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A Trio of HPC Offerings Unveiled at ISC

Jul 01, 2009 | 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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Texas Memory Lets Flash Flag Fly

Apr 30, 2009 | Unlike many of the companies in today's flash-based solid state disk (SSD) market, Texas Memory Systems has been in the SSD business for more than 30 years. Back in the late 70s they were building SSDs for seismic field data collection, and in the 80s the company's gear found its way into supercomputers, and over the past decade, its products have reached into the enterprise market.
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In the Midst of a Recession, Panasas Comes Out Swinging

Apr 22, 2009 | Panasas has revamped its ActiveStor portfolio, introducing three new HPC storage products. Notably, the company has incorporated SSD flash technology in its new top-of-the-line storage offering.
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Spansion Brings NOR Flash to HPC

Apr 20, 2009 | Move over solid state drives. NOR flash memory is poised to take on its NAND flash counterpart in the server arena. Spansion, a flash memory company, has debuted its NOR-based EcoRAM memory with the help of two OEM partners: Virident Systems and Appro.
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Sun Revamps HPC Offerings

Apr 14, 2009 | Even as analysts and customers wonder whether Sun Microsystems will continue to survive on its own -- or whether it wants to -- the company continues to push new products out the door. On Tuesday, at Sun's Parter Summit in Las Vegas, the company introduced a number of new offerings, mostly centered on the recently launched Nehalem EP chips.
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Solid State Drives: Change in a Flash

Mar 26, 2009 | There has been a lot of interest among the enterprise datacenter crowd lately in a relatively old technology: solid state drives (SSDs). Today's flash drives are faster and cheaper than their predecessors, and are almost certain to assume a place in the standard enterprise IT architect's toolkit. But it seems that they have quite a bit of potential in HPC too, though not (just) in the way you might think.
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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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Solid-State Disk Adoption to be Swift in Corporations

Apr 08, 2009 | Computerworld | The adoption of SSD has taken on a 'gold rush' mentality in the enterprise.
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The Future of Storage

Mar 13, 2009 | ITWeb | The storage business has been based on hard disks for over 50 years, but there are some interesting technologies on the horizon.
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Sun Aims for SSD Future in Servers

Mar 11, 2009 | NetworkWorld | Sun has laid out more of its plans for using solid-state drives in its servers, which it says will help customers to reduce energy costs and improve application performance.
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What Does Woz See in Solid-State Drives?

Feb 25, 2009 | CNET News | David Flynn, the CTO of SSD start-up Fusion-io, provides some insight into why Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is joining the company as chief scientist.
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The Top 5 Trends in High Performance Computing for 2009

Feb 19, 2009 | Computer Technology Review | As every soul on the planet knows by now, we're in a global recession. That means that in 2009, IT managers will be looking for new ways to cut costs, including turning to HPC.
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Panasas Grows 48 Percent in First Half Of 2009

Jul 09, 2009 | Panasas today announced that the company increased sales by 48 percent in the first half of 2009, ending June 30th, as compared to the same period in 2008.
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Texas Memory Announces Windows Certification

Jul 07, 2009 | Texas Memory Systems today announced its RamSan-500 solid state disk system has been certified as interoperable with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008.
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Fusion-io Develops a New Class of Enterprise MLC

Jul 07, 2009 | Fusion-io today announced the development of a new engineering technique for managing multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology that combines the enterprise reliability of single-level cell (SLC) technology with the economical consumer-grade MLC flash.
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BlueArc Announces Mercury Network Storage System

Jul 07, 2009 | BlueArc today introduced the BlueArc Mercury series: a premium, network storage platform that delivers exceptional business and technological benefits to the commercial midrange market.
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RAID Inc. Launches Dual-Controller Razor SSD

Jul 06, 2009 | RAID Incorporated today announced the availability of the redundant controller version of its Razor 1U Fibre-Channel or SAS-based, 2.5 inch Solid State Drive (SSD) RAID solution.
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Open-E Announces Data Storage Software V6

Jul 01, 2009 | Open-E, Inc. today announced the general availability of its sixth generation Data Storage Software (DSS) V6 IP-Storage operating system.
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Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL

Spider, the world's biggest Lustre-based, centerwide file system, has been fully tested to support Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new petascale Cray XT4/XT5 Jaguar supercomputer and is now offering early access to scientists.
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Wolfram Alpha: A Web-Based Application That Embraced Supercomputers

Wolfram Alpha, the Web-based computational engine introduced in May, is not a traditional supercomputing application, but relies on supercomputers to satisfy its unique requirements.
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TeraGrid '09: Student Participation Soars

There was a new energy at this year's TeraGrid '09 conference thanks to an outstanding turnout for the student program. Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, more than 100 high school, undergraduate and graduate students were able to participate in the conference.
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3D Seismic Data: Taking a Smarter Approach to Interpretation

Jul 09 | Engineer Live | The demand for computational tools to underpin the 3D seismic interpretation process has never been more apparent. Read more...

Engineering Unemployment Soared in 2Q to 8.6%

Jul 08 | EE Times | Unemployment for U.S. engineers has reached record levels, according to government figures. Read more...

Gartner Adjusts 2009 IT Spend Downward Again

Jul 08 | Network World | Global spending for 2009 projected to drop 6 percent, for a total of $3.2 trillion. Read more...

Concurrent and Parallel Are Not The Same

Jul 08 | Linux Magazine | Portability or efficiency? Neither is guaranteed when writing explicit parallel code. Read more...

800 TFLOP Real-Time Ray Tracing GPU Unveiled, Not for Gamers

Jul 07 | Ars Technica | Japanese company builds custom ASIC to accelerate real-time ray traced rendering for the auto industry. Read more...

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Parallel Computing Without Parallel Programming

Jul 10 | | Engineers, scientists, and other domain experts depend on the productivity enabled by very high-level language (VHLL) tools like MATLAB® and Python. However, as datasets grow larger and programs get more sophisticated, ordinary desktop computers can no longer keep up. The paper explores how to run VHLL programs on high-performance platforms without low-level reprogramming. Work with large datasets and complex algorithms without sacrificing ease of use or reducing productivity.

Building High Performance Computing in a Green and Modular Solution Building Block

Apr 14 | | Many HPC IT departments are feeling the rising pressure to deliver more capacity computing and performance while trying to reduce the total cost of ownership. This white paper discusses how an environmentally-friendly and open-standards HPC building block based computing system using flexible interconnect options helps address capacity computing needs.

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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.