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The Greening of Renault's Formula One CFD Program

Nov 19, 2008 | At SC08 this week, Appro announced it had completed the final deployment of 38 teraflop Xtreme-X supercomputer for the ING Renault F1 Team. The new system lives in a brand new CFD facility, built for environmentally-friendly computing.
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Bob Graybill Starts National Clearinghouse Firm for HPC Services

Oct 16, 2008 | Bob Graybill, whose high-profile roles have included heading the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program and working with USC-ISI, the Council on Competitiveness and half a dozen big defense contractors, is now CEO and president of a start-up. Nimbis Services aims to expand HPC use in manufacturing by brokering cycles, storage and expertise.
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A Lesson for HPC Companies: Crossing the Manufacturing Cultural Divide

Jun 24, 2008 | HPC companies, like many large manufacturing organizations, are finally starting to realize the importance of cultural differences. But what most companies fail to recognize is the importance of adapting their own manufacturing culture to better fit these new environments.
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Altair Opens Up HyperWorks

May 21, 2008 | This week, Altair Engineering announced it has opened up its HyperWorks CAE platform to include third-party applications. The company is adding 15 new ISV applications on top of the existing 28 native HyperWorks titles. The new offerings are spread across six ISV partners, who have developed versions of their software that will run under the on-demand licensing model.
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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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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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CAE Taking Product Design to a New Level

Jun 02, 2009 | CXOToday.com | Altair marketing director Rajneesh Shinde discusses some of the evolutionary changes driving CAE.
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American Business's Secret Competitive Weapon: HPC

May 26, 2009 | Forbes | Three manufacturers are using high performance computing to outrun the competition.
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Renault F1: Supercomputer Simulation Prepares Team for Australian Grand Prix

Mar 27, 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com | In an attempt to improve performance, ING Renault F1 Team took delivery of an Appro supercomputer last year to help in the design of this season's car, the R29.
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How Ferrari Is Driving Its New-Generation HPC Data Center

Mar 02, 2009 | eWeek | Ferrari not only employs data centers for its corporate business, but it also has a state-of-the-art, high-performance data center dedicated to its racing division.
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Heavy-Duty Computing

Feb 19, 2009 | Fortune Magazine | How does midsized truckmaker Kenworth get access to one of the world's most sophisticated supercomputers? The Internet, of course.
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Red Bull Racing Team Uses FieldView CFD Tool

Jul 01, 2009 | Red Bull Technology relies on FieldView CFD post-processing software from Intelligent Light to turn simulation data into actionable information in this highly-productive CFD workflow.
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Virage Logic Sees Strong Adoption of 40nm Product Portfolio

Jun 30, 2009 | Virage Logic Corp. today announced that since being named TSMC's 40-namomenter (nm) early development partner in 2007, the company has seen strong adoption of its extensive 40nm product portfolio.
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Clemson University Deploys Panasas Storage

Jun 23, 2009 | Panasas, Inc. today announced that the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) has chosen the Panasas ActiveStor parallel storage system to help accelerate its research and innovation.
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EADS, Premium AEROTEC Extend Use of HyperWorks

Jun 17, 2009 | Altair Engineering announced today that EADS Defence & Security and Premium AEROTEC GmbH have extended their use of HyperWorks.
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Megayachts Designed Using ANSYS Software

Jun 08, 2009 | ANSYS today announced that award-winning yacht builder Delta Marine uses simulation software from ANSYS to create custom megayachts that are engineered from bottom to top for beauty, speed and strength.
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Darkstrand, OSC Join Forces

Jun 03, 2009 | Darkstrand today announced a strategic alliance with the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus with the mutual objective of bringing the research and development capabilities of the Center to the national commercial marketplace.
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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

Many organizations that could benefit from the use of HPC clusters find that it is complicated to get the systems up and running because of limited IT resources or the complexities of the clusters themselves. Learn how the Intel Cluster Ready program, for which Dell was an original partner, seeks to address this challenge for entry level and mid-range HPC users.

Video White Paper: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

BlueArc's Titan architecture represents an evolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale bandwidth, IOPS, and overall data capacity well beyond conventional software-based devices. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to four usable petabytes of tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements, offering a competitive advantage for businesses, researchers, or other enterprises seeking to better manage data growth while still ensuring optimal performance.

Webcast: HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools

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.