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Teams for ISC13 Student Cluster Challenge Announced
Dec 03, 2012 |
The HPC Advisory Council and the International Supercomputing Conference announced the university teams from around the world for the HPCAC-ISC 2013 Student Cluster Competition during the ISC’13 program of events.
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SAS Extends Focus on Fraud Detection
Dec 03, 2012 |
SAS will enhance existing products with the power and speed of SAS in-memory, streaming and distributed computing technologies and develop new industry leading solutions for fraud, compliance and security.
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Submissions for ISC'13 Research Papers, Tutorials Now Being Accepted
Nov 30, 2012 |
The 2013 International Supercomputing Conference Research Paper and Tutorial Committees are now accepting abstracts and tutorial proposals for ISC’13 in Europe.
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CMU, PSC Awarded $9.3 Million for Bio Systems Modeling
Nov 30, 2012 |
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have been awarded a five-year, $9.3 million grant from the NIH to establish the Biomedical Technology Research Center (BTRC).
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Bright Computing Wins Intel Cluster Ready “Pathfinder” Award
Nov 30, 2012 |
Bright Computing today announced it has won the Intel Cluster Ready Pathfinder Award.
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Infinera, ESnet Demo SDN Open Transport Switch
Nov 29, 2012 |
Infinera announced the first successful demonstration of a prototype SDN Open Transport Switch in partnership with the U.S. DOE’s Energy Sciences Network’s Long Island Metropolitan Area Network control plane test bed.
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DARPA Awards GA Tech Team $2.7 Million for Big Data
Nov 29, 2012 |
A research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $2.7 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technology intended to help address the challenges of "big data."
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WHIPTAIL Flash Breaks the Data Center Barrier
Nov 29, 2012 |
WHIPTAIL announced a major expansion to its flagship INVICTA Modular Storage Array, with the first of its kind Hyperscale scale up/scale out INFINITY architecture.
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Engys Grabs OCF's enCORE Compute-on-Demand Service
Nov 28, 2012 |
Engys, a developer of computer-aided engineering software and services, is using a new high performance server cluster and Compute-on-Demand facility from OCF.
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DOE Labs Set Records with IBM Blue Gene/Q
Nov 28, 2012 |
Two teams of Department of Energy scientists have exceeded a sustained performance level of 10 petaflops on the Sequoia supercomputer at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Tilera's TILE-Gx Packs Performance for Datacenters
Nov 28, 2012 |
Tilera Corporation has released its Multicore Development Environment (MDE) version 4.1, coupled with the 64-bit TILE-Gx family of processors, to provide the most programmable and highest performance/watt/sq-in/$ platform.
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GIS Research Center Joins the Open Cloud Consortium
Nov 28, 2012 |
The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) is pleased to announce that the Geographic Information Systems Research Center (GIS) out of Feng Chia University, Taiwan is now a member of the OCC.
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HPC Advisory Council Names University Award Winner
Nov 28, 2012 |
The HPC Advisory Council announced that Antonis Karalis has received the prestigious HPC Advisory Council University Award 2012 for advanced research in the subject area of music in high-performance computing.
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Tapia Conference Registration Opens
Nov 27, 2012 |
Registration is now open for the 2013 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference to be held Feb. 7-10 in Washington, D.C.
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Spirent Puts SCinet Multi-100G Network to the Test
Nov 27, 2012 |
Spirent Communications announced that SCinet used Spirent’s high-speed Ethernet solutions to test the performance of its wide area network infrastructure.
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ScaleMP to Support True Scale InfiniBand, Xeon Phi
Nov 27, 2012 |
ScaleMP announced upcoming support for the Intel True Scale Fabric Host Adapter 7300 Series and the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
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ClusterVision Selected for Dell HPC Integration
Nov 27, 2012 |
ClusterVision has announced the successful installation of a high-performance compute cluster at EMD International A/S, one of the world’s leading providers of software and research consultancy to the renewable energy market.
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OCZ Launches Vector SSD, Barefoot 3 Controller
Nov 27, 2012 |
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. announced the availability of its new SATA III-based Vector SSD Series featuring the company’s next-generation Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller.
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Lifka Elected National Chair of CASC
Nov 27, 2012 |
David Lifka, director of the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and director of research computing at Weill Cornell Medical College was elected chair of The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC).
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Mellanox, TimeKeeper Push Low-Latency Trading
Nov 27, 2012 |
FSMLabs, provider of network software for high-precision time synchronization and distribution, announced that TimeKeeper on Mellanox ConnectX-3 interconnect adapters is available.
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Terascala Joins NCMS
Nov 27, 2012 |
Terascala announced that it has joined the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) to participate in the consortium’s Digital Manufacturing Initiative, which focuses on exploiting commercial HPC for digital manufacturing.
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Penguin Computing Names Lisa Cummins CFO
Nov 27, 2012 |
Penguin Computing announced that Lisa Cummins has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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High-Energy Physicists Smash Records for Network Data Transfer
Nov 26, 2012 |
Caltech physicists, computer scientists and network engineers reached a transfer rate of 339 Gbps – equivalent to moving four million gigabytes (or one million full length movies) per day, nearly doubling last year's record.
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PLX Details ExpressFabric at Server Summit
Nov 26, 2012 |
PLX Technology, Inc. announced Larry Chisvin, PLX vice president of strategic initiatives, will present at the Server Design Summit on the role of a PCI Express-based ExpressFabric in uniting all hardware within the racks of data centers.
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Vicor Repurchases up to $20 Million in Common Shares
Nov 26, 2012 |
Vicor Corporation announced it is commencing a "Modified Dutch Auction" tender offer to repurchase shares of its Common Stock valued at up to $20 million, to expire, unless extended, at 11:59 P.M., EST, on December 21, 2012.
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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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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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