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Real Scale, Real Problems: Yahoo Brings 3 New Universities into the Fold

Apr 16, 2009 | Late last week Yahoo announced that it had expanded the circle of universities with access to M45, the 4,000 core cluster that the company made available for "internet-scale" research in November of 2007.
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Hard Times May Boost Linux in Financial Services

Apr 06, 2009 | On Monday, at the High Performance Linux on Wall Street conference in New York, Inna Kuznetsova, director of IBM's Linux Strategy, led a panel that discussed how Linux can be used to reduce costs and improve performance in these economically challenging times. We recently got the opportunity to ask Kuznetsova about the increasing profile of Linux for IBM customers and how the technology is enabling them to realize cost savings.
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Cisco Takes Its Shot at Grand Unification for the Datacenter

Mar 19, 2009 | Cisco has announced its much-anticipated Unified Computing Solution (UCS). Behind the marketing is a mostly enterprise play, but the company is hinting at an HPC angle for UCS. We'll tell you what we know now, and how this might impact your high performance computing deployment plans.
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Platform Computing Bullish on Financial Services Business

Mar 16, 2009 | When Platform Computing formed its financial services business unit in May 2008, it probably didn't know that within six months the financial industry would begin to implode, bringing much of the global economy down with it. Now that some of the biggest investment banks are just scrambling for survival, will Platform's new focus on Wall Street pay off?
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Twins Separated at Birth: Cloud Computing, HPC and How Microsoft Is Trying To Change How We Think About Scale

Mar 12, 2009 | Long-time HPC'er Dan Reed joined Microsoft to make things happen -- very big things. When Microsoft announced its Cloud Computing Futures group at a technical showcase in late February, the company tapped Reed as the man responsible for developing the infrastructure that will transform the reliability, usability and capabilities of the world's largest computational resources.
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NVIDIA Lends Helping Hand to GPU Computing Startups

Mar 10, 2009 | In its continuing quest to spread GPU goodness, today NVIDIA announced a new program designed to give a boost to some of the most innovative GPU computing startups. The new program is mostly targeted at companies developing CUDA-based applications and middleware for HPC and visual computing and is designed to fertilize the software ecosystem around NVIDIA's GPU computing business.
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Q&A with HPC Virtualization Software Maker ScaleMP

May 29, 2009 | insideHPC | ScaleMP CEO Shai Fultheim talks about his company, its technologies, and why this particular moment of change is turning into such a boon for them.
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NASA Launches 'Nebula' Compute Cloud

May 26, 2009 | InformationWeek | The space agency's open source cloud project could be used in support of space missions and a more open Web strategy.
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Grids and Clouds in a Multicore World

May 19, 2009 | Gridipedia | Multicore architectures add another layer of complexity to grids and clouds.
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Clouding Of The Grid

May 14, 2009 | Linux Magazine | Cloud computing often looks like grid computing, but from an HPC perspective it is not even close.
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Embrace Failure!

Apr 22, 2009 | International Science Grid This Week | Can smart checkpoints and fault-resilient applications avert a Malthusian Catastrophe?
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Amazon's BI-on-the-Fly Using MapReduce-as-a-Service Brings Huge Cloud Data Crunching to the Masses

Apr 02, 2009 | ZDNet | Amazon's new cloud-based data mining and analysis service is an example of just how much cloud computing can change the world.
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STEP'09 Demonstrates LHC Readiness

Jul 01, 2009 | After months of preparation and two intensive weeks of 24 x 7 operation, the LHC experiments are celebrating the achievement of a new set of goals aimed at demonstrating full readiness for the LHC data taking run expected to start later this year.
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vSMP Foundation Supports HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Blade

Jun 30, 2009 | ScaleMP completed certification of vSMP Foundation for HP ProLiant BL280c G6 server blades offering the new Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series.
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ParAccel Intros Version 2.0 of Its Analytic Database

Jun 30, 2009 | ParAccel, Inc., today introduced version 2.0 of the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), the latest version of the company's high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics.
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NCSA Receives NSF Grant for Security Software

Jun 30, 2009 | NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate has received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to maintain and provide critical enhancements for cyberInfrastructure security technologies developed at NCSA.
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Fixstars Releases Yellow Dog Linux 6.2

Jun 29, 2009 | Fixstars today announced the immediate availability of Yellow Dog Linux version 6.2, delivering several updates and improvements making it simpler to install, faster, and easier to use.
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Researchers Connect Users to Grid Resources

Jun 29, 2009 | A team of European and North American researchers is making grid resources easier to access.
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Book Review: Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications

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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The Week in Review

Cilk++ used in parallelization of the FP-tree algorithm for pattern mining; Istanbul benchmark results posted; and the latest on the NVIDIA Tesla shortage. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

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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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference. Read more...

HPC From the Beach

Jul 01 | Linux Magazine | How can getting to the ocean help with HPC computing? Read more...

DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Read more...

Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

Jun 29 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing. Read more...

CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

Jun 18 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab. Read more...

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

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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.