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Heterogeneous Processing: Trite or Trend?

Jun 24, 2009 | Heterogeneous processing or co-processing on chips other than the CPU is the most recent trend in HPC. To some extent there has always been a small fringe element pursuing this direction, but in the past few years, there has been a rich diversity of efforts and support from major HPC vendors.
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Welcome to Year 1 AP

Jun 23, 2009 | HPC guru Thomas Sterling has labeled 2009 as "Year 1 AP -- After Petaflops." HPCwire got the opportunity to ask Thomas to expand on that theme and talk about where high performance computing is headed next.
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Six-Core AMD Opteron Processor: Top-line Performance That's Bottom-line Efficient

Jun 11, 2009 | In today's tight economy, IT professionals are looking to Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers to give them the performance efficiency to handle heavy workloads with maximum value and energy savings at every price point.
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HPC@Intel: The New Intel Xeon Architecture

Apr 15, 2009 | Whether they work in manufacturing, energy, life sciences, financial services, weather, digital content creation, or other fields, many users have similar requirements for HPC solutions. The new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series will play a key role in helping HPC users meet their requirements and experience groundbreaking, intelligent, and energy-efficient performance quickly and easily.
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HPC Vendors Jump On Nehalem

Apr 02, 2009 | Intel's Xeon 5500 series processor -- the processor formerly known as the Nehalem-EP -- was launched this week, and computer vendors the world over collectively exhaled their announcements onto the IT press. There's certainly a lot to like about this chip for high-end computing.
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AMD Weighs In on Nehalem

Apr 01, 2009 | Intel's first Nehalem server processor, which debuted this week, may be an homage to the Opteron, but AMD sees tough going for the new chip. In a year in which IT budgets are under a lot of pressure, AMD might end up having the winning strategy.
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Supercomputers Go From Biggest to Cheapest

Jun 29, 2009 | Computerworld | The bottom of the TOP500 reveals the coming revolution in truly accessible high-end computing.
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CPUs Gear Up For -- and Some Avoid -- Hot Chips

Jun 18, 2009 | EE Times | Parallel software also takes spotlight at Stanford confab.
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Colossus, Cray and Blue Gene: The History of Supercomputers

Jun 17, 2009 | PC Plus | Enter the world of computing's heavyweights.
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Iran Using U.S. Chip Technology in Rocket Research

Jun 16, 2009 | Computerworld | Iran claims it has built an HPC cluster using Opteron processors.
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Sun Is Said to Cancel Big Chip Project

Jun 16, 2009 | The New York Times | Sun's much-hyped Rock processor may end up on the scrap heap.
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Is Moore’s Law Becoming Academic?

Jun 16, 2009 | evertiq | The cost of semiconductor manufacturing may make building microprocessors below the 20nm node too expensive for volume production.
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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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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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Scientists Create First Electronic Quantum Processor

Jun 29, 2009 | A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
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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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AMD Continues to Support GPU Acceleration

Jun 25, 2009 | AMD announced that AMD FireStream 9250 compute accelerators are now qualified as part of the HP Accelerator Program to deliver the significant performance benefits of GPU acceleration to a wide array of enterprise and high performance computing customers using HP ProLiant DL385 G5p and DL160 G6 servers.
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Ga. Researchers Develop Programming Tools for Defense Needs

Jun 24, 2009 | Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing programming tools to enable engineers in the defense industry to utilize the processing power of GPUs without having to learn the complicated programming language required to use them directly.
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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.