http://www.hpcwire.com/ Copyright 2012, Tabor Communications Wed, 23 May 2012 23:40:22 EDT Wed, 23 May 2012 23:40:22 EDT Xtenit http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us HPC Wire: Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/hp_lays_off_27_000_in_restructuring_move.html HP today outlined plans for a multi-year productivity initiative designed to simplify business processes, advance innovation and deliver better results for customers, employees and shareholders. Wed, 23 May 2012 19:16:32 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/hp_lays_off_27_000_in_restructuring_move.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/asus_introduces_sandy_bridge_systems.html ASUS has announced systems based on the new Sandy Bridge E5-2400 and E3-1200 v2 chips. A number of the systems will also support InfiniBand connectivity. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:05:56 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/asus_introduces_sandy_bridge_systems.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/bioinformatics_researcher_software_engineers_look_to_improve_genomics_software.html Genomics researcher Daniel Janies and software engineers at the Ohio Supercomputing Center are partnering up to improve SUPRAMAP. The software is a web-based analysis tool used to track the spread of infectious diseases. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:00:52 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/bioinformatics_researcher_software_engineers_look_to_improve_genomics_software.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/infinera_to_supply_bandwidth_virtualization_of_géant_network.html Wed, 23 May 2012 11:19:59 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/infinera_to_supply_bandwidth_virtualization_of_géant_network.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/chelsio_releases_storage_software_enables_scaling_for_iscsi_devices.html Chelsio Communications has announced an updated release of their Unified Storage Server software. The Offering enables 1 million + IOP performance and iSCSI scalability up to 1 petabyte. Wed, 23 May 2012 05:54:59 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/chelsio_releases_storage_software_enables_scaling_for_iscsi_devices.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/lsu_paper_receives_high_honors_at_international_acm_symposium.html A paper written by LSU researchers has received high recognition from the international ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing. The paper has been named one of the top 20 papers written over the past 20 years. Wed, 23 May 2012 05:35:24 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-23/lsu_paper_receives_high_honors_at_international_acm_symposium.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/cornell_university_updates_bioinformatics_software.html Cornell University announced an update to their bioinformatics software. The program, named CatchAll, is freely available to download on Linux, Mac OS and Windows platforms Tue, 22 May 2012 17:24:01 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/cornell_university_updates_bioinformatics_software.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/allinea_software_releases_cuda_education_pack.html Allinea software has announced the release of their DDT CUDA education pack. The software is seen as an addition to CUDA lecture courses. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:40:43 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/allinea_software_releases_cuda_education_pack.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/prace_awarded_120_million_core_hours_on_hermit_supercomputer.html PRACE has been awarded 120 million core hours on the Hermit supercomputer. The system, is a Cray XE6 cluster, capable of performing 1 Petaflop/s Tue, 22 May 2012 10:57:37 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/prace_awarded_120_million_core_hours_on_hermit_supercomputer.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/prace_to_hold_summer_school_for_multi-core_mic_code_optimization.html PRACE will be holding a summer school on code optimization for multi-core and MIC architectures. The school will take place from June 21-23 at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. Tue, 22 May 2012 10:49:45 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/prace_to_hold_summer_school_for_multi-core_mic_code_optimization.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/spectra_logic_to_provide_tape_storage_for_blue_waters_supercomputer.html Spectra Logic has announced that it will supply tape based storage for the Blue Waters supercomputer. The tape repository is set to scale to 380 petabytes of data. Tue, 22 May 2012 10:22:31 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-22/spectra_logic_to_provide_tape_storage_for_blue_waters_supercomputer.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/uk_researchers_develop_silicon-oxide_chip.html Researchers at the University College London, have developed a silicon-oxide chip. Named 'Resistive RAM' or 'ReRam', the unit is said to operate at room temperature. Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:39 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/uk_researchers_develop_silicon-oxide_chip.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/winners_of_watson_academic_case_competition_announced.html The University of Rochester's Simon School of Business and IBM announced the winners of the Watson academic case competition. The contest was held to find new uses for IBM's Watson technology. Mon, 21 May 2012 17:02:07 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/winners_of_watson_academic_case_competition_announced.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/numerix_portfolio_now_available_through_windows_azure.html Numerix, maker of analytics and risk management software has enabled their product for cloud users. The Numerix Porfolio software is now available on Windows Azure. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:09:22 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/numerix_portfolio_now_available_through_windows_azure.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/hpc_user_forum_to_be_held_in_london_stuttgart.html IDC has announced the 46th and 47th HPC User Forum will be held in London on July5-6 ad Stuttgart from July9-10. Registration will be free. Mon, 21 May 2012 11:11:24 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/hpc_user_forum_to_be_held_in_london_stuttgart.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/ciena_transferring_100g_traffic_to_iceland_with_single_fiber_pair.html Ciena Corporation is demonstrating the first time 100G traffic has been transported over a single pair of fiber. The exhibit is taking place at the Terena Networking Conference in Iceland, May 21-24. Mon, 21 May 2012 10:04:11 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/ciena_transferring_100g_traffic_to_iceland_with_single_fiber_pair.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/mellanox_creates_ethernet_to_infiniband_interconnect_for_hp_servers.html Mellanox has announced the creation of an Ethernet to InfiniBand interconnect. The product is set to be used in HP ProLiant Gen 8 Servers. Mon, 21 May 2012 09:49:12 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-21/mellanox_creates_ethernet_to_infiniband_interconnect_for_hp_servers.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-18/university_of_southampton_builds_uk_s_largest_university_owned_supercomputer.html The University of Southampton has used funds provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to build the largest university owned supercomputer in the UK. The system, named Iridis3 has roughly 12,000 Intel Westmere cores. Fri, 18 May 2012 10:37:27 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-18/university_of_southampton_builds_uk_s_largest_university_owned_supercomputer.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-18/datadirect_networks_to_support_storage_on_open_compute_project_hardware.html DDN has announced their support for their Web Object Scaler on Open Compute Project Hardware. The company has recently announced a joint effort to build server and storage platforms with the OCP. Fri, 18 May 2012 10:31:03 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-18/datadirect_networks_to_support_storage_on_open_compute_project_hardware.html Off the Wire http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-17/part-time_scientists_to_deliver_lunar_rover_keynote_at_gtc.html The Part-Time Scientists team, sponsored by Nvidia will be presenting a day 3 keynote at GTC. The group will discuss the status of the Asimov lunar rover. Thu, 17 May 2012 15:11:38 EDT http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-05-17/part-time_scientists_to_deliver_lunar_rover_keynote_at_gtc.html Off the Wire