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Extending 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the Edge

Apr 25, 2008 | Since Gigabit Ethernet began appearing in datacenters a decade ago, performance demands and computing strategies have increased dramatically. Extending 10-Gigabit connectivity to the edge of the datacenter is expected to fill that gap. But the market is searching for a solution that is as simple and cost-effective as Gigabit Ethernet is today.
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ESnet's Bill Johnston to Retire From LBNL

Apr 11, 2008 | In a few months, Bill Johnston of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will step down as head of ESnet, the DOE network that provides high bandwidth networking to tens of thousands of researchers around the world. In a career that began in the 1970s and has included seminal work in networking, distributed computing, the Grid, and even crossing paths with Al Gore, Johnston has had a hand in the development of many of the high performance computing and networking resources that are today taken for granted.
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Ethernet's Role in Greening the Datacenter

Mar 21, 2008 | According to some reports, power usage already represents up to half the cost of datacenter operations. With energy prices on the rise and growing concerns about the ecological ramifications of global warming, IT managers may want to take a look at how the next generation of Ethernet switches can help make the datacenter more energy efficient.
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The Week in Review

Mar 21, 2008 | NEC and Tokyo Tech claim to have developed 10-petabyte supercomputing technology; Cluster Resources announces two products from Salt Lake City; and blogger Bill McColl discusses alternatives to relational databases. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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HPC Horizons Community Takes HPC to the Edge

Mar 14, 2008 | This week saw the inaugural meeting of HPC Horizons, a new community of HPC users, vendors, and policymakers dedicated to collaborative discussion of forward-looking topics that push the boundaries of High Productivity Computing.
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Sun Boosts HPC On-Demand Offering

Feb 15, 2008 | On Thursday, Sun Microsystems announced it had attracted 14 new applications to its Network.com utility service for high performance computing. Sun also announced a new partner program, "Sun Network.com Connection," designed to encourage independent software vendors to publish their HPC on-demand applications to the service.
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10 GbE and the Data Center

Apr 30, 2008 | redOrbit | Higher-speed Ethernet standards are on the way for both data centers and computing applications.
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High-tech Capabilities Drive Lab's Ongoing Bandwidth Appetite

Mar 12, 2008 | The Ellsworth American | The Jackson Laboratory in Maine is home to an immensely powerful optical microscope that allows researchers to visualize the structure of genetic material within the nucleus of a single cell.
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New GLIF Map Now Available

May 13, 2008 | GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, has announced the availability of a new world map that showcases its advanced research and education multi-gigabit optical network infrastructure.
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SAGE Visualcasting Enables Collaborative Laboratory

May 07, 2008 | Advanced networks are giving rise to a new kind of collaborative laboratory, or collaboratory, comprised of scientists in far-flung locations working together and sharing information as if in the same room, in real time, and aided by high-resolution imagery and high-definition video conferencing.
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Indiana University Announces Lustre over WAN

Apr 29, 2008 | University Information Technology Services at Indiana University announced that it has dedicated over 350 terabytes of new storage platforms to support collaborative research projects mounting the Lustre file system across the TeraGrid network and other national high speed networks.
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Europeans Shine Light on Optical Storage and Computing

Apr 24, 2008 | The goal of replacing electronics with optics for processing data in computers is coming closer through cutting edge European research into the mysterious properties of "fast and slow" light.
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Network-Enabled Radio Astronomy Wins Internet2 Award

Apr 23, 2008 | This week at its Spring Member Meeting, Internet2 together with Level 3 Communications announced that the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility is the winner of the first Internet2 IDEA Wave of the Future Award.
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Force10 Networks Supports IBM's New iDataPlex Solution

Apr 23, 2008 | Force10 Networks announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM's new iDataPlex, a highly efficient, rack system introduced today.
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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...