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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Solarflare's High-Performance 10GbE Ethernet Adapters Selected for IBM Servers

May 07, 2013 | Solarflare announced today that its latest generation 10GbE Performant and Onload server adapters have been selected by IBM to optimize the I/O performance of the company's System x servers (including iDataPlex).
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CQUniversity Selects SGI to Expand HPC Environment

May 07, 2013 | SGI today announced that CQUniversity Australia has selected SGI to supply new High Performance Computing (HPC) server and storage infrastructure to accelerate its research projects.
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Cray Expands XC30 Line with Air-Cooled Option

May 07, 2013 | With prices starting at $500,000, the Cray XC30-AC (air cooled) supercomputer economizes the packaging, networking, cooling and power options of the Cray XC30 system to provide customers with a balance of features and footprint that matches....
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AMAX to Showcase Solutions at 2013 Interop IT Conference & Expo

May 07, 2013 | AMAX announced that it is showcasing its latest innovations in the Data Center, Open Compute Project (OCP) and Big Data spaces with its ServMax and ClusterMax turnkey computing solutions at the 2013 Interop IT Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 7-9.
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