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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14, 2008 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm.
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IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14, 2008 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13, 2008 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers.
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Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12, 2008 | 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.
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2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12, 2008 | 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.
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Mellanox on InfiniBand and FCoE

May 10, 2008 | Blocks and Files | Blocks and Files talked with Thad Omura, VP for product marketing at Mellanox, and asked him a set of questions about InfiniBand, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and datacenter Ethernet.
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NEC Awarded Contract for New Earth Simulator System

May 16, 2008 | NEC Corp announced that it has been awarded the contract to build the "new Earth Simulator" ultra high-speed computing system for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
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HPC Industry Experts to Present at Moab-Con 2008

May 16, 2008 | Cluster Resources, Inc. has announced the speaker lineup for Moab-Con 2008: Advancing Computing Intelligence, the first annual Moab Conference where industry experts across commercial, academic and government sectors will discuss the latest solutions in HPC and data center management.
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Massively Parallel Names HPC Veteran John Gustafson CEO

May 15, 2008 | Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. has named Dr. John Gustafson CEO of the company, replacing CEO Scott Smith, who is now chairman of the board of directors.
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IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

May 15, 2008 | As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields.
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing

May 15, 2008 | Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver advances in scientific research.
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SC08 Broader Engagement Offers Mentoring and Travel Assistance Grants

May 15, 2008 | The SC08 Broader Engagement (BE) initiative will award participation grants to provide travel assistance to individuals from groups that have traditionally been under-represented in computing: African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, women and physically-challenged people.
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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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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...