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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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Innovation and Commoditization in High Performance Computing

Jan 19, 2007 | The complementary processes of innovation and commoditization seem to apply to every type of product. Contributing author Chris Aycock talks about why this is relevant to high performance computing and how the two processes are played out in everything from microprocessors to open source software.
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High Performance (Potato) Chips

May 05, 2006 | In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the betterment of consumer package goods.
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Linux and Formula One

Apr 29, 2008 | IT PRO | Formula One motor racing is no longer about famous car marques, its about precise science and using technology to shave another fraction of a second off a lap time, and Linux clusters are playing a pivotal role in helping the race teams achieve this.
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Comet Solutions Joins Siemens PLM Software Partner Program

May 15, 2008 | Comet Solutions, Inc. announced its partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management software and services.
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Voltaire Announces High-Performance Storage Router

Apr 29, 2008 | Voltaire Ltd. announced the immediate availability of a new high-performance storage router for unified fabrics.
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Audi Installs HP Supercomputer to Advance Auto Safety

Apr 21, 2008 | ESI Group announced today that AUDI AG has implemented the auto industry's fastest supercomputer to advance safety standards.
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Altair Announces Reseller Agreement with CYBERNETICS

Mar 28, 2008 | Altair Engineering, Inc. announced a new reseller agreement with Romanian-based PLM solution provider, CYBERNETICS Srl.
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Noran Engineering Demos Nastran Virtual Product Software

Jan 25, 2008 | Noran Engineering, Inc. will demonstrate how pre and post processors Femap, NEiFusion, and NEiWorks powered by new features in NEi Nastran solvers help both designers and FE analysts perform simulations faster, easier, and with better real world fidelity.
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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...