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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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Reg opens for PRACE symposium in
Full of Euro love this morning…just a quick note that registration is now open for the upcoming DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure...
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AMD updates on
Got an email from AMD late last night letting me know that AMD would be providing an update on Istanbul today, this follows news earlier this week that AMD is getting...
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EuroPVM/MPI
For my pals across the Atlantic, and those on this side with passports and itchy travel accounts, EuroPVM/MPI 2009 just announced its call for papers. In case you...
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Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning
Now, this is the kind of news that you only get from insideHPC. I was trolling the SEC filings for our HPC companies, as I am wont to do, when I came upon Cray’s...
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Sun matching grant program for
This from Marc Hamilton’s blog Just in time to help school’s balance their budgets, Sun’s 2009 Matching Grant Program for Education is here. So no matter if you...
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Microsoft not sparking any HPC
I just saw a tweet about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools...
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HPC for the big
Last week Fortune Magazine published a profile on how Kenworth is using rented cycles in a server farm to put CFD to use getting your kibbles and bit cross country...
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Staying connected to SC, year
insideHPC’s buddy Rich Brueckner from Sun’s HPC Watercooler is heading up the use of what the kids are calling “social media” tools for SC09 this year, and he’s...
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CTR
Computer Technology Review published its list of the top 5 trends it expects in HPC throughout 2009. Here is the (abbreviated) list HPC is becoming more mainstream...
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Feldman revisits the memory wall, takes family
Last week HPCwire’s editor Michael Feldman commented on the memory wall, and what may lie on the horizon for HPC The Nehalem processors, though, should provide...
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AMD demos working Istanbul 6-socket
Report at The Tech Report from Friday detailing a preview of working silicon for AMD’s new six-core Opteron, the chip that AMD hopes will stave off Intel’s forthcoming...
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HyperTransport group
Last week HPCwire ran this press release from the Hypertransport Group, released during their annual pow wow. Pretty standard stuff, except for the way this one...
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Intel aims tweaked servers at cloud
From a story at the UK’s TechWorld we learned last week that Intel is tweaking its Nehalem implementation to be more attractive to “cloud” installations Intel is...
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Red Hat and Windows to support each others
Timothy Prickett Morgan reports from The Register this week that Red Hat and Microsoft have been coerced by customers into playing nice with each other Operating...
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Coding in the cloud, Mozilla
Michael Feldman has been reliving his past coding glory (not everyone knows he used to do compiler work for a living), as reflected in a blog post yesterday While...
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TPC video overview of the new energy efficiency
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is working on several new benchmarks this year, one of which is an energy efficiency benchmark. Here’s a link...
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SiCortex hardware supports Virtual
A quick search of past posts verifies that, yes, this is the first pairie-related post here in nearly three thousand news posts. Sure, its a niche record, but I’m...
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SDSC gets grant for cloud computing research on Google
Found at HPCwire, news that researchers at SDSC have gotten a two year grant of $450,000 from the NSF The NSF award focuses on the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), a...
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Universities challenged to power down for the
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is organizing a challenge to encourage universities to “make a dent in pollution by powering down campus computers.” One...
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