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Mellanox InfiniBand Helps Accelerate Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance
Dec 10, 2012 |
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that Teradata has chosen its InfiniBand interconnect solution to accelerate the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance.
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USPTO Rejects SMART Modular Patent Claims
Dec 10, 2012 |
The US Patent and Trademark Office has ordered reexamination and rejected all of the claims of US Patent No. 8,250,295 which have been asserted in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by SMART Modular against Netlist.
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Mellanox Announces Senior VP Promotions
Dec 10, 2012 |
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced the promotion of Roni Ashuri to senior vice president of engineering and Marc Sultzbaugh to senior vice president of worldwide sales.
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IBM Lights Up Silicon Chips
Dec 10, 2012 |
IBM announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing, called "silicon nanophotonics."
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Vitesse Prices Public Offering of Common Stock
Dec 07, 2012 |
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $1.75 per share.
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OAS Hosts Inter-American Committee on Science and Technology
Dec 06, 2012 |
Representatives from all over North, Central and South America met at the premises of the Organization of American States OAS) in Washington D.C. for the Seventh Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Science and Technology (COMCYT).
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John Shalf Named NERSC CTO
Dec 05, 2012 |
John Shalf has been named the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Columbia Reads History through Genetics
Dec 05, 2012 |
Computer scientists at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science have published a study in The American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) that demonstrates analyzing genetic data to learn the history of populations.
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TI, Nimbix Deliver Accelerated Compute Cloud
Dec 05, 2012 |
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Nimbix announced their collaboration on Nimbix's Accelerated Compute Cloud (NACC) to significantly reduce power and accelerate workflows.
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Ethernet Alliance Execs Outline Networking Roadmap
Dec 05, 2012 |
The Ethernet Alliance announced Chairman, John D’Ambrosia of Dell, and Marketing Committee Chair, Chauncey Schwartz of QLogic, will be featured speakers at the upcoming Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA ’12).
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Spirent Advances SDN with Conformance Test Suite
Dec 05, 2012 |
Spirent Communications announced that it has joined forces with Indiana University’s Software Defined Networking (SDN)/OpenFlow research organization, InCNTRE to develop the conformance test suites within OFTest.
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AMD Announces SDK 2.8, Unified Developer Tool Suite
Dec 04, 2012 |
AMD announced availability of the AMD APP SDK 2.8 and the AMD CodeXL unified tool suite to provide developers the tools and resources needed to accelerate applications with AMD accelerated processing units (APUs) and GPUs.
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Crucial Step in AIDS Virus Maturation Simulated
Dec 04, 2012 |
Bioinformaticians at IMIM and UPF have used molecular simulation techniques to explain a specific step in the maturation of the HIV virions, i.e., how newly formed inert virus particles become infectious.
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Celebrating 50 Years of Supercomputing
Dec 04, 2012 |
Scientists who worked on one of the world’s first supercomputers will gather this week to mark its 50th anniversary.
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Emcien Taps Big Data Leader for Advisory Board
Dec 04, 2012 |
Emcien Corp. announced the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board.
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New '4-D' Transistor Previews Future Computers
Dec 04, 2012 |
Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities created the transistor, which is made from a material that could replace silicon within a decade.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces Stanford HPC Conference 2013
Dec 04, 2012 |
The HPC Advisory Council announced the formation of the HPC Advisory Council Stanford High-Performance Computing Conference on February 7th and 8th, 2013 at Stanford, California.
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Case Western Selects Nexsan Storage
Dec 04, 2012 |
Nexsan announced that Case Western Reserve University selected the NST5000 unified, hybrid storage system to meet its fast growing, high volume scientific computing storage needs.
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Indiana University Moves Big Data Faster
Dec 03, 2012 |
A recent networking breakthrough from IU researchers, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley and DataDirect Networks, showed that data sharing can be faster and more efficient over wide area networks (WAN).
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YarcData Announces Finalists for Graph Analytics Challenge
Dec 03, 2012 |
YarcData, a Cray company dedicated to providing “Big Data” graph-analytic solutions to enterprise customers, announced the six finalists for the YarcData Graph Analytics Challenge.
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Bug Repellent for Supercomputers Proves Effective
Dec 03, 2012 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have used the Stack Trace Analysis Tool (STAT) to debug a program running more than one million MPI processes on the IBM Blue Gene/Q (BGQ)-based Sequoia supercomputer.
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UK Takes Academic Supercomputing to Next Level
Dec 03, 2012 |
The University of Kentucky commemorated 25 years of academic supercomputing with the announcement of the most powerful supercomputer in the university's history and the award of a $1 million "cyber infrastructure" grant from the NSF.
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TechNavio: InfiniBand Market To Grow 44.6% By 2015
Dec 03, 2012 |
TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global InfiniBand market to grow at a CAGR of 44.46 percent over the period 2011-2015.
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Cortina Delivers 28nm EDC PHY Architecture
Dec 03, 2012 |
Cortina Systems, Inc.), delivering innovative technologies that link people and networks worldwide, announced the industry's first 28nm EDC PHY architecture.
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PLDA, GUC Unveil PCIe Gen 3 Controller/PHY Combo
Dec 03, 2012 |
PLDA announced successful test chips for the industry’s first combined PCIe Gen 3 Controller IP and PHY IP solution on TSMC 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile) process.
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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
- ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
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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
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- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
- NCSA Hosts 2013 Private Sector Program Annual Meeting May 13-17 in Champaign/Urbana.
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Feature Articles
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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