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Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

Jul 02, 2009 | Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, edited by David A. Bader, is the first book in CRC's Computational Science Series, edited by Horst Simon. Although the book is a collection of papers, Bader has done an excellent job of creating a compilation that holds together and covers a broad topic very well.
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Accelerating Life Science and Bioinformatics Applications…As if Our Lives Depended on IT

Mar 11, 2009 | Integrating the latest breakthroughs in biochemistry, high performance computing, optical processing, and storage is enabling remarkable advances in the fields of healthcare, drug discovery, and genomic research. Together, they are creating exciting personal therapeutic strategies for living longer, healthier lifestyles that were unimaginable until now.
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HPC@Intel: Go Beyond the Kernel

Mar 05, 2009 | Want to improve application performance by 10x or 100x? Few HPC customers would say no. Benchmarks that focus on kernel performance can provide important information, but only total application benchmarking can give customers a true picture of how an HPC system will function back in their data center.
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Of Unknown Origin: Diagnosing Cancer in the Cloud

Feb 25, 2009 | Cloud computing is finding new friends every day. Biotech firm Pathwork Diagnostics is now using Amazon's EC2 platform to perform sophisticated gene expression analytics for cancer classification.
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A New Business Intelligence Tool for Retailers

Jan 14, 2009 | With retail sales in their biggest slump since record-keeping began in 1992, businesses are desperately looking for ways to boost the bottom line. Improving productivity in existing stores with technologies like video analytics may turn out to be one of the most effective ways to accomplish this.
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HPC@Intel: Is the Free Lunch Over?

Dec 04, 2008 | The need to write scalable applications has been important for programmers in the HPC community for years. Now, the proliferation of multi-core processors is making scalability a top priority for millions of programmers. Previously, HPC programs that scaled very well were called "embarrassingly parallel," but it is inevitable that we will increasingly settle for "good enough" parallelism.
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3D Seismic Data: Taking a Smarter Approach to Interpretation

Jul 09, 2009 | Engineer Live | The demand for computational tools to underpin the 3D seismic interpretation process has never been more apparent.
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800 TFLOP Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU Unveiled, Not for Gamers

Jul 07, 2009 | Ars Technica | Japanese company builds custom ASIC to accelerate real-time ray traced rendering for the auto industry.
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Building the Computer That Could Halt Nuclear Armageddon

Jul 06, 2009 | TechRadar | Breaking the exaflops barrier will help keep the nation's nuclear weapons safe. And that's just the start.
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NSA Plans Massive, 65MW, $2B Data Center in Utah

Jul 06, 2009 | The Register | NSA looks to tap into cheap electrical power for new supercomputers.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01, 2009 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference.
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When Supercomputing Benchmarks Fail to Add Up

Jun 18, 2009 | ZDNet UK | Benchmarking is either an invaluable procurement tool or just a pointless attempt to quantify the immeasurable.
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BaseClear to Bundle Illumina Data with CLC bio's Software

Jul 09, 2009 | Today, CLC bio announced that the premier Dutch sequencing service center, BaseClear, will provide all customers receiving Next Generation Sequencing data with a license for CLC Genomics Workbench for assembly and downstream sequence analyses.
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Linguamatics Extends License to I2E for AstraZeneca

Jul 09, 2009 | Linguamatics today announced that AstraZeneca, a customer of Linguamatics since 2003, has extended its license to the I2E semantic knowledge-discovery platform with a further multi-year deal.
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DOE Funds Clemson University Clean Energy Research

Jul 08, 2009 | Clemson University associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering David Bruce will participate in a multi-university Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded with $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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ABstructures Relies on HyperWorks in Developing Race-Winning Sailboat

Jul 07, 2009 | Altair Engineering announced today that its HyperWorks CAE platform has been used by ABstructures, an Italian structural design company, to structurally design and optimize the winning yacht in the Volvo Ocean Race, Ericsson 4.
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UK National Genome Centre Launched

Jul 07, 2009 | A new UK national genome centre was officially opened last Friday (July 3) by Nobel Laureate and genome pioneer Prof Sir John Sulston and the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk.
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Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to Develop Petascale System

Jul 06, 2009 | The National Science Foundation has awarded a four-year, $1.45-million grant to the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and partners to develop petascale computing environments that model billions of individuals in extremely large social and information networks.
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Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL

Spider, the world's biggest Lustre-based, centerwide file system, has been fully tested to support Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new petascale Cray XT4/XT5 Jaguar supercomputer and is now offering early access to scientists.
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Wolfram Alpha: A Web-Based Application That Embraced Supercomputers

Wolfram Alpha, the Web-based computational engine introduced in May, is not a traditional supercomputing application, but relies on supercomputers to satisfy its unique requirements.
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TeraGrid '09: Student Participation Soars

There was a new energy at this year's TeraGrid '09 conference thanks to an outstanding turnout for the student program. Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, more than 100 high school, undergraduate and graduate students were able to participate in the conference.
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3D Seismic Data: Taking a Smarter Approach to Interpretation

Jul 09 | Engineer Live | The demand for computational tools to underpin the 3D seismic interpretation process has never been more apparent. Read more...

Engineering Unemployment Soared in 2Q to 8.6%

Jul 08 | EE Times | Unemployment for U.S. engineers has reached record levels, according to government figures. Read more...

Gartner Adjusts 2009 IT Spend Downward Again

Jul 08 | Network World | Global spending for 2009 projected to drop 6 percent, for a total of $3.2 trillion. Read more...

Concurrent and Parallel Are Not The Same

Jul 08 | Linux Magazine | Portability or efficiency? Neither is guaranteed when writing explicit parallel code. Read more...

800 TFLOP Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU Unveiled, Not for Gamers

Jul 07 | Ars Technica | Japanese company builds custom ASIC to accelerate real-time ray traced rendering for the auto industry. Read more...

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Featured Whitepapers

Parallel Computing Without Parallel Programming

Jul 10 | | Engineers, scientists, and other domain experts depend on the productivity enabled by very high-level language (VHLL) tools like MATLAB® and Python. However, as datasets grow larger and programs get more sophisticated, ordinary desktop computers can no longer keep up. The paper explores how to run VHLL programs on high-performance platforms without low-level reprogramming. Work with large datasets and complex algorithms without sacrificing ease of use or reducing productivity.

Building High Performance Computing in a Green and Modular Solution Building Block

Apr 14 | | Many HPC IT departments are feeling the rising pressure to deliver more capacity computing and performance while trying to reduce the total cost of ownership. This white paper discusses how an environmentally-friendly and open-standards HPC building block based computing system using flexible interconnect options helps address capacity computing needs.

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Webcast: Dell Expands HPC Access and Adoption with Intel Cluster Ready Program

Source: Addison Snell, GM/VP, Tabor Research; sponsored by Dell

Many organizations that could benefit from the use of HPC clusters find that it is complicated to get the systems up and running because of limited IT resources or the complexities of the clusters themselves. Learn how the Intel Cluster Ready program, for which Dell was an original partner, seeks to address this challenge for entry level and mid-range HPC users.

Video White Paper: Architecting a Better Network Storage Solution

BlueArc's Titan architecture represents an evolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale bandwidth, IOPS, and overall data capacity well beyond conventional software-based devices. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to four usable petabytes of tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements, offering a competitive advantage for businesses, researchers, or other enterprises seeking to better manage data growth while still ensuring optimal performance.

Webcast: HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio & Sun HPC ClusterTools

Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support. Learn about all this and the latest in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1.