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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Reflections on the NSF Supercomputer Center Program

Jan 04, 2010 | In a position paper for community input at NSF's Future of High Performance Computing Workshop in early December, Calit2 Director Larry Smarr reviewed the successes, failures and continuing challenges of the NSF supercomputing program that he helped create.
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10GbE Networking for HPC -- Applications and Technology Trends

Jun 15, 2009 | So far, 10GbE has been a high-end luxury for environments that want maximum performance regardless of cost, but that's changing fast. The per-port pricing gap between 10GbE and alternate network options is narrowing rapidly as more vendors increase the competitive pressure on pricing for related components.
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Wolfram Alpha Boots Up

May 18, 2009 | Welcome to the era of the computational Web. Wolfram Alpha, Stephen Wolfram's online "computational knowledge engine" debuted on Friday evening, and was officially launched on Monday on its Web site.
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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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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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Mellanox Builds Bridges to Ethernet, Fibre Channel

Feb 17, 2009 | Leveraging the momentum it has achieved with 40 Gbps InfiniBand, Mellanox Technologies is entering the network gateway business. Today the company introduced BridgeX, a technology that offers fabric convergence for SAN and LAN infrastructure in multi-protocol datacenters.
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Supercomputer Creates Virtual 3-D Classrooms

Feb 22, 2010 | Bizjournals.com | New Mexico's biggest super at center of statewide academic network.
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Arista, Blade Win Top Spot in Data Center Switch Test

Jan 19, 2010 | Network World | Network World's David Newman takes a look at the latest 10 GigE switches.
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Govt Brews National Cloud for Science

Jan 07, 2010 | Computerworld Australia | Aussies make big investment in grid networks for scientific research.
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

Dec 15, 2009 | The New York Times | "It's the data stupid."
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Google CEO Imagines Era Of Mobile Supercomputers

Oct 28, 2009 | InformationWeek | Cloud turns consumer gadgets into supercomputing devices.
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Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data

Oct 12, 2009 | CNET News | Researchers grapple with Internet-scale data sets.
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Cisco Unified Computing System Increases Performance for Business Apps

Mar 18, 2010 | Cisco today announced that the Cisco Unified Computing System has achieved outstanding performance results in industry standard benchmarks for virtualized environments as well as other key datacenter applications.
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NLR, Internet2 Applaud FCC's One Gigabit Per Second Broadband Goal for Community Anchor Institutions

Mar 18, 2010 | The Internet2 and National LambdaRail communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community anchor institutions in its National Broadband Plan.
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ISC'10 Special Sessions to Focus on Life Sciences, New Markets, Networking and Energy

Mar 15, 2010 | The 25th International Supercomputing Conference -- ISC'10 -- the leading HPC event in 2010, introduces four new special sessions to address some of the biggest challenges in science, industry and technology today.
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LBNL's ESnet Collaborates with Dutch SURFnet, Scandinavian NORDUnet

Mar 11, 2010 | Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is embarking on a cooperative research effort with SURFnet, the national computer network for higher education and research in the Netherlands, and Scandinavian research network NORDUnet to explore potential synergies between the unique technical knowledge and expertise that each organization has to offer.
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Japan's KDDI Selects ADVA Optical Networking

Mar 09, 2010 | ADVA Optical Networking today announced that KDDI Corporation (KDDI) has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solution as the platform for delivery of its enterprise solution called "Managed WDM Service".
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QLogic Appoints Minoru Yasuda as General Manager of QLogic Japan

Mar 08, 2010 | QLogic Corp. today announced the appointment of Minoru Yasuda to general manager, QLogic Japan.
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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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LIVE@SCO9: The IBM team discusses new innovations in hardware, software and services that help clients better understand their workloads and get insight from their R&D efforts. Technology demonstrations include the soon-to-be-released Power7 HPC processor, the DCS990 system with 2.4 petabytes of storage, the xCAT management tool, secure HPC cloud computing and more. Winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards! Take the IBM virtual tour at SC09 or more information go online to: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/sc09.html