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Intel Ups Performance Ante with Westmere Server Chips

Mar 16, 2010 | 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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Florida State Gives Virtual SMPs a Spin

Mar 10, 2010 | The prospects for virtual SMP technology got another boost last month when Florida State University announced it had installed a new HPC system from 3Leaf Systems. The servers are being housed at the university's HPC facility and will be used across a range of scientific disciplines.
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Fixstars Launches Linux for CUDA

Mar 02, 2010 | Multicore software specialist Fixstars Corporation has released Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) for CUDA, the first commercial Linux distribution for GPU computing. The OS is aimed at HPC customers using NVIDIA GPU hardware to accelerate their vanilla Linux clusters, and is designed to lower the overall cost of system deployment, the idea being to bring these still-exotic systems into the mainstream.
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The Week in Review

Feb 25, 2010 | A safer nuclear reactor could be on the horizon thanks to computer modeling; and the National Science Foundation awards $24.5 million to UC Berkeley researchers engaged in reducing the power draw of electronics. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Pico Computing Takes Scale-Up Approach to FPGAs

Feb 17, 2010 | As high performance computing vendors polish their server and workstation portfolios with the latest multicore CPU and GPGPU wonders, Pico Computing is quietly making inroads into the HPC application space with its FPGA-based platforms. By picking the spots where reconfigurable computing makes the most sense, the company is looking to leverage its scalable FPGA technology to greatest effect.
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Chips Ahoy: Vendors Show Off Their Latest Silicon

Feb 09, 2010 | Chipmakers converged on San Francisco this week to talk up their newest semiconductor products at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Of particular interest to the HPC crowd are Intel's Westmere EP and "Tukwila" Itanium 9300, and IBM's POWER7.
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Intel Partners See 'Easy' Upgrade Path With Xeon 5600 Chips

Mar 18, 2010 | ChannelWeb | Westmere parts already showing up in HPC machines.
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Arrival of the Desktop Supercomputer

Mar 17, 2010 | Cadalyst Magazine | A new generation of workstations is changing the nature of technical computing.
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AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Mar 17, 2010 | The Register | But what about the tier ones?
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GP-GPUs: OpenCL Is Ready For The Heavy Lifting

Mar 11, 2010 | Linux Magazine | CUDA may be the rage, but OpenCL is a standard that has some features you may need.
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Graphics Card Maker Turns to High-Performance Bioinformatics

Mar 09, 2010 | Bio-IT World | Tahoe Informatics founder eyes GPUs, CUDA software.
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AMD Tries to Draw Intel Into Chip Battle

Mar 08, 2010 | InfoWorld | AMD offers up 48-core server prize.
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PRACE Held a Workshop on New Languages and Future Technology Prototypes

Mar 18, 2010 | PRACE organized a workshop on new languages, hardware accelerators and energy efficiency in high performance computing.
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GE Uses GPGPU Technology in Rugged Platforms

Mar 18, 2010 | GE Intelligent Platforms today extended its family of rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) solutions with the announcement of the 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor.
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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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AMD Announces Strong Infrastructure for Upcoming 'Magny-Cours' Line

Mar 17, 2010 | AMD today announced a robust lineup of forthcoming motherboard and channel products for the soon-to-be available AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform.
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Eurotech Launches Aurora Au-5600

Mar 17, 2010 | Eurotech today launched Aurora Au-5600, the next-generation supercomputer for green petascale computing, based on the latest Intel Xeon 5600 series processor.
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Cray's CX1 Deskside Supercomputers Now Available with Intel Xeon 5600 Series

Mar 16, 2010 | Cray today announced that its Cray CX1 line of deskside supercomputers will now ship with the Intel Xeon processor 5600 Series (formerly codenamed "Westmere-EP").
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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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