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Wyoming Students Receive NCAR Summer Internships
May 02, 2013 |
Three University of Wyoming students will work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research this summer.
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AMD Focusing on Solutions Through Semi-Custom Business Unit
May 02, 2013 |
AMD announced a strategic focus on developing one-of-a-kind solutions through its Semi-Custom Business Unit.
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Microsemi Leveraging Intel for Digital Integrated Circuits Development
May 02, 2013 |
Microsemi is leveraging Intel's onshore foundry technology for the development of advanced high-performance digital integrated circuits and system-on-chip solutions.
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Cray Presenting at 2013 SMID Cap Conference
May 02, 2013 |
Cray announced that Brian Henry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Paul Hiemstra, Director, Treasury and Investor Relations, will be presenting at the 2013 Small and Mid Cap Conference.
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Commercial Quantum Computing Company D-Wave Systems Launches
May 02, 2013 |
D-Wave Systems Inc. announced the formal launch of its U.S. business.
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Tech-X Releases GPULib 1.6
May 01, 2013 |
Tech-X announced the release of GPULib 1.6, the latest release of Interactive Data Language (IDL) calculations using GPU hardware.
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Dr. Niall Gaffney Joins TACC as Director of Data Intensive Computing
May 01, 2013 |
TACC at The University of Texas at Austin announced that Dr. Niall Gaffney has joined the center in the position of Director of Data Intensive Computing.
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Arista Enhances 7500 Modular Switching Platform
May 01, 2013 |
Arista Networks announced enhancements to its Arista 7500 modular switching platform that enables Cloud Networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines.
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Applied Math Modeling Announces CoolSim 4.1
May 01, 2013 |
Applied Math Modeling announced the availability of CoolSim 4.1 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software.
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Nimbix and Convey Partner to Expand Hybrid-Core Infrastructure
May 01, 2013 |
Nimbix has partnered with Convey to expand its Convey hybrid-core infrastructure.
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SGI Providing Data Management Infrastructure at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
May 01, 2013 |
SGI announced that iVEC and CSIRO have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
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A10 Networks Announces Thunder Series Platforms
May 01, 2013 |
The new Thunder Series models consolidate stand-alone solutions encompassing ADCs and Server Load Balancers.
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New Simulation Speed Record Achieved with Sequoia Supercomputer
May 01, 2013 |
Computer scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have set a high performance computing speed record.
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Pankaj Mehra Named Chief Technology Officer for Fusion-io
May 01, 2013 |
Fusion-io announced Dr. Pankaj Mehra has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President.
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Rogue Wave to Debug CSC-IT Center for Science's Cray XC30 Supercomputer
May 01, 2013 |
Rogue Wave Software announced that TotalView has been selected by CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd to debug scientific and research applications on its new Cray XC30 supercomputer.
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Gluster Community Extends Charter to Multi-Projects
May 01, 2013 |
Red Hat announced that the Gluster Community has extended its charter from a single project to a multi-project open source community.
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Molex Introduces Low Energy Memory Module Sockets
May 01, 2013 |
Molex introduced aerodynamic DDR3 DIMM sockets and ultra-low profile DDR3 DIMM memory module sockets.
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Spirent Launches Next-Gen Ethernet Test Solutions
May 01, 2013 |
Spirent Communications announced the launch of its next-generation high speed Ethernet test solutions.
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Massachusetts Broadband Institute Deploys Ciena's 6500 Packet-Optical Platform
May 01, 2013 |
Tthe Massachusetts Broadband Institute is deploying Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, equipped with WaveLogic Coherent Optical Processors.
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Cray Announces 1Q13 Results
Apr 30, 2013 |
Cray Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.
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CENIC and ESnet Link Networks at 100 Gbps
Apr 30, 2013 |
CENIC and ESnet announced a 100Gbps link between their networks at the Sunnyvale backbone node of CENIC’s CalREN.
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SanDisk's FlashSoft Validated by NetApp
Apr 30, 2013 |
SanDisk announced that its FlashSoft software has been validated by NetApp as compatible with NetApp Data ONTAP enterprise storage and data management technologies.
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GE Announces IBX400 6U OpenVPX InfiniBand Switch Fabric Module
Apr 30, 2013 |
GE Intelligent Platforms announced the rugged IBX400 6U OpenVPX InfiniBand Switch Fabric Module.
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Second Release Candidate for OpenMP 4.0 Available
Apr 30, 2013 |
OpenMP continues to extend its reach beyond pure HPC to include DSPs, real time systems, and accelerators.
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Emulex Releases LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs for Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers
Apr 30, 2013 |
Emulex announced the availability of its LightPulse LPe16000B-M6-F single-port and LPe16002B-M6-F dual-port 16Gb Fibre ChannelHost Bus Adapters.
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May 21, 2013
- Cyber Network Gears Up for Growth in the Cloud With IBM PureSystems
- New OMAP5432 Processor-Based Evaluation Module From Texas Instruments
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May 20, 2013
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May 16, 2013
- D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New AI Initiative
- Mines' Powerful New Supercomputer to Focus on Energy Research
- Kitware Develops Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC for Mid-Sized Manufacturers
- Next HPC Installation Step Initiated at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
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May 15, 2013
- Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
- Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Kotura, Inc.
- NYSERDA Awards $1.8 Million to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Bright Computing Named Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
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May 14, 2013
- Multimillion Pound Project to Develop Next Generation Computing Systems
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- New IBM Center in Beijing to Speed Linux Applications on Power Systems
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May 13, 2013
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- AMD Targets Server Performance with Open 3.0 Release
- BICS Selects Infinera DTN-X for 500G Pan-European Network
- Juniper Systems Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
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
- Special ISC’13 Session to Probe the Thinking behind Europe’s Human Brain Project
May 09, 2013
- Ireland Sprouts Native Top Supercomputer List
- Durham University Cluster Boosts Study of the Stars
- Supermicro Ships New 4U 72x 3.5" Hot-Swappable HDD Storage Platform
- Two Virginia Tech Teams Named Finalists in DARPA Spectrum Challenge
May 08, 2013
- Cloud-Ready GlusterFS 3.4 Beta Now Available
- NCSA Hosts 2013 Private Sector Program Annual Meeting May 13-17 in Champaign/Urbana.
- Seagate Unveils Complete SSD Product Line
- Clustered Systems Installs Efficient 100kW Rack at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Penguin Computing Named Open Compute Project Solution Provider
- Silicon Mechanics Shows Computing and Storage Platforms at TechKnowFile
- OrangeFS Available on AWS Marketplace
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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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