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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IU Experts Play Key Role in NASA's Operation IceBridge

May 02, 2013 | Experts from Indiana University have played a role in the NASA's Operation IceBridge mission's success.
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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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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gender Divide

May 01, 2013 | What can be done to address gender inequality in computer science?
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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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IDC Posits Processor Possibilities

May 01, 2013 | This week we're at the IDC User Forum in Tucson, staying cool amidst some heated talks about which processor, coprocessor and accelerator approaches are going to push into the lead in the next few years. To take this pulse, we sat down with IDC's Steve Conway to talk about some general trends that are a tall drink of water for a few key vendors, including Intel, NVIDIA.....
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CUDA-Designed Robot: It's a Hit!

Apr 30, 2013 | NVIDIA Blog | Japanese project marries brain research and robotics for big-time implications.
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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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Mellanox Demonstrating Open Ethernet Platforms During Interop

Apr 30, 2013 | Mellanox will showcase the world’s first demonstration of Open Ethernet platforms during Interop in Las Vegas from May 7-9, 2013
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New Canadian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Tools Maximize Genomics Research

Apr 30, 2013 | Investment will help researchers maximize the utilization of data collected through genomics research.
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Ethernet Alliance Details Interop 2013 Interoperability Demo

Apr 30, 2013 | The Ethernet Alliance provided details of its Interop 2013 interoperability demo.
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Boston Launches High Availability SQL Cluster Appliance in UK

Apr 30, 2013 | Boston Limited unveiled the high performance SuperSQL Cluster Appliance for the first time in the UK at SQLBITS XI.
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Finnish Researchers Welcome New Cray Super

Apr 29, 2013 | Meet Sisu. The flagship of Finnish supercomputing is now in production.
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IBM Introduces MessageSight

Apr 29, 2013 | IBM introduced MessageSight, a new appliance designed to help organizations manage and communicate with the billions of mobile devices and sensors found in systems.
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SAS Announces New High-Performance Analytics Products

Apr 29, 2013 | Six new high-performance analytics products from SAS provide the speed and flexibility of in-memory big data analytics with targeted functions to fit business needs.
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NERSC Managers Shed Light on 'Edison'

Apr 29, 2013 | The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center accepted the first phase of its new Cray Cascade system, named Edison. To find out the reasoning behind the design and deployment of Edison and what it means to NERSC's 4,500 users, Jon Bashor of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences spoke with NERSC Division Director Sudip Dosanjh, NERSC Systems Department Head Jeff Broughton and Advanced Technologies Group Leader Nick Wright.
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Marc Snir Discussing Exascale at UW-Madison

Apr 29, 2013 | Marc Snir will be speaking about exascale workshops the Department of Energy held by the Institute for Computing Sciences on Wed., May 1.
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ICANN Opening Istanbul Hub

Apr 29, 2013 | ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé announced the organization will open its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Notre Dame Team to Fight Malaria

Apr 29, 2013 | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Notre Dame received up to $1.6 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to eradicate malaria.
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Brocade Speaking at IDC's HPC User Forum

Apr 29, 2013 | Brocade announced that it will be exhibiting and speaking at IDC's annual High Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum in Tucson, Arizona this week.
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Solarflare Execs to Speak at IEEE Symposium and Low-Latency Summit

Apr 29, 2013 | Solarflare's Dave Parry will speak at FCCM and Davor Frank will be at the IEEE Symposium.
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How to Deploy Storage to Better Compete in Today’s Economy

Apr 29, 2013 | Being competitive in today’s world economy means companies have to accelerate the time it takes to go from concept to profitable products and services. There is no shortage of new, good ideas and inventions to solve the problems we face; yet the world market demands solutions faster.
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Aspera, IBM and Panasas are Sponsors and Exhibitors at Creative Storage Conference

Apr 26, 2013 | The 2013 Creative Storage Conference will be held Tue., June 25.
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Podcast: ISC13 Preview and A Look Ahead at HPC Trends to Watch

Apr 26, 2013 | This week Nicole and Addison discussed the upcoming ISC13 conference and HPC trends to keep an eye out for, like interconnects.
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IU Dedicates Big Red II

Apr 26, 2013 | Indiana University unveiled Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer.
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Imaging Firm Presenting at 2013 SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing

Apr 26, 2013 | Wasatch Photonics Inc. has launched its Stroker 785L Raman spectrometer
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AMD's Andrew Feldman Presenting at J.P. Morgan Conference

Apr 26, 2013 | AMD announced that Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Server Business Unit Andrew Feldman will present at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.
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NASA's Olaf Storaasli Holding HPC Seminar

Apr 26, 2013 | NASA's Olaf Storaasli is holding an HPC Seminar to describe current HPC and applications they solve.
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Advantech's ARK-2150 Helping Beijing with Traffic

Apr 26, 2013 | ARK-2150, featuring an Intel 3rd generation core i7/i3 processor with a fanless design, has joined the team carrying out Beijing’s traffic control mission.
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FLOW-3D European Users Conference Announces Speakers

