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SuperVessel Cloud to Boost OpenPOWER Ecosystem
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SuperVessel Cloud to Boost OpenPOWER Ecosystem

Today IBM announced SuperVessel, a first-of-its-kind initiative that enables business partners, application developers and university students to conduct innovation...

PRACEdays15 Puts the Spotlight on Irish HPC
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PRACEdays15 Puts the Spotlight on Irish HPC

In this report from PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin last week, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the role of HPC in the host country, Ireland...

Power8 Sets World Records on STAC-A2 Benchmarks
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Power8 Sets World Records on STAC-A2 Benchmarks

Over at the Smarter Computing Blog, IBM's Sumit Gupta writes that newly published STAC-A2 benchmarks show that POWER8-based system server can deliver more thanPower8...

Cisco Joins CERN openlab
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Cisco Joins CERN openlab

Today, Cisco announced it is joining CERN openlab, CERN's platform for science and industry partnerships. The post Cisco Joins CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC...

Bright Cluster Manager Speeds Deployment of Apache Hadoop
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Bright Cluster Manager Speeds Deployment of Apache Hadoop

Today Bright Computing announced a significant update to distribution-agnostic Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop at the Hadoop Summit North America 2015....

Hero Performance is about the Applications
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Hero Performance is about the Applications

During last month’s PRACE Days in Dublin – where I enjoyed talks on improvements in codes and methods in areas as diverse as CFD, RTM in geophysics, and in genomics...

Intelligent Light Scales CFD Code to 64,000 Cores
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Intelligent Light Scales CFD Code to 64,000 Cores

Today Intelligent Light announced breakthrough CFD scalability running the AVF-Leslie combustion simulation code on up to 64,000 cores on NERSC supercomputers. The...

UK Hartree Center Partners with IBM on Big Data
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UK Hartree Center Partners with IBM on Big Data

Today the UK government announced a £313 million partnership with information technology leader IBM to boost Big Data research in the UK. The post UK Hartree Center...

STAR-CCM+ Scales to 102,000 Cores on Blue Waters
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STAR-CCM+ Scales to 102,000 Cores on Blue Waters

NCSA recently announced a new world record by scaling CD-adapco’s flagship simulation tool STAR-CCM+ to 102,000 cores on the Blue Waters supercomputer. The post...

HPCAC Brazil Conference Comes Rio Aug. 26
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HPCAC Brazil Conference Comes Rio Aug. 26

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that the 2nd Annual HPCAC Brazil Conference 2015 will take place Aug. 26 at Laboratório Nacional de Computação in Rio de...

Advanced Clustering to Build UC Merced Supercomputer
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Advanced Clustering to Build UC Merced Supercomputer

Today the University of California Merced announced that it has selected Advanced Clustering Technologies to build a cluster supercomputer that will support research...

ISC 2015 Early Bird Rates end June 10
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ISC 2015 Early Bird Rates end June 10

There is still time to enjoy early bird registration rates the 30th annual ISC High Performance conference. Reduced rates end June 10 for the conference, whichISC...

ArrayFire Updates GPU Software Library
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ArrayFire Updates GPU Software Library

Today ArrayFire announced the release of Version 3.0 of their high-speed software library for GPU computing. The new version features major changes to ArrayFire...

Software Defined Storage Improves Efficiency
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Software Defined Storage Improves Efficiency

Software defined storage (SDS) is a concept that can cut costs and improve efficiency in many organizations. The ebook, Software Defined Storage for Dummies, is...

Oxford Installs New Lenovo Cluster
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Oxford Installs New Lenovo Cluster

One of Lenovo's first HPC clusters has been installed at the University of Oxford in the UK. The post Oxford Installs New Lenovo Cluster appeared first on insideHPC...

LLNL Breaks Ground on New Supercomputing Facility
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LLNL Breaks Ground on New Supercomputing Facility

This week Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory broke ground on a modular and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a flexible infrastructure able...

Silicon Mechanics Awards Research Clusters
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Silicon Mechanics Awards Research Clusters

Today Silicon Mechanics announced the recipients of its fourth annual Research Cluster Grant (RCG). Dordt College and The City College of New York will receiveSilicon...

Reducing Jet Noise with Large Eddy Simulations
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Reducing Jet Noise with Large Eddy Simulations

Over at Argonne National Lab, John Spizzirri writes that GE researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to learn how noise propagates from jet propulsion and wind...

Kraken Supercomputer Gets a Kicker
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Kraken Supercomputer Gets a Kicker

Today the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) announced a $3 million award from the NSF to continue to provide advanced computing resources for...

Solving Eight Constraints of Today’s Data Center
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Solving Eight Constraints of Today’s Data Center

With the growth of big data, cloud and high performance computing, demands on data centers around the world are expanding every year. Unfortunately, these demands...
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