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Dec 13, 2012 |
Three of Europe's top ten supercomputers are in Germany, including the number one and number two systems.
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Dec 12, 2012 |
Dr. Dobb's Journal | Intel's manycore wonder comes with its own programming challenges.
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Dec 11, 2012 |
Automatic spending cuts would take a bite out of government-funded research.
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Dec 06, 2012 |
Comments made by Blue Waters Project Director Bill Kramer questioning the continued relevance of the TOP500 list prompt this letter to the editor.
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Dec 05, 2012 |
Computational neuroscientists at the University of Waterloo construct a rather human-like visual recognition system.
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Nov 29, 2012 |
Lawrence Livermore machine sets new record for sustained application performance.
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Nov 28, 2012 |
UCSD News Center | Natural and man-made networks appear to mirror the structure of the universe.
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Nov 26, 2012 |
First US exaflop super might not boot up until 2022.
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Nov 22, 2012 |
UV 2 system can create heat maps of tweets during hurricanes and elections.
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Nov 21, 2012 |
Dell, and R Systems have launched an HPC cloud solution designed to meet the needs of oil and gas companies.
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Nov 20, 2012 |
ARM-based CPU-GPU processor designed for mobile devices makes HPC debut.
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Nov 14, 2012 |
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. to explore options, which could include a sale, as the chipmaker struggles to capture the mobile market. But is AMD's situation as dire as sources claim?
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Nov 07, 2012 |
NYU researchers use TACC and XSEDE supercomputers to model the effect of carcinogenic compounds on DNA.
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Nov 05, 2012 |
Chipmaker unveils Opteron 6300 series -- same core count, more performance.
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Nov 02, 2012 |
The Uber-Cloud Experiment is still seeking participants for the next round, which officially debuts at SC12.
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Nov 01, 2012 |
Computerworld | What could you do with a 48-core smart phone? If Intel has its way, you won't have to wait long to find out.
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Oct 30, 2012 |
Dell hands over its Calxeda ARM-based server platform to the Apache community.
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Oct 30, 2012 |
Big Blue's research arm makes carbon more transistor-friendly.
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Oct 29, 2012 |
Kickstarter investment model notches another high-tech success.
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Oct 23, 2012 |
EE Times | Networking sage talks about Moore's Law, switch buffers and merchant chips.
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Oct 17, 2012 |
French-American duo wins Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to demonstrate bizarre quantum behavior.
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Oct 15, 2012 |
University researchers look for more effective ways of extracting value from an ever-growing deluge of data.
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Oct 11, 2012 |
There's a story circulating that Amazon purchased more than 10,000 NVIDIA Kepler-based boards for its EC2 service.
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Oct 10, 2012 |
If so, who wrote the software?
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Oct 08, 2012 |
China Daily | Tianhe-1A enters the CGI rendering business.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.