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Michael Feldman
RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
Post Date: October 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Research project uses DRAM as the basis of datacenter storage..
Michael Feldman
Another Computer Legend Passes Into the History Books
Post Date: October 13, 2011 @ 5:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70.
Michael Feldman
Steve Jobs: The Seymour Cray of Personal Computing
Post Date: October 06, 2011 @ 5:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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As these two computing pioneers demonstrated, one person can shape an entire industry.
Michael Feldman
Flash Forward
Post Date: September 29, 2011 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Solid state storage vendors are making a frontal assault on the hard disk establishment in the datacenter.
Michael Feldman
Intel Takes a Bite Out of NVIDIA's HPC Business
Post Date: September 22, 2011 @ 6:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Manycore MIC coprocessors beat out GPUs in future NSF-funded supercomputer.
Michael Feldman
Can Supercomputing Help Cure Health Care?
Post Date: September 15, 2011 @ 4:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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IBM Watson to start new job as WellPoint analyst.
Michael Feldman
Newest Opteron CPU Headed for Big Supers
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 1:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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AMD starts shipping Interlagos chips in volume.
Michael Feldman
Powering Up Exascale
Post Date: September 01, 2011 @ 8:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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It's not just about the megawatts.
Michael Feldman
The Rise of the Thinking Machine
Post Date: August 25, 2011 @ 7:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Brain-centric computing is having a pretty good year.
Michael Feldman
IBM Reveals Cognitive Computing Chips
Post Date: August 18, 2011 @ 7:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Researchers build circuitry based on workings of human brain.
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Proving the Case for Climate Change with Hi-Res Models
Although serious scientists believe we’re past the point of debating the validity of climate change, the computer models that support this research are not perfect. Fortunately, the latest improvements to high-resolution climate simulations are not only improving the fidelity of the models, but are also deepening our understanding of climate dynamics, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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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.
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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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Israel’s Fastest Civilian HPC Cluster Boots Up
Aug 02, 2012 |
New SGI system installed at the nation's prestigious Technion Institute.
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Argonnites Prep Mira Supercomputer for Petascale Duties
Aug 01, 2012 |
DOE lab is taking applications from researchers who want time on 8-petaflop super.
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More Accurate than Moore?
Jul 31, 2012 |
Wright's Law better at predicting the rate of technology advancement.
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Deeper Collaboration Between PRACE and XSEDE Proposed
Jul 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
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Scientists use latest Cray supercomputer to figure out how to make better ice cream.
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