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Cray Completes Acquisition Of Appro
Nov 21, 2012 |
Cray has completed the previously announced transaction to acquire Appro International, Inc.
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Lumerical Products Now Compatible with Amazon EC2
Nov 21, 2012 |
Lumerical Solutions, a Vancouver-based provider of optoelectronic and photonic design software, announced that the latest release of their products are compatible with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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PRACE Grants 30 Million Hours for Hermit Supercomputer
Nov 21, 2012 |
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) has granted 30 million hours of computing time in the Hermit supercomputer to the Vlasiator simulation project of the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
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Slurm Used on the Fastest of the TOP500 Supercomputers
Nov 21, 2012 |
Based on this week's release of the TOP500 List, Slurm Workload Manager continued to be the most widely used on the fastest of the fast: 33 percent of the top 15 supercomputers use Slurm.
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Intelligent Light Receives IDC's Innovation Excellence Award
Nov 20, 2012 |
Intelligent Light has been recognized by International Data Corporation (IDC) with their HPC Innovation Excellence Award, presented at the SC12 supercomputing industry conference.
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Tetrapod Quantum Dot Synthesis US Patent Granted
Nov 20, 2012 |
Quantum Materials Corporation, Inc. proudly announces the USPTO patent grant of a fundamental disruptive technology for synthesis of Group II-VI inorganic tetrapod quantum dots.
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U Texas Team Conquers SC12's “Student Cluster Challenge”
Nov 20, 2012 |
The University of Texas at Austin team, mentored by staff of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC) this year at the Supercomputing ’12 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Exxact and Matrox Join Forces at I/ITSEC 2012
Nov 19, 2012 |
Exxact Corporation and Matrox announced a joint demonstration at I/ITSEC 2012, that will show how high-performance-computing content from a single NVIDIA Quadro K5000 GPU can scale in Full HD resolution.
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Massachusetts Green HPC Center Opens
Nov 19, 2012 |
Governor Deval Patrick and Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray joined university leaders and technology executives today to cut the ribbon on the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).
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Allinea Supports Latest NVIDIA Tesla K20s, CUDA 5
Nov 19, 2012 |
Allinea Software announced immediate availability of debugging support in Allinea DDT for the latest NVIDIA Tesla K20 family of GPU accelerators, based on the Kepler architecture, and the recently released NVIDIA CUDA 5 toolkit.
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May
Nov 19, 2012 |
Intel Corporation announced that the company’s president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as an officer and director in May, starting an orderly leadership transition over the next six months.
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CyrusOne, Dell, R Systems Deliver Oil & Gas Cloud-Based Solution
Nov 16, 2012 |
Global data center services provider, CyrusOne, announced that its Houston West colocation facility is housing and enabling the first-ever enterprise high performance computing (HPC) Cloud solution from Dell and R Systems.
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HP Announces Purpose-Built Big Data Server
Nov 16, 2012 |
HP unveiled the industry's first server built to help clients operationalize Big Data, drive new business opportunities and save up to $1 million over three years.
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Obsidian Welcomes Mellanox into the Long Haul InfiniBand Market
Nov 15, 2012 |
Mellanox's recent announcement at SC12 of a soon to be released product capable of extending 10Gbits/s InfiniBand fabrics over as much as 10 km has been welcomed by Obsidian.
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PGI Accelerator Compilers Support Tesla K20 Family
Nov 15, 2012 |
The Portland Group (PGI) announced at SC12 today that the PGI 2013 release of its PGI Accelerator compilers will add support for the NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU accelerators and the CUDA 5 parallel computing platform and programming model.
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ADVA Optical Networking, U Michigan Demo 100G at SC12
Nov 15, 2012 |
ADVA Optical Networking and the University of Michigan are demonstrating how 100G technology can support large-scale sharing of scientific data and advanced data-intensive Research and Education (R&E) projects at SuperComputing 2012.
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Polybus Integrates QDR InfiniBand with Bittware Stratix V
Nov 15, 2012 |
BittWare announced that Polybus has integrated their QDR InfiniBand IP cores onto BittWare's Stratix V FPGA PCIe hardware. Polybus provides both QDR InfiniBand Link Layer cores as well as QDR Infiniband Target Channel Adapter cores.
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PGI to Deliver OpenACC for Xeon Phi
Nov 15, 2012 |
The Portland Group (PGI) announced plans to extend its PGI Accelerator compiler technology with OpenACC to Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, Intel's family of products based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture.
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NASA Awards $1.25 Million to IU for Polar Mission Data
Nov 15, 2012 |
Indiana University IT experts will manage critical climate data from two NASA polar missions, again demonstrating IU's advanced data management and storage solutions for climate scientists.
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AMD FirePro Puts Green in Supercomputing
Nov 15, 2012 |
AMD has collaborated with the University of Frankfurt's Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) to secure the number two ranking on the latest Green500 List.
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ETI Announces Xeon Phi Support with SWARM
Nov 15, 2012 |
ET International, Inc. (ETI) announced ETI SWARM technology is supporting the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
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Solarflare Announces University Program
Nov 15, 2012 |
Solarflare announced the launch of its Solarflare University Program for the Solarflare ApplicationOnLoad Engine (AOE).
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Gnodal Frees Network for 10GbE iWARP Test
Nov 15, 2012 |
Gnodal Limited, the high-performance data center networking company, announced that its Gnodal GS7200 Switch supported Intel's performance testing of ESI Group's PAM-CRASH physics-based simulation software.
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StackIQ Announces Enterprise HPC
Nov 15, 2012 |
StackIQ announced the immediate availability of StackIQ Enterprise HPC, the newest addition to their comprehensive cluster management product line.
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Adaptive Unveils Two Additions to Moab HPC Suite
Nov 14, 2012 |
Adaptive Computing announced the release of two new editions of its Moab HPC Suite: Application Portal Edition and Remote Visualization Edition.
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May 24, 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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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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