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Pico Computing Takes Scale-Up Approach to FPGAs

Feb 17, 2010 | As high performance computing vendors polish their server and workstation portfolios with the latest multicore CPU and GPGPU wonders, Pico Computing is quietly making inroads into the HPC application space with its FPGA-based platforms. By picking the spots where reconfigurable computing makes the most sense, the company is looking to leverage its scalable FPGA technology to greatest effect.
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The Week in Review

Feb 11, 2010 | The Victorian State Government of Australia and IBM establish a life sciences research collaboratory at the University of Melbourne; and Cray's mid-range systems attract new business. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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NVIDIA Takes Aim at GPU Acceleration for Bioscience Applications

Jan 14, 2010 | NVIDIA has announced the Tesla Bio Workbench, a new program designed to bring together the computational components needed to run GPU-accelerated bioscience applications. The rationale is the same one NVIDIA's been touting ever since it got into the high performance computing business: take advantage of the superior performance of the GPU in order to lower the entry point for HPC.
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TeraGrid '09: How HPC and Therapeutic Drug Design Have Grown Up Together

Jul 06, 2009 | When it comes to a take-home from Tom Cheatham's keynote speech at the TeraGrid '09 conference in Arlington, Va., the subtitle says it all: "Chronicling the growth of a student to tenured professor in the NSF supercomputing center microcosm." In his talk, he acknowledged how his career has tracked the evolution of the NSF centers, now TeraGrid, and would not have been possible without it.
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Accelerating Life Science and Bioinformatics Applications…As if Our Lives Depended on IT

Mar 11, 2009 | Integrating the latest breakthroughs in biochemistry, high performance computing, optical processing, and storage is enabling remarkable advances in the fields of healthcare, drug discovery, and genomic research. Together, they are creating exciting personal therapeutic strategies for living longer, healthier lifestyles that were unimaginable until now.
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Of Unknown Origin: Diagnosing Cancer in the Cloud

Feb 25, 2009 | Cloud computing is finding new friends every day. Biotech firm Pathwork Diagnostics is now using Amazon's EC2 platform to perform sophisticated gene expression analytics for cancer classification.
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Tailoring Medicine with Supercomputers

Mar 16, 2010 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data.
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Graphics Card Maker Turns to High-Performance Bioinformatics

Mar 09, 2010 | Bio-IT World | Tahoe Informatics founder eyes GPUs, CUDA software.
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High Performance Computing Promises Elixir of Life

Feb 11, 2010 | ZDNet Asia | HPC from IBM driving next-generation healthcare solutions.
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Is the Future of High-Performance Computing for Life Sciences Cloudy?

Jan 28, 2010 | Life Science Leader | The case for cloud computing in biotech.
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Primed to Power Tech Growth

Jan 25, 2010 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Milwaukee Institute wants to share its computer cluster to create jobs.
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Accelerated Methods for Bioinformatics Analysis

Jan 20, 2010 | Bio-IT World | A bioinformatics scientist looks beyond the Linux cluster.
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Medical Device Firm Taps Dassault Systemes FEA Software

Mar 17, 2010 | Dassault Systèmes announced that medical device maker InnerPulse has selected Abaqus finite element analysis software from SIMULIA to assist in development of their technology designed in SolidWorks CAD software.
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Cycle Computing Launches CycleCloud for Life Sciences Product Family at XGen Congress

Mar 16, 2010 | Cycle Computing today launched its new CycleCloud for Life Sciences cluster of services during its presentation at XGen Congress in San Diego.
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CLC bio Releases Whole-Genome de novo Assembler

Mar 15, 2010 | Today, CLC bio released a groundbreaking whole-genome de novo assembler that will assemble genomes of any size, including human and plant genomes on a single workstation computer.
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ISC'10 Special Sessions to Focus on Life Sciences, New Markets, Networking and Energy

Mar 15, 2010 | The 25th International Supercomputing Conference -- ISC'10 -- the leading HPC event in 2010, introduces four new special sessions to address some of the biggest challenges in science, industry and technology today.
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Leaders in Mapping the Human Genome to Share Albany Medical Center Prize

Mar 12, 2010 | Three American scientists whose profound insights led to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint have been named the recipients of the 10th annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
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Spectra Logic Protects Critical Biomedical Research Data

Mar 09, 2010 | Spectra Logic today announced that the Switzerland-based Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) is relying on two Spectra T950 tape libraries to archive and backup critical biomedical research data.
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The Week in Review

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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