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HPC helps build crankshafts 80%
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HPC helps build crankshafts 80%

UK HPC integrator OCF (one of the companies I wrote about in this article about the UK HPC market) has delivered an HPC system that really gets at the heart of...

AMD and Sun deliver small cluster to
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AMD and Sun deliver small cluster to

Although neither Sun nor AMD are reporting this on their own primary (ie, US) sites, China Daily is reporting that oil exploration firm China National Petroleum...

Staying linked in to
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Staying linked in to

I asked a question in several different places over the holidays about where people go to stay current about HPC, both in terms of technology and professional development...

Open Education Cup deadline draws
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Open Education Cup deadline draws

Reader Terrence Liao emailed me with a reminder that the deadline for the Open Education Cup is drawing near The deadline (February 2, 2009) for submitting content...

Will NCSA be stiffed on state funds to house Blue
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Will NCSA be stiffed on state funds to house Blue

Now, this is interesting, in a “gee I’m glad that’s not my problem” kind of way. Article on Friday of last week in the Chicago Sun-Times that gives broader voice...

Budget set for Japan
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Budget set for Japan

The Cheer HPC blog (a new blog that covers HPC happenings in Japan) has news from the Asian Technology Information Program website about the budget for Japan’s...

New HPC services, hosting firm announced in
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New HPC services, hosting firm announced in

UK-based EigenForge Limited came out of the closet, press release in hand on Monday of this week. EigenForge will focus in three areas of business 1) Fully Managed...

Digging into Data challenge announced, first deadline March
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Digging into Data challenge announced, first deadline March

From HPCwire Friday Today, a new, international competition called the Digging into Data Challenge was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information...

UK Met Office super found to have a black
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UK Met Office super found to have a black

The TimesOnline ran a story last week about the UK Met Office’s new

House Democrats have innovation on their
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House Democrats have innovation on their

The outstanding Computing Research Policy Blog has an analysis of what the Democrats propose to do with respect to science and computing to stimulate the economy...

NVIDIA enlists CUDA services
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NVIDIA enlists CUDA services

Last week NVIDIA announced a new partnership with India-based Wipro Technologies to provide CUDA professional services. “We are approached by customers and ISVs...

Use Twitter or Facebook? Partial to blogs? Now you can get your SC09 fix however you want
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Use Twitter or Facebook? Partial to blogs? Now you can get your SC09 fix however you want

Fellow HPC blogger and Java chopper impresario Rich Brueckner from Sun is running social media for SC09, and already has things kicked off with a Twitter account...

Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down
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Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down

Addison Snell at Tabor Research published an interesting read last week at the HPCwire blog. With the economy beginning to crash down around us, Tabor Research...

Tesla GPU seminar coming
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Tesla GPU seminar coming

Last week while I was traveling Cluster Monkey posted an announcement about a Tesla seminar this week, hosted by NVIDIA and Microway. The key presenter is Sumit...

Just say
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Just say

Feature article at HPCwire with a great title, “HPC@Intel: When to Say No to Parallelism.” As a software developer, you are faced with a range of options as you...

Eli Lilly using cloud
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Eli Lilly using cloud

Here’s a pointer to an article that looks interesting that I found at HPCwire. Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company...

Rackable lays off
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Rackable lays off

Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg Going public has not been as much fun for...

NASA awards computational portal
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NASA awards computational portal

Earlier this week NASA announced it had awarded a

New Sun HPC software stack
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New Sun HPC software stack

This in from Sun’s HPC Watercooler The Giraffe team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of our HPC Software Stack for Linux. Sun HPC Software, Linux...

Star-P adds
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Star-P adds

This just in from Interactive Supercomputing today The Star-P imaging function library was developed with the help of Anona Labs, an Israeli software company specializing...
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