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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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The Myth of Cut-Through Switching in Datacenter Networks

Feb 10, 2009 | Cut-through switching is mentioned as a requirement for datacenter switches. Originating from high performance computing environments, cut-through switching was aimed to reduce network latencies to the minimum. In this article, we review the background behind cut-through switching, and examine the effectiveness of the cut-through scheme in typical datacenter networks.
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Incoming: 10 Gigabit Ethernet for HPC

Nov 20, 2008 | InfiniBand has been a comfort zone for those tightly-coupled HPC applications that can't live without their addiction to low latency and high speed. If your application is a science experiment with good funding and no firm schedule, that's OK. If your application involves business, deadlines, and ROI, it's time to break out of that comfort zone and acquaint yourself with 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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National LambdaRail Opens for Business

Oct 28, 2008 | The commercialization of the largest optical network used by the U.S. research community is at hand. Darkstrand Inc. has announced that half the capacity of the National LambdaRail high-speed network will be available for commercial use at the beginning of 2009.
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The Road to Energy Efficient Electronics

Jun 15, 2009 | EE Times | Berkeley symposium calls for changes from circuits to networks.
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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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100-Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

Apr 20, 2009 | Network World | Pre-standard 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet products are expected to hit the market later this year.
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Supercomputing Gets Its Own Superhero

Apr 06, 2009 | ICT Results | DEISA is reshaping Europe’s supercomputing landscape.
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Terabit Ethernet in Sight

Mar 30, 2009 | Network World | Looking down the LAN road, the Terabit Ethernet milestone is very much in sight.
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InfiniBand: Caught in the Ethernet Meatgrinder

Mar 25, 2009 | The Register | InfiniBand supplier Voltaire may be moving towards a twin InfiniBand/Ethernet strategy as InfiniBand looks to get boxed in by 10gigE and the coming 100gigE.
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MAGPI Deploys Ciena to Support Federal Labs

Jul 01, 2009 | Ciena Corp. today announced that MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2) has implemented a network based on the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to support high performance network connectivity among multiple research labs.
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Brookhaven Lab Selects Force10 ExaScale Family

Jul 01, 2009 | Force10 Networks today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labs has selected the ExaScale family of virtualized switch/routers to help power its network.
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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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Virage Logic Sees Strong Adoption of 40nm Product Portfolio

Jun 30, 2009 | Virage Logic Corp. today announced that since being named TSMC's 40-namomenter (nm) early development partner in 2007, the company has seen strong adoption of its extensive 40nm product portfolio.
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Lightwave Logic Completes Private Placement

Jun 26, 2009 | Lightwave Logic, Inc. announced today that it has completed its most recent capital raise.
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NASA Ames Uses cPacket for Network Monitoring

Jun 25, 2009 | cPacket disclosed today that the Emergent Network Technology Testbed group at NASA Ames Research Center is utilizing cPacket's cTap "intelligent network taps" for wire-speed monitoring of NASA links up to 10 gigabits per second.
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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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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.