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New Mexico to Pull Plug on Encanto, Former Top 5 Supercomputer
Jul 12, 2012 |
Albuquerque Journal |
State says supercomputing center can’t pay bills to keep machine running.
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Computer Program Learns Games by Watching People
Jul 11, 2012 |
WiredConnect 4, Gomoku, Pawns and Breakthrough |
Computer scientist builds intelligent machine with single-core laptop and some slick algorithms.
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Helix Nebula Cloud Contributes to Higgs Particle Discovery
Jul 10, 2012 |
HPC in the Cloud |
Science cloud crunched data that helped build the case for the historic announcement.
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Plug In and Power Down
Jul 09, 2012 |
EU project offers software that makes datacenters more energy-efficient.
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Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
Jul 05, 2012 |
IEEE Spectrum |
Processor speed and power consumption are now at odds, which will force chipmakers to rethink their designs..
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UK Lab Fires Up New GPU Cluster
Jul 03, 2012 |
University consortium launches with two terascale machines.
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Off the Wire
Intel Acquires Whamcloud
Jul 13, 2012 |
Intel Corporation has acquired Lustre storage vendor Whamcloud.
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Iowa State Team Wins DNA Sequence Alignment Contest Using Convey Computer
Jul 13, 2012 |
Students at Iowa State University won first place in the 2012 MemoCODE Conference design contest. Using a Convey HC-1, the students' solution achieved the highest overall performance--more than 24 times faster than the second place finisher.
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Intel Receives $19 Million Contract from DOE
Jul 13, 2012 |
Intel Corp has received $19 million from the Department of Energy. The funds will be used to apply new approaches to extreme-scale computing research and development.
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Business Update to Feature Rogue Wave Software
Jul 13, 2012 |
Rogue Wave software will be featured in an episode of Business Update on the Discovery Channel.
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Argentina to Host Latin American Symposium for HPC
Jul 12, 2012 |
Argentina will host the Latin American Symposium for HPC. The event will take place in Buenos Aires, July 23-24.
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Brazilian Aeronautics Institute to Deploy Bright Cluster Manager
Jul 12, 2012 |
The Technical Institute of Aeronautics in Brazil has chosen to run Bright Computing's Bright Cluster Manager. The facility engages research to understand astrophysical plasmas and turbulence in space.
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July 13, 2012
- Intel Acquires Whamcloud
- Iowa State Team Wins DNA Sequence Alignment Contest Using Convey Computer
- Intel Receives $19 Million Contract from DOE
- Business Update to Feature Rogue Wave Software
July 12, 2012
- Argentina to Host Latin American Symposium for HPC
- Brazilian Aeronautics Institute to Deploy Bright Cluster Manager
- Consortium of Northern England Universities Deploy SGI Supercomputer
July 11, 2012
- OpenFabrics Alliance User Day Looks to Build User Community
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Biomedical Research Program Receives Extension
- AMAX Launches Storage Appliance Family
- Mellanox Announces Partnership with Quanta QCT
- Satoil Technology Invest Partners with Numascale
- DOE Awards AMD $12 Million Contract for Exascale Research
July 10, 2012
- Simulations at the Texas Advanced Computing Center Assist Alzheimer's Research
- Silicon Mechanics to Showcase New Partnerships at OpenSource Convention
- NCSA Cluster Gets Upgraded
- Researchers Sonify Recently Discovered Particle
- Whamcloud Awarded Research and Development Contract from DOE
July 09, 2012
- First Applications Deployed on European Science Cloud
- Leipzig to Host Next International Supercomputing Conference
- Finnish IT Center Awards Cray with Supercomputer Contract
July 06, 2012
July 05, 2012
- Lumerical Solutions Releases Update to Nanophotonic Design Environment
- NAG, HPCFinance Partner to Train Computational Finance Researchers
- SKIF-Aurora SUSU Supercomputer Named Most Efficient Russian Supercomputer
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Students Build Cluster with Christmann Hardware
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Delivers Training to Minority Institutions
July 04, 2012
- Programming Contest Announced for Message Passing in Java
- Harvard Scientists Create Quantum Bits with Diamonds
- Supercomputing Gateway Helps Researchers Discover Evolutionary Relationships
July 03, 2012
- FIT4Green Project Claims Substantial Datacenter Power Reduction
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Brings Two Clusters Online
July 02, 2012
- Sabalcore, Azore Partner to Provide Remote HPC Resources for CFD
- HPC Advisory Council to Host Spain Supercomputing Conference 2012
- Ingram Micro Offers Up Turnkey Servers and Clusters
- HPCFinance Looks to Solve European Financial Woes
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DOE Primes Pump for Exascale Supercomputers
Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud have been awarded tens of millions of dollars by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to kick-start research and development required to build exascale supercomputers. The work will be performed under the FastForward program, a joint effort run by the DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that will focus on developing future hardware and software technologies capable of supporting such machines.
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Hybrid Memory Cube Angles for Exascale
Computer memory is currently undergoing something of an identity crisis. For the past 8 years, multicore microprocessors have been creating a performance discontinuity, the so-called memory wall. It's now fairly clear that this widening gap between compute and memory performance will not be solved with conventional DRAM products. But there is one technology under development that aims to close that gap, and its first use case will likely be in the ethereal realm of supercomputing.
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Green500 Turns Blue
The latest Green500 rankings were announced last week, revealing that top performance and power efficiency can indeed go hand in hand. According to the latest list, the greenest machines, in fact the top 20 systems, were all IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputers. Blue Gene/Q, of course, is the platform that captured the number one spot on the latest TOP500 list, and is represented by four of the ten fastest supercomputers in the world.
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