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3D Torus Topology with InfiniBand at San Diego Supercomputing Center
January 30, 2012 — The San Diego Supercomputing Center ‘Gordon’ 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 — Designing an aircraft is one of the more expensive endeavors in the manufacturing business. It's no surprise that large manufacturers like Boeing and ...
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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...
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Fujitsu Adds FDR InfiniBand to PRIMERGY Blade Servers
January 17, 2012 — Fujitsu today announces gains of more than 70 per cent in net bandwidth for its versatile datacenter server line, the PRIMERGY BX900 S2.
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Mellanox, Xyratex to Deliver Webinar on InfiniBand-Based Storage for HPC
January 17, 2012 — Mellanox Technologies announced a live webinar with Xyratex, which will address how to modernize your data center with Mellanox's InfiniBand interconn...
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January 17, 2012 — CEI Inc. today announced the debut of EnSight 10, the latest version of its 3D visualization software for post-processing of CAE/CFD data and analysis...
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SAS Adds Retailer Forecasting and Optimzation Software to HPC Platform
January 16, 2012 — In 2012, retailers will be able to leverage solutions from SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, for forecasting and all phases...
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New Video at Frontier Scientists Spotlights Supercomputing
January 16, 2012 — In a new series of videos produced by Frontier Scientists.com, Greg Newby, director of the Arctic Region Super Computing Center and Per Nyberg, from C...
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Podcast: Supercomputing with a Social Conscience; The $1,000 Genome
January 13, 2012 — Addison and Michael discuss a new volunteer computing grid with a mission to support charities, and talk about the impact of the latest DNA sequencing...
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Dell, ClusterVision Deliver HPC Cluster to Technical University of Ilmenau
January 13, 2012 — ClusterVision has announced the opening of a new Dell HPC cluster system at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
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January 12, 2012 — The latest volunteer supercomputing grid, Charity Engine, has a new twist on how to make the world a better place.
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IBM Researchers Create World’s Smallest Magnetic Memory Bit
January 12, 2012 — Punctuating 30 years of nanotechnology research, scientists from IBM Research have successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as fe...
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First Racks of 20-Petaflop Sequoia Supercomputer Arrive at LLNL
January 12, 2012 — The first four racks of NNSA’s Sequoia supercomputer have arrived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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DICE Program Employs PGI Compilers for Parallel File System Project
January 12, 2012 — Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program is announcing their continued success using compilers from the Portland Group (PGI),.
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Thinking Forward: Conrad Wolfram on the Computational Knowledge Economy
January 12, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Conrad_Wolfram_small.jpg" alt="" width="118...
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TechXtend Offers Free Trials of Intel Parallel Studio XE
January 12, 2012 — TechXtend (formerly Programmer's Paradise) is offering free trial versions of Intel Parallel Studio XE high performance computing (HPC) software devel...
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Colfax Introduces New Line of High-Performance Workstations
January 12, 2012 — Colfax International is bringing to market a new lineup of SuperWorkstations designed specifically to meet the needs of engineers, architects, 3D and ...
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Texas Memory Systems Had Record Year in 2011
January 12, 2012 — Texas Memory Systems announced today that three RamSan products introduced in the summer of 2011 led to record sales in the final half of the year and...
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Thus Begins the Era of the $1,000 Genome
January 11, 2012 — The latest DNA sequencers can map a human genome in a single day, but useful analysis of the results will still be a bottleneck.
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SGI Builds $90 Million Pipeline for 5th-Generation ICE X
January 11, 2012 — SGI announced that its new SGI ICE X high performance computing (HPC) platform has $90 million in orders under contract, reflecting the strongest and ...
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Red Herring Recognizes Allinea as Global 100 Company
January 11, 2012 — Allinea Software has been selected by Red Herring as a Global 100 winner – the award that honors the fastest growing private companies from North Amer...
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Tokyo Tech Selects HMPP Compiler for TSUBAME 2.0 Developers
January 11, 2012 — A team of Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) was recently awarded the ACM Gordon Be...
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IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Share Semiconductor Fabs in New York
January 10, 2012 — GLOBALFOUNDRIES and IBM announced an agreement to jointly manufacture advanced computer chips at both companies' semiconductor fabs in New York's &quo...
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NCSA Petascale Datacenter Gets LEED Gold Certification
January 10, 2012 — The University of Illinois' National Petascale Computing Facility has been certified LEED Gold in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Ener...
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Virginia Tech Unveils Energy-Efficient "HokieSpeed" Supercomputer
January 10, 2012 — HokieSpeed, a new supercomputer at Virginia Tech, delivers 240 teraflops of peak performance and is ranked number 11 on the latest Green500 list.
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Oklahoma Completes NSF-Funded Network Upgrade For Academic Researchers
January 10, 2012 — Researchers at colleges and universities statewide can engage in greater data-intensive research with better speed, efficiency and reliability due to ...
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Imagination Technologies Unveils New GPU Cores
January 10, 2012 — Imagination Technologies, a multimedia and communication technologies company, announces the first IP cores in its PowerVR Series6 GPU core family.
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Brocade Delivers Hundredth 100 GbE Blade
January 10, 2012 — From initial customer shipments of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in June 2011, Brocade established itself as a leading provider of carrier-grade 100 GbE ...
