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HPC User Forum Wrap-Up

Oct 12, 2007 | About 100 people participated in IDC's recent HPC User Forum in Santa Fe, N.M. on Sept. 26-27. The attendees represented government, industry and academia, as well as all the major HPC vendors. Each User Forum has a theme; this one focused on the use of HPC in the energy industry.
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The Microsoft of FPGAs

Oct 27, 2006 | HPC and modern computing in general has a seemingly insatiable demand for more performance, better efficiency and scalability. Now with the expansion of computing to practically every commercial and non-commercial endeavor, an additional requirement is to apply these attributes to a much wider range of applications. At Celoxica, they believe that the FPGA is the solution that can meet both sets of challenges.
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3D Visualization for Oil and Gas Evolves

Oct 20, 2006 | 3D visualization has been the key to increased success and efficiency in many areas of exploration and production (E&P). In this industry visualization plays a critical role in gaining insight from data. But often when we discuss visualization, we are talking only about the actual rendering of images on the screen. In fact, the visualization challenge for E&P is characterized by computationally expensive algorithms, a very large number of diverse data sets, and a need for greater interactivity and collaboration. To meet this challenge, we must make data management, computation and rendering work together smoothly and efficiently.
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HPC Keys Gulf of Mexico Discovery for Chevron

Sep 15, 2006 | Chevron and two of its partners recently discovered a new field in Gulf of Mexico deepwater that could yield 3-15 billion barrels of oil, boosting U.S. reserves by up to half. At the Council on Competitiveness' HPC Users Conference on September 7, Chevron CTO, Dr. Donald Paul, gave an impromptu talk about the discovery and the crucial role HPC played.
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Linux Clusters Target Oil & Gas Applications

Aug 25, 2006 | The oil & gas industry operates in an increasingly challenging environment. The new challenges include more than high risk and high capital commitments, or declining fields and complex operations. One also wants to be smart. The good news is that smart is a lot cheaper than it used to be. Specifically, high performance computers are a lot less expensive than they used to be, and a lot more powerful. This article discusses how cutting-edge Linux clusters are tackling tough exploration, drilling and production problems for oil and gas companies.
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Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on HPC

Jul 28, 2006 | Last week the Senate Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness listened to testimony from expert witnesses on the subject of high performance computing in the context of national competitiveness. The witnesses, from goverment and industry, shared their diverse experience to create a varied portrait of the current state of high performance computing. Their testimony has the potential to advance future HPC legislation.
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Total Acquires SGI Super for Seismic Imaging

May 15, 2008 | French-based multinational Total has acquired a high-performance computer to enhance the company's ability to process data needed to explore and produce oil and gas.
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Acceleware Speeds Up Search for Oil & Gas with GPUs

May 13, 2008 | Acceleware Corp. has announced the availability of Acceleware AxKTM, an application library that enables users of 3D Pre-Stack Time Migration solutions to access the performance benefits of GPUs.
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Landmark Adds Panasas Solutions to Accelerate Seismic-Processing

May 06, 2008 | Landmark, a product service line of Halliburton's Drilling and Evaluation Division, announced that it is introducing a parallel storage system that addresses the E&P industry's need for powerful new technologies to process seismic data more quickly.
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Bergen Oilfield Services Selects Paradigm Software for Seismic Data Processing

Apr 28, 2008 | Paradigm announced that Bergen Oilfield Services has selected Paradigm software for use in its North Sea exploration projects.
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Reaction Design Debuts New Combustion Simulation Tool

Apr 18, 2008 | Reaction Design announced the release of its newest combustion simulation software tool, CHEMKIN-PRO, for modeling and analyzing combustion efficiency in gasoline, diesel and emerging alternative fuel engines.
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EMGS Adds More IBRIX Fusion Software

Apr 11, 2008 | IBRIX Inc. announced that Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has purchased additional IBRIX Fusion file serving software to support its newest compute cluster, named Aurora, located in Trondheim, Norway.
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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...