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Jan 6, 2009

Santa's HPC Woes

You thought you had it hard. What if all of your business, with a worldwide customer base, occurred in the midnight hours of a single day towards the end of December? Read more...

Feature Articles

Baby, It's Cold Outside...Let's Calculate Something

Argonne National Labs is part of the Department of Energy, so it's not exactly surprising to learn that they are actively looking for ways to reduce energy use. But using Chicago's cold winters to save $25,000 a month on cooling costs for the supers in their Leadership Computing Facility is, well, cool.
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The Week in Review

NCSA coloring book teaches kids about supercomputing; NVIDIA supports distributed computing projects; and the University of Cincinnati and Proctor & Gamble partner on computer modeling center. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up.
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Aggregating Clusters Through Virtualization; Virtual SMP Benefits

Virtual SMP systems provide a powerful platform for large-memory workloads, while granting other tangible benefits as well, such as reduced management costs. Low-latency commodity interconnects like InfiniBand, coupled with software virtualization techniques, are a good starting point.
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OpenCL: To GPGPU and Beyond

This week at SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore, The Khronos Group ratified version 1.0 of the OpenCL specification. In the short term OpenCL is expected to encourage the development of applications that can take advantage of those GPGPUs. But in the long term the implications for HPC may be much more far-reaching.
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Top Headlines

Virtual Product Development Gaining Traction

1/5/09 | Design News | While manufacturers may never be able to completely avoid physical prototyping, best-in-class players are continuing to expand their use of virtual product development. Read more...

C-DAC Initiatives for NE Region

1/5/09 | CXOtoday.com | The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has inaugurated its PARAM Sheersh Supercomputing Facility at North Eastern Hill University in India. Read more...

China-Made Supercomputer to be Installed in Shanghai

1/2/09 | People's Daily Online | A 200 teraflop Chinese supercomputer is scheduled to be installed in Shanghai in April. Read more...

Finding Huge Potential in Rocks’ Tiniest Cracks

12/31/08 | Houston Chronicle | A Houston-based company is using supercomputing power to reveal how gas and oil flows through underground rocks. Read more...

Infiniband Goes the Distance

12/23/08 | Goverment Computer News | Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that InfiniBand can be used to transport large datasets via a dedicated network thousands of miles in length with a throughput unmatched by high-speed TCP/IP connections. Read more...

Supercomputer Arrives in Butte

12/30/08 | Montana's News Station | Montana's first supercomputer has arrived in Butte. Read more...

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Featured Whitepapers

Star-P: Parallel Computing Without Parallel Programming

12/15/08 | Interactive Supercomputing | Engineers, scientists, and other domain experts depend on the productivity enabled by very high-level language (VHLL) tools like MATLAB® and Python. However, as datasets grow larger and programs get more sophisticated, ordinary desktop computers can no longer keep up. The paper explores how to run VHLL programs on high-performance platforms without low-level reprogramming. Work with large datasets and complex algorithms without sacrificing ease of use or reducing productivity.

Virtual Wind Tunnel: Building the ING Renault F1 Team Aerodynamics Research Supercomputer

12/2/08 | Appro | Learn about Appro’s experience providing a supercomputer for the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the ING Renault F1 Team’s technical centre in the United Kingdom. The Appro Xtreme-X™ Supercomputer provides a balanced HPC architecture for scalable performance, power and cooling efficiency, and high availability computing in a redundant and manageable framework.

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Top 10 Hits and Misses for 2008
Petaflops supercomputing dominated much of the HPC news in 2008, but the year also witnessed the rise of GPU-accelerated computing and the fall of Linux Networx.
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Larrabee for HPC: Not So Fast
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