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OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit

Nov 18, 2010 | The OpenStack Design Summit featured two separate tracks, one consisting of developer-led sessions to plan the next two code releases, and one for interested users and the partner ecosystem to discuss deployment and commercial opportunities.
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Deployments of OpenFabrics Alliance Software Increases 20 Percent in One Year on the TOP500

Nov 18, 2010 | OFED is being utilized by 218 systems on the TOP500, up from 182 in November 2009. OFED is being utilized by the majority of the Top100 with 61 percent.
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Intelligent Light Pioneers High Performance Cloud-Enabled CFD

Nov 18, 2010 | Intelligent Light is enabling computational fluid dynamics on the cloud, announcing an agreement to make FieldView, its market-leading CFD post-processing software, available on the cloud computing capability offered by R Systems, a leader in HPC resources on demand.
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Intel Adds More Storage Customers, Fueled by Intel Xeon Processor Innovation

Nov 18, 2010 | -Intel Corporation’s storage division has recently added new major wins with five storage vendors, illustrating the company’s momentum around developing advanced integrated storage features and capabilities.
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Vello Systems Virtualizes Wide-Area Networking Resources With Low-Latency, Multi-Terabit Cloud Switching Technology

Nov 16, 2010 | Vello Systems, a leader in high performance cloud infrastructure solutions, today announced the introduction and availability of its innovative Cloud Switching technology.
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Voltaire and Emulex Partner on Scale-out 10GbE Fabrics

Nov 16, 2010 | The demonstration held in Voltaire booth 3139 highlights Voltaire's Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software orchestrating end-to-end virtual machine connectivity for multi-vendor scale-out datacenter fabrics.
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Report Suggests IT Teams Lack Appropriate Tools to Manage Cloud and Virtual Networks

Nov 16, 2010 | Despite the monitoring challenges of these new network environments, 85 percent of respondents realized benefits by migrating to the cloud, including infrastructure cost reductions and increased application availability.
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Spirent Helps Advance Ethernet Technologies in High Performance Computing Environments

Nov 16, 2010 | As data centers get larger, faster and more complex, new technologies such as virtualization, FCoE and 40/100G Ethernet aim to help organizations move terabits of diverse traffic types onto a single, converged network.
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Cycle Computing Partners with Amazon Web Services to Provide Access to New Cluster GPU Instances

Nov 16, 2010 | Cycle Computing has had early access to these new GPU node types and benchmarked them against customer’s existing in-house GPU hardware. Jason Stowe, founder and CEO of Cycle Computing, is available this week at SC10 in New Orleans to discuss the new GPU instances
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Voltaire Announces FDR InfiniBand Switch Development Plans at SC10

Nov 15, 2010 | The switches will also have full compatibility with Voltaire’s unique portfolio of application acceleration and fabric orchestration software to enable even greater fabric performance, scalability and management.
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SGI to Unveil Breakthrough Hybrid Computing Platform at Supercomputing 2010

Nov 15, 2010 | SGI will unveil its next generation hybrid computing platform that delivers a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet, and will also demonstrate Altix UV, the world’s fastest, most scalable supercomputer, first announced at Supercomputing 2009.
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Adaptive Computing Announces Moab and Viewpoint Upgrades to Address the Scale and Complexity of Next-Gen HPC Systems

Nov 15, 2010 | The upgrades ensure that Adaptive Computing will maintain its leadership position managing the world’s most advanced supercomputing systems as ranked by the bi-annual Top500 list. Moab 6.0 and Moab Viewpoint 2.0 will be available in December 2010.
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Mellanox Announces Next Generation InfiniBand Technology

Nov 15, 2010 | The added bandwidth and features will be utilized by supercomputers and mega warehouse data centers to deliver the highest performance, efficiency and scalability for applications in high performance computing, cloud computing, database, financial services, virtualization and Web 2.0 market segments.
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SC10 - World’s Leading Supercomputing Forum Kicks Off Week of Discovery

