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The New Science of Visual Analytics

May 15, 2008 | 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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Back to the Future: SGI Returns to Visualization

Apr 11, 2008 | In the 1980s and early 1990s, if you were doing anything serious in computer graphics you were doing it with SGI gear. Then a series of strategic missteps and the emergence of incredibly powerful, cheap graphics cards for PCs made the company's graphics lines irrelevant. The SGI Virtu line announced this week steers SGI back into graphics for what it says is the long haul.
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Accelerating Desktop Imaging with Parallel Computation

Mar 14, 2008 | Due to the proliferation of image sensors and high-resolution displays, digital image processing is a staple on everything from cell phones to supercomputers. But the performance of image processing applications can significantly affect their usefulness and the user experience.
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SDSU Team Works Around the Clock to Gather Fire Data

Nov 02, 2007 | Eric Frost and his colleagues at the San Diego State University's Immersive Visualization Center have been working nearly around the clock to collect images of the San Diego region since the first reports of fire near Santa Ysabel started trickling in the afternoon of October 21.
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NASA Perfects Pyrotechnics for Space Flight

Oct 05, 2007 | Separating the space shuttle from the external fuel tanks takes just the right amount explosive force. In order to achieve the proper design of the components, determine the precise amount of combustion required, and predict the behavior of the debris field, NASA is using finite element analysis software from MSC.Software along with visualization software by CEI Inc.
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Reading Tea Leaves Was Yesterday

Jun 15, 2007 | The French weather service Météo-France has announced that a new high performance computer was installed at the French national center for weather forecasts in Toulouse. Five times more powerful than its predecessor, it will allow Météo-France to use a new forecast model and to conduct new research on climate change in 2008.
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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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NASA Builds World's Largest Display

Mar 27, 2008 | GCN | NASA is about to complete the world's largest display; the Hyperwall-II will consist of 128 LCD monitors and generate 245 million pixels.
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High-tech Capabilities Drive Lab's Ongoing Bandwidth Appetite

Mar 12, 2008 | The Ellsworth American | The Jackson Laboratory in Maine is home to an immensely powerful optical microscope that allows researchers to visualize the structure of genetic material within the nucleus of a single cell.
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SAGE Visualcasting Enables Collaborative Laboratory

May 07, 2008 | Advanced networks are giving rise to a new kind of collaborative laboratory, or collaboratory, comprised of scientists in far-flung locations working together and sharing information as if in the same room, in real time, and aided by high-resolution imagery and high-definition video conferencing.
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University of Houston Builds 8 Megapixel Stereoscopic Visualization Theatre

May 06, 2008 | The Texas Learning & Computation Center contracted with Mechdyne Corporation to design and build a 34-seat visualization theatre with 8 Megapixel stereographic projection.
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ECU Visualization Challenge Shows Power of Imagery

May 02, 2008 | The first-ever East Carolina University (ECU) Visualization Challenge brought a standing room only crowd to the campus on April 23, as eight students displayed their creative and technical abilities during a competition held by the RENCI at ECU Engagement Center and the Center for Coastal Systems Informatics and Modeling.
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CLC bio to Unveil New Genomics Workbench

Apr 25, 2008 | CLC bio will officially unveil their new Next Generation Sequencing solution, CLC Genomics Workbench, the first comprehensive analysis package which can analyze and visualize data from all the major Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms.
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Vanguard Animation Taps SGI Render Management Solution

Apr 18, 2008 | Vanguard Animation's all computer-generated movie Space Chimps made all deadlines with ease because of technology from SGI and PipelineFX and the digital media expertise of SGI partner Seven Group.
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EFILM AUSTRALIA Doubles Film Production With SGI Storage

Apr 18, 2008 | LAS VEGAS, NAB Show, April 15 -- To support changes in film production as well as attract major international productions, EFILM AUSTRALIA is upgrading its existing SAN from SGI with...
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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...