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Wayne State Gets NSF Grant to Study Structural Engineering Problems
January 10, 2012 — Christopher Eamon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, received a three-year, $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundat...
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Brocade Sees Quick Ramp-Up of 100 GbE in Academia and Research
January 10, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/LHC_small.jpg" alt="" width="125" heig...
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Carnegie Mellon to Develop Machine Learning Tools to Analyze Genomes
January 10, 2012 — Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable ...
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CLC bio, SciEngines Accelerate BLAST 188X
January 10, 2012 — CLC bio and German high performance computing experts, SciEngines, announced a collaboration to integrate CLC bio's server- and desktop-based sequence...
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Penguin Computing Teams with Unisys to Offer 24x7 Global Support Program
January 10, 2012 — HPC provider Penguin Computing today announces a new global 24x7 on-site support program.
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HLRS Invests in PGAS Software to Get Better Scaling on HPC Codes
January 9, 2012 — The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) has recently decided to invest in the GPI software developed by Fraunhofer ITWM, which will pro...
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LSU Releases First Open Source ParalleX Runtime Software System
January 9, 2012 — Louisiana State University's Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) has delivered the first freely available open-source runtime system imp...
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Pico Computing Demonstrates FPGA-Accelerated Genome Mapping
January 9, 2012 — Pico Computing will be demonstrating an FPGA accelerated BFAST short read genome mapping application at the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San ...
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Mellanox Claims World's Lowest Latency Solution for High-Frequency Trading
January 9, 2012 — Mellanox Technologies announced the general availability of its Messaging Accelerator, VMA 6.0, with enhanced TCP and UDP acceleration support over Co...
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IBM Completes Acquisition of Platform Computing
January 9, 2012 — IBM today announced it has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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ISC'12 Now Accepting Submissions for Research Papers, Tutorials
January 9, 2012 — The 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'12) is now accepting full papers and tutorial proposals for ISC'12, to be held June 17-21 in Ham...
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HPC Advisory Council Increases Membership to Over 300 Organizations
January 9, 2012 — The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education announced today that its global membe...
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Info X Becomes Distributor of Myricom 10GE Solutions
January 9, 2012 — Myricom and Info X announced a new distribution alliance for 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Helps Advance Scientific Discovery with HPC
January 9, 2012 — <p>The impact of using supercomputers to solve complex calculations and simulate atomic structure behavior is tremendous, reducing some ...
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Podcast: More Petaflops in 2012; Is it Sustainable?
January 6, 2012 — Addison and Michael look ahead to some of the top double-digit petaflops supercomputers scheduled for deployment in 2012. They also look at how the tr...
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Researchers Create Atomic Scale Wire
January 5, 2012 — The smallest wires ever developed in silicon - just one atom tall and four atoms wide - have been shown by a team of researchers from the University o...
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The Year Ahead in High Performance Computing
January 5, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/digital_time_tunnel_small.jpg" alt="" width=&quo...
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Researchers Use AskTheDoctor.com Patient Questions for AI Study
January 5, 2012 — Researchers at The National Library of Medicine have teamed up with AskTheDoctor.com in a significant step towards developing intelligent computerized...
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Cray Expects Operating Loss for 2011
January 5, 2012 — During the fourth quarter of 2011, Cray did not complete the acceptance process on the Cray XK6 upgrade at Oak Ridge National Laboratory which was nec...
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LSI Completes Acquisition of SandForce
January 4, 2012 — LSI Corporation has completed the purchase of SandForce, Inc., aprovider of flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and sol...
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Jon Riley Named VP of Digital Manufacturing
January 4, 2012 — The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences announced today that Jon Riley has been promoted to Vice President, Digital Manufacturing.
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India Aims to Double R&D Spending for Science
January 4, 2012 — Prime Minister pushes for $1B investment in supercomputing capability.
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Supermicro Opens Science and Technology Park in Taiwan
January 4, 2012 — Super Micro Computer officially opens its Science and Technology Park in Taiwan on January 6 with a formal Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony a...
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Work Smarter Not Harder: Platform Analytics Simplifies HPC Infrastructure Analysis
January 4, 2012 — As HPC environments increase in complexity they become progressively more difficult for analysts, managers and business planners to fully understand. ...
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2012-01-04 — Leading European and Indian research and technology organizations to produce joint roadmap for advanced IT research.
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
January 3, 2012 — HPC software developers are a hot commodity in the US and elsewhere.
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For Disks There Are No Good Vibrations
January 3, 2012 — <img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/Green_Platform_logo.bmp" alt="" width="119&...
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Workshop for Data Analysis on Supercomputers Offered at Cornell
January 3, 2012 — On January 19-20, 2012, members of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) will present a National Science Foundation-sponsored training works...
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Intersect360 Research: HPC Market to Fall Short of Growth Forecast in 2011
January 2, 2012 — The High Performance Computing (HPC) industry will fall short of the 9.2% year-over-year revenue growth originally forecast for 2011, according to Int...
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Asetek Announces Liquid Cooling Solutions for HPC Data Centers
January 2, 2012 — Asetek Inc., announced that it will offer a range of liquid cooling solutions to address a diverse set of cooling challenges facing modern HPC cluster...
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Podcast: A Look Back at the Year in HPC; A Look Ahead to 2012
December 27, 2011 — Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.