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HPC Powers Bobsled Team to Olympic Gold

Mar 09, 2010 | For the first time in 62 years, the four-man Olympics bobsled team from the US captured the gold medal, setting a course world record in the process. The winning bobsled had some state-of-the-art engineering behind it, including CFD software from Exa Corporation. As it turned out, that software may have proved to be the margin of difference in the race.
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The Week in Review

Feb 25, 2010 | A safer nuclear reactor could be on the horizon thanks to computer modeling; and the National Science Foundation awards $24.5 million to UC Berkeley researchers engaged in reducing the power draw of electronics. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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IBM Invents Short-Cut to Assessing Data Quality

Feb 25, 2010 | In what IBM is characterizing as a "breakthrough," researchers have developed an algorithm that cuts the computational costs of assessing data quality by two orders of magnitude. The new algorithm has potentially far-reaching applicability, extending to nearly all types of analytics applications as well as scientific modeling and simulation.
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The Week in Review

Jan 28, 2010 | The DOE announces annual INCITE supercomputing awards; NVIDIA and the University of Illinois partner on a textbook for programming massively parallel processers. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Health Care Reform, Supercomputing-Style

Jan 11, 2010 | A researcher at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory thinks he can save $50 billion per year in fraud, waste and abuse in the nation's public health care system. And that's just for starters.
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Computing for a Better World

Dec 17, 2009 | Hamburg, Germany, is known worldwide for its harbor, its red-light district, the Reeperbahn, and the fresh sea breeze. On December 10, Hamburg added another feature of worldwide interest when an IBM supercomputer devoted to climate research was inaugurated, just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17, 2010 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing.
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Tailoring Medicine with Supercomputers

Mar 16, 2010 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data.
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Graphics Card Maker Turns to High-Performance Bioinformatics

Mar 09, 2010 | Bio-IT World | Tahoe Informatics founder eyes GPUs, CUDA software.
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Can Free Software Drive the Fourth Paradigm?

Mar 09, 2010 | Free Software Magazine | Data-driven computing will need open software.
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CFD: Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Mar 08, 2010 | Sporting Life | Formula One engineers differ on benefits of CFD.
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Expert Analysis: You Can Predict That R Will Succeed

Mar 03, 2010 | Intelligent Enterprise | REvolution Computing may do for R what RedHat did for Linux.
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PRACE Grants 4.3 Million Core Hours to Prototype Systems

Mar 18, 2010 | Six projects, two from France and one from Norway, Denmark, UK, and the Netherlands, have been granted access to the PRACE prototype systems.
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EDGeS@Home Helps Solve the World's Energy Crisis

Mar 18, 2010 | The combined processing power of the EDGeS@Home project will be used to predict and optimize the behavior of nuclear fusion reactions.
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Cisco Unified Computing System Increases Performance for Business Apps

Mar 18, 2010 | 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.
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DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Attracts Record Number of Proposals

Mar 17, 2010 | Europe's HPC infrastructure DEISA announced that the number of proposals received for the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) had jumped this year by 62 percent to a record 122 applications.
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Medical Device Firm Taps Dassault Systemes FEA Software

Mar 17, 2010 | Dassault Systèmes announced that medical device maker InnerPulse has selected Abaqus finite element analysis software from SIMULIA to assist in development of their technology designed in SolidWorks CAD software.
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CLC bio Releases Whole-Genome de novo Assembler

Mar 15, 2010 | Today, CLC bio released a groundbreaking whole-genome de novo assembler that will assemble genomes of any size, including human and plant genomes on a single workstation computer.
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The Week in Review

C-DAC announces plans for a petaflop system; IBM researchers are working on vertical integration techniques to extend Moore's Law another 15 years. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Moscow State University Supercomputer Has Petaflop Aspirations

The Moscow State University supercomputer, Lomonosov, has been selected for a high-performance makeover, with the goal of tripling its processing power to achieve petaflop-level performance in 2010. T-Platforms, who developed and manufactured the supercomputer, is the odds-on favorite to lead the project.
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Intel Ups Performance Ante with Westmere Server Chips

Right on schedule, Intel has launched its Xeon 5600 processors, codenamed "Westmere EP." The 5600 represents the 32nm sequel to the Xeon 5500 (Nehalem EP) for dual-socket servers. Intel is touting better performance and energy efficiency, along with new security features, as the big selling points of the new Xeons.
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Intel Partners See 'Easy' Upgrade Path With Xeon 5600 Chips

Mar 18 | ChannelWeb | Westmere parts already showing up in HPC machines. Read more...

AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Mar 17 | The Register | But what about the tier ones? Read more...

Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing. Read more...

Scheduling HPC In The Cloud

Mar 17 | Linux Magazine | Latest iteration of Sun Grid Engine able to tap into Cloud. Read more...

Tailoring Medicine with Supercomputers

Mar 16 | Bio-IT World | Biotech firm builds genetic models from patient data. Read more...

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