Apr 26, 2013 | Flow Science announces the speakers for its 13th annual FLOW-3D European Users Conference.
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The Week in HPC Research

Apr 25, 2013 | We've scoured the journals and conference proceedings to bring you the top research stories of the week. This diverse set of items includes advancements in petascale-era development environments; balancing performance with power efficiency; optimizing computer science instruction; and a possible path to extreme heterogeneity.
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George Michael Fellowship Helps HPC Community Thrive

Apr 26, 2013 | For doctoral candidates in supercomputing, the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship offers a rapid plug-in to the global network of leading high performance computing organizations, from research institutions to industry.
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Adapteva Shows Off $99 Supercomputer Boards

Apr 23, 2013 | Last week, Adapteva revealed the first production units of its $99 Linux "supercomputer." Speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, California, CEO Andreas Olofsson announced the first batch of Parallella final form factor boards will be shipped to the chipmaker's 6,300 Kickstarter supporters by this summer.
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Adaptive Computing Receives Utah Genius Award

Apr 25, 2013 | Adaptive Computing received a Utah Genius Award as the 18th top patent company in Utah.
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AMD Announces 2013 Developer Summit

Apr 25, 2013 | AMD announced that its AMD Developer Summit 2013, called “APU13,” will be held Nov. 11-14, 2013 in San Jose, Calif.
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IBM and Forrester Webinar to Discuss New Ways to Reduce Cost in HPC and Big Data

Apr 25, 2013 | IBM will be hosting a webinar featuring Forrester Research, Inc. on May 9, featuring Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research and Gord Sissons of IBM.
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HPC Center Meets Green Mandate

Apr 24, 2013 | For HPC centers all over the world, providing high-levels of compute power is job number one, but they also must be as energy-efficient as possible.
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Mellanox Announces 1Q13 Results

Apr 24, 2013 | Mellanox announced their first quarter 2013 financial results.
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XSEDE13 Student Programming Contest Registration Opens April 30

Apr 24, 2013 | Students are invited to participate in the XSEDE13 Student Programming Contest, registration for the contest opens April 30 and closes May 30.
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Brain Outperforms Supercomputers

Apr 24, 2013 | IBM's Blue Gene/Q Sequoia supercomputer clocks in at over 16 quadrillion calculations per second. According to Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D., the Blue Gene doesn't compare to the power of the brain.
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IU and Internet2 Announce $2 Million Initiative to Address Public Sector Cyber Threats

Apr 24, 2013 | Indiana University and Internet2 announced a $2 million initiative to stimulate collaboration in higher education cybersecurity efforts.
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IBM and Rensselaer Combine to Offer a New Graduate Program

Apr 24, 2013 | IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are combining forces to offer a new graduate program in fall 2013.
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Penguin Announces Icebreaker CS Storage Platform

Apr 24, 2013 | Penguin announced the availability of the Icebreaker CS storage platform for large scale-out cloud storage deployments.
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Researchers Using Blue Waters to Understand Global Precipitation

Apr 24, 2013 | A research team including Penn State engineers will use Lue Waters to enhance scientists' understanding of global precipitation.
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KINBER Completes Statewide Broadband Network

Apr 24, 2013 | KINBER announced that Bucks County-based Sunesys completed the construction of KINBER’s Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN).
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Cisco Delivers New Solutions for SANs

Apr 24, 2013 | Cisco announced new solutions for SANs that deliver higher performance, scalability and reliability than other competing systems.
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Concurrent Announces Cache Xpander for Content Delivery Solutions

Apr 24, 2013 | Concurrent announced Cache Xpander, a scalable caching solution for its MediaHawk VX Unified Content Delivery Solution.
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Revolutionizing Tornado Prediction

Apr 23, 2013 | University of Oklahoma researcher zeros in on why some storms generate tornadoes while others don't.
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IU Welcomes Big Red II

Apr 23, 2013 | Indiana University officials are hailing the arrival of Big Red II as one of the 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.
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Tilera's TILE-Gx72 Processor Now Available

Apr 23, 2013 | Tilera announced the commercial availability of software and hardware building blocks to provide scalable 100Gbps cyber security performance.
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GE Developing COM Express Modules with AMD Technology

Apr 23, 2013 | GE Intelligent Platforms will develop a range of COM Express modules based on the new AMD Embedded G-Series SOC processors.
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ASC13 Contest Announces Winners

Apr 23, 2013 | Tsinghua University won the championship and the single prize of "highest LINPACK" and Huazhong Science and Technology University was awarded the prize of "Best MIC application optimization."
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Allinea DDT 4.0 Allows for Mobile Debugging of HPC Code

Apr 23, 2013 | Allinea DDT 4.0 will make it easier for scientists to debug and optimize HPC code even when they’re on the road.
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Pico Computing Announces M-505K160T Module

