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Parallel Programming Is Here – Are You Ready?

Jun 23, 2009 | Whether you're simulating the extreme conditions inside an exploding star or designing an ergonomically innovative office chair, it's a good bet that a high performance computing (HPC) system and some brain-bending programming will be involved.
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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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Julich Supercomputing Center Keeps Germany on the Cutting Edge of HPC

Jun 22, 2009 | Thomas Lippert, director of the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany, is speaking at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg about his experiences with the exotic systems that lead the TOP500 list of the HPC community's preeminent supercomputers, and the scientific breakthroughs that they enable. We caught up with Dr. Lippert by email before the conference to get a sneak peak at his thoughts on working at the extremes of computation.
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HPC Globalization Fuels ISC Growth

Jun 19, 2009 | This year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'09) in Hamburg, Germany, promises to offer some respite from the gloomy news affecting the HPC community in these tough economic times.
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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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Sequoia: The Next Generation of Supercomputer

Apr 28, 2009 | Speeds reached by supercomputers are increasing ever more rapidly. "Sequoia," the name of one such American project, looks set to overshadow all previous such systems.
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Cloudy With a Chance of HPC

Jul 01, 2009 | GenomeWeb Daily News | The popularity of cloud computing in the life sciences community was on full display at April's Bio-IT World conference.
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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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DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing

Jun 29, 2009 | GCN.com | Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems.
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When Supercomputing Benchmarks Fail to Add Up

Jun 18, 2009 | ZDNet UK | Benchmarking is either an invaluable procurement tool or just a pointless attempt to quantify the immeasurable.
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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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HP Intros Workstation w/ Six-core Opterons

Jul 02, 2009 | HP today announced the immediate integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into the award-winning family of HP Workstations.
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CLC bio Expands Next Generation Sequencing Solutions

Jul 02, 2009 | CLC bio today announced the release of new versions of the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.6 and the award-winning enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.6.
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STEP'09 Demonstrates LHC Readiness

Jul 01, 2009 | After months of preparation and two intensive weeks of 24 x 7 operation, the LHC experiments are celebrating the achievement of a new set of goals aimed at demonstrating full readiness for the LHC data taking run expected to start later this year.
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Penguin Delivers Supercomputer to U Of Delaware

Jun 30, 2009 | Penguin Computing today announced that the University of Delaware Global Computing Laboratory has deployed the university's largest supercomputer, code-named "Geronimo."
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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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NCSA Receives NSF Grant for Security Software

Jun 30, 2009 | NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate has received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to maintain and provide critical enhancements for cyberInfrastructure security technologies developed at NCSA.
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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.