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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Looking inside Sun
I do not own any significant Sun gear at all, other than in my archive storage system, so I think I’m pretty unbiased when I say that one thing I really appreciate...
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QLogic builds support for IB channel partners in
Earlier this month QLogic announced a new program targeted at capitalizing on the increasing adoption of InfiniBand in HPC installations: The new SignatureHPC program...
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Sun
Sun announced this week that it’s opened a new energy efficient data center in Broomfield, Colorado. Responding to market demand for more energy-efficient datacenters...
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Sun announces Q2, posts
Sun announced its Q2 results for fiscal 2009 this week with both revenues and margin down year over year, but up slightly from Q1 Revenues for the second quarter...
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HPCwire comments: AMD
There is lots of news about AMD’s new Shanghai processors (details on AMD’s own site), so in addition to vectoring you that way (for example, The Register) I’ll...
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IBM opens scientific cloud project in
IBM has announced three new efforts that are taking advantage of its cloud computing platform for scientific computations. The first effort is working with universities...
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New SiCortex in
SiCortex has announced that the University of Madgeburg in Germany will install its big boy SC5832 This leading German university will use its new computer to further...
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Euro grid takes another
As reported at HPCwire, the European Grid Initiative (EGI) has taken another step forward The EGI Blueprint, which details the implementation of the EGI Organization’s...
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Senate focuses on different priorities in 2009 stimulus than
The CRA Policy Blog reports that the highlights from the Senate version of the 2009 stimulus bill (reported on earlier) are in. As the post details, the Senate...
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Taiwan U becomes CUDA center of
From NVIDIA late last week comes news of the latest CUDA center of excellence NVIDIA Corporation and National Taiwan University (NTU), one of the world
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U of Illinois Launches Parallel Computing Seminar
Found at HPCwire The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is launching a 13-week seminar series on emerging applications for parallel computing, bringing...
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Symposium on Application Accelerators in
The NCSA-hosted Symposium on Application Accelerators in HPC is gearing up for sumissions for its July 2009 conference The first annual 2009 Symposium on Application...
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Gov Bill Richardson points to the next job for
You’ll recall that early last year New Mexico’s big (like number 3 on the Nov 2007 list big) SGI started running jobs from outside users, and that NM’s plans for...
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Class action lawsuit filed against Rackable for alleged violiations of securities
Attorneys are getting geared up to press a class action against Rackable. There are several attorney announcements out there trying to gather members of the class...
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IDC forecasts declining HPC systems
This sounds like a no-brainer, but keep in mind that predictions right now are all over the map and depend upon how you slice the market. The Platform/Waters survey...
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Focusing on core
I’ve been really busy lately, and Joe Landman has a post on recent RIFs in the HPC ecosystem that nicely lays out what’s going on lately, only some of which has...
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Searching for the -gpu
Jeff Layton over at Cluster Monkey is on the quest for the -gpu option — a quick way to take an existing code and optimize it for GPUs without a rewrite. He isn’t...
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IBM reports record
Interesting story from The Register on why Big Blue is even smugger than usual right now There’s a lot of bad economic news floating around, but there wasn’t much...
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