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UK Creates Massive 200,000-Core 'HPC Service'

Feb 07, 2013 | The United Kingdom is rapidly ramping up its HPC capabilities. The nation just launched its third HPC service in the last 12 months, a 200,000-core powerhouse, called "Accelerator," designed to accommodate a wide range of academic and industry workloads.
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Cloud Lends Power to Next Generation Martian Missions

Oct 29, 2012 | Martian rover Curiosity successfully performed an on-site validation of an application essential to the next generation of Martian missions. Cloud computing, specifically Amazon Web Services, played an important role.
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Promoting Hemispheric Advancement Through Collaborative Research

Oct 23, 2012 | The Organization of American States (OAS) has been called the UN of the Americas and it is involved in everything from food security to supercomputing. It is the prime political forum of the western hemisphere and the world's oldest regional organization.
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Government Computing: The Case for Private Cloud

Oct 05, 2012 | Federal IT departments are faced with some tough challenges these days. Not only are budgets constrained, but mandates are starting to stack up like the tax code. One of the most talked about is the cloud-first mandate, but what kind of cloud will it be?
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China Cashes in on Cloud

Sep 11, 2012 | From 2001-2011, China's GDP grew an astounding 550 percent. During the same time period, the US economy increased by just 50 percent. Given China's dramatic growth, the country appears to be focused on catching up with the United States in a variety of aspects including defense, technology and even Olympic medals. A recent flurry of announcements indicate that China is betting on cloud technologies, even besting some US providers at their own game.
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CIA to Pay $600 Million for First Private Amazon Cloud

Mar 25, 2013 | Amazon Web Services was reportedly tapped to build the spy agency a cloud of its own.
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DOE Connects the Dots on Multi-Lab Cloud Strategy

Dec 10, 2012 | For the first time it is now possible to access the cloud computing strategies of all 22 Department of Energy national laboratories and research organizations in one document.
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Cloud Helps Obama Win Reelection

Nov 19, 2012 | The Obama camp leveraged the Amazon cloud for its successful 2012 election campaign.
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Amazon Highlights Public Sector Prominence

Oct 10, 2012 | Amazon pulls back the covers on its cloud business, touts public sector adoption.
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Europe Ties Cloud to Job Growth, Economic Prosperity

Oct 02, 2012 | The European Commission lays out a single set of rules for cloud computing aimed at increasing EU GDP by €160 billion annually by 2020.
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Government >> This Just In

DISA Achieves Initial Operational Capability as DOD's Cloud Service Broker

Apr 17, 2013 | The Defense Information Systems Agency achieved initial operational capability in its mission as the cloud broker for the Department of Defense.
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Thailand Telecom Selects IBM for Cloud Computing Services

Apr 03, 2013 | IBM announced that CAT Telecom Plc. has signed with IBM to help the government owned telecom provide cloud computing services.
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IBM PureSystems Takes the Lead with Bunbury's Government Cloud

Apr 02, 2013 | Bunbury, Australia has chosen IBM's PureSystems to simplify their infrastructure and provide a cloud-ready environment.
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Lockheed Martin Migrates EPA to the Microsoft Cloud

Mar 07, 2013 | Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have migrated the EPA to Microsoft Office 365.
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MGHPCC Receives $4.54 Million Grant from MLSC

Mar 01, 2013 | MGHPCC received a $4.54 million grant from MLSC.
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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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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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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.