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Joab Jackson writing in GCN reports on NASA’s new display, Hyperwall-II, a piece of gear that they assert will be the largest high resolution unclassified display in the world.

The display should be operational within the month, [Rupak Biswas, chief of advanced supercomputing at the NASA Ames Research Center] said.

…The Hyperwall-II will be made of 128 LCD monitors, arranged in

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Short article at optics.org from last week that can bring you up to speed on three significant developments in the use of light for information transfer in next-generation computers.

First, IBM

Hot on the heels of its recent demonstration of an all-optical data bus, IBM revealed a silicon photonic switch based on cascaded microring resonators that can route data at speeds

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After a quick Google I haven’t find many details on this yet (what machine, size, etc.) but I ran across this news piece I wanted to share.

The Times of India reported late last week that a new supercomputer came on line last week in Hyderabad at the Centre for High Performance Computing and Research

Supercomputer Dhruva was on Wednesday logged-in

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I don’t usually cover hiring and firing, but this one is a little interesting. ChannelWeb reported last week that Sun Microelectronics group executive vice president David Yen has moved over to Juniper to help the networking company focus on the development of new hardware specifically for HPC.

That team will draw on Yen’s high-performance computing experience in developing new products

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PC World Canada ran a short piece last week covering remarks made by a Sun executive to a group of business leaders about the relevance of HPC to mechanics of running a business

The discussion, which centered on HPC’s shift to mainstream from its traditional research sphere, served to help CIOs identify current uses of the technology and potential opportunities

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When we as HPC technologists begin speaking about operating systems, most of us immediately assume Linux to be the center of conversation. There is always IRIX, UNICOS, AIX, Windows and Solaris lurking in the wings. Solaris is not traditionally thought of as an operating system of choice when constructing some sort of HPC …

The University of Tennessee [the *other* UT… hook em’ horns!] and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are set to celebrate their National Science Foundation Track-2 supercomputing award on April 3 at ORNL.  The $65 million project will mark one of the largest research grants in UT history.  The event’s attendee list includes Gov. Phil Bredesen, Daniel Atkins [Director of NSF Office …

SGI has teamed up with the National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies [NIMSAT] Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. SGI’s goal is to develop and deliver technologies that will help prepare the nation for emergencies and facilitate response and recovery activities in the event of a disaster. The …

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that has successfully taken delivery of two new SGI Altix 4700 systems. The two shared memory systems have just entered the testing phase. The first, “Pople”, is named for Nobel-Prize-winning chemist John Pople. Pople will join BigBen at PSC in being assimilated [not by the Borg] into …

After attending quite a number of high performance/technical computing conferences, one comes to realize that there are really three types of users related to how they utilize HPTC to perform “work.” There are those that think inside the box, those that think outside the box and those that have forgotten that the box ever …

Visual Numerics announced yesterday that their IMSL Fortran Numerical Library is now available for PGI’s line of multi-core optimizing parallel Fortran compilers for Windows. From the release

“We are pleased to be working closely with The Portland Group to bring the IMSL Fortran Library to their latest generation of Windows Fortran compilers,” said Tim Leite, Director of Corporate Development at

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The recently unveiled Universal Transportation Model Simulation Center [UTMSC] at City College of New York has chosen an SGI Altix 4700 high performance computing platform. The machine is destined to run traffic simulators and models for traffic planing, signal optimization and network flow. The 40 processor [Itanium2] will assist in developing models to meet the escalating traffic demands …

In our effort to report all of the new media advancements in the HPC ecosystem I wanted to let you know that Interactive Supercomputing, the makers of Star-P, have started a blog. From the release

The new Parallel Lounge blog aims to be an online resource for researchers seeking the latest in

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You’ve probably read about this deal already, but in case you haven’t, you might be interested to learn that Yahoo! has teamed up with Computational Research Laboratories to give free access to HPC cycles for researchers in India working on large scale computing around Hadoop. Hadoop is the open source implementation of Google’s MapReduce.

It’s a big system: 14,400 processors with …