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A New Business Intelligence Tool for Retailers

Jan 14, 2009 | With retail sales in their biggest slump since record-keeping began in 1992, businesses are desperately looking for ways to boost the bottom line. Improving productivity in existing stores with technologies like video analytics may turn out to be one of the most effective ways to accomplish this.
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HPC in the Land of 24/7

Nov 23, 2007 | More businesses than ever are employing high performance computing capabilities to fulfill their mission-critical needs. Here we take a look at three companies -- NASDAQ, Wal-Mart and FedEx -- that are using HPC assets to run their businesses.
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HPC and Supply Chain Management

Sep 15, 2006 | Is supply chain management poised to become an important new application for HPC? At the Council on Competitiveness' annual HPC Users Conference on September 7, panelists from commercial powerhouses Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Pratt & Whitney and Clopay Plastic Products described their experiences.
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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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LightHaus Logic Intros Equinox Visual Intelligence Solutions

Jan 12, 2009 | LightHaus Logic today introduces Equinox Visual Intelligence solutions for the retail industry.
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Netezza Developer Network Releases Advanced Analytic Applications

Sep 03, 2008 | Netezza Corp. today announced five advanced analytic applications developed by Netezza Developer Network (NDN) members.
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Netezza, Cognos Provide High-Performance Enterprise BI

Jan 20, 2006 | Netezza Corp. has expanded its partnership with Cognos Inc. to deliver a business intelligence (BI) platform that allows retailers to extract and analyze strategic insight from enterprise data.
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Netezza Offers 100 Terabyte Systems

May 20, 2005 | Netezza Corp. announced it has expanded the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system family of products to meet customer demand for large data warehouse functionality.
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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.