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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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PRACE Free Autumn School Focuses on Industrial Simulation
May 07, 2013 |
The PRACE Autumn School will offer free courses in industrial simulation, focusing on a number of commonly-used algorithms and techniques, from complex fluid flow simulations to structural mechanics and beyond...
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International Symposium on Computer Architecture and HPC: Call for Papers
May 07, 2013 |
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on topics from a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms, networks, distributed systems and applications.
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AMAX Named Official Solutions Provider of Open Compute Project Foundation
May 06, 2013 |
AMAX has been named a member and official solutions provider to bring unique datacenter experiences to the Open Compute Project Foundation, which is aimed at scalable, efficient computing. The company's role will entail bringing...
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Altera Opens FPGAs to Programmers with SDK, Off-the-Shelf Boards for OpenCL
May 06, 2013 |
Today Altera announced its software developer kit for OpenCL and a new deal to help FPGA developers hit the ground running.
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6WIND Announces OpenFlow Compatibility within Open vSwitch Acceleration Platform
May 06, 2013 |
6WIND today announced full OpenFlow protocol compatibility within its 6WINDGate networking software. At the recent Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA, conference attendees viewed a demonstration of the 6WINDGate virtual switch acceleration in 6WIND’s booth.
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BittWare Joins Altera Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL
May 06, 2013 |
PCIe COTS FPGA board offered as part of a turnkey OpenCL Developer's Bundle at a special introductory price.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Uses Arms, Location and More To Discover Objects
May 06, 2013 |
A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it — an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can be lifted — a robot can continually discover and refine its understanding of objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
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IEEE TCSC Seeks Young Achievers in Scalable Computing
May 06, 2013 |
The IEEE TCSC is seeking nominations of young people working in scalable computing for this year's award. Members of the community are welcome to nominate computer scientists who have....
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ACM Opens Participation Doors for Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Event
May 06, 2013 |
The conference, coming in February, will focus on groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in different arenas of computing. The event is set to be held in Seattle and attract those in many....
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Broadcom Intros Lowest-Power Multi-port Gigabit PHYs
May 06, 2013 |
AutoGrEEEn Plus Technology extends power saving benefits throughout the network.
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AlwaysOn Selects Big Switch Networks as OnDemand 100 Winner
May 03, 2013 |
Big Switch Networks today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners.
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Element Six, Delft University of Technology Reach Quantum Network Milestone
May 03, 2013 |
Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, today announced in collaboration with Delft University of Technology the entanglement of electron spin qubits (quantum bits) in two synthetic diamonds separated in space.
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center Joins the OpenMP Standard Consortium
May 03, 2013 |
24 vendors and research organizations now collaborating on developing standard shared-memory parallel programming model.
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Brian Krzanich Elected Intel CEO
May 02, 2013 |
Intel announced that the board of directors has elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Otellini.
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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
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May 09, 2013
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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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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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Short Takes
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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