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BGI Genomics Institute Announces Cloud-Based DNA Sequencing Service Accelerated by NVIDIA GPU

BGI Genomics Institute Announces Cloud-Based DNA Sequencing Service Accelerated by NVIDIA GPU

| 25 April, 2012 | 0 Comments

NVIDIA today announced that BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, is launching a service that will enable researchers worldwide to perform affordable next-generation sequencing (NGS) bioinformatics analysis in the cloud.

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Call For Papers: High Performance Simulation of biological systems

Call For Papers: High Performance Simulation of biological systems

| 20 April, 2012 | 0 Comments

The goal of this track is to explore the use of emerging parallel computing architectures as well as High Performance Computing systems for the simulation of relevant biological systems

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SC12 Call for Technical Papers

SC12 Call for Technical Papers

| 13 February, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from the foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. The conference committee solicits submissions of excellent scientific merit that introduce new ideas to the field and stimulate future trends.

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Welcome to the Jungle: Future of Heterogeneous Supercomputing

Welcome to the Jungle: Future of Heterogeneous Supercomputing

| 24 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend – mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones’ are being permanently transformed into heterogeneous supercomputer clusters.

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Call For Papers: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

Call For Papers: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers

| 4 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

The increasing complexity, performance, cost and energy efficiency needs of current and future applications require novel and innovative approaches for the design of computing systems. Boundaries between state of the art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to provide the support required for the advancement of science, engineering and information technology.

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U.S. Department of Energy Magellan project report: Role of cloud computing in science

U.S. Department of Energy Magellan project report: Role of cloud computing in science

| 26 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

The goal of Magellan, a project funded through ASCR, was to investigate the potential role of cloud computing in addressing the ever growing computational needs of Science, particularly in midrange computing and data-intensive computing workloads.

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Monte Carlo simulation of photon migration in a cloud computing environment with MapReduce

Monte Carlo simulation of photon migration in a cloud computing environment with MapReduce

| 10 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

The purpose of this work is to report on our implementation of a simple MapReduce method for performing fault-tolerant Monte Carlo computations in a massively-parallel cloud computing environment.

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Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC11)

Proceedings of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC11)

| 29 November, 2011 | 0 Comments

Table of Contents of 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Proceedings (SC11)

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vGPU: First Virtualization Solution for Dynamic GPU Provisioning in the Cloud

vGPU: First Virtualization Solution for Dynamic GPU Provisioning in the Cloud

| 18 November, 2011 | 0 Comments

Zillians announced the availability of vGPU – the world’s first commercial virtualization solution for decoupling GPU hardware from software, enabling existing GPU software to run without any modification on a remote GPU resource

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AppliedMicro Shows World’s First 64-bit ARM Processor

AppliedMicro Shows World’s First 64-bit ARM Processor

| 31 October, 2011 | 0 Comments

This week at ARM TechCon 2011, AppliedMicro announced “X-Gene” the world’s first 64-bit ARM architecture compliant processor on an FPGA SoC (effectively a Server on a Chip, instead of System on Chip)

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