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Fixstars Launches Linux for CUDA

Mar 02, 2010 | Multicore software specialist Fixstars Corporation has released Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) for CUDA, the first commercial Linux distribution for GPU computing. The OS is aimed at HPC customers using NVIDIA GPU hardware to accelerate their vanilla Linux clusters, and is designed to lower the overall cost of system deployment, the idea being to bring these still-exotic systems into the mainstream.
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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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NVIDIA Takes Aim at GPU Acceleration for Bioscience Applications

Jan 14, 2010 | NVIDIA has announced the Tesla Bio Workbench, a new program designed to bring together the computational components needed to run GPU-accelerated bioscience applications. The rationale is the same one NVIDIA's been touting ever since it got into the high performance computing business: take advantage of the superior performance of the GPU in order to lower the entry point for HPC.
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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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GP-GPUs: OpenCL Is Ready For The Heavy Lifting

Mar 11, 2010 | Linux Magazine | CUDA may be the rage, but OpenCL is a standard that has some features you may need.
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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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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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The Cost to Play: CUDA Programming

Feb 18, 2010 | Linux Magazine | NVIDIA's success with CUDA is no accident.
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Berkeley Discusses Progress in Parallel Programming

Feb 15, 2010 | EE Times | Manycore programmming research starts to show some results.
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PRACE Held a Workshop on New Languages and Future Technology Prototypes

Mar 18, 2010 | PRACE organized a workshop on new languages, hardware accelerators and energy efficiency in high performance computing.
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IU 'Twister' Software Improves Google's MapReduce for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis

Mar 16, 2010 | "Twister," a new software tool released by Indiana University, supports faster execution of many data mining applications implemented as MapReduce programs.
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KAUST Hits The Ground Running with Totalview

Mar 16, 2010 | TotalView Technologies and KAUST, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, jointly announce that the recently-established university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has selected TotalView to provide the debugging capabilities required for all its research labs.
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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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HUBzero Workshop to Unveil Open Source Release of Core Software

Mar 15, 2010 | Space is still available for those wishing to attend HUBbub2010, a workshop for current and potential users of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Computing.
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Numerical Algorithms Group Marks 40th Anniversary by Expanding Student Awards Program

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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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Australia Commissions Cray Supercomputer

Mar 19 | OfficialWire | New super to support intelligence work Down Under. Read more...

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...

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