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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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Intel Brings Parallel Computing to High School

Jul 30, 2009 | Earlier this month Intel announced it was helping lead a parallel programming experience for high school students. The three-day "Clubhouse Parallel Universe Boot-Camp" was held at Brooklyn Technical High School. There is a clear business driver here, but in this case, the business driver lines up well with the broader societal goals of enabling users and developers to do more with technology.
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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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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Jul 01, 2009 | Last week's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) was a convenient excuse for vendors to announce a raft of new products, but three, in particular, stood out.
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Parallel Programming Is Here – Are You Ready?

Jun 23, 2009 | Whether you're simulating the extreme conditions inside an exploding star or designing an ergonomically innovative office chair, it's a good bet that a high performance computing (HPC) system and some brain-bending programming will be involved.
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Intel Ships Parallel Studio Development Toolkit

May 28, 2009 | This week Intel announced that it has begun shipping what is probably the most significant new tool in parallel computing to come along in quite a while: Parallel Studio. Intel began talking about Parallel Studio back in August of last year, and released a beta version in February.
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Are We Taking Supercomputing Code Seriously?

Jan 28, 2010 | ZDNet UK | Striking a balance between science and software engineering.
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Accelerated Methods for Bioinformatics Analysis

Jan 20, 2010 | Bio-IT World | A bioinformatics scientist looks beyond the Linux cluster.
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Microsoft's Server Chief Talks Cloud (Q&A)

Dec 15, 2009 | CNET News | It's been a busy year for Bob Muglia.
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Microsoft Creates New Server and Cloud Division

Dec 09, 2009 | Network World | Azure slated for commercial launch in February.
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Imagination Preps GPU/CPU Compilers for Parallel Processing

Nov 24, 2009 | EE Times UK | Company aims to ease programming for heterogeneous chips.
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Tough Choices for Supercomputing's Legacy Apps

Nov 12, 2009 | ZDNet UK | Will current codes survive to the exascale era?
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NVIDIA Names University of Maryland a CUDA Center of Excellence

Feb 08, 2010 | NVIDIA Corp. announced today that it has recognized the University of Maryland as a CUDA Center of Excellence, placing it in an elite grouping of nine other universities and research organizations worldwide.
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mental images Introduces RealityServer AppLab

Feb 04, 2010 | mental images today unveiled the RealityServer AppLab toolset at the Imagina conference in Monaco.
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SPEC MPI2007 2.0 Benchmark Adds Data Suite for Systems with up to 2,048 Cores

Feb 03, 2010 | The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a new version of its SPEC MPI2007 benchmark that adds a large data suite designed for systems from 64 to 2,048 cores.
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NVIDIA, U of Illinois Release Textbook on Programming Massively Parallel Processors

Jan 28, 2010 | The textbook "Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach" launches today, aimed at teaching advanced students and professionals the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architectures.
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REvolution Computing Names Robert Gentleman and Donald Nickelson to Board

Jan 26, 2010 | REvolution Computing announced the appointment of R co-creator Robert Gentleman and investment-banking veteran Donald Nickelson to its board of directors.
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AccelerEyes Expands Management Roster

Jan 25, 2010 | AccelerEyes strengthened its management team today, adding sales, marketing, and business development leadership with extensive experience and talent in the technical computing industry.
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The Week in Review

TACC's Ranger supercomputer celebrates its second year of enabling important research; Microsoft partners with NSF to bring cloud services to researchers; and NSF submits its fiscal year 2011 budget request. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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NASA Looks to Move Science Apps Into the Cloud

It seems only natural that the US space agency would be casting its eyes toward the clouds. Sure enough, NASA is now looking to cloud computing to optimize the operation of the agency's IT infrastructure for some of its science codes. Like many commercial businesses and government organizations, NASA is being asked to do more computing with fewer datacenter resources.
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Thoughts, Observations, Beliefs & Opinions About the NSF Supercomputer Centers

There is no such thing as an NSF (Supercomputer) Center and there never has been. There should be. What there are, in the words of Ed Hayes, then comptroller of NSF, are "NSF ASSISTED Supercomputer Centers." This is a double edged sword.
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IBM Releases Energy Efficient Power7 System

Feb 09 | eWeek Europe | Company says new high-end servers will deliver "intelligent performance." Read more...

Inductive Coupling Packs Flash Drive in a Chip

Feb 09 | EE Times | Wireless technology promises energy-efficient chip-to-chip communication. Read more...

IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

Feb 08 | eWeek | A new kind of Rocky Mountain high. Read more...

AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012

Feb 08 | Computerworld | Chip maker hopes to bring CPU-GPU processors to servers in two years. Read more...

Graphene Transistors That Work at Blistering Speeds

Feb 05 | Technology Review | IBM has created graphene transistors that leave silicon ones in the dust. Read more...

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Appro Assists LLNL with Cluster Designed for Extreme Scale Visualization

Jan 11 | | LLNL is home to some of the fastest computers in the world. In 2012, LLNL expects to have the Sequoia supercomputing cluster operational with a projected performance of over 20 PFLOP/s. These systems will focus on strengthening the foundations of predictive simulation through running large suites of complex simulations and then comparing model predictions with experimental data. To visualize this project’s large amount of data, LLNL requested an Appro Supercomputing Cluster specifically designed to support interactive data analysis.

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