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SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
May 13, 2013 |
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego will host its first annual research review for current and prospective industrial partners and affiliates as part of a broader strategy to foster increased collaborations that may benefit from the center’s extensive research capabilities.
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AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
May 13, 2013 |
AMD today announced availability of servers based on its AMD Open 3.0 specification, defined as part of the Open Compute Project, delivering workload versatility and performance equal to competing proprietary OEM servers at significantly lower cost.
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BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
May 13, 2013 |
Infinera and BICS announced today the selection of the Infinera DTN-X platform to upgrade BICS' Pan-European network. The Infinera DTN-X delivers 500 Gigabit per second (Gb/s) long haul super-channels, enabling BICS to deliver flexible and cost effective 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services.
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Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
May 13, 2013 |
This year Juniper Systems is celebrating its 20th year in business. Founded in 1993 by Ron Campbell, the company continues to be operated by members of the Campbell family. Ron’s son, Rob Campbell, has served as president of Juniper Systems since 2001.
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Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
May 10, 2013 |
Materials science and physics research led by early career Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists received a boost this week from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program.
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ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
May 10, 2013 |
New document provides clear guidance on achieving interoperability of various hypervisor platforms and virtual machines based on well-defined enterprise requirements.
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Special ISC’13 Session to Probe the Thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project
May 10, 2013 |
The Human Brain Project will pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. In a special session at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference, scientists working on the Human Brain Project will discuss their vision and roadmap for computing.
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Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
May 09, 2013 |
Today at the 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications conference in Athlone, the Irish500 project has been launched to raise the profile of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Ireland.
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Durham University Cluster Boosts Study of the Stars
May 09, 2013 |
A high performance server cluster is enabling researchers to better understand the universe by allowing them to model phenomena ranging from solar flares to the formation of galaxies.
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Supermicro Ships New 4U 72x 3.5" Hot-Swappable HDD Storage Platform
May 09, 2013 |
Super Micro Computer, Inc. is shipping a new scale-out object storage solution based on the high capacity Double-Sided Storage server (SSG-6047R-E1R72L) featuring 72x 3.5" hot-swappable HDDs plus 2x 2.5" hot-swappable HDDs, supporting up to 288TB using the latest 4TB Enterprise drives.
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Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
May 09, 2013 |
Two student teams from Virginia Tech's electrical and computer engineering program have qualified among the 15 finalists in an international competition to develop strategies for clear communication in spite of interfering signals on a radio channel.
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Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
May 08, 2013 |
With new features and enhancements in cloud, virtualization, and performance, the beta version of GlusterFS 3.4 brings high reliability, scalability, and data mobility to users and application developers.
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NCSA Hosts 2013 Private Sector Program Annual Meeting May 13-17 in Champaign/Urbana.
May 08, 2013 |
Highlights include early sustained petascale performance on Blue Waters, software performance teams, industry access to software talent and performance hardware, BP’s petascale pursuits, precision manufacturing, data-intensive computing, software innovation, and more.
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Seagate Unveils Complete SSD Product Line
May 08, 2013 |
Seagate Technology plc announced its new portfolio of flash-memory solutions. The company took the wraps off its first client solid state drive (SSD) and its next-generation enterprise SSDs.
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Clustered Systems Installs Efficient 100kW Rack at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
May 08, 2013 |
Clustered Systems recently completed the installation of its first "hyper efficient" computing system at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Initial testing indicates that an average PUE of 1.07 can be expected.
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Penguin Computing Named Open Compute Project Solution Provider
May 08, 2013 |
Effective immediately Penguin is delivering fully integrated, scalable OCP solutions that are built-to-order to meet the requirements of mid and large scale datacenters.
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Silicon Mechanics Shows Computing and Storage Platforms at TechKnowFile
May 08, 2013 |
Silicon Mechanics, Inc. announces that it will be showcasing its high-performance computing, storage, general computing, and server solutions at the University of Toronto’s TechKnowFile 2013, which will be held May 9-10, 2013 at the University’s downtown St. George campus.
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OrangeFS Available on AWS Marketplace
May 08, 2013 |
Today Omnibond announces the availability of OrangeFS on AWS Marketplace. The availability of OrangeFS on AWS Marketplace offers customers the simplicity of Running Big Data, HPC and other high-performance and data-intensive applications on AWS.
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Teradata Introduces In-Memory Technology that Supports Big Data Deployments
May 08, 2013 |
Teradata introduced Teradata Intelligent Memory, an innovative database technology. Teradata Intelligent Memory creates the industry's first extended memory space beyond cache that significantly increases query performance and enables organizations to leverage in-memory technologies with big, diverse data.
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Argonne Announces Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
May 07, 2013 |
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive hands-on training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems and the leadership-class computing systems of the future.
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Virtual School Summer Courses Available on Data-Intensive and Many-Core Computing
May 07, 2013 |
Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up now for two summer school courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.
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Nallatech Joins Altera’s Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL
May 07, 2013 |
Nallatech announced it is officially a member of the Altera Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL.
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Vicor's ChiP Power Component Packaging to Make European Debut at PCIM Europe 2013
May 07, 2013 |
Vicor Corporation today announced its participation in the Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM) 2013 conference, the international conference devoted to power electronics and its applications, hosted in Nuremberg, Germany, May 14-16, 2013.
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Hetzner Online Deploys ADVA 100G Core to Answer Data Growth
May 07, 2013 |
ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Hetzner Online has deployed its 100G Core technology throughout its backbone network.
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WD And SanDisk To Create Solid State Hybrid Drives
May 07, 2013 |
WD, a Western Digital company, and SanDisk Corporation today announced that the two companies are collaborating to introduce hybrid storage devices that feature flash memory technology from SanDisk and hard drive technology from WD.
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May 24, 2013
- IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
- Bright Computing Named Winner of 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
- Supermicro Announces New High-Density Server Solutions
May 23, 2013
- TACC to Upgrade to Internet2's Fastest Network Connection: 100 Gbps
- European Commission CoolEmAll Project Releases Prototypes
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May 22, 2013
- OpenFabrics Alliance to Host Two RDMA Training Courses at University of New Hampshire
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May 21, 2013
- Keyes and Sterling to Headline IEEE Cluster 2013 Conference
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- Weidlinger Launches PZFlexCloud Using CliQr Technologies
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May 20, 2013
- Cray and VBRX to Host Event for Upstream Applications in Oil and Gas
- Dell to Deliver Public Cloud Through Partner Ecosystem
- Mentor and Tezzaron Optimize Calibre 3DSTACK for 2.5/3D-ICs
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May 16, 2013
- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
- Kitware Develops Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Next HPC Installation Step Initiated at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
- HybridCluster2.0 Self-Healing, Ultra-High Availability Capabilities Unveiled
May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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- NEC Establishes NEC Ukraine to Strengthen Operations in Russia and the CIS
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May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
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- SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
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- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
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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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