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The Week in Review

Feb 25, 2010 | A safer nuclear reactor could be on the horizon thanks to computer modeling; and the National Science Foundation awards $24.5 million to UC Berkeley researchers engaged in reducing the power draw of electronics. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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The Week in Review

Feb 04, 2010 | TACC's Ranger supercomputer celebrates its second year of enabling important research; Microsoft partners with NSF to bring cloud services to researchers; and NSF submits its fiscal year 2011 budget request. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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NASA Looks to Move Science Apps Into the Cloud

Feb 03, 2010 | It seems only natural that the US space agency would be casting its eyes toward the clouds. Sure enough, NASA is now looking to cloud computing to optimize the operation of the agency's IT infrastructure for some of its science codes. Like many commercial businesses and government organizations, NASA is being asked to do more computing with fewer datacenter resources.
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The Week in Review

Jan 28, 2010 | The DOE announces annual INCITE supercomputing awards; NVIDIA and the University of Illinois partner on a textbook for programming massively parallel processers. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Thoughts, Observations, Beliefs & Opinions About the NSF Supercomputer Centers

Jan 28, 2010 | There is no such thing as an NSF (Supercomputer) Center and there never has been. There should be. What there are, in the words of Ed Hayes, then comptroller of NSF, are "NSF ASSISTED Supercomputer Centers." This is a double edged sword.
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Health Care Reform, Supercomputing-Style

Jan 11, 2010 | A researcher at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory thinks he can save $50 billion per year in fraud, waste and abuse in the nation's public health care system. And that's just for starters.
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Australia Commissions Cray Supercomputer

Mar 19, 2010 | OfficialWire | New super to support intelligence work Down Under.
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Cisco Containers Target Federal Market

Mar 15, 2010 | Data Center Knowledge | Company delivers UCS-container solution to NASA.
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Russia Invests in Supercomputers

Mar 03, 2010 | The Inquirer | Putin antes up $37 million for supercomputing technologies.
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Supercomputer Helps Businesses, Researchers in 'Big Sky Country'

Feb 25, 2010 | SmartPlanet.com | Montana super for rent.
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Energy Savings Front and Center at ORNL Supercomputing Center

Feb 18, 2010 | NCCS.gov | Energy conservation strategies makes for efficient supercomputing.
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IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

Feb 08, 2010 | eWeek | A new kind of Rocky Mountain high.
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NLR, Internet2 Applaud FCC's One Gigabit Per Second Broadband Goal for Community Anchor Institutions

Mar 18, 2010 | The Internet2 and National LambdaRail communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community anchor institutions in its National Broadband Plan.
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DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Attracts Record Number of Proposals

Mar 17, 2010 | Europe's HPC infrastructure DEISA announced that the number of proposals received for the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) had jumped this year by 62 percent to a record 122 applications.
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Spectra Logic Ranks in Top Ten Percent of Government GSA Contractors

Mar 16, 2010 | Spectra Logic today announced that it ranked in the top ten percent of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) information technology (IT) Schedule 70 contractors for 2009.
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Criterion HPS Provides Computing Power Required to Speed Digital Investigations

Mar 11, 2010 | Criterion HPS is addressing the new challenges facing law enforcement and security professionals with a suite of high performance forensic solutions that support the evidentiary lifecycle from data capture and hard-drive imaging to password cracking and evidence analysis.
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Research Streamlines Data Processing to Solve Problems More Efficiently

Mar 10, 2010 | Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information, with applications in fields as diverse as the military, medical diagnostics and homeland security.
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ARSC Included in $45M DoD Award for New Supercomputers

Mar 04, 2010 | The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has acquired new supercomputing resources under a $45 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to Seattle-based supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc.
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C-DAC announces plans for a petaflop system; IBM researchers are working on vertical integration techniques to extend Moore's Law another 15 years. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Moscow State University Supercomputer Has Petaflop Aspirations

The Moscow State University supercomputer, Lomonosov, has been selected for a high-performance makeover, with the goal of tripling its processing power to achieve petaflop-level performance in 2010. T-Platforms, who developed and manufactured the supercomputer, is the odds-on favorite to lead the project.
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Intel Ups Performance Ante with Westmere Server Chips

Right on schedule, Intel has launched its Xeon 5600 processors, codenamed "Westmere EP." The 5600 represents the 32nm sequel to the Xeon 5500 (Nehalem EP) for dual-socket servers. Intel is touting better performance and energy efficiency, along with new security features, as the big selling points of the new Xeons.
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Australia Commissions Cray Supercomputer

Mar 19 | OfficialWire | New super to support intelligence work Down Under. Read more...

Intel Partners See 'Easy' Upgrade Path With Xeon 5600 Chips

Mar 18 | ChannelWeb | Westmere parts already showing up in HPC machines. Read more...

AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Mar 17 | The Register | But what about the tier ones? Read more...

Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing. Read more...

Scheduling HPC In The Cloud

Mar 17 | Linux Magazine | Latest iteration of Sun Grid Engine able to tap into Cloud. Read more...

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