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SGI Posts Q2 Loss as Revenues Rise
February 8, 2012 — Server and storage maker SGI delivered some unwelcome news to its investors on Wednesday.
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HPC Funding Models Need to Encompass More Than Just the Purchase Price
February 8, 2012 — Beyond the question of how much funding should be invested in high performance computing resources, it is also important to strive for the optimum fun...
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ARINC Inaugurates New Supercomputer for Complex Antenna Engineering and Analyses
February 8, 2012 —
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Cray Forms New Big Data Division
February 8, 2012 — Cray announces a new big data division called YarcData. Arvind Parthasarathi has been assigned as the new general manager for the division.
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SGI Delivers Second Quarter Financial Results
February 8, 2012 — SGI announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012. An earnings conference call will be open for the public to listen at 2PM P...
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Freescale Announces T4240 and T4160 Embedded Processors
February 8, 2012 — Freescale announces a pair of low-power multi-core embedded processors. The 64-bit processors are aimed at data center applications.
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Japan Grants Patent to Obsidian's Longbow
February 8, 2012 — Obsidian announced that Japan has issued a patent for a method to increase the physical reach of an Infiniband network. Japan is part of a group of co...
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February 7, 2012 — Software maker offers heterogeneous computing in a C++ wrapper.
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Ohio Reveals Plans for 100Gbs Network
February 7, 2012 — Ohio Governor John Kasich announced a state-led initiative that will boost current network speeds up to 100Gbps. The upgrade will be made possible by ...
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Solarflare Heats Up Network Processing
February 7, 2012 — Solarflare announced its ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE) platform today. The new platform allows for application processes to occur on the network adap...
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AMD Unveils New Strategy for Server Silicon
February 7, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/AMD_generic_chip.bmp" alt="" width="101&quo...
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NC State Researchers Teach GPGPUs New Tricks
February 7, 2012 — New developments at NC State University lead to improvements in heterogeneous processing. NC State researchers claim to have developed a means to impr...
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Rightware Releases OpenCL Benchmarking Tool
February 7, 2012 — Rightware announced the public release of Basemark CL. The utility is a performance measuring tool that manufacturers can use to test OpenCL implement...
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PRACE Announces EU-U.S. Summer School
February 7, 2012 — This year's summer school will take place in Dublin, Ireland from June 24-28. The event's main focus is to build research collaborations across multip...
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Jaguar Land Rover Taps EMC for Scalable Data
February 7, 2012 — Jaguar Land Rover turns to EMC to increase data capacity and performance. JLR now uses a single file system within a 54 node cluster.
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IBM Updates XIV Gen3 Storage System
February 7, 2012 — IBM Has made several improvements to the XIV Storage System Gen3. Performance enhancements have been achieved through fast-read SSD caching. The new o...
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IR Introduces 3rd Gen CHiL Power Management
February 7, 2012 — International Rectifier announces 6 new devices to it's 3rd generation CHiL power management controllers. Six new devices meet Intel's VR12 / VR12.5 a...
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February 6, 2012 — The race to exaflops could be one that the US is destined to lose.
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National Cheng Kung University Partners with IBM to Establish HPC Center in Taiwan
February 6, 2012 — A Supercomputing Research Center will be established in collaboration with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at National Cheng Kung University (NCK...
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New Changes Coming to NHPCC Annual Conference
February 6, 2012 — The 27th NHPCC Conference in Newport, RI has announced a global focus at this years conference. This year's conference will focus on Supercomputing ar...
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Bull Delivers Video on Demand with ATEME Partnership
February 6, 2012 — Bull Partners up with ATEME to deliver on demand video content. ATEME will be deploying it's TITAN technology on bulls computing blades. New Bullx bla...
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LBNL Breaks Ground On Computational Research and Theory Facility
February 3, 2012 — U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu joined UC and Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBNL) leaders Feb. 1 to break ground on the lab’s new Computational Research ...
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Altair Launches Compute Manager and PBS Desktop for HPC
February 3, 2012 — Altair Engineering announced two advancements in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), with the release of its Compute Manager and PBS Deskto...
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University of Wyoming Becomes CASC Member
February 3, 2012 — The University of Wyoming has been tabbed for select company: membership in the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC).
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Podcast: Cray Revamps Mini-Super Offerings; A Peek at AMD's New Roadmap
February 3, 2012 — Cray offers a new mini-supercomputer configuration based on its XE6/XK6 line, while AMD forges ahead with its CPU-GPU-APU strategy.
