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Welcome to Year 1 AP

Jun 23, 2009 | HPC guru Thomas Sterling has labeled 2009 as "Year 1 AP -- After Petaflops." HPCwire got the opportunity to ask Thomas to expand on that theme and talk about where high performance computing is headed next.
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Julich Supercomputing Center Keeps Germany on the Cutting Edge of HPC

Jun 22, 2009 | Thomas Lippert, director of the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany, is speaking at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg about his experiences with the exotic systems that lead the TOP500 list of the HPC community's preeminent supercomputers, and the scientific breakthroughs that they enable. We caught up with Dr. Lippert by email before the conference to get a sneak peak at his thoughts on working at the extremes of computation.
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HPC Globalization Fuels ISC Growth

Jun 19, 2009 | This year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) in Hamburg, Germany, promises to offer some respite from the gloomy news affecting the HPC community in these tough economic times.
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Sequoia: The Next Generation of Supercomputer

Apr 28, 2009 | Speeds reached by supercomputers are increasing ever more rapidly. "Sequoia," the name of one such American project, looks set to overshadow all previous such systems.
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Supercomputing Seeks Energy Savings

Mar 05, 2009 | Recent energy-saving innovations at ORNL are setting a new standard for resource-responsible HPC research. The laboratory has taken an all-angles approach, seeking energy savings from a suite of different areas.
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Lawrence Livermore Prepares for 20 Petaflop Blue Gene/Q

Feb 03, 2009 | Roadrunner and Jaguar, the DOE supercomputers that launched the petaflop era last year, will soon be eclipsed by new machines more than ten times as powerful. IBM and the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Tuesday that in 2011 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will install a 20 petaflop system to provide computational support for the country's aging nuclear weapons.
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DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29, 2009 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems.
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Iran Using U.S. Chip Technology in Rocket Research

Jun 16, 2009 | Computerworld | Iran claims it has built an HPC cluster using Opteron processors.
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In Simulation Work, the Demand Is Real

Jun 15, 2009 | The New York Times | The use of computer simulations is growing even as the economy struggles.
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Supercomputer a Waste of Taxpayer Money

Jun 11, 2009 | Silver City Sun-News | New Mexico's "Encanto" supercomputer has come under criticism in a report developed by the State Legislature.
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Holyoke Chosen for Computing Center

Jun 11, 2009 | Boston Globe | HPC is coming to Western Massachusetts.
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Jaguar May Soon Be World's Fastest Computer

Jun 09, 2009 | Knoxville News Sentinel | ORNL supercomputer looking to get Istanbul upgrade.
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DoD Announces New Director of DARPA

Jul 03, 2009 | The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the appointment of Regina E. Dugan as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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Committee Searches for Next Berkeley Lab Director

Jul 03, 2009 | University of California President Mark G. Yudof has named an 11-member committee of university regents, faculty and researchers to advise him in the search for the next director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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MAGPI Deploys Ciena to Support Federal Labs

Jul 01, 2009 | Ciena Corp. today announced that MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2) has implemented a network based on the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to support high performance network connectivity among multiple research labs.
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Brookhaven Lab Selects Force10 ExaScale Family

Jul 01, 2009 | Force10 Networks today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labs has selected the ExaScale family of virtualized switch/routers to help power its network.
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STEP'09 Demonstrates LHC Readiness

Jul 01, 2009 | After months of preparation and two intensive weeks of 24 x 7 operation, the LHC experiments are celebrating the achievement of a new set of goals aimed at demonstrating full readiness for the LHC data taking run expected to start later this year.
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NCSA Receives NSF Grant for Security Software

Jun 30, 2009 | NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate has received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to maintain and provide critical enhancements for cyberInfrastructure security technologies developed at NCSA.
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Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader, is the first book in CRC's Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon. Although the book is a collection of papers, Bader has done an excellent job of creating a compilation that holds together and covers a broad topic very well.
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The Week in Review

Cilk++ used in parallelization of the FP-tree algorithm for pattern mining; Istanbul benchmark results posted; and the latest on the NVIDIA Tesla shortage. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Last week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) was a convenient excuse for vendors to announce a raft of new products, but three, in particular, stood out.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference. Read more...

HPC From the Beach

Jul 01 | Linux Magazine | How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing? Read more...

DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Read more...

Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

Jun 29 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing. Read more...

CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

Jun 18 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab. Read more...

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Webcast: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

Source: Addison Snell, GM/VP, Tabor Research; sponsored by Dell

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Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support. Learn about all this and the latest in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.