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Wired
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Wired

I know we’re only a few days into 2009, but this is likely to me my favorite link of the year: an article at Wired.com that looks at supercomputing’s bad boys: That...

SiCortex video in the Boston
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SiCortex video in the Boston

There was an article in the Boston Globe last week about SiCortex. The web version features an interview with CEO Christopher Stone handling a node and pointing...

NVIDIA snuggles up with 2
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NVIDIA snuggles up with 2

Found at Multicoreinfo.com The company

HPC and
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HPC and

Josh Simons at Sun recently took a trip to ORNL to talk with their System Research Team about work that both organizations are doing with respect to virtualization...

Creative launches new
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Creative launches new

Their word, not mine. Anyway, Creative Technology (yup, the SoundBlaster people) made an announcement at CES last week about the launch of their new line of silicon...

AMD plans 1PF graphical supercomputer for interactive content
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AMD plans 1PF graphical supercomputer for interactive content

Many announcements came out of CES last week, but not many of them have anything to do with us. Which is why AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s proclamation that he is building...

Deadline approaches to apply for time on the
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Deadline approaches to apply for time on the

From HPCwire Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until Jan. 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance...

IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into
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IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into

From coverage at The Register In December, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano made a presentation to Carol Browner, the incoming White...

200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in
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200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the home grown Dawning 5000A is expected to be installed in April of this year. The supercomputer, with a peak capability...

Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in
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Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in

IT analysis firm Waters published results from a survey earlier this week detailing the 2009 spend plans by banks for HPC. The survey was conducted by Platform...

Sun adds Belgian Q-layer to its cloud
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Sun adds Belgian Q-layer to its cloud

From Sun today Sun Microsystems, Inc…today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public...

Financial Engineering Summit next
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Financial Engineering Summit next

Today is becoming “event day” here at insideHPC. I had an email earlier this week about an upcoming computational finance event in New York hosted by NVIDIA and...

ISC
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ISC

From HPCwire ISC’09, the 24th meeting of the International Supercomputing Conference, is seeking papers from researchers in computing and scientific disciplines...

Indian Prime Minister pledging to double investment in
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Indian Prime Minister pledging to double investment in

Pointed to by the Computing Research Policy TumbleLog, an article in the ??Business Standard with comments from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comments at...

Upcoming Red Hat HPC stack webinar Jan
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Upcoming Red Hat HPC stack webinar Jan

Red Hat’s twitter account posted a comment recently about an upcoming webinar on the HPC stack. From the webinar page Do you need the power of high-performance...

Sun sponsors HPC Symposium in the Great White
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Sun sponsors HPC Symposium in the Great White

From Sun’s HPC Watercooler comes news of a reason to travel to Canada this summer June 14-17 Sun is pleased to sponsor the High Performance Computing Symposium,...

The dangers of a monoculture for the future of
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The dangers of a monoculture for the future of

Joe Landman pointed to this presentation (PDF) by Paul Lu at U of Alberta on the emerging monocultures in HPC (x86, InfiniBand, Linux) and the risks posed by the...

A look at Tesla
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A look at Tesla

Doug Eadline over at ClusterMonkey got an early Christmas present from NVIDIA: a look at the year in Tesla technology: It is not often someone does our job for...

Your last HPC book? The best HPC-related book
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Your last HPC book? The best HPC-related book

What’s the last HPC-related book you bought, and when did you buy it? What’s the best HPC-related book you’ve ever bought (you define “best” however you’d like:...

Parallel framework for statistical analysis package
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Parallel framework for statistical analysis package

Yes, I know that R doesn’t have quotes, but I thought that the non-R users out there might think it was a typo. Good news if you use R and yearn for easier access...
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