PRACE Announces HPC Competition for End-User Applications

Dec 28, 2012 | PRACE has announced the launch of the second round of its Competition for the Most Innovative HPC End-User Application in Europe.
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ORNL Highlights 2012 Supercomputing Achievements

Dec 28, 2012 | The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory regained the lead in high-performance computing, enjoyed record-setting recognition for its research and became a showpiece for renewable energy technology during 2012.
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IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference Now Accepting Proposals

Dec 20, 2012 | The organizing committee for the IEEE Cluster 2013 conference is now accepting proposals for tutorials, technical papers, posters, panels, and visualizations.
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Tucson to Host HPC User Forum in April

Dec 20, 2012 | IDC announced today that the HPC User Forum will return to Tucson, Arizona for its 49th meeting, April 29-May 1, 2013.
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Chelsio Announces Unified Wire API for 40G, 100G Ethernet

Dec 20, 2012 | Chelsio Communications announced its Unified Wire API, which includes all management and application software and is future proofed for 40G and 100G speeds.
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Open Source Software in HPC

Dec 17, 2012 | The superior performance, cost-effectiveness and flexibility of open-source software has made it the predominant choice of HPC professionals. However, the complexity and associated cost of deploying and managing open-source clusters threatens to erode the very cost benefits that have made it compelling in the first place.
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Podcast: BP Preps for Petascale Machine; HPC Peers Over Fiscal Cliff

Dec 14, 2012 | Addison and Michael talk about a new petascale supercomputer that British multinational BP is planning to install. They also discuss the possible fallout in the HPC community if the US government goes over the "fiscal cliff.
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UrbanCCD Rises to Urban Planning Challenge

Dec 14, 2012 | The Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) will apply the most advanced computational and data-driven techniques to the challenge of intelligent urban planning and design
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Sabalcore, CD-adapco Sponsor UM Formula SAE Team

Dec 14, 2012 | Sabalcore Computing and CD-adapco have teamed up to support the University of Missouri-Columbia (UM) Formula SAE racing team for the 2012-2013 season.
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Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2012

Dec 13, 2012 | In the world of high performance computing, a lot of the important news this year revolved around heterogeneous computing, big data, and HPC interconnects. Two vendors that perhaps embodied those technologies more so than others were Cray and Intel, both of which figured prominently in some of the biggest HPC stories in 2012. Here are HPCwire's highlights and lowlights for the year.
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Germany Comes Out on Top with JUQUEEN

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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TACC Develops Visualization Software for Humanities

Dec 13, 2012 | The Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin has released Most Pixels Ever: Cluster Edition, an open source software tool for creating interactive, multimedia visualizations on high resolution, tiled displays.
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New Leader Named to UT-ORNL Supercomputer Center

Dec 13, 2012 | Tony Mezzacappa, a leader in the field of astrophysics and supernova science, has been named director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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WHIPTAIL Raises $31 Million for Flash Adoption

Dec 13, 2012 | WHIPTAIL announced a $31 million investment, including strategic investments from flash-memory leader SanDisk as well as an unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan.
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BP Brings Petascale Computing to Oil and Gas Industry

Dec 12, 2012 | British multinational BP revealed it is building a new datacenter in Houston to house a 2-petaflop supercomputer. When installed in 2013, it will likely be the most powerful system deployed by a commercial entity, at least of the ones that have been publicly revealed. The upcoming petaflopper will support the company's oil and gas exploration efforts and other research objectives.
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Programming the Xeon Phi

Dec 12, 2012 | Dr. Dobb's Journal | Intel's manycore wonder comes with its own programming challenges.
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Gov. Kasich 'Lights Up' Ohio's Broadband Pipeline

Dec 12, 2012 | During an unveiling of the completed upgrades to OARnet's ultra high-speed fiber optic network backbone, Governor John Kasich showcased how the technology will create and enhance academic partnerships with businesses statewide.
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CLC Bio Joins STATegra for Epigenetics Platform

