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    Features
    Total Becomes a Global Leader in SuperComputing Power
    Thursday, May 15 @ 12:39 EDT
    Total announced today that it has acquired a high-performance computer that makes it a global leader in scientific supercomputing power. This investment aims at efficiently enhancing the ability to process data needed to explore and produce oil and gas.

    Michael Norman's simulations on Ranger reconstruct the Reionization Era
    Wednesday, May 14 @ 10:24 EDT
    Over the course of the past several decades, cosmologists have used countless observations to devise a biography of the universe, known as the Standard Model. The model proposes that ripples in dark matter, magnified by time and gravity, caused clumps of matter to congeal into a web of intersecting filaments, eventually spawning stars, galaxies, black holes, and structure. But like the cosmos, the Standard Model is full of black holes — missing pieces of the puzzle, whose attraction is undeniable to astronomers.

    DOE's Office of Science to Award High Performance Computing Resources
    Tuesday, May 13 @ 14:45 EDT
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE’s national laboratories. Through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, DOE’s Office of Science plans to award approximately 680 million supercomputer processor-hours at its laboratories in Berkeley, CA; Chicago, IL; Oak Ridge, TN; and Richland, WA for large-scale, computationally-intensive science projects in 2009.

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    Industry News
    Leading HPC Industry Experts to Present at Moab-Con 2008
    Thursday, May 15 @ 14:31 EDT
    Cluster Resources, Inc., developers of the Moab family of products, today announced the speaker lineup for Moab-Con 2008: Advancing Computing Intelligence, the first annual Moab Conference where industry experts across commercial, academic and government sectors will discuss the latest solutions in HPC and data center management.

    Clustercorp Releases Rocks+ 5.0
    Tuesday, May 13 @ 14:53 EDT
    Clustercorp announced the immediate availability of Rocks+ 5.0, which includes Rocks+Support, Rocks+Rolls and Rocks+Moab. Rocks+ is the commercial version of the widely used Rocks Cluster Distribution – an end-to-end HPCC software solution, which includes the operating system, cluster management middleware, libraries, and compilers; all with enterprise class commercial support from leaders in the Rocks community.

    Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron
    Tuesday, May 13 @ 12:10 EDT
    New Sun Fire Servers, Powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Other Industry-Standard Operating Systems, Deliver Market-Leading Performance, Compute Density and Memory in Half the Space: Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of its first Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, bringing new capabilities, increased performance and expanded scalability to customers that purchase or upgrade to these quad-core systems. The Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240 and Sun Fire X4440 servers, the newest systems to join Sun's extensive x64 (x86, 64-bit) server line, give customers industry-leading energy efficiency, density and scalability powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and a choice of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), OpenSolaris operating system, Linux, Windows and VMware. To take advantage of special offers and promotions for these servers, including Sun's Try and Buy program, visit: http://www.sun.com/promotions/campaigns/index.jsp?cid=ti_105 http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy http://www.sun.com/specials/g/gobig2.xml?cid=924747

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    Government News
    Jaguar upgrade brings ORNL closer to petascale computing
    Thursday, May 15 @ 15:46 EDT
    Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system’s ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences.

    Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers
    Tuesday, May 06 @ 13:48 EDT
    Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today’s conventional supercomputers.

    Astrophysical fluid mechanics: A new method for simulating supersonic turbulence
    Tuesday, May 06 @ 09:26 EDT
    Using DEISA’s computational resources within the DECI framework, the FEARLESS project team has developed a new method for simulating turbulent fluids, which will open up new perspectives in the field of astrophysics.

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    Academia News
    IBM World Community Grid Supercomputer to Tackle Rice Crisis
    Thursday, May 15 @ 15:26 EDT
    With 1 Million Global Registered Devices, Largest Humanitarian Grid Can Complete Project in Less Than Two Years Compared to Over 200 years: As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields. With the processing power of 167 teraflops, equivalent to the world's Top 3 supercomputer, IBM's World Community Grid will harness the unused and donated power from nearly one million individual PCs in a new initiative -- "Nutritious Rice for the World" project -- that will study rice at the atomic level and then combine it with traditional cross breeding techniques used by farmers throughout history.

    IBM-Designed Supercomputer to Enhance UCF's Simulation Research
    Wednesday, May 14 @ 14:57 EDT
    A new high-performance computer obtained through two Army grants totaling $2.6 million will allow the University of Central Florida to conduct realistic training scenarios with thousands of people training in the same virtual world and to conduct cutting-edge research in the physical and biological sciences.

