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University of Iowa professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, Ching-Long Lin, has received a grant totaling $473,636 from the National Institutes of Health in order to procure a new supercomputer.  Eric A. Hoffman, professor of radiology at UI’s College of Medicine, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Iowa Comprehensive Lung Imaging Center is co-investigator on the grant.

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Bull has announced that they have appointed Fabio Gallo as their Director of HPC Solutions. Gallo was previously VP of Sales Development for Europe and the Middle East for Scali, the HPC middleware solutions firm. Gallo has run the full gambit of HPC companies, working for IBM, SGI and most recently LNXI. He successfully increased revenues at …

If you’re in Texas and have a hankering for crude with your big compute, head over to Rice on Tuesday next week for the 2008 Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop.

The Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop is the second in what we hope will be a regular event. The workshop on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 is

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When Ron Fedkiw, now an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University enrolled as a freshman I’m sure that he never listed winning an Oscar on his list of academic goals.

You’ve probably never heard of Fedkiw, but if you’ve seen the roaring oceans waves crashing around Johnny Depp in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies or the

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ICT Results has an interesting article on how an EU funded CATNETS project is tackling the problem of unused compute cycles to create a stock exchange.

You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling

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SGI has unveiled a new multi-vendor support program for global infrastructure, logistics and secured site services. The Support Solutions Plus program offers customers, OEM’s, integrators and partners the ability to leverage the SGI support infrastructure at their sites or on their products. SGI has already announced they will support products from IBM, HP, Sun, Solid Data Systems, Barco …

I thought that this would probably start in 18 months or so from the bottom up as the small manufacturing and engineering firms out there with HPC needs looked for someone to host their gear. But it looks like hosted HPC is making its way to large scale science first.

No, not Network.com. Remember back in summer of ‘07 …

If you’re in a buying mood, or just wanting to do some productive doodling, head over to Sun’s relatively recently added web page detailing Constellation reference designs. See what it takes to host systems at 70, 210, and 579 TFLOPS.

I love the moxie of the web pages; note the marketing language …

Early November last year Appro announced its new Xtreme-X1 line of quad Xeon-based cluster HPCs. The X1, is designed to be the lego building block of cluster solutions by allowing customers to build systems up in 128-node blocks. Earlier this year they announced the sale of a 95 TFLOPS Xtreme to the …

[Ed: our very own John Leidel packed up the Chevy Nova and headed over to TACC to watch the goings on at the Ranger dedication. That’s right, we now have a nationally roving team of reporters! Sure, he only got in because HPCwire scored him an invite, and he does live close by. But still: roving reporters.

Here are John’s thoughts. …

I hope Intel’s PR department is getting paid extra for all the effort they have to go through making these announcements look like leaks.

Anyway, according to the DailyTech the story is that Intel briefed Sun on futures last month and Sun posted the thing on its public web servers over the weekend. Of …

Nice article over at Wired Magazine’s site on the joint exascale effort by Sandia and Oak Ridge. The article talks about real issues, which is a refreshing change from a lot of the sunshine and roses we tend to see about HPC in the press

In addition, power and reliability require new solutions when you’ve got thousands or millions of

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IBM has announced that Georgia State has just plugged in a new IBM Cluster 1350 to keep its POWER5+ company. The new system has 320 Intel Xeon quadcore processors and 18 TB of storage. The system was acquired through a parternship between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), and its 3 TFLOPS of capability will be made …

Linked from Marc Hamilton’s blog.

The Globus, Rocks and GridEngine development/user communities have teamed up to hold the 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference. The conference will include the normal sessions covering user experiences, best practices and interesting applications. The conference will also feature tracks dedicated to GlobusWorld, GridEngine Workshop and Rocks Cluster Workshop.

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What? 2008 Open Source Grid and Cluster …