |
TechTarget | Cisco opened the doors on its datacenter-in-a-box offering, CDC, despite relatively low adoption of the mobile DC option.
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A Cluster of Queries for HPC Newcomers
May 03, 2011 |
X-ISS | Houston-based X-ISS sheds light on key questions new HPC owners should be asking.
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Multicore-Powered Simulations Drive Oil Recovery
May 02, 2011 |
MIT | Researchers mitigate multicore challenges to refine current geological simulation capabilities.
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Reaching Realism's Glass Ceiling
Apr 27, 2011 |
ITBusinessNet | Photorealistic rendering for design and animation is pushing multicore processors to their limit with key software advancements.
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Tech Convergence Brings Science to Life
Apr 26, 2011 |
New York Times (Subscription Req'd) | Visualization, supercomputing, and the instruments feeding them data are being merged to produce some rather stunning results.
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NSA to Build Massive Supercomputing Datacenter
Apr 25, 2011 |
InformationWeek | Facility will house cutting-edge HPC behind closed doors.
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May 21, 2013
- Keyes and Sterling to Headline IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference
- Cyber Network Gears Up for Growth in the Cloud With IBM PureSystems
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May 20, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
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May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
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- Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
May 08, 2013
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Feature Articles
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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"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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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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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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