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ARM Submits GPU for OpenCL Conformance

Aug 03, 2012 | ARM has submitted a new GPU for OpenCL conformance. The Mali-T604 chip aims to deliver GPU performance in a low-power form factor.
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Netlist Benchmarks New Memory Modules

Aug 02, 2012 | Memory subsystem manufacturer Netlist has benchmarked its HyperCloud HCDIMM memory modules. The company claims the offering will reduce latency through the use of a distributed buffer architecture.
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New Technique Discovered to Accelerate Study of Microbes

Aug 02, 2012 | A Michigan State University Professor has developed a new method used to accelerate the collection and analysis of microbe data. By parsing the data sets, information has become much easier for standard computers to process.
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Cavium to Develop 64-bit ARM Chips

Aug 02, 2012 | Chip manufacturer Cavium has announced the Project Thunder Initiative. The program aims to develop 64-bit ARM chips for use in datacenters.
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RICE University Selects Barco to Supply Visualization Wall

Aug 02, 2012 | Barco has partnered with Rice university and AVI-SPL to create a visualization wall at the Chevron Visualization Laboratory. The wall will consist of Barco's OLS-521 3D stereoscopic video wall technology.
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Fixstars Aims to Boost Parallel Performance with New Development Platform

Aug 02, 2012 | Fixstars has released a new development platform named M-Cubed. The offering aims to simplify software development of multi-core, multi-architecture and multi-node environments.
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MSC Software Updates Nastran Application

Aug 02, 2012 | MSC Software has updated their Nastran application. The company partnered with Intel to incorporate Advanced Vector Extension (AVX) functionality.
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XSEDE Identifies Fellows for Campus Champions Program

Aug 01, 2012 | XSEDE has named its first fellows for the campus champions program. Four champions have been paired with a member of XSEDE's Extended Collaborative Support Services staff.
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DataDirect Networks Launches File System Management Software

Aug 01, 2012 | DataDirect Networks has released a new storage management application. Named DirectMon, the offering allows users to manage multiple file systems.
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PBS Works to Hold First User Group Conference

Aug 01, 2012 | PBS Works, a division of Altair and provider of simulation technology, will be hosting its first user conference in October. The event will take place at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California, October 2-3.
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Thomas Zacharia Leaving ORNL

Aug 01, 2012 | Thomas Zacharia, chief research officer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will be leaving to work with the Qatar Foundation. In his new role, Zacharia will act as Executive Vice President for Education, Science and Community Development.
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FEI Acquires 3D Visualization Developer

Aug 01, 2012 | FEI has announced the acquisition of VSG, a provider of 3D visualization software and products. These offerings were focused towards assisting oil and gas, mining, geosciences, and life sciences applications.
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Arkansas High Performance Computing Center Appoints New Director

Aug 01, 2012 | Rick McMullen has been selected as the new director of the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center. McMullen will be taking over for Amy Apon, who took an administrative position at Clemson University. Jack Cothren and Douglas Spearot served as interim co-directors after Apon's tenure..
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Cray Releases Q2 Earnings Statement

Jul 31, 2012 | Cray Inc. has released its Q2 2012 financial statement. The company accounted for 84.2 million in revenue and reported 147.4 million in net income.
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Supermicro Grows Line of Kepler Servers, Workstations

Jul 31, 2012 | Supermicro has announced an expansion in their lineup of GPU-based servers and workstations.
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Astellas Pharma, Tokyo Institute of Technology Enter Research Agreement

Jul 31, 2012 | The Tokyo Institute of Technology has announced a research agreement with Astellas Pharma. In the agreement, the Tsubame 2.0 supercomputer will be used for drug discovery.
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New RAID Level Announced for HPC Storage Appliances

Jul 31, 2012 | RAID incorporated has announced a new RAID level for the Xanadu series. The new level focuses on overall capacity in the disk pool and removes the need to decide load balancing and hot spares.
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TimeLogic FPGAs Help Power Rothamstead Research

Jul 30, 2012 | Rothamstead Research has chosen Time Logic's J1-series FPGAs to assist with environmentally sustainable food and energy studies. The FPGAs work together with BLAST, Smith-Waterman Hidden Markov Model and gene algorithms.
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Modular Datacenter Design Built for Fault Tolerance

Jul 30, 2012 | A new datacenter design has focused on the ability to gracefully degrade performance in case of network failures. Called SCautz, the new design is set to be implemented at modular datacenter networks.
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ORNL Releases Version 1.4 of ADIOS Middleware

Jul 27, 2012 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Scientific Data Group released the latest update to the Adaptable Input/Output System (ADIOS), version 1.4, which allows users more time to focus on achieving scientific insight and less on managing data.
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Michio Kaku to Keynote SC12

Jul 27, 2012 | Michio Kaku, world-renowned theoretical physicist and author, will deliver the SC12 keynote address in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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SuperMUC Inaugurated at 50th Anniversary Celebration of Supercomputing Center

Jul 27, 2012 | The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre has inaugurated the SuperMUC supercomputer. Currently the most powerful cluster in Europe, the system was inaugurated at a 50th anniversary celebration of the supercomputing center.
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Numerical Algorithms Group Updates Toolbox for MATLAB

Jul 26, 2012 | The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has announced an update to its NAG toolbox for MATLAB.
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Adaptive Computing Appoints New VP of Sales

Jul 26, 2012 | Adaptive Computing has added Marty Suim as their vice president of worldwide sales.
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MSC Software Offers GPU-Accelerated FEA for Engineers

Jul 25, 2012 | NVIDIA announced that MSC Software Corp., has released a GPU-accelerated version of the Marc 2012 Finite Element Analysis application, which speeds up a range of engineering simulations.
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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

Jul 27, 2012 | Scientists use latest Cray supercomputer to figure out how to make better ice cream.
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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.