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Stanford HPC Center Rocks with Intel Cluster Ready Solution

Mar 28, 2008 | In just eleven days during 2007, the Stanford University High-Performance Computing Center nearly doubled the performance of its existing compute system. Steve Jones, the founder and manager of the Stanford HPC Center, writes about the design and deployment of this system.
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What Can Linux Networx's Assets Do for SGI?

Feb 14, 2008 | Rumors have been circulating all week about the imminent demise of Linux Networx. And so has come to pass. On Thursday afternoon, SGI announced it has acquired the core assets of Linux Networx. Tabor Research analysts Addison Snell and Christopher Willard offer their perspectives on what the deal means.
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Linux Networx Pumps Up its Cluster Management Offering

Aug 24, 2007 | On Monday, Linux Networx launched Clusterworx Advanced, its fourth generation cluster management software. The software provides a high-level interface for managing and monitoring computing clusters and gives the system administrator a single point of control for all their cluster computing systems -- even those not purchased from Linux Networx.
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SGI Expanding the Reach of Linux

Oct 06, 2006 | Steve Neuner, the director for Linux engineering at SGI, has been pushing Linux up the scalability ladder for the better part of the 21st century. Today, a single image of Linux can run on 1024 Itanium processors. How was this feat accomplished? This week at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo (ICE) in Singapore, Neuner presented a session that described the Linux kernel modification that helped to make this possible. HPCwire caught up with him before the conference to ask him about the Linux improvements and where the future of single system image scalability is headed.
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Itanium Enthusiasm

Oct 06, 2006 | This week, Linux-on-Itanium fans convened at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo (ICE) in Singapore to talk about platform issues and spotlight success stories. Cameron McNairy, Itanium Processor Architect and Principal Engineer, gave the opening keynote as well as presented a couple of other technical sessions on the microprocessor architecture. HPCwire asked McNairy about Itanium's role in high performance computing, the current maturity of Itanium-based systems, and what we can expect to see in the future.
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Linux Clusters Target Oil & Gas Applications

Aug 25, 2006 | The oil & gas industry operates in an increasingly challenging environment. The new challenges include more than high risk and high capital commitments, or declining fields and complex operations. One also wants to be smart. The good news is that smart is a lot cheaper than it used to be. Specifically, high performance computers are a lot less expensive than they used to be, and a lot more powerful. This article discusses how cutting-edge Linux clusters are tackling tough exploration, drilling and production problems for oil and gas companies.
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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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Microsoft Sets Sights on High Performance Computing

Apr 04, 2008 | Windows IT Pro | Despite its huge presence in the general enterprise market, Microsoft still has time for the high performance computing segment, as last year's release of HPC Server 2008 shows.
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Big Iron's Breakthrough: HPC in the Enterprise

Jan 25, 2008 | ITWorld Canada | The increasing number of software vendors offering cluster management tools has helped spur the adoption of HPC by commercial enterprise.
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HPC Industry Experts to Present at Moab-Con 2008

May 16, 2008 | Cluster Resources, Inc. has announced the speaker lineup for Moab-Con 2008: Advancing Computing Intelligence, the first annual Moab Conference where industry experts across commercial, academic and government sectors will discuss the latest solutions in HPC and data center management.
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Univa UD Taps Industry Veterans to Lead HPC Business

May 14, 2008 | Univa UD has named industry veterans Gary Tyreman and Bill Bryce to lead its high performance computing business and fine-tune its product roadmap.
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Platform Unveils New Cluster Management Solution

May 14, 2008 | Platform Computing has launched Platform Manager 5.7, the company's premier release of the product formerly known as Scali Manage, which it acquired from Scali Inc. in October 2007.
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Clustercorp Releases Rocks+ 5.0

May 13, 2008 | Clustercorp has announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 5.0, which includes Rocks+Support, Rocks+Rolls and Rocks+Moab.
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Platform Computing Establishes Financial Services Business Unit

May 06, 2008 | Platform Computing has announced the formation of a Financial Services Business Unit and the promotion of Jim Mancuso as its general manager.
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Grid Dynamics, GridGain Systems Join Forces to Simplify Distributed HPC

May 05, 2008 | Grid Dynamics and GridGain Systems has announced a strategic alliance that combines GridGain's open source grid computing platform with Grid Dynamics' design, test and deployment services for distributed, high performance computing environments.
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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...