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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dec 11, 2012 |
Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested.
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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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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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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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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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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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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Jun 19, 2013 |
Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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