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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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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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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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NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

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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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