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Jul 23, 2008

Mellanox Connects the Dots

Mellanox has assembled an HPC Advisory Council, a group of vendors, technology suppliers and end users that have come together to help accelerate adoption of high performance computing and extend its reach into new markets. Read more...

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Sun, Fujitsu Deliver Quad-Core SPARC64 Servers

Those of you looking forward to Rock -- Sun's much anticipated 16-core processor originally scheduled for release later this year but now pushed to the second half of 2009 -- don't have to wait for those chips to come out to experience that launch party euphoria. This week Sun and Fujitsu announced the latest of their enterprise line of SPARC-based servers, sporting the new SPARC64 VII chip.
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The Week in Review

The UK makes a multi-million pound investment in science and computing; the Defense Department funds a HPC software project; and TACC's Ranger shows off its new Opterons. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Sun's Fortress Language: Parallelism by Default

If anyone knows how to introduce a new programming language, it's Sun Microsystems. The company's highly successful Java language, which was introduced in 1991, has become ubiquitous in network-centric and embedded computing. Today, there's a whole research team at Sun Labs devoted to programming languages, and the big project there in recent years has been the development of the Fortress programming language. The end game is to "do for Fortran what Java did for C."
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Acceleware Offers GPU-Flavored HPC

Selling high performance computing to new customers means talking with people that don't necessarily identify with the terms "HPC" or "supercomputing," and for whom these technologies have historically been too expensive and too hard to use to be relevant. Enter Acceleware, and its intention to deliver supercomputing to the masses with HPC appliances.
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Biology Enters 'The Matrix' Through New Computer Language

7/22/08 | Harvard Medical School | A team of Harvard Medical School researchers have developed a computer programming language that can be used to model the biomolecular behavior of proteins. Read more...

Nvidia: Larrabee is a Reaction to CUDA

7/21/08 | Custom PC | Nvidia responds to Pat Gelsinger’s comments about CUDA being just a ‘footnote’ in computing history. Read more...

PlayStation Processor Dominates Green Supercomputing

7/21/08 | ElectronicsWeekly.com | Computers based on the Cell processor dominate the world ranking for energy efficient supercomputers, according to the just-published Green500 list. Read more...

More Power7 Details Emerge, Thanks to Blue Waters Super

7/21/08 | IT Jungle | Rumors have been circulating about IBM's future Power7 processor and how the chip fits into NCSA's upcoming "Blue Waters" supercomputer. Read more...

Hello AMD Socket G34

7/17/08 | DailyTech | AMD's 12-core and 8-core processors will get a new home in 2010. Read more...

Moore’s Law — A Holistic and Economic Approach

7/16/08 | Semiconductor International | According to Bernard Meyerson, IBM Fellow and CTO for IBM Systems and Technology Group, Moore's Law is an economic formulation, not a technological one. Read more...

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Improving Performance and Manageability for Seismic Processing and Imaging Applications with Parallel Storage

6/5/08 | Panasas | As pressure increases on the upstream seismic processing community to deliver ever-higher levels of productivity and efficiency, a new generation of storage solutions will be required that allow the maximum utilisation of high-performance computing (HPC) Linux cluster resources, together with the minimum of management overhead.

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Can Big Blue Make Power7 Green?
IBM's upcoming Power7 chip is headed for multi-petaflop stardom. But energy efficiency might be a real challenge for this processor at the petascale level.
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