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Cray Adds Baby Blue Waters to HPC Lineup
February 2, 2012 — New mid-range XE6/XK6 supercomputer configurations replace Xeon-powered CX machines.
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Number Crunching, Data Crunching and Energy Efficiency: the HPC Hat Trick
February 2, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/hat_trick_500.bmp" alt="" width="88" h...
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SGI Begins Marketing Push Aimed at Genomics Customers
February 2, 2012 — SGI has initiated a global, integrated marketing campaign targeting genomics researchers and institutions as part of a broader effort to share informa...
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PRACE to Establish Six HPC Training Centers
February 2, 2012 — The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has selected six of its members sites as the first PRACE Advanced Training Centers.
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Faster Technology Adds 10GbE Support to FPGA Acceleration Modules
February 2, 2012 — Faster Technology announced today support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet across their entire line of high speed networking FPGA Mezzanine Card modules.
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Call for Posters: HPC in Asia Workshop at ISC'12
February 2, 2012 — The second "HPC in Asia Workshop" to be held in conjunction with the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'12) is inviting resea...
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XSEDE and PRACE Organize HPC Summer School in Ireland
February 2, 2012 — The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project and the European Union Seventh Framework ...
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Tilera Chips In with 64-bit Manycore Processors
February 1, 2012 — Chip maker launches new 16-core and 36-core chips.
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Cray Revamps Midrange Supercomputer Offerings
February 1, 2012 — Cray is revitalizing its efforts to provide affordably priced, world-class Cray supercomputers to customers in the midrange supercomputing market.
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SeaMicro Launches High-End Microserver
February 1, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/SM10000-XE_chassis.jpg" alt="" width="97&qu...
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SGI Intros Integrated Server and Storage Platform
February 1, 2012 — SGI announced the introduction of SGI Modular InfiniteStorage, an integrated server and storage platform aimed at Cloud and data storage customers..
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Allinea Adds New Capabilities in Latest Release of DDT Debugger
February 1, 2012 — Allinea Software has released the latest version of Allinea DDT, version 3.1 and a set of novel features designed to both simplify and enable debuggin...
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New Coalition Organizes First Nationwide Meeting for Modeling and Simulation Stakeholders
February 1, 2012 — America's first nationwide meeting of the modeling and simulation industry will take place in Washington, DC on Monday, February 6. Encompassing the e...
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Rogue Wave Delivers Early Version of TotalView Debugger for Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer
February 1, 2012 — Rogue Wave has delivered a pre-release version of TotalView, optimized for the IBM Blue Gene/Q-based Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Natio...
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Fujitsu Adds FDR InfiniBand to PRIMERGY BX900 S2 Blade Servers
February 1, 2012 — Fujitsu announces gains of more than 70 percent in net bandwidth for its versatile datacenter blade server line, the PRIMERGY BX900 S2.
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Solarflare Announces New 10GbE Offerings for Compute-Intensive Applications
January 31, 2012 — Solarflare announced today the next-generation of its family of branded 10GbE products.
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Indiana Launches 100Gbps Network for Research and Education
January 31, 2012 — Indiana is the first state to launch a high-speed 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network link dedicated to research and education.
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SeaMicro Launches Low-Power Xeon Server
January 31, 2012 — SeaMicro, announced its foray into the world of brawny compute with the immediate availability of the industry's first fabric-based Intel Xeon micro s...
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Nimbus Brings Half Petabyte Flash Storage to Market
January 31, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Nimbus_Data_small.bmp" alt="" width="133&qu...
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Earth Simulator Supercomputer Used to Forecast 2012 Climate Patterns
January 31, 2012 — Professor Toshio Yamagata, Dean of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science and Head of the Application Laboratory of Japan Agency for Marine-Ea...
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Optical Internetworking Forum Takes Aim at Next-Generation Interconnects
January 31, 2012 — The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) held a workshop in support of next generation interconnect technology at its Q1 member meeting last week in Cu...
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PSC, Drexel Light Up Cross-State Optical Link
January 31, 2012 — The Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX), the high-performance Internet hub operated and managed by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and Dr...
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January 31, 2012 — PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, got three new member countries as Denmark, Israel and Slovenia joined the PRACE Research Infr...
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DARPA Program Attacks Power Wall For Embedded Computing
January 30, 2012 — DARPA’s Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program seeks to improve power efficiency for embedded computer syst...
