http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire RSS Feed for Off the Wire en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:50:45 GMT 2010-03-19T15:50:45Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Astrophysicists-Cosmologists-to-Tap-Power-of-Blue-Waters-88561002.html Scientists and engineers who are eager to tap the sustained-petaflop powerhouse, Blue Waters, for breakthrough research are already working closely with the Blue Waters project team to prepare their codes. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:04 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Astrophysicists-Cosmologists-to-Tap-Power-of-Blue-Waters-88561002.html 2010-03-19T15:30:04Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Nine-PRACE-Prototypes-are-Available-for-Testing-88561542.html PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC petascale systems. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:34:55 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Nine-PRACE-Prototypes-are-Available-for-Testing-88561542.html 2010-03-19T15:34:55Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/NCSA-Visualizations-Featured-in-Hubble-3D-88562672.html High-resolution 3D visualizations of galaxies, nebulae and newborn stars created at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) appear in Hubble 3D, a 43-minute IMAX 3D documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:50:45 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/NCSA-Visualizations-Featured-in-Hubble-3D-88562672.html 2010-03-19T15:50:45Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/NLR-Internet2-Applaud-FCCs-One-Gigabit-Per-Second-Broadband-Goal-for-Community-Anchor-Institutions-88498352.html The Internet2 and National LambdaRail communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community anchor institutions in its National Broadband Plan. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:23:39 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/NLR-Internet2-Applaud-FCCs-One-Gigabit-Per-Second-Broadband-Goal-for-Community-Anchor-Institutions-88498352.html 2010-03-19T01:23:39Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Cisco-Unified-Computing-System-Increases-Performance-for-Business-Apps-88456772.html Cisco today announced that the Cisco Unified Computing System has achieved outstanding performance results in industry standard benchmarks for virtualized environments as well as other key datacenter applications. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:28:34 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Cisco-Unified-Computing-System-Increases-Performance-for-Business-Apps-88456772.html 2010-03-18T20:28:34Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/GE-Uses-GPGPU-Technology-in-Rugged-Platforms-88429232.html GE Intelligent Platforms today extended its family of rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) solutions with the announcement of the 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:35:32 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/GE-Uses-GPGPU-Technology-in-Rugged-Platforms-88429232.html 2010-03-18T17:35:32Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Broadcom-Introduces-Single-Chip-Ethernet-Switch-88422407.html Broadcom Corporation today announced a new series of multi-layer Ethernet devices that enable faster connectivity between servers in the datacenter. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:45:40 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Broadcom-Introduces-Single-Chip-Ethernet-Switch-88422407.html 2010-03-18T16:45:40Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/PRACE-Grants-43-Million-Core-Hours-to-Prototype-Systems-88423372.html Six projects, two from France and one from Norway, Denmark, UK, and the Netherlands, have been granted access to the PRACE prototype systems. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:49 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/PRACE-Grants-43-Million-Core-Hours-to-Prototype-Systems-88423372.html 2010-03-18T17:02:49Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/EDGeSHome-Helps-Solve-the-Worlds-Energy-Crisis-88424787.html The combined processing power of the EDGeS@Home project will be used to predict and optimize the behavior of nuclear fusion reactions. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:03 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/EDGeSHome-Helps-Solve-the-Worlds-Energy-Crisis-88424787.html 2010-03-18T17:02:03Z http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/PRACE-Held-a-Workshop-on-New-Languages-and-Future-Technology-Prototypes-88426042.html PRACE organized a workshop on new languages, hardware accelerators and energy efficiency in high performance computing. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:10:52 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/PRACE-Held-a-Workshop-on-New-Languages-and-Future-Technology-Prototypes-88426042.html 2010-03-18T17:10:52Z