There are a couple big dates for SC coming up right quick now…

Today

Education Program Applications due July 31
Entries for Challenges due July 31. Demonstrate your expertise in the Analytics, Bandwidth, Cluster or Storage Challenge.
Poster submissions due July 31, for both student posters and regular posters.
Birds of a Feather (BoF) submissions due July 31. Suggest a stimulating group discussion on your …

Today NVIDIA recognized the University of Utah as a CUDA Center of Excellence

Distinguished members of the University of Utah’s faculty and alumni have been behind a remarkable fraction of the graphics innovations made in the last 40 years, as well as pioneering companies such as Adobe, Evans & Sutherland,

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Embedded.com featured an article some time ago (I’m digging through my backlog) on the convergence of the lessons in accelerated computing learned by the embedded processing community and the needs of the HPC community.

A little known fact in the HPC community is that the embedded computing market has always solved their problems with a combination of CPUs and accelerators.

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On Wednesday Dan Reed testified before Congress (again) before the House Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology (the committee that funds NITRD). I could do a summary of Dan’s testimony, but as a citizen of the HPC community you should read it all yourself at his blog.

All of the points that Dan makes resonate deeply with me, and I’ll …

This is mostly non-HPC, but I thought it might be of interest. Gizmodo is reporting on article in the SD Times speculating on the future of operating systems from Redmond. The SD Times article is reportedly

…based on “internal Microsoft documents” that give more details on the skunk-works research project currently brewing in Redmond.

..Midori’s design treats concurrency as a

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Dan Ciruli’s blog points us to an article by Sarah Perez on Microsoft’s cloud efforts. The article comes from comments Ray Ozzie made at Microsoft’s July 24 Financial Analysts Meeting. According to Dan

While it’s not terribly in-depth, it does highlight the breadth of Microsoft’s efforts in

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From Bull’s release yesterday:

Thanks to a 4.3% increase in consolidated revenues in the second quarter and an strong growth of 19.9% in Services and Solutions, revenues for the first six months of 2008 were €550.6 million, representing an increase of 0.1% compared with the published figure of €550.2 million for the same period

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Cray just posted its Q2 results; from their release

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Revenue for the quarter was $46.7 million compared to $26.6 million in the prior year period. The company reported a net loss for the

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From UK web site Real Business comes news that Concurrent Thinking — a company that develops and markets pre-configured clusters — has gotten a fresh infusion of capital

Concurrent Thinking, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC) systems and software, has secured £1m from Oxford Capital Partners in second round funding to help drive international sales and marketing of the

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This week Bull announced that it’s partnering with CEA to provide a PFLOPS system in France

The Military Applications Department (DAM) at the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) and Bull have signed a collaboration contract to design and build Tera 100, the future supercomputer to support the French nuclear weapons Simulation Program.

The build out …

Francine Berman, writing in this month’s EDUCAUSE Review, encourages sustained, focused investment in cybinfrastructure.

However, CI in the academic sector often falls short of its remarkable potential. Comprised of dynamically evolving information technologies, CI is both a continuous work-in-progress and a stable infrastructure driver for invention and innovation. It is this duality, as well as the challenge of creating an environment

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The American Geophysical Union [AGU] has announced details on their upcoming fall meeting.  The December event is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from all around the world.  I’m not going to list the individual program events here, as the list is simply too long!  I will, however, mention a track that was mentioned on the wrf-news …

IBM and Rackable announced yesterday (my dad’s birthday…hi dad!) that IBM’s BladeCenter servers will be offered in Rackable’s ICE Cube modular data center.

The ICE Cube modular data center solution will be outfitted with IBM BladeCenter T or HT systems, which meet Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS) Level 3/ European Telecommunications Standards Institute

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I know, I know… selfish plug… but I just couldn’t help myself.

For those of you who don’t know me personally, I’m currently a resident of the Dallas/Fort-Worth Texas metroplex.  Over the years, I’ve come to know quite a few local HPC-ites.  We’ve paid careful attention to keeping tabs on one another.  Occasionally,  we meet informally …

I’ve been watching the counter on this for months and almost missed it today.

This is post number 2,001 at insideHPC.com since our founding at the end of December, 2006. I didn’t want to pollute post 2,000 (which was real news) with this navel gazing.

I want to thank you all for tuning in, making comments, and offering me encouragement when I …