Apr 23, 2013 | Based on the Xilinx Kintex-7 K160T FPGA, the module is targeted to applications that require high performance with low power.
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Red Hat Completes FIPS 140-2 Certifications from NIST

Apr 23, 2013 | Red Hat Inc. announced the completion of seven Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certifications from the NIST.
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AMD Announces New Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip Platform

Apr 23, 2013 | AMD announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform.
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European Universities Select Rogue Wave's TotalView

Apr 23, 2013 | Rogue Wave Software announced that TotalView has been selected by both the University of Luxembourg and University of Strasbourg.
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A Conversation with Dr. Hans Meuer and Dr. Horst Gietl

Apr 22, 2013 | Gearing up for ISC'13, contributor Miha Ahronovitz examines where HPC has been and where it's headed. In this in-depth interview, Drs. Hans Meuer and Horst Gietl recount the origins of the TOP500 list and wax prophetic on the future of supercomputing, including the peril and promise of parallel programming as well as the long-term shift away from compute centrism.
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Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing Taking Place July 28 - Aug. 9

Apr 22, 2013 | Computational scientists can register for the upcoming Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing.
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Condusiv Technologies Releases V-locity Server I/O Optimization Software

Apr 22, 2013 | Condusiv Technologies released V-locity Server optimization software, designed for I/O-intensive applications.
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OCF Providing Cluster Management Support to UCLan

Apr 22, 2013 | The University of Central Lancashire chose OCF to provide cluster management support services for its HPC system.
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Altera's Cyclone V SoC Development Kit Now Available

Apr 22, 2013 | Developed in collaboration with ARM, this kit features the ARM Development Studio 5 Altera Edition Toolkit software.
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Super Micro Exhibits Building Block Solutions at Design West 2013

Apr 22, 2013 | Super Micro is exhibiting its latest embedded Building Block Solutions at Design West 2013.
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Supercomputing's Golden Age?

Apr 22, 2013 | Compared to overall IT spending, the supercomputing market is quite healthy. Is this the expected evolution of Moore's Law or is it something else entirely?
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Simplifying Cluster Management...

Apr 22, 2013 | Higher education and research institutes around the globe are investing in HPC clusters, yet there is an all-too-common oversight during the product acquisition process…
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Podcast: Supers, Part II and The Upgrade, The Successor, and The Classified

Apr 19, 2013 | Nicole and Addison discussed Indiana University's upgrade to Big Rad II and moving Seqouia to classified work.
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Emcien Selects Datanami to Partner with 2013 Big Data Week Atlanta

Apr 19, 2013 | Emcien announced the media partnership between the 2013 Big Data Week Atlanta and Datanami.
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Supercomputers Soar as PC Sales Decline

Apr 19, 2013 | Labs and businesses have been turning to supercomputers for research and development.
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SDSC to Host First Annual Industry Partners Research Review

Apr 19, 2013 | The June 12 event will showcase SDSC’s advanced computing resources and expertise.
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Big Red II Colors New Page for Hybrid Systems

Apr 19, 2013 | Later this month, Indiana University will formally introduce the successor to the Big Red system, the aptly-named, Big Red II. The Cray-crafted and tuned system is 25 times faster than its baby brother (the 4100-core original Big Red from 2006) and sports some notable improvements across its 1,020 nodes. According to Thomas Sterling, there are theoretical lessons that can be applied to...
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The Week in HPC Research

Apr 18, 2013 | A giant leap in bone structure research paves the way for advances in osteoporosis treatment; details from UCSD's Research CyberInfrastructure (RCI) Program reveal what PIs really want; and a cloud computing programming model puts the focus on predictable performance. Plus GPU-related research and more...
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Cycle Computing Introduces DataManager

Apr 18, 2013 | Utility HPC software provider automates secure, large scale data transfers to and from Amazon Glacier on-demand.
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Windows Team Uses RAID for 1.1 PB Storage Solution

Apr 18, 2013 | RAID announced that the Windows Team at Microsoft recently used RAID's 4U 60-Bay SAS/SATA EBOD devices with its Windows Server 2012 Datacenter operating system.
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HPC System SuperMUC to Deliver 6.4 Petaflops

Apr 18, 2013 | HPC System SuperMUC has officially kicked-off installation phase II.
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Internet2 Keynote Speakers to Address "Education at the Margins"

Apr 18, 2013 | Keynote speakers will describe how technology and networks deliver education in refugee camps, remote villages, war zones and areas lacking a civil society.
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Mount Sinai Introduces Minerva Supercomputer

Apr 18, 2013 | Mount Sinai is one of the first academic medical centers in the United States to build and operate a supercomputer.
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XSEDE13 Applications for Student Day Due May 15

Apr 18, 2013 | Applications for students during the XSEDE13 conference’s Student Day is May 15.
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Supercomputing Transforms Data into Knowledge

Apr 17, 2013 | Advances in data-intensive supercomputing increase understanding of autism and related disorders, set the stage for future treatments.
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