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HPC Powers Bobsled Team to Olympic Gold

Mar 09, 2010 | For the first time in 62 years, the four-man Olympics bobsled team from the US captured the gold medal, setting a course world record in the process. The winning bobsled had some state-of-the-art engineering behind it, including CFD software from Exa Corporation. As it turned out, that software may have proved to be the margin of difference in the race.
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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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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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High-performance Computing Revs up Simulations like FEA, CFD

Dec 10, 2009 | Design World | Automotive and aerospace simulations get a boost from Windows HPC clusters.
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Technology Giants Join Forces to Boost Design

Oct 29, 2009 | The Times | UK firms enter joint venture to share HPC resources.
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Dassault Picks Up PLM Unit From Big Blue

Oct 27, 2009 | The Register | IBM jettisons product lifecycle management software business.
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Cloud-Based Simulation Cuts Engineers' Design Costs

Jul 21, 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com | Southampton start-up dezineforce has developed a hosted engineering design optimisation service.
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800 TFLOP Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU Unveiled, Not for Gamers

Jul 07, 2009 | Ars Technica | Japanese company builds custom ASIC to accelerate real-time ray traced rendering for the auto industry.
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Pratt & Miller Uses ANSYS, Safe Technology Software to Redesign Brake Pedal

Mar 04, 2010 | ANSYS, Inc. today announced that race car engineering specialists Pratt & Miller used a combination of software from ANSYS and its partner Safe Technology Limited to redesign a cracked brake pedal face.
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Michelin Simulation Software Powered by Open Inventor

Mar 03, 2010 | Michelin Finite Element Analysis (FEA) post-processing tools have been developed using the Open Inventor by VSG library.
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The European Commission Grants Financial Contribution to the INFUCOMP Project

Mar 02, 2010 | ESI Group announces the start of the INFUCOMP European Research Consortium.
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CFdesign 2010 Provides CAD-driven Multi-scenario Design Study Environment for Electronics Industry

Feb 23, 2010 | Blue Ridge Numerics today announced that CFdesign 2010 now provides a comprehensive CAD-driven design study environment that enables design engineers in the electronics industry to achieve pass-fail and what-if engineering scenarios as part of a highly-efficient workflow.
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Altair RADIOSS Helps Volvo Predict Behavior of Cast Parts in Crash Calculations

Feb 22, 2010 | Altair Engineering announced today that Volvo 3P Cab Engineering, based in Lyon, France, has introduced new complex material laws in their RADIOSS models to better predict the behavior of ductile cast-iron parts in crash simulations.
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Volkswagen Signs Master Agreement with ANSYS

Feb 10, 2010 | ANSYS today announced that Volkswagen AG has signed a master agreement with ANSYS and intends to widen its use of the engineering simulation solution.
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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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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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The Week in Review

The ACM Turing Award goes to the creator of the modern personal computer; and Voltaire announces a mid-range InfiniBand switch and new technology that accelerates distributed applications. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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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...

Tailoring Medicine with Supercomputers

Mar 16 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data. Read more...

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