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InfiniBand Goes Long

May 06, 2008 | Since InfiniBand came onto the scene, users have focused their efforts on using the high performance network fabric to connect compute and storage boxes within the datacenter. But a couple of enterprising companies, Network Equipment Technologies and Obsidian Research Corp., have developed InfiniBand connectivity for wide area networks.
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Startup Launches Highly Parallel Storage System

Mar 28, 2008 | Atrato, Inc. emerged from stealth mode this week to unveil the company's first product: the Velocity1000 storage system. The designers made some architectural leaps to get lots of performance and reliability into a low-power box.
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Parallel Storage: A Remedy for HPC Data Management

Jan 18, 2008 | The advent of more powerful compute systems has increased the capacity to generate data at a fantastic rate, requiring much larger storage systems that have to be accessed at increasingly higher rates. Both vendors and users are recognizing that the future of high-end storage has got to be parallel.
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IDC's Top 10 HPC Predictions For 2008

Jan 04, 2008 | IDC's team of high performance computing analysts provide their top predictions for the HPC market for the new year. They continue to see fastest growth at the low end and declining demand at the top end. The IDC'ers also offer commentary on the chances for a petaflop system showing up in 2008, the brewing InfiniBand-Ethernet interconnect battle, the power/cooling challenges, the evolving role of HPC accelerators, and the impact of multicore hardware on software licensing.
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HPC in the Land of 24/7

Nov 23, 2007 | More businesses than ever are employing high performance computing capabilities to fulfill their mission-critical needs. Here we take a look at three companies -- NASDAQ, Wal-Mart and FedEx -- that are using HPC assets to run their businesses.
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Panasas Invents 'Tiered Parity'

Oct 12, 2007 | This week, cluster storage vendor Panasas said that they have implemented the most significant extension to disk array data reliability since the original RAID paradigm was developed in 1988. Their new architecture is called "tiered parity."
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IBM Lays Claim to Cheaper, Faster Memory

Apr 11, 2008 | PC World | IBM is developing a new type of memory that combines the best attributes of flash and hard drives.
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Moving Toward Software-Based RAID

Feb 29, 2008 | Processor | RAID designers have come up with software-assisted RAID, which they think will offer lower costs and superior performance by taking advantage of unused processor cycles on multiprocessor servers.
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Panasas ActiveStor Storage Clusters Boost Capacity, Reliability

May 14, 2008 | Panasas has announced the new ActiveStor 5200 and ActiveStor 3200 parallel storage clusters offer 33 percent higher capacity per storage shelf and overall lower cost and energy consumption per terabyte.
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Florida HPC Center Selects RAID Inc. Storage

May 13, 2008 | The University of Florida's High-Performance Computing Center has chosen RAID Inc. for a large implementation of over 100 TB of performance-intensive 4Gb Fibre to SATA-2 storage.
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Landmark Adds Panasas Solutions to Accelerate Seismic-Processing

May 06, 2008 | Landmark, a product service line of Halliburton's Drilling and Evaluation Division, announced that it is introducing a parallel storage system that addresses the E&P industry's need for powerful new technologies to process seismic data more quickly.
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HP Unveils 'Extreme' Storage

May 06, 2008 | HP has announced a highly scalable storage system designed to simplify the management of multiple petabytes of data at an affordable cost, making it ideal for online and digital media businesses.
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SGI Highlights Genomics Research at Bio-IT Conference

Apr 30, 2008 | As scientists seek to accelerate sequencing genomes of varied arrays of organisms from fish parasites to cancer cells in an effort to determine causes and cures of diseases that plague mankind, technology from SGI is powering research in genome centers around the world.
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Mellanox Wins 'Best of Interop' Award

Apr 30, 2008 | Mellanox Technologies has been named 'Best of Interop' in the Data Center and Storage category for its ConnectX EN 10GigE server and storage I/O adapter with Fibre Channel over lossless Ethernet.
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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...