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Video: SGI DMF ZeroWatt Disk Solution

Apr 24, 2013
In this demonstration of SGI DMF ZeroWatt disk solution, Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, discusses a function of SGI DMF software to reduce costs and power consumption in an exascale (Big Data) storage datacenter.
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Video: Cray CS300-AC Cluster Supercomputer Air Cooling Technology Video

Apr 01, 2013
The Cray CS300-AC cluster supercomputer offers energy efficient, air-cooled design based on modular, industry-standard platforms featuring the latest processor and network technologies and a wide range of datacenter cooling requirements.
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Webinar: Webinar: Extreme Scalability for High-Fidelity CFD Simulations

Nov 26, 2012
CFD models of 100 million+ cells are increasingly common. Models of a billion+ cells are emerging. To meet demand for 10 to 100x larger models, the simulations will have to scale to 10 to 100x more cores. Both compute environment capabilities and capacity must be enhanced. Learn how Cray and ANSYS are scaling production models to 1000s of cores and providing the compute environment to take CFD simulations to the next level of extreme fidelity.
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Webinar: Webinar: Methodology & Tools for Compute Performance at Any Scale

Nov 12, 2012
Clusters and workstations are often sized by one-off benchmarking campaigns during tenders, way before production. This method is efficient, but has drawbacks. This webinar will expose HP’s benchmarking method and the principle and benefits of leveraging this method day-to-day production. It will highlight some unique intellectual property, namely HP iLO 4 and HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU), to perform “smart job scheduling”. Register Now.
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Webinar: Free Webinar Series: Intel® Parallel Studio XE and Intel® Fortran Studio XE

Aug 27, 2012
This free Intel webinar series for C, C++, and Fortran developers is designed to help you efficiently produce fast, scalable, reliable applications throughout the development lifecycle. Starts September 18, 9 a.m. PDT. Register now>>
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Webinar: CFD Applications on Panasas Storage – a webinar with CD-adapco

Sep 04, 2012
Engineers using CFD and CAE applications are creating business value by leveraging their firm's big data to drive product innovation, reduce time-to-market, and replace physical experimentation with simulation. Technical applications that are run on Panasas ActiveStor creates competitive advantage for companies by helping them leverage their big data faster. Download the webinar where Panasas presents the results from the recently published CFD and CAE performance benchmark study.
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Webinar: Michael Wolfe Webinar: PGI Accelerator with OpenACC

Jul 10, 2012
Join Michael for a look at the first PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers to include comprehensive support for OpenACC, the new open standard for programming accelerators using compiler directives.
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Video: Take a Look Inside the Analytics 2011 Conference

Feb 15, 2012
In this Inside Analytics 2011 video series, you will hear from a number of key conference participants on topics including high-performance analytics and why it is a game-changer for businesses, the development of the SAS® High-Performance Analytics suite and how to empower the analytical expert.
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Webcast: Stop losing sleep: Remedies for managing Data Center complexity worries

Sep 06, 2011
Complimentary Webcast! Break free from the database vendors that force you to keep investing in additional skills and hardware to accommodate the inefficiencies of their software. Learn how you can achieve higher DBA efficiency and give your DBAs more time to focus on strategic projects and add more value to your business. Join us to hear best practices and client experiences on reducing both the risk and cost associated with growing Data Center complexity.
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Webcast: pNFS: Are We There Yet?

Aug 29, 2011
NFS has been the standard protocol for NAS systems since the 1980s. However, with the explosive growth of Linux clusters running demanding technical computing applications, NFS is no longer sufficient for these big data workloads. After years of development effort, driven by Panasas and others, pNFS is now just around the corner and promises to dramatically improve Linux client I/O performance thanks to its parallel architecture. Watch the on-demand webinar – “pNFS: Are We There Yet?”
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Webcast: ISC'11 Analyst Crossfire

Jun 26, 2011
In this lively panel discussion, Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research engages four forward-thinking leaders of the supercomputing industry on a range of thought-provoking topics, providing a high-pace conclusion to the ISC conference.

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Webcast: Amazon EC2 and HPC. Watch hands-on video tutorial and get free trial.

Apr 12, 2011
Speed up innovation and eliminate costs with Amazon EC2. No more procuring, configuring and operating in-house compute clusters. Access compute resources in minutes instead of months. See for yourself–build a 64-core parallel cluster and run a molecular dynamics simulation in under 10 minutes. Learn more
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Webcast: Meeting Unstructured Data Storage Requirements with Scale-Out Storage

Feb 24, 2011
Watch movie clip by ESG: How scale-out storage can help create a storage backbone that can handle the tremendous challenges of unstructured data growth. These systems can scale to multiple petabytes under a single system image, making them an ideal consolidation platform.
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Webinar: Confronting HPC Cloud Computing Security Concerns

Oct 01, 2010
Escalating energy and operational costs of building and maintaining data centers are forcing enterprises to adopt cloud computing models. But are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions like IBM's Computing on Demand (CoD) really cost effective? Join the discussion as industry experts discuss how you can exploit cloud computing for maximum ROI.
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Webcast: Are you drowning in data?