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AMD Validates Inphi LRDIMMs for Opteron 6200 Processors
January 30, 2012 — Inphi Corporation announced that load-reduced dual-inline memory modules (LRDIMMs), enabled by Inphi’s iMB, have been fully validated and supported on...
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Tilera Releases 16-Core and 36-Core Processors for 64-bit Computing
January 30, 2012 — Tilera Corporation announced several significant steps for the company including the immediate general availability of two of its highly anticipated, ...
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Molex Offers 25 Gbps Network Connections
January 30, 2012 — Supporting next-generation 100 Gbps Ethernet and 100 Gbps InfiniBand Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) applications, Molex Incorporated offers a comprehensive ...
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Technology Innovation Award Goes to UF's Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing
January 30, 2012 — The National Science Foundation’s Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing, or CHREC, headquartered at the University of Florida, was rece...
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Indiana University PhD Students Get $100K to Study Cloud Computing, Bioinformatics
January 30, 2012 — Two doctoral candidates at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing will share equally in a $100,000 gift from internation...
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Russian HPC Integrator RSC Group Outlines 2011 Results, Future Prospects
January 30, 2012 — RSC Group, Russia's and CIS leading full-cycle developer and integrator of next-generation supercomputing solutions based on Intel architecture and ad...
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Wall Street Software Firm Selects Myricom 10GbE for High Frequency Trading Applications
January 30, 2012 — Trading Physics, a producer of analytic software and custom market data delivery systems, has adopted Myricom's 10G-PCIE2-8C2-2S dual port SFP+ adapte...
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3D Torus Topology with InfiniBand at San Diego Supercomputing Center
January 30, 2012 — The San Diego Supercomputing Center &lsquo;Gordon&rsquo; supercomputer was built specifically for handling large data-intensive comput...
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Podcast: Intel Buys Into InfiniBand; What it Means for QLogic, Mellanox and HPC
January 27, 2012 — Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications of Intel's plans to acquire QLogic's InfiniBand business.
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Yahoo Donates Cluster to Swiss University for Cloud Computing Research
January 27, 2012 — Prof. Fernando Pedone of the USI Faculty of Informatics has received the donation of a cluster of high-end servers from Yahoo! in Switzerland, as part...
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New York City Tech Campus Goes to Cornell
January 27, 2012 — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie announce...
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Swiss Scientists Develop 3D Computer Chips
January 26, 2012 — Scientists at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a new generation of 3D computer chips, stacked vertically rather than pla...
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The Big Squeeze: Getting More Power From a Tighter Package
January 26, 2012 — Companies like Tilera and Kalray are pushing the manycore envelope.
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Aircraft Simulations Push Computing to the Cutting Edge
January 26, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Guus_Dekkers_small.jpg" alt="" width="107&q...
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NVIDIA Releases Upgraded CUDA Compiler, Visual Profiler, and NPP Library
January 26, 2012 — NVIDIA has released a new version of its CUDA parallel computing platform, which features three key enhancements that make parallel programing with GP...
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University of Manchester Heads Up HPC Research Initiative
January 26, 2012 — The University of Manchester is heading up a large interdisciplinary network focusing on numerical algorithms and high performance computing.
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International Supercomputing Conference Calls for Posters, BoFs, Student Volunteers
January 26, 2012 — The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'12) is now accepting submissions for Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and research posters. The deadl...
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Supercomputers Model Photosynthetic Capabilities of Blue-Green Algae
January 26, 2012 — Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomp...
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Blue Waters Supercomputer to Use Grid-Based File Service
January 25, 2012 — NCSA chooses Globus Online as big data mover.
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Mellanox Delivers Record Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results
January 25, 2012 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced record financial results in its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011, ended Dec. 31, 2011.
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Mechdyne to Demo Immersive Simulation Technologies at Upcoming Healthcare Conference
January 25, 2012 — Mechdyne Corporation will demonstrate the latest in immersive simulation technologies at this year's International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare...
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French Atomic Energy Group Expands HPC File System to 11 Petabytes
January 25, 2012 — The Military Applications Department of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA/DAM) today announced that it doubled the cap...
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Samplify Seeks to Squeeze More Horsepower from Multi-Core Processors
January 25, 2012 — Samplify announces APAX acceleration technology that increases the processing power of multi-core processors. APAX technology achieves this gain in po...
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Dot Hill Tackles Open University's Data Needs
January 25, 2012 — Open University Taps Dot Hill Systems to upgrade it's data capabilities. The University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) has experienced quickly grow...
