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Features:
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Gates Leads Microsoft into HPC
- Today at Supercomputing 2005, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates delivered the opening keynote address to more than 7,000 attendees. In the address, titled "The Role of Computing in the Sciences," Gates shared a vision of how the software industry can meet the challenges of technical computing.
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HPC Challenge Keeps Dongarra Excited about SC
- HPCwire recently spoke with Jack Dongarra about serving as the co-chair for the first year of the HPC Challenge award competition. The goal of the competition, which was sponsored by DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems Program and HPCwire, was to develop a set of HPC hardware and software capabilities that become de rigeur for the productive use of all HPC systems.
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HPC Analytics Returns Bigger, Better and Busier
- The HPC Analytics Challenge is an open competition, drawing participants from academia, education, research, government and commercial interests. The goal of the contest is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers and analysts to showcase their computationally intensive applications that solve real-world problems.
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D-Wave's Quantum Computer Looks to Revolutionize HPC
- By Michael Feldman, Editor, HPCwire
Geordie Rose can't wait for the future -- so, apparently, he's not going to. Rose is president and CEO of D-Wave Systems Inc., a company with the ambitious goal of building a quantum computing system for the commercial market.
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Sun's Bjorn Andersson Gives Insight into Big Wins
- By Derrick Harris, Editor, GRIDtoday
Derrick Harris spoke with Sun's Bjorn Andersson about what's going on with the company in terms of its Grid and HPC initiatives. Andersson discusses Sun's big customer wins for its Sun Grid and its largest HPC win to-date with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He also comments on the state of the Grid market and where it's headed.
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United Devices Founder on Grids, Clusters
- By Derrick Harris, Editor, GRIDtoday
GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Ed Hubbard, founder and chief marketing officer of United Devices, about the company's strategy around SC'05. its recent acquisition of France-based GridXpert (a leader in the manufacturing sector), the issues of Grid standards and Grid adoption, and the differences between Grids and clusters -- a topic that arises quite often in the HPC space.
Cluster Computing:
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AMD, Sun to Build Largest Supercomputer in Japan
- AMD and Sun Microsystems Inc. have announced that the Tokyo Institute
of Technology (Tokyo Tech), one of the world's leading technical
institutes, is creating Japan's largest supercomputer on a foundation
of Sun technology.
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Linux Networx Unveils LS Series Supersystems
- Linux Networx announced the availability of the LS Series, a family of Linux Supersystems that blend the price and performance of Linux clusters with the power of legacy supercomputing, in a high value supercomputing system.
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Platform Partners with IBM, HP, Microsoft
- Platform announced partnerships with three major vendors during SC'05: the integration of Platform LSF with IBM's eServer Blue Gene Solution; the availability of Platform Rocks Standard Edition as a cluster management solution for the HP Cluster Platform 3000; and the integration of Platform LSF with Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
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Rocketcalc Introduces Personal Cluster Product
- Rocketcalc has announced the Saturn 270 HE personal cluster with 16 AMD Opteron processor cores, up to 64 GB RAM and 8 Gbps network bandwidth.
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Penguin Unveils Application-Ready Cluster Portfolio
- The pre-configured, pre-tested Application-Ready Cluster Portfolio reduces time to deployment and eliminates the need for many traditional cluster end user and system administration tasks, making clustered computing dramatically simpler and more efficient.
Grids@SC|05
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Calient, MCNC, LSU CCT to Advance Scientific Research
- Calient Networks, MCNC, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative and the Center for Computation & Technology at LSU announced at Supercomputing 2005 a partnership to drive optical networking and Grid computing toward a new realm of advanced scientific applications.
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New MATLAB Tools Integrate w/ United Device's Grid MP
- Because MathWorks provides a generic API in its new products, the Distributed Computing Toolbox 2 and the MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine 2 will easily combine with UD's Grid MP platform to deliver flexible compute power that always satisfies variations in demand from research, analysis and operational applications.
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Mathematica Announces Personal Grid Edition
- Mathematica Personal Grid Edition eliminates the barriers to using
parallelism as part of your daily workflow -- with no administrative
overhead and no contending for shared resources. Users can tackle
larger problems and investigate parallel approaches at any stage of
the problem-solving process right at their desks.
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Moab Grid Suite Advances Resource Control
- Cluster Resources Inc. announced the release of Moab Grid Suite 4.5, its new Grid management solution that lets organizations consolidate management of multiple clusters to create usable, affordable Grids while maintaining local cluster sovereignty.
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