AMD Unveils Server Strategy and Roadmap

Jun 18, 2013 | AMD today publicly disclosed its strategy and roadmap to recapture market share in enterprise and data center servers by unveiling innovative products that address key technologies and meet the requirements of the fastest-growing data center and cloud computing workloads.
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2013 International Supercomputing Conference Opens in Leipzig

Jun 18, 2013 | The 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) opened its 28th year — in the city of Leipzig to about 2362 attendees, with more still registering.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces 2nd Annual Spain Supercomputing Conference

Jun 18, 2013 | The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, today announced that the HPC Advisory Council, in conjunction with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, will host the 2nd Annual HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference 2013 at the Campus Diagonal Nord, Barcelona, Spain, on September 12th, 2013.
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EADS Announces 'Join the Spirit' Award Winners

Jun 18, 2013 | EADS Innovation Works has announced the winners of its "Join the Spirit" high performance computing competition at a prize giving ceremony held during the 50th Paris Air Show.
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AMAX ClusterMax Cluster and ServMax Server Solutions Updated

Jun 18, 2013 | AMAX, a leading innovator of High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, announced the update of its ClusterMax & ServMax Many Core HPC Solutions, high-performance solutions supporting the latest Intel Xeon Phi 7120P and 3120P Coprocessors, in addition to the already released 5110P model.
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IDC Announces New Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

Jun 18, 2013 | International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced the fifth round of recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award at the ISC'13 supercomputer industry conference in Leipzig, Germany.
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Xyratex Enhances ClusterStor Operating System, Unlocks More Value for Scale-Out HPC Storage

Jun 18, 2013 | Xyratex Ltd., a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced that it has released version 1.3 of the operating system software for its industry-leading ClusterStor 6000 high-performance computing (HPC) storage solution.
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Researchers Deploy GPUs to Build World's Largest Artificial Neural Network

Jun 18, 2013 | NVIDIA today announced that it has collaborated with a research team at Stanford University to create the world’s largest artificial neural network built to model how the human brain learns. The network is 6.5 times bigger than the previous record-setting network developed by Google in 2012.
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Cray Launches Complete Lustre Storage Solution Across HPC and Big Data Computing Markets

Jun 18, 2013 | At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the launch of Cray Cluster Connect – a complete Lustre storage solution for x86 Linux clusters.
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Azul Systems and Solarflare Partner to Eliminate Java Application Jitter for Capital Markets

Jun 18, 2013 | Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today entered into a technical partnership with Solarflare, a leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware.
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Mellanox Technologies Names Board Chairman

Jun 18, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the appointment of Irwin Federman as non-executive chairman of the company’s board of directors. Mr. Federman has served as a member of Mellanox’s Board of Directors since its inception in June 1999, and is currently the company’s lead director.
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Cirrascale Announces Expanded Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Product Family

Jun 17, 2013 | Cirrascale Corporation, a premier developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage infrastructure for conventional and modular data centers, today announced its upgraded VB5400 blade server featuring expanded support to handle up to eight of the newly released Intel Xeon Phi 5120D, 3120A, 3120P, 7120P, and 7120X coprocessors (formerly codenamed “Knights Corner”).
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AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 Powers Rubicon Project

Jun 17, 2013 | AMD announced that its SeaMicro SM15000 server is the foundation for Rubicon Project’s REVV, the world’s largest, fastest and easiest-to-use independent real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads.
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World Premiere for Turbocharged Data Speed

Jun 17, 2013 | Introduced at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, a collaboration of industry and research co-managed by T-Systemsand Alcatel-Lucent showed the way ahead. Optical data transmission at top performance levels, combined with high-speed flash memory technologies and a distributed high-performancefile system, allow applications to communicate with one another using a 400 Gbit/s data path in a world premiere.
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Mellanox's FDR InfiniBand Solution with NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA Technology Provides Superior Performance

Jun 17, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the next major advancement in GPU-to-GPU communications with the launch of its FDR InfiniBand solution with support for NVIDIA GPUDirect remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology.
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Purdue Builds Nation's Fastest Campus Supercomputer - Again

Jun 17, 2013 | For the third year in a row, Purdue University has confirmed its lead in the rarified realm of supercomputing by unveiling Conte, the nation's fastest university-owned supercomputer, developed in a collaboration with HP, Intel, and Mellanox.
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Colfax Announces New Line of Servers and Workstations Supporting Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Jun 17, 2013 | Colfax International announced support for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors across its new line-up of ServEdge servers and ProEdge workstations that deliver coprocessor density, compute power and efficiency, enabling researchers and scientists to achieve breakthrough innovations & discoveries for highly-parallel workloads.
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Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputers to Feature New Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors x100 Family

Jun 17, 2013 | At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Cray CS300 line of cluster supercomputers is now available with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor x100 family.
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Intel Powers the World's Fastest Supercomputer, Reveals HPC Technologies

Jun 17, 2013 | A system built with thousands of Intel processors and co-processors was just named the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 41st edition of the Top500 list of supercomputers.
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Supermicro Announces Support for New Intel Xeon Phi x100 Product Family

Jun 17, 2013 | Supermicro announces the industry's widest range of server solutions supporting Intel's new Xeon Phi coprocessors this week in Leipzig, Germany, at the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC).
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IDT RapidIO 20 Gbps-Per-Port Switches Provide High Performance Interconnect for Supercomputer

Jun 17, 2013 | Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), the Analog and Digital Company delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that the IDT CPS-1848 and CPS-1616 Gen 2 Serial RapidIO switches provide the key system interconnect for the low-power BrownDwarf Supercomputer developed by nCore HPC and Prodrive.
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Colorado State University Engineering Professors Receive Award to Design Green Supercomputers

Jun 17, 2013 | Sudeep Pasricha, H. J. Siegel, Tony Maciejewski and Pat Burns, engineering professors at Colorado State University, have received $850,000 from the National Science Foundation for research that will enable the next generation of green supercomputing.
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IDC Market Study Shows Strong Gains for Co-Processors and Big Data at HPC Sites

Jun 17, 2013 | The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing Big Data analysis as part of their HPC workloads, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Study of HPC End-User Sites.
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Altair's PBS Professional Deployed on Cray XC30 Supercomputer at JAIST

Jun 17, 2013 | Altair, a global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced that its industry-leading workload management product, PBS Professional, has been selected to manage workload for the Cray XC30 supercomputer recently put into production by the Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST).
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Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Solutions Deliver Leading Application Performance and Scalability

Jun 17, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions deliver unmatched application performance over competing interconnect solutions.
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