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To Unify or Not to Unify? The Question for Datacenters
Apr 09, 2013 |
The Top500 list is dominated each year by unified systems. That is, the same vendor provides most of the hardware, the same CPUs are used across the system, etc. If HPC systems are built this way, why aren’t many datacenters?
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Long-Term Funding Essential for Supercomputers
Apr 08, 2013 |
Financial Review | Chief executive of the NSW (University of New South Wales) university consortium Intersect makes the case for a holistic funding strategy.
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Releasing the Kraken on Protoplanetary Disks
Apr 02, 2013 |
The large-scale classical physics problems that remain unsolved must for the most part be run in parallel by high-performance machines like the Kraken supercomputer. Literally millions of variables culled from billions of particles combine to make this type of research unreasonable for ordinary computational physics.
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Intel Seeks Exascale Program Lead
Mar 29, 2013 |
Intel has put out feelers for a well-connected champion of exascale technologies to bolster its role around the new efforts and funding that....
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Yellowstone Helps Predict Air Pollution
Mar 28, 2013 |
The Yellowstone supercomputer has a 1.5-petaflop I-data plex system at peak. The machine was first tasked with 11 compute-intensive projects as part of the Accelerated Scientific Discovery (ASD) initiative.
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UCLA Uses Big Data to Prevent Brain Injuries
Mar 27, 2013 |
One of the biggest areas of concern with brain trauma is swelling, which can become life threatening if it’s not caught in time. UCLA, with the help of Excel Medical Electronics and IBM, is turning to big data to proactively prevent this problem.
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Setting Up CUDA in the Cloud
Mar 26, 2013 |
Tutorial describes how to implement CUDA and parallel programming in the AWS Cloud.
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Post Office Mines Data to Fight Fraud
Mar 26, 2013 |
Federal Computer Week | The US Postal Service relies on the power of big data to analyze over 528 million mail pieces per day for signs of fraud.
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IDC: Supercomputing Spending Jumps 30 Percent
Mar 25, 2013 |
IDC report highlights the continued shift to large system sales.
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Hopper Lights Up the Cosmos
Mar 25, 2013 |
Hooper, the Opteron-powered Cray system at NERSC has been tasked with helping scientists on the Planck space telescope project filter ancient light against sensor signals to help astronomers understand the....
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Quantum Computing Nears Commercial Adoption
Mar 22, 2013 |
The New York Times | Lockheed Martin puts D-Wave quantum computer to work manufacturing aircraft systems.
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Supercomputing Benchmarked at Elementary Science Fair
Mar 22, 2013 |
Sixth grade science project asks "How Super Is Your Computer?"
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UCSD's Big Data Freeway
Mar 21, 2013 |
The New York Times | UCSD rolls out a next-generation bypass network across its La Jolla, Calif., campus.
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Sequoia Goes Core-AZY
Mar 20, 2013 |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | LLNL researchers have successfully harnessed all 1,572,864 of Sequoia's cores for one impressive simulation.
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Assembling Blue Waters
Mar 20, 2013 |
As NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer approaches full service status, we thought it would be appropriate to see how the machine was built.
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QMachine Combines HPC with WWW
Mar 14, 2013 |
QMachine leverages the processing power of Web browsers to create a commodity supercomputer.
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Computing for a Cure
Mar 13, 2013 |
Quantum Cures wants your help identifying drug candidates for orphan and rare diseases.
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Student Competition Fuels Watson Innovation
Mar 12, 2013 |
IBM | University of Southern California students compete to identify Watson's next gig.
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Intel Xeon Phi Versus 'Sandy Bridge'
Mar 05, 2013 |
How does the Phi coprocessor measure up to Xeon "Sandy Bridge" brand-mate?
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UberCloud HPC Experiment Preps for Round Three
Mar 05, 2013 |
HPC in the Cloud | The cloud-based experiment seeks participants from the HPC, CAE, life sciences, and big data communities.
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StarCluster 101
Mar 01, 2013 |
Create DIY HPC clusters in the Amazon cloud with the StarCluster toolkit. Here's how.
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World's Fastest Supercomputer Hits Speed Bump
Feb 27, 2013 |
When it comes to Titan's final acceptance testing, ONRL says not so fast.
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How to Explain Your Job to Your Kids
Feb 27, 2013 |
On the lighter side of HPC, here's a video explaining what supercomputers do.
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Supercomputing Challenges and Predictions
Feb 27, 2013 |
Everybody loves predictions. Here's a few made by IEEE group members at SC12 in case you missed it.
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BAM! Obama Backs Brain Mapping Project
Feb 26, 2013 |
Proposed decade-long brain mapping initiative is similar in scope to the Human Genome Project.
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May 21, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 14, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 10, 2013
- Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards
- ODCA to Hypervisor and VM Providers: Interoperability is an Enterprise Cloud Requirement
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May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
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May 08, 2013
- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
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Feature Articles
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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Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede
The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon
Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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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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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications
May 10, 2013 |
Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island
May 09, 2013 |
The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud
May 08, 2013 |
For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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