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IBM Invents Short-Cut to Assessing Data Quality

Feb 25, 2010 | In what IBM is characterizing as a "breakthrough," researchers have developed an algorithm that cuts the computational costs of assessing data quality by two orders of magnitude. The new algorithm has potentially far-reaching applicability, extending to nearly all types of analytics applications as well as scientific modeling and simulation.
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Remote Direct Memory Access Networking for HPC: Comparative Review of 10GbE iWARP and InfiniBand

Feb 24, 2010 | Cluster computing systems have caused disruptive changes in the HPC market. One consequence of the range of requirements for cluster networking is that the leading interconnects in HPC are Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), which is based on Ethernet networking standard, and InfiniBand, delivering upwards of 10X performance vs. GbE. Both show significant deployment in HPC.
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Profitable Year Eludes Cray in 2009

Feb 18, 2010 | Supercomputer maker Cray had one of its best years in recent memory, but just missed posting a profit. This week the company told investors what went wrong and right for the company in 2009, and gave an outline of what's on tap for 2010.
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The Week in Review

Feb 18, 2010 | Mellanox introduces flexible remote boot technology; Carnegie Mellon University adds newest cluster to cloud computing test bed Open Cirrus, and Barbie doll turns techie. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Pico Computing Takes Scale-Up Approach to FPGAs

Feb 17, 2010 | As high performance computing vendors polish their server and workstation portfolios with the latest multicore CPU and GPGPU wonders, Pico Computing is quietly making inroads into the HPC application space with its FPGA-based platforms. By picking the spots where reconfigurable computing makes the most sense, the company is looking to leverage its scalable FPGA technology to greatest effect.
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SGI Whips Up Cyclone Cloud Service for HPC

Feb 11, 2010 | SGI today announced "Cyclone," a cloud service aimed specifically at technical computing. Although the company has sold hardware that ended up in other peoples' clouds, Cyclone represents SGI's first foray into the cloud as a service provider. The idea is to provide a purpose-built HPC cloud, wrapped with third-party application software, and backed up by SGI's considerable HPC expertise.
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AMD Tries to Draw Intel Into Chip Battle

Mar 08, 2010 | InfoWorld | AMD offers up 48-core server prize.
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HPC Madness: March Is More Cores Month

Mar 04, 2010 | Linux Magazine | The new x86 multicore offerings could portend big changes for HPC platforms.
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Russia Invests in Supercomputers

Mar 03, 2010 | The Inquirer | Putin antes up $37 million for supercomputing technologies.
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IBM Brings Memory Flexibility to x86 Servers

Mar 02, 2010 | Network World | Nehalem EX-based machines enable customers to add memory, flash storage.
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Liquid Computing's Funding Dries Up

Mar 01, 2010 | The Ottawa Citizen | Former HPC server vendor runs out of cash.
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Supercomputer Helps Businesses, Researchers in 'Big Sky Country'

Feb 25, 2010 | SmartPlanet.com | Montana super for rent.
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SC10 Now Accepting Submissions for the Student Cluster Competition

Mar 12, 2010 | SC10 will hold the fourth annual Student Cluster Competition at this year's meeting held in New Orleans, La., from Nov. 13-19, 2010.
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AMAX Intros New 1U 13-LAN Port Network Appliance

Mar 12, 2010 | AMAX has launched a new series of 1U rackmount uni-processor network appliances designed around the Intel Processor Xeon 3400 Series CPU and Intel 3420 chipset supporting up to 13 GbE network ports.
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TACC, IBM and World Community Grid Celebrate Research Milestones

Mar 12, 2010 | The World Community Grid reached the milestone of 500,000 members in Feb. 2010. Together, these members have contributed more than 320,000 years of volunteer computing time to solve pressing scientific problems.
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Criterion HPS Provides Computing Power Required to Speed Digital Investigations

Mar 11, 2010 | Criterion HPS is addressing the new challenges facing law enforcement and security professionals with a suite of high performance forensic solutions that support the evidentiary lifecycle from data capture and hard-drive imaging to password cracking and evidence analysis.
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Renault F1 Team Announces HP as Official Partner

Mar 11, 2010 | Renault F1 Team today announced a major sponsorship agreement with HP for 2010 and 2011.
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Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers

Mar 11, 2010 | If you enter the same computer command, you should get back the same result.
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The Week in Review

The ACM Turing Award goes to the creator of the modern personal computer; and Voltaire announces a mid-range InfiniBand switch and new technology that accelerates distributed applications. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup.
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Florida State Gives Virtual SMPs a Spin

The prospects for virtual SMP technology got another boost last month when Florida State University announced it had installed a new HPC system from 3Leaf Systems. The servers are being housed at the university's HPC facility and will be used across a range of scientific disciplines.
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HPC Powers Bobsled Team to Olympic Gold

For the first time in 62 years, the four-man Olympics bobsled team from the US captured the gold medal, setting a course world record in the process. The winning bobsled had some state-of-the-art engineering behind it, including CFD software from Exa Corporation. As it turned out, that software may have proved to be the margin of difference in the race.
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GP-GPUs: OpenCL Is Ready For The Heavy Lifting

Mar 11 | Linux Magazine | CUDA may be the rage, but OpenCL is a standard that has some features you may need. Read more...

Can Free Software Drive the Fourth Paradigm?

Mar 09 | Free Software Magazine | Data-driven computing will need open software. Read more...

Graphics Card Maker Turns to High-Performance Bioinformatics

Mar 09 | Bio-IT World | Tahoe Informatics founder eyes GPUs, CUDA software. Read more...

CFD: Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Mar 08 | Sporting Life | Formula One engineers differ on benefits of CFD. Read more...

AMD Tries to Draw Intel Into Chip Battle

Mar 08 | InfoWorld | AMD offers up 48-core server prize. Read more...

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