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In an interview with El Reg, Intel EVP Sean Maloney — a man many think is the alpha dog in line for the CEO slot once Otellini hits the bricks — comes clean about his vision for an HPC future

“So, I thought about where processing power will go. If we can

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The Australian iTnews (yes, the capitalization is both correct and odd) was the most interesting pointer I found to this story.

Lawrence Berkeley Lab researchers shooting for a practical solution for modeling climate at a resolution of 1 km came up with a system design based on low-power embedded processors. You know, the kinds of processors you find in cell …

Mercury Computer Systems announced this week that they’ve released a new compute platform that puts 100 GFLOPS in a package you can hold in your hand weighing “less than 10 pounds.”

The PowerBlock(TM) 50 system from Mercury Computer Systems is a high-performance, ultra-compact embedded computer designed for maximum performance in a minimal footprint, for

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Platform Computing announced yesterday that they’ve formed a new business unit

To build on the momentum and capitalize on opportunities in Financial Services, the company created a unit dedicated to this specialized market sector. With consistent strong growth across all major geographies including North America, Europe and Asia, Financial Services continues to

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SGI announced its Q3 financial results yesterday, tag teaming it with the 20,480 NASA system announcement and then bracing it with the PFLOPS deal announced today.

Evidently they were trying to soften the news that the company’s revenue dropped $11M from Q2, with losses widening from $30.8M in Q3 to $40.6M this …

Following closely on the heels of yesterday’s announced 20,480 core SGI ICE system headed to NASA, today we have the announcement of a 1 PFLOPS system named Pleiades (info on _the_ Pleiades here).

Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational capabilities

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Those that track the Top500 list are most certainly awaiting the latest summer release from Germany. Given that there have been several large announcements surrounding big compute in the previous six months, we decided to throw together a series of rumor propositions regarding some possible shakeups in the top ten.

The most obvious contender for …

Alongside SGI’s earnings press release delivered this afternoon, they also announced a large supercomputing win with NASA. There aren’t a great deal of details related to the deal, but this is rumored to be the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Columbia replacement.

They did, however, release some rough system specs. The system will be …

HPCWire: The Texas Learning & Computation Center [TLC2] located at the University of Houston has announced a contract with Mechdyne Corporation to build a 34-seat, 8 megapixel stereographic theater.  The theater, powered by two Sony SXRD projectors, will be available to all academic departments at the University of Houston as well as all UH/TLC2 partners.

While our first generation visualization laboratory

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LinuxWorld Australia has an interesting article covering homegrown high performance computing.  Many of us have been down this road, however painful.  They go as far as to provide four realistic and successful implementations in production today.

The four case studies assembled here illustrate the pain and complexity of building a successful HPC environment, including the sensitive

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Verari has announced that they completed a milestone shipment of its blade-based computing solutions.  An undisclosed customer took delivery of over 500 of Verari’s SB5550XL blade servers as a platform for enterprise and web 2.0 workloads.

Having a worldwide technology leader successfully complete a major installation of our power-efficient blade-based storage and server solutions validates our

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Last week ars technica posted a piece about Larrabee engineer Tom Forsyth’s personal blogging on Larrabee’s biggest strength: rasterization

Larrabee, a massively multicore x86 chip due out in 2010 as a discrete graphics card, has sparked a lot of interest from tech journalists, along with a great deal of confusion. The chip has had

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Also at the new HPCwire today, news that U of Florida researchers used HPC to find a new drug that lowers blood pressure and prevents heart and kidney damage, at least in rats. More research in humans coming.

Researchers used one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to process 140,000 prospective drug compounds in a matter of weeks. The computer

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Posted at HPCwire today

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA / http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) and the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT / www.iacat.uiuc.edu) will present a Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors (PMPP) on July 10, 2008, in Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

…The workshop will bring together researchers, industry, and users concerned with the issue of programming multi-core and many-core architectures

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Lots of ink spilled in the IT press last week over Sun’s quarterly results. Revenues for the quarter that ended in March were down $17M and came in $100M under analysts expectations, according to coverage at FT.com. Sun posted a loss of $34M after taxes, or 4 cents a share. The 3Q2007 …