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AMAX Launches New Server Platforms

Jun 05, 2013 | AMAX, a leading innovator of High Performance Computing (HPC), dynamic Enterprise IT, and custom Appliance Manufacturing solutions, announced the immediate release of its latest, most advanced CPU-based computing solutions built upon the brand new Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family.
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Army Supercomputing Research Center Opens New Facility

Jun 04, 2013 | The U.S. Army Research Laboratory Supercomputing Research Center will host an invitation-only open house at 9 a.m., June 10, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
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Top CTOs in North American Electronic Trading Released by Terrapinn

Jun 04, 2013 | The results for the Top 21 CTOs in North American electronic trading have just been released by Terrapinn. The report celebrates the work of 21 individuals in the North American electronic trading space.
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Xyratex Launches ClusterStor Professional Services

Jun 04, 2013 | Xyratex Ltd, a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced the creation of its new ClusterStor Professional Services capability.
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University of Iowa VP for Research to Discuss Advanced Computing

Jun 04, 2013 | The University of Iowa’s vice president for research and economic development will discuss high-performance computing and its potential impact on health and society in a forum in Washington DC.
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OLCF Announces New Head of Scientific Computing

Jun 04, 2013 | The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is proud to announce the addition of T.P. Straatsma as its new Scientific Computing Group (SCG) Leader.
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DNAnexus Launches App Incubator for Genomic Data Analysis

Jun 04, 2013 | DNAnexus, a pioneer in cloud-based DNA data management and analysis solutions, today announced the launch of its new Developer Program (dnanexus.com/developers), which makes available to bioinformaticians and software engineers the technical and support resources needed to create and integrate data analysis applications on the DNAnexus platform.
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Tabor Communications Announces New SVP Appointment to Executive Team

Jun 04, 2013 | Tabor Communications Inc., (TCI), a leading international media, advertising, and communications company announced today the appointment of Alan El Faye to Senior Vice President of marketing and demand generation services.
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Supermicro Exhibits Lineup of Power Saving Server and Storage Solutions

Jun 04, 2013 | Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing is exhibiting its latest energy efficient server and storage solutions this week at Computex, Taiwan.
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Mellanox Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire IPtronics A/S

Jun 04, 2013 | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions for servers and storage systems, announced its intent to acquire privately held IPtronics A/S, a leader in optical interconnect component design for digital communications.
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World's First Intercontinental 100 Gbps Link for Research and Education Demonstrated

Jun 03, 2013 | Six of the world’s leading research and education (R&E) networks and two commercial partners today demonstrated for the first time a Transatlantic 100 gigabits-per-second (Gbps or one billion bits per second) transmission link for research and education between North America and Europe during the TERENA Networking Conference 2013 (TNC2013), held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. These demonstrations showcased emerging technologies and advanced applications for science, research and education.
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X-IO Technologies Announces New File Storage Controller 2200

Jun 03, 2013 | X-IO technologies, a recognized innovator in the storage industry, today announces its File Storage Controller (FSC) 2200 at Microsoft TechEd North America 2013, taking place June 3-6 in New Orleans, LA.
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Emulex Announces Huawei MZ910 Adapter

Jun 03, 2013 | Emulex Corporation, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the newly introduced Huawei MZ910 adapter, leveraging Emulex Engine (XE)201 I/O Controller technology, which is capable of both Fibre Channel and Ethernet-based connectivity.
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Mellanox Announces Virtual Modular Switch

Jun 03, 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 availability of the Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch (VMS) solution, a world leading Ethernet data center aggregation switch infrastructure.
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Achievements of PRACE Recognized by Competitiveness Council

Jun 03, 2013 | The Conclusions of the 3242nd Competitiveness Council published on 30 May recognize the achievements of PRACE in pooling leadership-class computing systems and making them available to all researchers in the EU and associated countries, on the basis of, and in order to enhance, scientific excellence and innovation and the need to maintain this approach.
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GIGABYTE Introduces Two Motherboards Built for the New Intel Xeon Processor E3-1200 V3 Product Family

Jun 03, 2013 | GIGABYTE Technology introduced, in coordination with Intel’s official launch, two initial models of single socket server/workstation motherboards designed for the brand new Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 V3 product family (former codename Haswell).
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PLDA and IP-Maker Announce Joint Solution

May 31, 2013 | PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express and interface IP solutions and IP-Maker today announced a joint solution integrating PLDA’s XpressRICH3 PCIe 3.0 with IP-Maker’s NVM Express (NVMe) IP cores.
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SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review

May 31, 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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Cirrascale Joins NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner Program

May 30, 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 that it has joined the NVIDIA Tesla Preferred Partner program.
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Eight Teams From Four Continents Selected for SC13 Student Cluster Competition

May 30, 2013 | Eight student teams from universities in the United States, Germany, China and Australia have been selected to compete in the Standard Track of the Student Cluster Competition to be held at the SC13 conference, Nov. 17-22, 2013, in Denver, Colorado.
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Viking Technology Collaborates with Supermicro to Design NVDIMM Into x86 Servers

May 30, 2013 | Viking Technology, a division of Sanmina Corporation and leading global manufacturer of innovative DRAM and solid state drive (SSD) solutions, today announced that their ArxCis-NV, a DDR3 Non-Volatile DIMM is available for integration in off-the-shelf (OTS) x86 servers.
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OCZ Technology Collaborates with Mellanox Technologies

May 30, 2013 | OCZ Technology Group, Inc. and Mellanox Technologies have collaborated together to optimize Microsoft SQL Server applications in a Microsoft Always-On deployment that delivers flash I/O storage performance and high availability of data.
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SUSE Incorporates Coraid Drivers for Ethernet Storage and OpenStack

May 30, 2013 | Coraid, a leading provider of Ethernet storage solutions, today announced that it has contributed major updates to the open-source software initiator for ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) in the Linux kernel.
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XSEDE Announces Industry Challenge Program

May 30, 2013 | The eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is accepting proposals for computationally intensive challenges facing industry that could be addressed with access to XSEDE expertise and resources.
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Registration for ICS 2013 Now Open

May 30, 2013 | ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems. ICS 2013 will be held in Eugene, Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette Valley.
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Alternatives Emerge as Linpack Loses Ground

Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Developers Tout GPI Model for Exascale Computing

Jun 19, 2013 | Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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Supercomputers: Not Always the Best for Big Data

Jun 18, 2013 | The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Gordon Flashes Its Versatility in HPC Workloads

Jun 18, 2013 | Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Supercomputers: Still the King of the HPC Hill

Jun 17, 2013 | The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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TACC Longhorn Takes On Natural Language Processing

Jun 14, 2013 | For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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