Nov 15, 2010 | This week marks the kickoff to SC10 in New Orleans--the show promises to be full of surprise announcements, details on this year's Top500 and far more packed into a short week.
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Brocade Delivers New Ethernet Fabric Solutions to Enable Virtualized Data Centers and Cloud-Optimized Networks

Nov 15, 2010 | This approach provides virtual machines (VMs) a greater sphere of mobility, increases network utilization, creates more resilient networks and simplifies the management of data center networks.
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Virident Systems Announces 800 GB Tachion SSD

Nov 15, 2010 | This increased capacity doubles the previous maximum capacity and extends the company’s lead in the demanding Enterprise SSD market, surpassing competing devices by delivering this capacity in its existing low-profile, half-length form factor.
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Ethernet Alliance Members Showcase the Latest in High Performance Ethernet Technologies at SC10

Nov 15, 2010 | The multi-technology interoperability demonstration at SC10 – an international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking and storage – showcases 10 Gigabit, 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet equipment transmitting data, storage and RDMA traffic across a live network.
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MetaFlows Showcases a Novel SaaS Approach to Network Security Monitoring at SC10's SCinet

Nov 12, 2010 | MetaFlows, Inc., a startup focused on leveraging emerging cloud/virtualization technologies for the next generation of network security solutions, will debut an innovative network security monitoring system as part of the SC10 networking infrastructure called "SCinet".
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ScaleMP to Demo Latest Release at SC10, Including Enhanced On-demand HPC Options

Nov 12, 2010 | ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim will also be presenting a pre-show customer session at HP-CAST 15 Worldwide User Group Conference at the JW Marriott Hotel, Saturday, November 13 from 8-10 am.
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Cycle Computing Appoints Industry Veterans to Support Market Growth

Nov 12, 2010 | Cycle Computing today announced five industry veterans have joined its experienced engineering and business development teams in response to the company's growing client base and increased market demand.
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Penguin Computing Launches New Disk2Server Data Management Solution for HPC in the Cloud

Nov 11, 2010 | Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing solutions, today announced immediate availability of its new Disk2Server data management solution for Penguin Computing on Demand (POD) customers
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Verecloud’s Nimbus Xchange to Leverage GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform

Nov 11, 2010 | Cloud brokerage business models for CSPs demand real-time scalable processing with data-grid capabilities – needs that both GigaSpaces and Verecloud meet.
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Red Hat Enables Expanded Deployment Flexibility and Application Portability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Nov 11, 2010 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 offers software developers and vendors a consistent and attractive platform on which to develop, test and qualify their products, reducing costs and time to market.
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Riverbed Introduces Industry's Only Cloud-Intelligent WAN Optimization Solution

Nov 11, 2010 | Riverbed has further broadened its vision of 'anywhere acceleration' of enterprise data and applications, including addressing performance issues in private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
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Verizon to Deploy Industry-Leading 100G Ethernet on Selected Route of Its European Long-Haul Backbone

Nov 11, 2010 | In another technology milestone, Verizon will establish before the end of the year the first standards-based, multivendor 100 gigabit (100G) Ethernet link for the IP backbone on a portion of the company's European long-haul network.
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CometCloud: Using a Federated HPC-Cloud to Understand Fluid Flow in Microchannels

The ever-growing complexity of scientific and engineering problems continues to pose new computational challenges. Thus, we present a novel federation model that enables end-users with the ability to aggregate heterogeneous resource scale problems. The feasibility of this federation model has been proven, in the context of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, by gathering the most comprehensive information to date on the effects of pillars on microfluid channel flow.
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CERN, Google, and the Future of Global Science Initiatives

Large-scale, worldwide scientific initiatives rely on some cloud-based system to both coordinate efforts and manage computational efforts at peak times that cannot be contained within the combined in-house HPC resources. Last week at Google I/O, Brookhaven National Lab’s Sergey Panitkin discussed the role of the Google Compute Engine in providing computational support to ATLAS, a detector of high-energy particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Short Takes

NASA Builds 'Climate in a Box'

May 23, 2013 | he study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

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