Dec 12, 2012 | CLC bio announced the participation in the European FP7 project, STATegra, and receives 1.3 million US Dollars out of the total $7.8M project budget.
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Infinera Delivers 100GbE to DOE's ESnet

Dec 12, 2012 | Infinera announced the deployment of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services on the Long Island MAN portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) with the Infinera DTN Platform.
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Alabama Selects Rackwise for Data Center Management

Dec 12, 2012 | Rackwise, Inc. announced that The Retirement Systems of Alabama has selected Rackwise DCiM X to manage the newly opened, hosted colocation RSA Dexter Avenue Datacenter.
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Vitesse, Microsemi Ease Transition to IP Edge Networks

Dec 12, 2012 | Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation and Microsemi Corporation announced the availability of a joint reference design delivering precise IEEE1588v2 timing and synchronization required by carriers to deliver scalable, higher bandwidth.
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BiTMICRO Announces maxIO Next Gen SSD

Dec 12, 2012 | BiTMICRO announced today that it has completed the first production units of its maxIO PCIe SSD, its new enterprise-class solid state drive.
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Terascala Joins NCSA for Lustre Development

Dec 12, 2012 | Terascala announced that it has joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Private Sector Program to extend the development and capabilities of Lustre.
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The Dresden University of Technology Taps Bull for Supercomputer

Dec 12, 2012 | Once the two phases of its installation are completed in 2013/14, the new supercomputer, which represents an investment of about 15 million Euros, will benefit the whole research community in Saxony.
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Science,Technology Will Suffer If US Goes Over Fiscal Cliff

Dec 11, 2012 | Automatic spending cuts would take a bite out of government-funded research.
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YarcData Joins W3C to Promote SPARQL, RDF Standards

Dec 11, 2012 | YarcData announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is an international community that develops open web standards.
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Testing Whether We Live in a Computer Simulation

Dec 11, 2012 | Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested.
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Bill Appelbe Joins Compute Canada as CEO

Dec 11, 2012 | Bill Appelbe, an international leader in advanced computing for research and development, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Compute Canada – Calcul Canada, officials announced.
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EIOW Shaping Exascale I/O is gaining Industry Momentum

Dec 11, 2012 | As 2012 comes to a close, I see some great progress being made by the Exascale I/O Workgroup (EIOW – see www.EIOW.org). From helping formulate requirements on next generation I/O middleware to working among diverse HPC application developers and industry contributors, the group is charting a new direction for exascale-capable HPC architectural methods and prototypes.
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HPC as a Service: Lessons Learned

Dec 10, 2012 | After a fast-paced three months, round 1 of the HPC Experiment (also known as the Uber-Cloud Experiment) concluded last month, with more than 160 participating organizations and individuals from 25 countries, working together in 25 international teams. In this article we present their main findings, challenges, and their lessons learned.
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Research and Markets: HPC Market to Grow 7.14 Percent by 2015

Dec 10, 2012 | The global high performance computing market is set to grow at a CAGR of 7.17 percent over the period 2011-2015, according to Research and Markets.
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NCAR Officials to Address Supercomputer Allocation

Dec 10, 2012 | Officials from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will address questions on how University of Wyoming researchers can obtain large allocations of time on the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
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BP to House Largest Commercial Research Supercomputer

Dec 10, 2012 | BP has begun construction of a new facility to house what it claims is the largest supercomputing complex for commercial research in the world.
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Tiny Transistor Challenges Silicon’s Dominance

Dec 10, 2012 | Silicon’s crown is under threat, thanks to the development of the smallest transistor ever to be built from a rival material, indium gallium arsenide.
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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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Podcast: HPC Acceleration Looks For Elusive Standard; Password Cracking, GPU-Style

Dec 07, 2012 | OpenMP takes a shot at accelerator support and password cracking gets a big boost, thanks to a GPU cluster.
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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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The New Breed of Accelerators from NVIDIA, Intel and AMD Square Off

