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US Energy Secretary Talks Supercomputing
May 09, 2012 |
Forbes |
Steven Chu discusses the role of supercomputing in energy research.
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Chips on the Table: Sandy Bridge versus Westmere
May 08, 2012 |
Colfax International |
Newest Intel Xeon chip proves its worth for artithmetic-heavy codes.
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Designing Faster Chips with... Faster Chips
May 03, 2012 |
EE Times |
With the right software, GPUs can speed chip design.
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100G Network to Support Big Science
May 02, 2012 |
the Energy Science Network (ESnet) news site |
Researchers take their datasets into the fast lane.
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Famous Physicist Predicts the End of Silicon-Based Computing
May 01, 2012 |
The Daily Galaxy |
Michio Kaku says Moore's Law is slowing and will wind down by 2022.
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Bits Are Cheaper Than Atoms
Apr 30, 2012 |
Technology Review |
Why one man thinks computation will “solve the world's energy problems in this century.”
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Microsoft, Fusion-io, Mellanox Demonstrate Performance Gains with InfiniBand
May 09, 2012 |
Mellanox in collaboration with Microsoft and Fusion-io have demonstrated performance gains in Windows Server 2012. According to the companies, the benchmark test showed a 5X application performance increase.
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Benchmark Measures Mellanox Ethernet Performance
May 09, 2012 |
The Tolly group released benchmark results from Mellanox ethernet offerings. Mellanox says the results demonstrate their products as having more than twice as much performance and energy efficiency as their nearest competitor.
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Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs
May 09, 2012 |
Nvidia has announced that the LLVM open source compiler now supports Nvidia GPUs.
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Myricom, Emulex Collaborate to Create Family of Network Products
May 09, 2012 |
Myricom and Emulex are partnering to develop a family of networking products. The Emulex OneConnect Network Xceleration Family will include Myricom's FastStack software.
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SGI Tapped to Supply Air Force Research System
May 09, 2012 |
SGI wil supply an ICE X system to be installed at the Dod Supercomputing Research Center. The system will provide resources for the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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HPC Project, Cenaero Announce Strategic Partnership
May 09, 2012 |
The HPC project and Cenaero have joined in a strategic partnership. Cenaero will provide their software and experience to the HPC project.
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May 09, 2012
- Microsoft, Fusion-io, Mellanox Demonstrate Performance Gains with InfiniBand
- Benchmark Measures Mellanox Ethernet Performance
- Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs
- Myricom, Emulex Collaborate to Create Family of Network Products
- SGI Tapped to Supply Air Force Research System
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May 08, 2012
- Emulex Introduces New Family of Networking Devices
- Dell Announces Microserver Customers
- Super Micro to Display GPU Servers, Workstations at Nvidia Conference
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May 07, 2012
- XSEDE12 Introduces New Sponsor Levels Aimed at Nonprofits, Education Groups
- Mellanox Exceeds $1 Billion in Accumulated Revenue
- Paradigm Updates Seismic Application Suite
- TACC Data Repository Now Available to Texas Researchers
- PRACE Scientific Conference 2012 Details
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May 03, 2012
- ISC'12 to Feature Top500 List in Sessions
- New Supercomputer to be Installed Near Paris
- Open Fabrics Recommends Linux-Specific Distributions of RDMA Middleware
- LBNL Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Server Farm Realty, NantWorks Partner to Create Datacenters
May 02, 2012
- Cray Completes Sale of Interconnect Assets to Intel
- Researcher at Ohio Supercomputer Center Named Campus Champion
- Foundation to Fund Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
- ASIC Provider Claims 3X Energy Efficiency in Astronomical Simulations
- Server Platform Spec. Unveiled by AMD at Open Compute Summit
- CAPS Entreprise Now Supports OpenACC Standard
- Univa Releases Grid Engine Update
- Gartner Calls E.T. International a Cool Vendor
- PRACE to Hold Summer School for Multi-Core, MIC Code Optimization
May 01, 2012
- Systems Provider Helps University of Melbourne Create National Research Cloud
- SGI Upgrades HPC System at Queensland University
- Bright Computing Releases New Version of Cluster Manager
- Rogue Wave Updates Debugger, Supports Cray Systems
April 30, 2012
- Researchers Entangle Photons with Integrated Circuit
- Appro to Sponsor XSEDE12
- New Supercomputer to be Installed in Paris
- PRACE Awards 1,134 Million Core Hours
- Advania to Host Nordic Supercomputer
- IBM Awards HPC Components to University of Kansas
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Myricom, Emulex Take Aim at High Performance Networking
Myricom and Emulex are teaming up to bring a series of network offerings to market targeted for high performance applications. The partnership will kick off with Emulex reselling Myricom 10GbE products into selected application domains, but the end game is to go after the high-flying InfiniBand market with products based on Emulex's Ethernet ASICs and Myricom's high performance software.
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Thomas Sterling: 'I Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'
As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain. HPC veteran Thomas Sterling takes us through some of the most critical developments in high performance computing, explaining why the transition to exascale is going to be very different than the ones in the past and how the United States is losing its leadership in HPC innovation.
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The Last Mile of Virtualization
The advent of multicore servers presents something of a challenge for application virtualization. This is especially true in the realm of high performance computing, an environment that has never been particularly friendly to virtualization. To overcome these hurdles, eXludus Technologies has introduced "micro-virtualization," a technology that brings virtualization down to the level of the core, and does so with minimal overhead.
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