Jun 29, 2010
In this webinar you will hear about the current storage challenges facing the HPC community, how Panasas storage solutions provide exceptional performance, scalability, and manageability, and how you can achieve the lowest total Cost of Ownership with a system that installs and configures in 15 minutes.
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Webinar: Virtualized Data Center Roundtable

Jan 11, 2010
Join this online panel discussion for live Q&A with leading industry experts, analysts, and end-users to discuss the latest innovations, best practices, barriers to implementation, and measurable benefits of server virtualization with a particular focus on today's real world solutions.
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Video: Supercomputers on Wheels

Nov 19, 2009
LIVE@SCO9: Fabio Gallo, VP and Director for Extreme Computing at Bull (winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards) discusses Mobull – the new mobile data center solution featuring significant processing power, very high levels of density and flexibility, and rapid implementation. See all the Bull SCO9 announcements online at www.bull.com and take a look at this live video right from the show floor in Portland, OR.
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Video: Convey's Hybrid-Core Computers

Nov 19, 2009
LIVE@SCO9: Bruce Toal, CEO, President and Co-Founder of Convey Computer demonstrates how their hybrid-core computing technology delivers significantly higher performance at much lower power. And how, with their proprietary adaptive architecture, servers can dynamically and transparently reload different "personalities” that are optimized for different applications. Convey (www.conveycomputer.com) was presented with an HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award as a top vendor “positioned to lead FPGAs out of the HPC wilderness”. Take a look at their virtual booth video live from SC09.
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Video: Meet Fermi - The Brand New GPU

Nov 19, 2009
LIVE@SC09: Andy Keane, General Manager for the Tesla GPU Computing Business Unit at NVIDIA talks about the recent launch of their new GPU specificially designed for HPC. On the show floor, Andy demonstrates how Fermi unlocks the power of the GPU and how anybody can now get access to parallel computing. Can’t make it to SC09? Check out the NVIDIA booth online at www.NVIDIA/com/SCO9 - winners of 3 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards!
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Video: More Storage And A Smaller Footprint

Nov 19, 2009
LIVE@SC09: Derek Burke, EMEA Marketing and Channel Director at Panasas announces their first HPC scalable storage solution that includes solid state drives to add performance and capacity in a modular fashion. Looking to expand your simulations into new areas? Be sure to visit www.Panasas.com for all their SC09 annoucements and listen to live video now!
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Video: High Performance Computing for a Smarter Planet

Nov 19, 2009
LIVE@SCO9: The IBM team discusses new innovations in hardware, software and services that help clients better understand their workloads and get insight from their R&D efforts. Technology demonstrations include the soon-to-be-released Power7 HPC processor, the DCS990 system with 2.4 petabytes of storage, the xCAT management tool, secure HPC cloud computing and more. Winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards! Take the IBM virtual tour at SC09 or more information go online to: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/sc09.html
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Video White Paper: HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools

Dec 05, 2008
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.
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Video White Paper: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

Dec 04, 2008

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.
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Video White Paper: Beginners Guide to Sun Grid Engine

Sep 23, 2008
Sun Grid Engine software is the world's leading - and most widely deployed - distributed resource manager. The Sun Grid Engine software supports extreme scalability, simplifies administration and supports a diverse set of use case scenarios. It has industry-leading reliability and offers fast return on investment. Originally released by Sun in September 2000, the newest release is Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 and it is built on the Grid Engine open source project. Learn how to manage your workloads in an high performance computing environment and get your free white paper.
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Video White Paper: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

Aug 28, 2008
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.
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Feature Articles

Saddling Phi for TACC’s Stampede

The Xeon Phi coprocessor might be the new kid on the high performance block, but out of all first-rate kickers of the Intel tires, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) got the first real jab with its new top ten Stampede system.We talk with the center's Karl Schultz about the challenges of programming for Phi--but more specifically, the optimization...
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"No Exascale for You!" An Interview with Berkeley Lab's Horst Simon

Although Horst Simon was named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he maintains his strong ties to the scientific computing community as an editor of the TOP500 list and as an invited speaker at conferences.
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Supercomputing Vet Champions Quantum Cause

Supercomputing veteran, Bo Ewald, has been neck-deep in bleeding edge system development since his twelve-year stint at Cray Research back in the mid-1980s, which was followed by his tenure at large organizations like SGI and startups, including Scale Eight Corporation and Linux Networx. He has put his weight behind quantum company....
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Short Takes

Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Computing the Physics of Bubbles

May 15, 2013 | Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Floating Funding to Exascale Island

May 09, 2013 | The Japanese government has revealed its plans to best its previous K Computer efforts with what they hope will be the first exascale system...
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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Progress in Parallel: the Bull Parallel Programming Center

04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.

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