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Super Micro Announces Second Quarter Financial Results
January 25, 2012 — Super Micro delivers on send quarter expectations with .8% growth over 1st quarter 2012. This shows the company has been profitable since last year.
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Red Hat Announces Update to Enterprise Platform
January 25, 2012 — Red Hat Inc Introduces MRG 2.1 an update to it's Red Hat Enterprise suite.
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Startup Uses Data Compression to Speed Applications
January 25, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Samplify_circuits.bmp" alt="" width="103&qu...
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Podcast: The Shining Stars of HPC; People to Watch in 2012
January 24, 2012 — Addison and Michael are joined by HPCwire publisher Jeff Hyman to talk about the publication's 2012 People to Watch list.
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Appistry Teams with University of Missouri on Genomic Research
January 24, 2012 — Appistry, Inc. announced a strategic partnership with the University of Missouri to further enhance the school's innovative genomic research.
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HPCwire Announces 2012 'People to Watch'
January 24, 2012 — HPCwire announced today that it has published the HPCwire 2012 'People to Watch' list.
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CEI's CFD Visualization Software Integrated Into Flow Science's CFD Suite
January 24, 2012 — CEI, Inc. and Flow Science, Inc. have partnered to embed the latest version of CEI’s EnSight CFD 3D visualization software directly into Flow Science’...
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Intel Snaps Up InfiniBand Technology, Product Line from QLogic
January 23, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Intel-Corp_small.jpg" alt="" width="113&quo...
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Intel to Buy QLogic's InfiniBand Business
January 23, 2012 — Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of and certain assets relat...
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Blue Waters Supercomputer to Use Globus Online for Data Transfers
January 23, 2012 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, w...
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Mellanox Announces New Pricing, Channel Partners for 10GbE Gear
January 23, 2012 — Mellanox Technologies announced a new pricing structure and expanded channel for its high-performance line of end-to-end 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) s...
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AMD Opteron 6200 Wins Best Server Processor Award from Linley Group
January 23, 2012 — The AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor family, based on the new "Bulldozer" architecture, was chosen as the winner of The Linley Group's firs...
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Luxtera Opens Silicon Photonic Process, Device Library to OpSIS Community
January 23, 2012 — Luxtera is teaming up with the new foundry service for Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon (OpSIS).
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Podcast: Fish and Chips; Chinese Takeout
January 20, 2012 — Addison and Michael discuss Russell Fish's CPU-DRAM chip and China's latest FeiTeng microprocessor for HPC.
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Researchers Conduct First Systematic Power Profiles Of Microprocessors
January 20, 2012 — The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, repor...
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China's Dark Horse Supercomputing Chip: FeiTeng
January 19, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/FT64_chip.bmp" alt="" width="81" heigh...
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South African Super Returns to TOP500
January 19, 2012 — R9-million upgrade bumps Linpack performance from 25 to 61 teraflops.
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NASA Launches Website to Support Open Source Software Strategy
January 19, 2012 — The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency’s open source software development.
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Texas HPC Center Finds Cool Relief in Oil-Submerged Servers
January 18, 2012 — In April 2010, Green Revolution Cooling deployed its fluid submersion cooling system for a number of HPC servers at TACC's data center at the Universi...
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Making the Skies Friendly with GPUs
January 18, 2012 — GPU computing speeds up air traffic trajectory software by a factor of 250.
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AMD, University of Illinois Launch First Fusion Center of Innovation
January 18, 2012 — AMD today announced the first AMD Fusion Center of Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to focus on the innovative developer...
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MIT Researchers Speed Up FFT Algorithm
January 18, 2012 — At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) this week, a group of MIT researchers will present a new algorith...
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Brazilian Research Institute Deploys Bright Cluster Manager on New HPC Cluster
January 18, 2012 — The Instituto de Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento — Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (IP&D-UNIVAP) is running Bright Cluster Manager on its n...
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University of Illinois Computer Model Optimizes Biofuel Operations
January 18, 2012 — A new computer model developed at the University of Illinois can simplify the process from which biofuels make their way from the farm to the biorefin...
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Designer of Microprocessor-Memory Chip Aims to Topple Memory and Power Walls
January 17, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Venray_Aurora.bmp" alt="" width="106" ...
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GlobusWORLD Conference to Feature Keynotes on XSEDE and Blue Waters
January 17, 2012 — The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory today announced open registration for its 10th annual GlobusWOR...
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New Supercomputer at PNNL Advances DOE Mission
January 17, 2012 — A new, 162-Teraflop peak supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping scientists do more complex, adva...