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The New Science of Visual Analytics

May 15, 2008 | 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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NASA and SGI Join Petascale Fray

May 13, 2008 | SGI's entry into the multi-petaflops sweepstakes began last week with its announcement of the Space Act Agreement. The agreement outlines a multi-year partnership between SGI, Intel and NASA, with the goal of deploying petascale supercomputing capabilities for the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center.
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High Performance Humanities

May 08, 2008 | The NEH and DOE have a vision to bring one million hours of high performance computing time to the humanities. The effort is being managed out of the NEH's new Office of Digital Humanities, created recently to recognize the increasing importance of computing in what has traditionally been a very old-fashioned area of research.
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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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Stuck on the Desktop

Apr 25, 2008 | If high performance computing is such an innovation accelerator, why don't more companies embrace the technology? The Council on Competitiveness has released two new studies that look at why technical computing users on desktop systems are not graduating to HPC servers.
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HPC Innovation in the Era of 'Good Enough'

Apr 25, 2008 | We are in an era of supercomputing where the hardware and software we have to deal with are 'good enough' as long as they stay cheap enough. The IT market has continued to shift, and the advent of multicore processors now threatens to put an end to differentiated solutions altogether. Whether its an end to "winner-take-all" procurements, death to onerous Terms and Conditions, or the infusion of new money into federal support for HPC R&D, something has got to give.
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IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14, 2008 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12, 2008 | 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.
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There's a Hole in My Bucket -- and in the Data as Well!

May 05, 2008 | UC San Diego | Like the popular children's song "There's a Hole in My Bucket," in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management process by creating a universally accepted cyberinfrastructure to study our most valuable natural resource -- water.
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Super Fast ... Super Big ... Supercomputer

Apr 29, 2008 | The Columbus Dispatch | The powerful system housed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center can perform 21.9 trillion computations per second and has about 2,000 users from universities, hospitals, businesses and the military.
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C-DAC Set to Augment Supercomputing Capacity

Apr 29, 2008 | Express India | The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India, is set to upgrade its supercomputing capacity by 40 teraflops.
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NASA Builds World's Largest Display

Mar 27, 2008 | GCN | NASA is about to complete the world's largest display; the Hyperwall-II will consist of 128 LCD monitors and generate 245 million pixels.
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing

May 15, 2008 | 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.
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DOE Accepting INCITE Proposals for 2009

May 13, 2008 | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE's national laboratories.
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Golden Energy Computing Organization Established

May 12, 2008 | 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.
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NCAR Installs 76 Teraflop IBM Supercomputer

May 08, 2008 | The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate.
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NASA, Intel and SGI to Collaborate on Petascale Supercomputing

May 07, 2008 | NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity.
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NASA Taps SGI for Next Major Supercomputer

May 06, 2008 | NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI Altix ICE system, after a competitive evaluation the space agency launched last year.
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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...