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InfiniBand Goes Long

May 06, 2008 | Since InfiniBand came onto the scene, users have focused their efforts on using the high performance network fabric to connect compute and storage boxes within the datacenter. But a couple of enterprising companies, Network Equipment Technologies and Obsidian Research Corp., have developed InfiniBand connectivity for wide area networks.
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Supercomputers for Finance: A New Challenge

Feb 29, 2008 | By any measure, finance is one of the strongest growth sectors for supercomputers, driven by ever increasing data volumes, greater data complexity and significantly more challenging data analysis -- a result of greater competition and regulation.But for financial organizations undertaking a new supercomputing implementation or aiming to optimize an existing one, it is essential to take some precautionary steps.
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HPC in the Land of 24/7

Nov 23, 2007 | More businesses than ever are employing high performance computing capabilities to fulfill their mission-critical needs. Here we take a look at three companies -- NASDAQ, Wal-Mart and FedEx -- that are using HPC assets to run their businesses.
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Credit Modeling with Supercomputing

Sep 14, 2007 | The creation and deployment of new numerical methods for economic and financial modeling is becoming a critical competitive weapon for banks, hedge funds and other investment firms. Consequently, computing requirements on Wall Street are growing exponentially as algorithms and models become more complex to support new investment opportunities, while incorporating ever larger data sets.
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A New Engine for Financial Analysis

May 25, 2007 | The escalating costs of power and cooling for cluster computing systems are of particular concern in large datacenters, where calculations per watt are increasingly important. Altera Corporation's Bryce Mackin makes the case that FPGAs are well suited for financial analytics applications and offer a viable energy-efficient solution.
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The Microsoft of FPGAs

Oct 27, 2006 | HPC and modern computing in general has a seemingly insatiable demand for more performance, better efficiency and scalability. Now with the expansion of computing to practically every commercial and non-commercial endeavor, an additional requirement is to apply these attributes to a much wider range of applications. At Celoxica, they believe that the FPGA is the solution that can meet both sets of challenges.
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Platform Computing Establishes Financial Services Business Unit

May 06, 2008 | Platform Computing has announced the formation of a Financial Services Business Unit and the promotion of Jim Mancuso as its general manager.
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Digipede Enables Stochastic Modeling Software on Grid

Apr 30, 2008 | Digipede Technologies announced today that Barrie & Hibbert has integrated its Economic Scenario Generator with the Digipede Network for greatly increased scalability and performance.
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IBRIX Storage Performance Validated in Lab Testing

Apr 23, 2008 | Testing commissioned by IBRIX and conducted independently by ESG concluded that IBRIX Fusion is well suited for managing data in large-scale grid, cluster, and enterprise computing environments.
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IBM 'Stream Computing' Tackles Real-Time Market Analysis

Apr 04, 2008 | NEW YORK, April 2 -- Today, IBM announced a partnership with TD Bank Financial Group to explore the use of IBM's breakthrough "Stream Computing" software system which will...
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XtremeData, Altera Demo In-Socket FPGA Accelerator at IDF

Apr 04, 2008 | At the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, XtremeData, Altera, and Intel Corporation are demonstrating acceleration of a full double-precision floating point simulation of a Monte Carlo financial simulation analysis.
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Woven Demos Low-Latency Ethernet for Market Trading

Apr 04, 2008 | SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 1 -- Woven Systems Inc., the leading innovator of Ethernet Fabric switching solutions for datacenters and high-performance computing clusters, today announced that its TRX...
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The New Science of Visual Analytics

When Jim Thomas set out to find new ways to deal with the mountains of information our society generates, he didn't just create a new organization, he created a new science. In this article we'll take a look at how the National Visualization and Analytics Center is transforming the problem of finding needles in haystacks into an opportunity for a more secure future.
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The Week in Review

ORNL Jaguar doubles its performance; the SC08 Cluster Challenge is gearing up; the University of Central Florida uses Army dollars to purchase an IBM super; and IBM's RoadRunner prepares to break the petaflop barrier. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Revaluating FPGAs for 64-bit Floating-Point Calculations

We now have generally available 2.5 GHz quad-core Opterons and Virtex-5 LX330, SX95T and recently announced SX240T FPGAs. In addition to this, Xilinx is releasing a new version of their floating-point cores that reduces the amount of logic and DSP slices needed for building floating-point function units. Taken together it is time to revisit Opteron floating-point performance versus FPGA performance.
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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Read more...

IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Read more...

Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | 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. Read more...

2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12 | BusinessWeek | Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Read more...

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Podcast: Interview with Ben Bennett of ClearSpeed Technology

Today, HPC organizations are requiring substantially more floating point performance to solve real-world problems. In this podcast, Ben Bennett, ClearSpeed General Manager, discusses how acceleration technology can improve the overall performance of standard x86-based systems...