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Acceleware announces GPU services
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Acceleware announces GPU services

This week HPC application appliance maker Acceleware (about whom I’ve written in depth before) announced the formation of a new professional services team Acceleware…announced...

Hosted HPC on the
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Hosted HPC on the

Michael Feldman blogs at HPCwire this week about the evident increase in customers taking advantage of hosted HPC services, and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Futures...

TeraGrid conference looking for education, workforce development
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TeraGrid conference looking for education, workforce development

This week 2009 TeraGrid Conference announced it is looking for submissions that highlight successes in training and workforce development — part of HPC’s contribution...

Russian HPC company intros cell-based system at
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Russian HPC company intros cell-based system at

Russian HPC maker T-Platforms, which has sytems on the Top500, is showing off its new cell-based gear at CeBIT this week in Hanover T-Platforms company, the leading...

SiCortex science to science
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SiCortex science to science

SiCortex announced this week that it is beginning a webinar series to highlight the ways in which HPC is used in science…on SiCortex gear, one presumes. In each...

120 more employees laid off at
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120 more employees laid off at

Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register is reporting today that another 9% of SGI’s workforce has been laid off Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has let go...

Japan
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Japan

The Mainichi Daily News, the English-language news site of Japan’s Mainichi Newspapers, is reporting today that the new earth simulator is available for gazing...

Comparing Instanbul and
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Comparing Instanbul and

Found at Multicoreinfo.com In well threaded applications, the best a

Profiling MPI applications using Sun
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Profiling MPI applications using Sun

From Sun’s HPC Watercooler Sun’s Yukon Maruyama and Marty Itzkowitz have published an

OSC boosts bioscience with super
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OSC boosts bioscience with super

OSC announced yesterday that they are expanding their IBM Cluster 1350 to add more capacity to the center’s support for state bioscience efforts The Ohio Supercomputer...

Express Parallelism, Don
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Express Parallelism, Don

Provocative title from an article at DevX.com For example, it’s very tempting to use the operating system’s native threading library directly on a multicore platform...

Comparing Cilk++ and
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Comparing Cilk++ and

Multicoreinfo.com points us to an article at Cilk Arts comparing some of the differences between their parallel environment, Cilk++, and OpenMP If your code looks...

The word of the day is
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The word of the day is

I freaking love this story, from the UK’s Webuser site. A supercomputer used to predict which words may soon fall out of common use in the English language. The...

Asian
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Asian

The Top500 list started it all, and then came the Russian Top50. Now there is an Asian Top500. Why the new list? ince 1993, www.TOP500.org has taken the initiative...

One million for the
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One million for the

CPU hours, that is. From a release posted at HPCwire earlier this week: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in collaboration with the Institute...

Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of
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Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of

CNet News ran a feature yesterday about Fusion-IO, about whom we have previously written. Steve Wozniak joined Fusion-IO as its chief scientist recently, at least...

ISC
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ISC

Found at HPCwire this am, news that the 2009 program for ISC (in Hamburg this time, a lovely city) is set: In addition to world-renowned keynote speakers, ISC’09...

Dan Reed on why he joined
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Dan Reed on why he joined

The day before yesterday the always interesting Dan Reed spent a few minutes writing on his blog about what motivated his most recent career choice What I have...

Report from the UPCRC Illinois
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Report from the UPCRC Illinois

Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research...

TotalView
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TotalView

My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent...
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