http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia RSS Feed for Academia & Research en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 17:18:25 GMT 2008-05-16T17:18:25Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NEC_Awarded_Contract_for_New_Earth_Simulator_System.html NEC Corp announced that it has been awarded the contract to build the "new Earth Simulator" ultra high-speed computing system for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. Fri, 16 May 2008 17:18:25 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NEC_Awarded_Contract_for_New_Earth_Simulator_System.html 2008-05-16T17:18:25Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/IBM_World_Community_Grid_Supercomputer_to_Tackle_Rice_Crisis.html As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields. Thu, 15 May 2008 21:11:47 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/IBM_World_Community_Grid_Supercomputer_to_Tackle_Rice_Crisis.html 2008-05-15T21:11:47Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Jaguar_Upgrade_Brings_ORNL_Closer_to_Petascale_Computing.html Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver advances in scientific research. Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:27 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Jaguar_Upgrade_Brings_ORNL_Closer_to_Petascale_Computing.html 2008-05-15T17:38:27Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/National_Science_Board_Approves_UCAR_Proposal_to_Manage_NCAR.html The National Science Board has authorized the NSF to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to continue to manage and operate the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Thu, 15 May 2008 17:36:54 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/National_Science_Board_Approves_UCAR_Proposal_to_Manage_NCAR.html 2008-05-15T17:36:54Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Parallel_Processing_Calls_for_a_Fortress_Mentality.html Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49:59 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Parallel_Processing_Calls_for_a_Fortress_Mentality.html 2008-05-15T15:49:59Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/IBM-Designed_Supercomputer_to_Enhance_UCFs_Simulation_Research.html A new high-performance computer obtained through two Army grants totaling $2.6 million will allow the University of Central Florida to conduct realistic training scenarios with thousands of people training in the same virtual world and to conduct cutting-edge research in the physical and biological sciences. Thu, 15 May 2008 16:47:22 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/IBM-Designed_Supercomputer_to_Enhance_UCFs_Simulation_Research.html 2008-05-15T16:47:22Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Sun_Gets_Top_Marks_with_Higher_Education_Customers.html Sun Microsystems announced that five institutions of higher learning have joined a growing number of universities adopting Sun IT infrastructure running Solaris 10 OS for cutting-edge research, massive digital archiving projects and "always on" campus infrastructures. Tue, 13 May 2008 18:53:38 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Sun_Gets_Top_Marks_with_Higher_Education_Customers.html 2008-05-13T18:53:38Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Golden_Energy_Computing_Organization_Established.html The Colorado School of Mines along with its partners, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has established the Golden Energy Computing Organization, an HPC group dedicated to energy science research. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:10 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Golden_Energy_Computing_Organization_Established.html 2008-05-13T16:46:10Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:37:51 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html 2008-05-13T16:37:51Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Florida_HPC_Center_Selects_RAID_Inc_Storage.html The University of Florida's High-Performance Computing Center has chosen RAID Inc. for a large implementation of over 100 TB of performance-intensive 4Gb Fibre to SATA-2 storage. Tue, 13 May 2008 18:24:47 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Florida_HPC_Center_Selects_RAID_Inc_Storage.html 2008-05-13T18:24:47Z