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HPC Horizons Community Takes HPC to the Edge

Mar 14, 2008 | This week saw the inaugural meeting of HPC Horizons, a new community of HPC users, vendors, and policymakers dedicated to collaborative discussion of forward-looking topics that push the boundaries of High Productivity Computing.
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High Performance 3D Image Reconstruction Platforms

Oct 26, 2007 | Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offer a number of compelling advantages for diagnostic medical imaging, but at the same time, demand large amounts of computing processing. The advent of acceleration platforms such as the Cell BE, FPGAs and GPUs are providing an array of cost-effective solutions.
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Genome Matchmaker

Aug 31, 2007 | A DOE graduate fellow has developed an algorithm that will dramatically slash the time it takes to sort and catalog billions of genome sequences from the Joint Genome Institute and other research centers. The increased speed will enable staff at the Biological Data Management and Technology Center at Berkeley Lab to massage raw data into materials that scientists can easily use for genomic analyses.
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Startup Aims to Revolutionize Drug Discovery

May 18, 2007 | The advancement of genomics and proteomics via high performance computing is drawing new companies into the drug discovery business. One such company, Gencom Inc., claims its goal is to revolutionize in-silico drug discovery by dramatically speeding up the identification of novel therapeutics. Recently, we got the opportunity to ask Gencom's founder and chief technology architect, Michael J. Colonna, about the company and the nature of the technology it has developed.
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UCSD, Venter Institute Launch Metagenomics Complex

Mar 16, 2007 | Scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute have flipped the virtual switch on the first cyberinfrastructure customized to serve the marine microbial metagenomics community. At the heart of the cyberinfrastructure is a new, high-performance computer and storage complex that enables analysis of a vast array of biocomplexity data.
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University of Buffalo Upgrades HPC Resources

Feb 23, 2007 | Over the past year, the University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research has quadrupled computing power, upgraded its high-performance storage system and installed a new state-of-the-art visualization room. If that wasn't enough, it also moved its entire infrastructure, including a 2,000-processor supercomputer, from the university's North Campus into UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
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Supercomputing a Cure

May 06, 2008 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | To develop an atomic scale understanding of biological membranes, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using Lonestar, the HPC system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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Imagining the Tech World in 2050

May 02, 2008 | CNET News | At a kickoff event for collaboration between IBM and the University of Southern California to explore the intersection of creative arts and science and technology, five IBM scientists offered their best guesses on how life would be different in 2050.
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High-tech Capabilities Drive Lab's Ongoing Bandwidth Appetite

Mar 12, 2008 | The Ellsworth American | The Jackson Laboratory in Maine is home to an immensely powerful optical microscope that allows researchers to visualize the structure of genetic material within the nucleus of a single cell.
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Basically, DNA Is a Computing Problem

Feb 28, 2008 | The Guardian -- guardian.co.uk | Genome sequencing has grown up alongside advances in computing power -- what used to be done in laboratories is now done in silicon.
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IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

May 15, 2008 | 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.
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Supercomputer Points Researchers to New Blood Pressure Drug

May 01, 2008 | University of Florida researchers have identified a drug compound that dramatically lowers blood pressure, improves heart function and -- in a remarkable finding -- prevents damage to the heart and kidneys in rats with persistent hypertension.
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New £7 Million Supercomputer Facility Opens

May 01, 2008 | A new supercomputer facility, known as 'BlueCrystal,' that will revolutionise research in areas such as climate change, drug design and aerospace engineering has been opened at the University of Bristol today by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eric Thomas.
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SGI Highlights Genomics Research at Bio-IT Conference

Apr 30, 2008 | As scientists seek to accelerate sequencing genomes of varied arrays of organisms from fish parasites to cancer cells in an effort to determine causes and cures of diseases that plague mankind, technology from SGI is powering research in genome centers around the world.
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Mitrionics Demos FPGA-Accelerated Computing at Bio-IT World

Apr 29, 2008 | Mitrionics, Inc. will be presenting and promoting its latest advancements in accelerated computing at the Bio-IT World Conference on April 28-30, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Michigan State Researchers Tap SGI Cluster

Apr 29, 2008 | To accelerate research, Michigan State University's High Performance Computing Center has added a new 1,024-core SGI Altix XE1300 cluster.
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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...