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The Week in Review

Jan 28, 2010 | The DOE announces annual INCITE supercomputing awards; NVIDIA and the University of Illinois partner on a textbook for programming massively parallel processers. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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The Week in Review

Jan 21, 2010 | Researchers virtualize Sandia's Red Storm supercomputer; and Princeton University announces plans for new research center. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC

Nov 12, 2009 | If you thought Windows 7 was just for mere mortals, think again. Microsoft's latest OS is about to show up in Cray's newest CX1 deskside supercomputer that puts a Windows workstation and a Windows HPC Server cluster into a single box.
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ADIOS Ignites Combustion Simulations

Oct 29, 2009 | A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Georgia Tech, and Rutgers University developed the ADaptable I/O file System (ADIOS), an I/O middleware package that has shown great promise with leading fusion and astrophysics codes. Recently, ADIOS made its mark in the field of combustion.
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Mission Possible -- Greening the HPC Data Center

Aug 31, 2009 | High density computing allows datacenter managers to meet the constantly increasing performance demands of their users without corresponding demands on the center’s electrical and thermal capabilities. Because GPU-based systems combine supercomputer-level performance with significantly lower power and cooling costs, the goal of greening the datacenter is now mission possible.
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Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL

Jul 09, 2009 | 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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IBM Releases Energy Efficient Power7 System

Feb 09, 2010 | eWeek Europe | Company says new high-end servers will deliver "intelligent performance."
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AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012

Feb 08, 2010 | Computerworld | Chip maker hopes to bring CPU-GPU processors to servers in two years.
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IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

Feb 08, 2010 | eWeek | A new kind of Rocky Mountain high.
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Obama Budget Halts IT Growth, Cuts Data Centers

Feb 02, 2010 | Computerworld | White House looks to modernize operations at federal data centers.
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Accelerating 3D Seismic Data Analysis on Desktop Workstations

Feb 01, 2010 | Engineer Live | A new range of graphical processors can bring server cluster performance onto the desktop for under $10,000.
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Is the Future of High-Performance Computing for Life Sciences Cloudy?

Jan 28, 2010 | Life Science Leader | The case for cloud computing in biotech.
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Survey Reveals More Than 80% of IT Execs Plan for Private Clouds

Feb 09, 2010 | Eighty-three percent of IT executives intend to keep their cloud initiatives within their own firewall, according to a survey of delegates by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC'09) in November 2009.
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Coventry University Implements ScaleMP's vSMP Foundation Software

Feb 09, 2010 | ScaleMP today announced that Coventry University, an innovative educational institution in the UK, has dramatically reduced costs and improved research capabilities by implementing the vSMP Foundation for SMP software in the Automotive Engineering Applied Research Group.
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Cray Adds New Customers in Japan, Europe and the United States

Feb 09, 2010 | As momentum builds for its line of midrange supercomputing systems, Cray Inc. today announced that new customers in Japan, Europe and the United States have purchased midrange supercomputing systems from Cray.
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Criterion HPS Introduces High Performance Solutions Platform

Feb 09, 2010 | Criterion HPS Inc. today announced the release of the Phantom, a computationally-dense smart computing platform with a 64-bit, highly-parallel architecture that allows enterprises to overcome the power, space and cooling challenges.
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SSI Forum Partners with the High Performance Computer Standardization Committee of China

Feb 09, 2010 | The Server System Infrastructure (SSI) Forum today announced a liaison agreement with the High-Performance Computer Standardization Committee.
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BOXX, Autodesk Deliver Turn-Key Rendering Solution

Feb 09, 2010 | BOXX Technologies, together with Autodesk, Inc., today announced the introduction of RenderFarm on Wheels, the world's first turn-key dedicated rendering system.
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Chips Ahoy: Vendors Show Off Their Latest Silicon

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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The Week in Review

TACC's Ranger supercomputer celebrates its second year of enabling important research; Microsoft partners with NSF to bring cloud services to researchers; and NSF submits its fiscal year 2011 budget request. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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NASA Looks to Move Science Apps Into the Cloud

It seems only natural that the US space agency would be casting its eyes toward the clouds. Sure enough, NASA is now looking to cloud computing to optimize the operation of the agency's IT infrastructure for some of its science codes. Like many commercial businesses and government organizations, NASA is being asked to do more computing with fewer datacenter resources.
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IBM Releases Energy Efficient Power7 System

Feb 09 | eWeek Europe | Company says new high-end servers will deliver "intelligent performance." Read more...

Inductive Coupling Packs Flash Drive in a Chip

Feb 09 | EE Times | Wireless technology promises energy-efficient chip-to-chip communication. Read more...

IBM, Microsoft Help Create Montana Supercomputer

Feb 08 | eWeek | A new kind of Rocky Mountain high. Read more...

AMD Aims for GPUs in Mainstream Servers Starting 2012

Feb 08 | Computerworld | Chip maker hopes to bring CPU-GPU processors to servers in two years. Read more...

Graphene Transistors That Work at Blistering Speeds

Feb 05 | Technology Review | IBM has created graphene transistors that leave silicon ones in the dust. Read more...

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Featured Whitepapers

Virtualization for Aggregation And The vSMP Architecture™

Jan 12 | | In-depth look at vSMP Foundation server virtualization technology, technical implementation, use cases and capabilities. The technical whitepaper provides an architectural overview and details on the three vSMP Foundation products: vSMP Foundation for SMP, vSMP Foundation for Cluster and vSMP Foundation for Cloud.

Copper Cable Technologies for High Performance Computing

Jan 18 | | This white paper discusses Gore’s copper cable assemblies, and how they continue to exceed the standards for providing reliable, cost-effective solutions for high-performance computer applications.

Appro Assists LLNL with Cluster Designed for Extreme Scale Visualization

Jan 11 | | LLNL is home to some of the fastest computers in the world. In 2012, LLNL expects to have the Sequoia supercomputing cluster operational with a projected performance of over 20 PFLOP/s. These systems will focus on strengthening the foundations of predictive simulation through running large suites of complex simulations and then comparing model predictions with experimental data. To visualize this project’s large amount of data, LLNL requested an Appro Supercomputing Cluster specifically designed to support interactive data analysis.

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Webcast: High Performance Computing for a Smarter Planet

LIVE@SCO9: The IBM team discusses new innovations in hardware, software and services that help clients better understand their workloads and get insight from their R&D efforts. Technology demonstrations include the soon-to-be-released Power7 HPC processor, the DCS990 system with 2.4 petabytes of storage, the xCAT management tool, secure HPC cloud computing and more. Winners of two HPCwire Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards! Take the IBM virtual tour at SC09 or more information go online to: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/sc09.html