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Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: Call for Proposals

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: Call for Proposals

| 18 April, 2012 | 0 Comments

This call is the fifth PRACE-RI Regular call for Project access, inviting applications for high-end (Tier-0) computing resources to carry out projects which have high scientific quality and impact. Allocation will be for 1 year starting from 1st November 2012.

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Computer Scientists at ORNL Collect Computing Tools for Next-Generation Machines

Computer Scientists at ORNL Collect Computing Tools for Next-Generation Machines

| 14 February, 2012 | 0 Comments

Researchers using the OLCF’s resources can foresee substantial changes in their scientific application code development in the near future. Tools developers attempt to make change to hybrid architectures a smooth transition.

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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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Science Magazine Focus: What It’ll Take to Go Exascale

Science Magazine Focus: What It’ll Take to Go Exascale

| 27 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

Science magazine published interesting news focus on exascale computing. Article describes challenges on the way the modern supercomputers are built and run

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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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Moscow State University partners with T-Platforms to build 10 petaflops supercomputer

Moscow State University partners with T-Platforms to build 10 petaflops supercomputer

| 22 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

T-Platforms today announced an agreement to design a computer cluster capable of 10 PFlops (10^15 floating point operations per second) for M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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China Strengthen its HPC Training using Power of Government Control

China Strengthen its HPC Training using Power of Government Control

| 16 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

China can use its power of government control to bring major changes quickly, and it is moving to expand parallel programming training to help its supercomputing efforts– and possibly its outsourcing industry, too.

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NCSA iPhone & iPad game Flops Fever. For supercomputer geeks only

NCSA iPhone & iPad game Flops Fever. For supercomputer geeks only

| 12 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

Scientists and engineers keep supercomputers busy simulating severe storms, galaxies, molecules, and more. Scheduling those jobs is like putting together a complex puzzle.

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Astrophysical Supercomputing with GPUs: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters

Astrophysical Supercomputing with GPUs: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters

| 12 December, 2011 | 1 Comment

In this paper, we have highlighted some of the benefits and limitations of early adoption of GPGPU for astronomy. While there are risks and significant effort may be required to prepare codes, in many cases the benefits will outweigh the limitations.

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TACC Expands Data Center for New Supercomputer

TACC Expands Data Center for New Supercomputer

| 9 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

TACC today announced that it is expanding the center’s current high performance computing (HPC) data center to house the new Stampede supercomputer, which will be built in late 2012 and go into full production to the national science community in January 2013

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