Dec 06, 2012 | With the recent introduction of Intel's first Xeon Phi coprocessors, NVIDIA's latest Kepler GPUs, and AMD's new FirePro S10000 graphics card, the competition for HPC chip componentry has entered a new phase. The three chipmakers have taken somewhat different paths though, and it will be up to the market to decide which vendor's approach will win the day.
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Council on Competitiveness Defends TOP500 Usefulness

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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GPU Monster Shreds Password Hashes

Dec 06, 2012 | Today's notion of safe passwords may soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to cheaper hardware, cloud software, and free password cracking programs, it's easier than ever to hack these digital keys. Just how easy? Earlier this week, a custom-built GPU cluster tore through 348 billion password hashes per second during the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway.
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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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Canadian Researchers Build Virtual Brain

Dec 05, 2012 | Computational neuroscientists at the University of Waterloo construct a rather human-like visual recognition system.
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Neutron Science and Supercomputing Come Together at Oak Ridge National Lab

Dec 04, 2012 | As the data sets generated by the increasingly powerful neutron scattering instruments at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) grow ever more massive, the facility's users require significant advances in data reduction and analysis tools. To meet the challenge, SNS data specialists have teamed with ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate.
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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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DOE Commissions Extreme Computing Study

Dec 03, 2012 | The Council on Competitiveness has been awarded a $914,000 grant from the Department of Energy to explore the implications of the emerging post-petaflop era and the challenges associated with extreme computing. HPCwire talks to Council on Competitiveness Senior Vice President Cynthia R. McIntyre to learn more about the project.
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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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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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Innovating In the Cloud

Dec 03, 2012 | Altair’s HyperWorks On-Demand™ allows customers to leverage their investment in Altair’s patented licensing system to run software on a hosted HPC infrastructure via a secure, web-based portal. Launched from a web browser, HWOD enables engineers to burst to the cloud to run simulations so organizations can easily scale resources to meet growing compute demand.
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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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Podcast: What China's New Leadership Means for HPC; The Race to Exascale

Nov 30, 2012 | Addison and Michael offer some perspective on what China's revamped leadership might mean to the country's HPC efforts. They also discuss why the US DOE is extending its timeline for exascale computing.
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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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Sequoia Supercomputer Runs Cosmology Code at 14 Petaflops

Nov 29, 2012 | Lawrence Livermore machine sets new record for sustained application performance.
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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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The HPC Triple Crown

Nov 28, 2012 | The semi-annual HPC “500 list” time and its attendant fall iron horse racing season are upon us. Thanks to the hard work of the list keepers, we currently enjoy three major ones to review, compare and contrast: TOP500, Green500 and Graph 500. Each focuses on a distinct aspect of HPC – number crunching, energy efficiency, and data crunching, respectively – and together they allow us to construct our own type of Triple Crown.
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Supercomputer Reveals the Cosmos in a Different Light

Nov 28, 2012 | UCSD News Center | Natural and man-made networks appear to mirror the structure of the universe.
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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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Adaptive Revs Moab, Debuts Remote Virtualization Edition

Nov 28, 2012 | At SC12, Adaptive announced its Moab HPC Suite 7.2 release, which includes several productivity enhancements and introduces support for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The workload management vendor also launched two new products as part of its Moab HPC Suite: Application Portal Edition and Remote Visualization Edition.
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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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OpenMP Takes To Accelerated Computing

Nov 27, 2012 | OpenMP, the popular parallel programming standard for high performance computing, is about to come out with a new version incorporating a number of enhancements, the most significant one being support for HPC accelerators. Version 4.0 will include the functionality that was implemented in OpenACC, the accelerator API that splintered off from the OpenMP work, as well as offer additional support beyond that. The new standard is expected to become the the law of the land sometime in early 2013.
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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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DOE Pushes Back Plans for Exascale Supercomputing

Nov 26, 2012 | First US exaflop super might not boot up until 2022.
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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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SGI Supercomputer Takes Twitter's Pulse

Nov 22, 2012 | UV 2 system can create heat maps of tweets during hurricanes and elections.
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