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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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Is Retail Ready for Supercomputing?

Jan 07, 2010 | SearchDataCenter.com | Commodity HPC driving down costs of business intelligence.
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Temple University Uses Power of GPUs to Develop Surfactants

Jan 14, 2010 | By harnessing the parallel processing power of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, researchers at Temple University are developing a computer simulation model that provides companies like Procter and Gamble with a fast, cost effective and accurate tool for research and development of surfactant molecules.
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Unilever Joins Forces with STFC for Product R&D

Dec 15, 2009 | The computational science expertise of STFC Daresbury Laboratory is to play a key part in enabling global giant Unilever to research and develop innovative new products for their customers.
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Procter & Gamble Partners with NCSA

Aug 18, 2009 | Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. will collaborate with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) through the center's Private Sector Program.
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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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The Week in Review

C-DAC announces plans for a petaflop system; IBM researchers are working on vertical integration techniques to extend Moore's Law another 15 years. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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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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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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Australia Commissions Cray Supercomputer

Mar 19 | OfficialWire | New super to support intelligence work Down Under. Read more...

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...

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