    £900,000 helps Queen's lead the way in next generation computing
    Wednesday, May 14 @ 10:03 EDT
    The Belfast e-Science Centre (BeSC) at Queen's University Belfast has been awarded a grant of over £900,000 to continue its role in developing grid technology. The revolutionary software work of the centre could change the face of industry, commerce and academic research in the next few years. Established in 2002, BeSC is already recognised as a world leader in e-Science, which is the development of research methods to exploit advanced computational thinking.

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    Financials and Personnel
    Worldwide Services Spending to Surpass $965 Billion by 2012, IDC Finds
    Thursday, May 15 @ 13:16 EDT
    IDC forecasts that companies and government agencies will spend more than $746 billion on external services in 2008, representing a growth rate of 6.8% over 2007. Despite – and in some cases because of – a weak U.S. economy, there are many market forces driving enterprises to continue to turn to service vendors for assistance. Additionally, increased customer use of new and often disruptive delivery options (e.g., hosting, SaaS, and utility computing) will encourage service provides, especially outsourcers, to focus their investments in these areas.

    National Science Board approves UCAR proposal to manage NCAR
    Thursday, May 15 @ 12:33 EDT
    The National Science Board has authorized the National Science Foundation to negotiate a new cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to continue to manage and operate its flagship weather and climate center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

    QLogic Gains HBA Market Share over Nearest Competitor
    Thursday, May 15 @ 11:18 EDT
    QLogic Widens Overall Revenue Share Lead to Double Digits for the First Time and Achieves 50 Percent Market Share in Overall SAN HBA Revenue for First Time: QLogic today announced that QLogic ranked number one in every category of storage area network (SAN) host bus adapter (HBA) revenue and port market share, according to new data from the Dell'Oro Group Q1 2008 SAN Report. Dell'Oro reports that QLogic achieved: overall revenue market share gains versus its primary competitor for the fourth consecutive quarter, 50 percent market share in overall SAN HBA revenue for the first time and a double-digit lead over the nearest competitor in overall revenue share for the first time. QLogic once again dominated the competition in the fast growing market for blade server mezzanine cards, pulling in 73.1 percent of revenue share and 73.8 percent of port share for the first calendar quarter 2008.

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    Product News
    Comet Solutions Joins Siemens PLM Software Partner Program
    Thursday, May 15 @ 12:29 EDT
    Partnership Brings the Benefits of Conceptual Engineering to Joint Customers. Comet Solutions, Inc., the innovator in conceptual simulation engineering, has announced its partnership with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Comet will provide capability for customers to better automate their design analysis processes and drive product development with engineering intent by the use of highly flexible abstract modeling and custom process simulation templates in an authoring-tool neutral environment for advanced systems engineering and conceptual design analysis.

    Xilinx Helps Designers Meet High-Speed Connectivity Requirements
    Wednesday, May 14 @ 11:10 EDT
    Next-Generation Platform Flash XL Memory Devices and Development Tools Enable 3X Performance Improvement and Greater Ease-of-Use: Xilinx today announced a flash-based configuration and storage solution for the Virtex-5 family that delivers new levels of configuration performance for meeting today's high-speed connectivity requirements. The solution includes a new 128Mb Platform Flash XL configuration and storage device, a next generation Platform Cable USB II development tool, and the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA PCIe 1.x and 2.0 Embedded Processor Board. The Platform Flash XL solution delivers the industry's highest throughput and lowest device count for high-performance PCI Express connectivity applications used in optical and enterprise networking, WiMAX digital front-end and baseband processing, video broadcast equipment, and medical ultrasound and scanners.

    Eurotech and Intel collaborate on the development of HPC technology
    Wednesday, May 14 @ 09:16 EDT
    Gruppo Eurotech, an Italian company specializing in embedded solutions and computer miniaturizatrion, and Intel, the World’s largest producer of chips and world leader in silicon innovation, have signed a memorandum of understanding over several years of technological collaboration.

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    Past Articles
    Wednesday, May 14

  • Michael Norman's simulations on Ranger reconstruct the Reionization Era
  • £900,000 helps Queen's lead the way in next generation computing
  • Arrive Early at ISC '08 for Preconference Programs - Register online by May 19
  • Eurotech and Intel collaborate on the development of HPC technology
  • Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters Boost Capacity by 33%

    Tuesday, May 13

  • IBM offers new blades based on Cell/B.E
  • Clustercorp Releases Rocks+ 5.0
  • DOE's Office of Science to Award High Performance Computing Resources
  • Acceleware Speeds Up Search for Oil & Gas with GPUs
  • Simulation and Dataintensive Fair 2008

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