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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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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
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May 23, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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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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Short Takes
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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