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The Week in Review

May 15, 2008 | 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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NASA and SGI Join Petascale Fray

May 13, 2008 | SGI's entry into the multi-petaflops sweepstakes began last week with its announcement of the Space Act Agreement. The agreement outlines a multi-year partnership between SGI, Intel and NASA, with the goal of deploying petascale supercomputing capabilities for the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center.
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The Week in Review

May 08, 2008 | SGI and NASA plan for 10 petaflops with Pleiades; Sun and SGI join Cray in reporting quarterly losses. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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High Performance Humanities

May 08, 2008 | The NEH and DOE have a vision to bring one million hours of high performance computing time to the humanities. The effort is being managed out of the NEH's new Office of Digital Humanities, created recently to recognize the increasing importance of computing in what has traditionally been a very old-fashioned area of research.
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The Green Grid's Datacenter Metrics

May 01, 2008 | The Green Grid has proposed key metrics for end user organizations to monitor as it pursues its goal of helping its members create more efficient datacenters. But what do the quantities mean, and how should they be measured? HPCwire talked to Jim Smith, the vice president of engineering for global datacenter operator Digital Realty Trust for lessons from his experiences measuring the health of datacenters in a business that looks a lot like HPC, but where a kW/h saved is a dollar earned.
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Cray Brings Intel into the Fold

Apr 29, 2008 | The Intel-Everywhere narrative got a boost on Monday when Cray and Intel announced a multi-year deal intended to create advanced supercomputing technology. For the first time, two of most important HPC vendors will be engaged in joint research and product development. The alliance is designed to boost Cray's prospects in the supercomputing arena and accelerate Intel's HPC mindshare and technology strength in the high-end processor market.
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IBM Set to Test the Fastest Computer in the World

May 14, 2008 | Computerworld | IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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IBM Shifts Cell to 65 Nanometers

May 13, 2008 | EETimes | IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers.
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Water-cooled Servers Gaining Steam

May 09, 2008 | Network World | As high-end computing systems become larger and hotter, datacenter operators and server vendors are increasingly turning to water cooling as a practical way to reduce energy costs.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers

May 07, 2008 | Berkeley Lab Research News | Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors.
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Supercomputing a Cure

May 06, 2008 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | To develop an atomic scale understanding of biological membranes, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using Lonestar, the HPC system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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Moving Closer to a 'Matrix'-Style Virtual World

May 05, 2008 | MSNBC | Advances in computing and graphics are creating a more realistic virtual reality, where it can be difficult to tell what's real and what's not.
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HPC Industry Experts to Present at Moab-Con 2008

May 16, 2008 | Cluster Resources, Inc. has announced the speaker lineup for Moab-Con 2008: Advancing Computing Intelligence, the first annual Moab Conference where industry experts across commercial, academic and government sectors will discuss the latest solutions in HPC and data center management.
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Total Acquires SGI Super for Seismic Imaging

May 15, 2008 | French-based multinational Total has acquired a high-performance computer to enhance the company's ability to process data needed to explore and produce oil and gas.
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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing

May 15, 2008 | Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver advances in scientific research.
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Eurotech, Intel to Collaborate on HPC Development

May 14, 2008 | Gruppo Eurotech, an Italian company specializing in embedded solutions and computer miniaturizatrion, and Intel, the world's largest producer of chips and world leader in silicon innovation, have signed a memorandum of understanding over several years of technological collaboration.
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Sun Unveils New Quad-Core Opteron-Based Systems

May 13, 2008 | Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of its first Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
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IBM Intros New Cell Blade

May 13, 2008 | Driven by growing commercial need in areas such as financial services, digital media creation and medical imaging, IBM today expanded its HPC capabilities for businesses with the introduction of the IBM BladeCenter QS22.
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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...