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PRACE Announces HPC Competition for End-User Applications
Dec 28, 2012 |
PRACE has announced the launch of the second round of its Competition for the Most Innovative HPC End-User Application in Europe.
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ORNL Highlights 2012 Supercomputing Achievements
Dec 28, 2012 |
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory regained the lead in high-performance computing, enjoyed record-setting recognition for its research and became a showpiece for renewable energy technology during 2012.
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IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference Now Accepting Proposals
Dec 20, 2012 |
The organizing committee for the IEEE Cluster 2013 conference is now accepting proposals for tutorials, technical papers, posters, panels, and visualizations.
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Tucson to Host HPC User Forum in April
Dec 20, 2012 |
IDC announced today that the HPC User Forum will return to Tucson, Arizona for its 49th meeting, April 29-May 1, 2013.
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Chelsio Announces Unified Wire API for 40G, 100G Ethernet
Dec 20, 2012 |
Chelsio Communications announced its Unified Wire API, which includes all management and application software and is future proofed for 40G and 100G speeds.
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UrbanCCD Rises to Urban Planning Challenge
Dec 14, 2012 |
The Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) will apply the most advanced computational and data-driven techniques to the challenge of intelligent urban planning and design
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Sabalcore, CD-adapco Sponsor UM Formula SAE Team
Dec 14, 2012 |
Sabalcore Computing and CD-adapco have teamed up to support the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM) Formula SAE racing team for the 2012-2013 season.
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TACC Develops Visualization Software for Humanities
Dec 13, 2012 |
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin has released Most Pixels Ever: Cluster Edition, an open source software tool for creating interactive, multimedia visualizations on high resolution, tiled displays.
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New Leader Named to UT-ORNL Supercomputer Center
Dec 13, 2012 |
Tony Mezzacappa, a leader in the field of astrophysics and supernova science, has been named director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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WHIPTAIL Raises $31 Million for Flash Adoption
Dec 13, 2012 |
WHIPTAIL announced a $31 million investment, including strategic investments from flash-memory leader SanDisk as well as an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan.
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Gov. Kasich 'Lights Up' Ohio's Broadband Pipeline
Dec 12, 2012 |
During an unveiling of the completed upgrades to OARnet's ultra high-speed fiber optic network backbone, Governor John Kasich showcased how the technology will create and enhance academic partnerships with businesses statewide.
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CLC Bio Joins STATegra for Epigenetics Platform
Dec 12, 2012 |
CLC bio announced the participation in the European FP7 project, STATegra, and receives 1.3 million US Dollars out of the total $7.8M project budget.
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Infinera Delivers 100GbE to DOE's ESnet
Dec 12, 2012 |
Infinera announced the deployment of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services on the Long Island MAN portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) with the Infinera DTN Platform.
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Alabama Selects Rackwise for Data Center Management
Dec 12, 2012 |
Rackwise, Inc. announced that The Retirement Systems of Alabama has selected Rackwise DCiM X to manage the newly opened, hosted colocation RSA Dexter Avenue Datacenter.
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Vitesse, Microsemi Ease Transition to IP Edge Networks
Dec 12, 2012 |
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation and Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of a joint reference design delivering precise IEEE1588v2 timing and synchronization required by carriers to deliver scalable, higher bandwidth.
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BiTMICRO Announces maxIO Next Gen SSD
Dec 12, 2012 |
BiTMICRO announced today that it has completed the first production units of its maxIO PCIe SSD, its new enterprise-class solid state drive.
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Terascala Joins NCSA for Lustre Development
Dec 12, 2012 |
Terascala announced that it has joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Private Sector Program to extend the development and capabilities of Lustre.
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The Dresden University of Technology Taps Bull for Supercomputer
Dec 12, 2012 |
Once the two phases of its installation are completed in 2013/14, the new supercomputer, which represents an investment of about 15 million Euros, will benefit the whole research community in Saxony.
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YarcData Joins W3C to Promote SPARQL, RDF Standards
Dec 11, 2012 |
YarcData announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is an international community that develops open web standards.
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Testing Whether We Live in a Computer Simulation
Dec 11, 2012 |
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested.
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Bill Appelbe Joins Compute Canada as CEO
Dec 11, 2012 |
Bill Appelbe, an international leader in advanced computing for research and development, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Compute Canada – Calcul Canada, officials announced.
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Research and Markets: HPC Market to Grow 7.14 Percent by 2015
Dec 10, 2012 |
The global high performance computing market is set to grow at a CAGR of 7.17 percent over the period 2011-2015, according to Research and Markets.
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NCAR Officials to Address Supercomputer Allocation
Dec 10, 2012 |
Officials from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will address questions on how University of Wyoming researchers can obtain large allocations of time on the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
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BP to House Largest Commercial Research Supercomputer
Dec 10, 2012 |
BP has begun construction of a new facility to house what it claims is the largest supercomputing complex for commercial research in the world.
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Tiny Transistor Challenges Silicon’s Dominance
Dec 10, 2012 |
Silicon’s crown is under threat, thanks to the development of the smallest transistor ever to be built from a rival material, indium gallium arsenide.
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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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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause
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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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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