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Aug 01, 2012

Drug Discovery Looks for Its Next Fix

Despite the highly profitable nature of the pharmaceutical business and the large amount of R&D; money companies throw at creating new medicines, the pace of drug development is agonizingly slow. Over the last few years, on average, less than two dozen new drugs have been introduced per year. One of the more promising technologies that could help speed up this process is supercomputing. Read more...

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Australia Goes on Spending Spree in Supercomputing Market

While governments in much of the rest of the world are wringing their hands over stagnant or shrinking R&D budgets, Australia is buying up HPC machinery like there is no tomorrow. Just this week, Cray, IBM, and SGI announced supercomputing deals that would send the vendors' latest and greatest HPC equipment Down Under. In this case, the three systems are headed to various research facilities in New South Wales and Western Australia.
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Lack of Minority Representation in Science and Engineering Endangering US Economic Health

Rapid growth in certain segments of the nation’s population is pushing the country’s educational challenges to a crisis level, while too many of the “precious few” under-represented minority students pursuing science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) disciplines are dropping out or changing majors, according to Richard Tapia, an internationally known mathematician.
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NASA Builds Supercomputing Lab for Earth Scientists

This week, NASA announced it would soon be launching a new HPC and data facility that will give Earth scientists access to four decades of satellite imagery and other datasets. Known as the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX), the facility is being promoted as a "virtual laboratory" for researchers interested in applying supercomputing resources to studying areas like climate change, soil and vegetation patterns, and other environmental topics.
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Mellanox Roars Through Second Quarter As InfiniBand Revenue Takes Off

With the rollout of high performance, lossless Ethernet products over the last few years, there were more than a few analysts predicting the slow retreat of InfiniBand. But thanks to a peculiar confluence of technology roadmaps, a payoff in some investments made by Mellanox, and a pent-up demand for server and storage deployment now being alleviated by Intel's Romley platform, InfiniBand is having a big year.
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Short Takes

More Accurate than Moore?

7/31/2012 | Wright's Law better at predicting the rate of technology advancement.
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Deeper Collaboration Between PRACE and XSEDE Proposed

7/30/2012 | Thomas Eickermann of the JülichSupercomputing Center described the parallels between Europe's PRACE organization and the US XSEDE program and highlighted the potential for the two groups to collaborate.
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Soft Serve Supercomputing

7/27/2012 | Scientists use latest Cray supercomputer to figure out how to make better ice cream.
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The 2012 Performance Per Watt Wars

7/26/2012 | Chip analyst evaluates efficiencies of latest processors.
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XSEDE Gaining Speed as Year Two Begins

7/25/2012 | Project directory John Towns outlines new projects, cites first-year successes.
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Oracle Ditches Supercomputing Language Project

7/24/2012 | Fortress programming language gets axed by Ellison and company.
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Stephen Hawking Gets a New Supercomputer

7/23/2012 | SGI newest shared-memory machine will help uncover the secrets of the universe.
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Aussie Supercomputer Simulates Common Cold's Susceptibility to New Drug

7/18/2012 | Blue Gene/Q super gives researchers better picture of drug-virus interaction.
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HPC Community Remembers Allan Snavely

7/17/2012 | Co-creator of Gordon supercomputer suffers fatal heart attack.
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Developing Diminutive Transitors is a Fight Against Physics

7/16/2012 | EUV lithography, the technology chipmakers are counting on to keep Moore's Law alive, is behind schedule.
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New Mexico to Pull Plug on Encanto, Former Top 5 Supercomputer

7/12/2012 | State says supercomputing center can’t pay bills to keep machine running.
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Computer Program Learns Games by Watching People

7/11/2012 | Computer scientist builds intelligent machine with single-core laptop and some slick algorithms.
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Tackling the Data Deluge: File Systems and Storage Technologies

06/25/2012 | NetApp | A single hour of data collection can result in 7+ million files from just one camera. Collection opportunities are limited and must be successful every time. As defense and intelligence agencies seek to use the data collected to make mission-critical battlefield decisions, there’s greater emphasis on smart data and imagery collection, capture, storage and analysis to drive real-time intelligence. The data gathered must accurately and systematically be analyzed, integrated and disseminated to those who need it – troops on the ground. This reality leads to an inevitable challenge – warfighters swimming in sensors, drowning in data. With the millions, if not billions, of sensors providing all-seeing reports of the combat environment, managing the overload demands a file system and storage infrastructure that scales and performs while protecting the data collected. Part II of our whitepaper series highlights NetApp’s scalable, modular, and flexible storage solution to handle the demanding requirements of sophisticated ISR environments.

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Michael Wolfe Webinar: PGI Accelerator with OpenACC

Join Michael for a look at the first PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers to include comprehensive support for OpenACC, the new open standard for programming accelerators using compiler directives.

Take a Look Inside the Analytics 2011 Conference

In this Inside Analytics 2011 video series, you will hear from a number of key conference participants on topics including high-performance analytics and why it is a game-changer for businesses, the development of the SAS® High-Performance Analytics suite and how to empower the analytical expert.

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Podcast: Supercomputers Moving Up Down Under; Mellanox Rises on InfiniBand Gains
Addison and Michael talk about a trio of new supercomputers for Australia and the latest surge in InfiniBand's prospects.
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Podcast: Whamcloud Under New Ownership; Intel Adds to Exascale Portfolio
Brent Gorda and Boyd Davis talk about Intel's Whamcloud acquisition; Addison and Michael discuss the ramification of the deal.
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James Reinders
James Reinders is a senior engineer for Intel and has helped develop supercomputers, microprocessors and software tools for 25 years. James focuses on parallel programming models and is the author of a number of books on the topic. More > >

Gary Johnson
Gary M. Johnson is the founder of Computational Science Solutions, LLC, and a specialist in HPC management as well as the development of national science and technology policy. He is also involved in the creation of education and research programs in computational engineering and science. More > >

Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones has over 15 years of experience in HPC, in supercomputer center management and as a research user in industry. He now leads the HPC Services & Consulting at Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). More > >

Addison Snell
Addison Snell is the CEO of Intersect360 Research and a veteran of the high performance computing industry. During his tenure, he has established Intersect360 Research as a premier source of market information, analysis and consulting. More > >

Michael Wolfe
Michael Wolfe has developed compilers for over 30 years in both academia and industry, and is now a senior compiler engineer at The Portland Group, Inc. More > >