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The New Science of Visual Analytics

May 15, 2008 | 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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New Dimensions in HPC

Apr 29, 2008 | Within the computing industry, the traditional High Productivity Computing (tHPC) market has and continues to act as a generative edge for new technologies and applications. This market area has traditionally been the point where users are pushing advances in system performance and architectures to address problems that range from standard engineering simulations to problems that have hitherto been intractable.
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Stuck on the Desktop

Apr 25, 2008 | If high performance computing is such an innovation accelerator, why don't more companies embrace the technology? The Council on Competitiveness has released two new studies that look at why technical computing users on desktop systems are not graduating to HPC servers.
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Petascale Computing to Advance Climate Research

Apr 18, 2008 | From the birth of HPC, climate research has had a voracious appetite for computing resources. John Drake, chief computational scientist for the Climate End Station at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, explains what petascale computing will do to help feed this hunger and how the lab's work supports the mission of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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CPU Tech Brings Real-Time Modeling to Electronics Design

Apr 11, 2008 | A little less than a year ago, CPU Tech announced a collaborative effort with BAE Systems to begin development of a virtual model of the Bradley Combat Systems vehicle. In this interview, Ed King, CPU Tech founder and CEO, talks about the real-time simulation work his company is doing with BAE Systems, and the nature of the technology behind it.
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Back to the Future: SGI Returns to Visualization

Apr 11, 2008 | In the 1980s and early 1990s, if you were doing anything serious in computer graphics you were doing it with SGI gear. Then a series of strategic missteps and the emergence of incredibly powerful, cheap graphics cards for PCs made the company's graphics lines irrelevant. The SGI Virtu line announced this week steers SGI back into graphics for what it says is the long haul.
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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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NCCS Support of Space Exploration

May 05, 2008 | CISTO News | The NASA Center for Computational Sciences is playing a vital role in the advancement of space weather modeling, which will help facilitate interplanetary travel like humankind's first trip to Mars.
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There's a Hole in My Bucket -- and in the Data as Well!

May 05, 2008 | UC San Diego | Like the popular children's song "There's a Hole in My Bucket," in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management process by creating a universally accepted cyberinfrastructure to study our most valuable natural resource -- water.
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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence

May 03, 2008 | New York Times | Stanford researcher Daphne Koller is creating a set of computational tools that can be used by scientists and engineers to do things like predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.
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Linux and Formula One

Apr 29, 2008 | IT PRO | Formula One motor racing is no longer about famous car marques, its about precise science and using technology to shave another fraction of a second off a lap time, and Linux clusters are playing a pivotal role in helping the race teams achieve this.
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Super Fast ... Super Big ... Supercomputer

Apr 29, 2008 | The Columbus Dispatch | The powerful system housed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center can perform 21.9 trillion computations per second and has about 2,000 users from universities, hospitals, businesses and the military.
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Comet Solutions Joins Siemens PLM Software Partner Program

May 15, 2008 | Comet Solutions, Inc. announced its partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management software and services.
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National Science Board Approves UCAR Proposal to Manage NCAR

May 15, 2008 | The National Science Board has authorized the NSF to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research to continue to manage and operate the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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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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Eurotech, Intel to Collaborate on HPC Development

May 14, 2008 | Gruppo Eurotech, an Italian company specializing in embedded solutions and computer miniaturizatrion, and Intel, the world's largest producer of chips and world leader in silicon innovation, have signed a memorandum of understanding over several years of technological collaboration.
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ParAccel, JasperSoft Build High Performance BI Solution

May 14, 2008 | ParAccel, Inc. and JasperSoft Corp. today announced a partnership and plans to make available JasperSoft's Business Intelligence Suite for the ParAccel Analytic Database.
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DOE Accepting INCITE Proposals for 2009

May 13, 2008 | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE's national laboratories.
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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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Parallel Processing Calls for a Fortress Mentality

May 14 | InfoWorld | Sun Microsystems is taking the lessons learned from Java and applying them to the application development challenges of the high performance computing realm. Read more...

IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Read more...

IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Read more...

Record-Setting Simulations on Ranger Reconstruct the Reionization Era

May 12 | 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. Read more...

2 AMD Executives Out in Restructuring Amid Slump

May 12 | 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. Read more...

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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...