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| Making a Leap in Quantum Computing |
| A phuysicist has demonstrated a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. The feat is essential to the development of future varieties of superfast computers with near-limitless capacities for data ...continue |
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| Code Defends Against Stealthy Worms |
| Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control. A new algorithm targets the stealthiest of these worms, containing them before an outbreak can occur ...continue |
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| Reaching for the Stars to Create Music of the Universe |
| What if the light waves emitted by the exploding star and other cosmological phenomena could be translated into sound? That's the idea behind "Rhythms of the Universe," a musical project to sonify the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist and Grammy award-winning artist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot ...continue |
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| Power Plants, Critical Infrastructure Face Hackers |
| More than half of the operators of power plants and other "critical infrastructure" say in a new study that their computer networks have been infiltrated by sophisticated adversaries. In many cases, foreign governments are suspected ...continue |
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| Cloud-based Failure Immunity System Released |
| A new approach for managing bugs in computer software enables entire networks of computers to cooperate in order to collectively avoid the manifestations of bugs in software. The new tool, called Dimmunix, enables programs to avoid future recurrences without any assistance from users or programmers ...continue |
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| Multiple Wavelength Laser Helps Silicon Chip Speed Computing |
| With society's demands for even faster technology, ultrafast on-chip and chip-to-chip optical data communications are important. An international team has developed a multiple wavelength laser on a silicon chip that produces light to process and transmit information, and in doing so will speed up computing ...continue |
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| ARTICLES |
| Cloud Computing: Pie in the sky? |
Infrastructure offers potentially big changes
Rob Farber
As expected with any computational platform — especially one utilized for high performance and scientific computing — performance limitations within the platform define which computational problems will run well on that platform. So, the question becomes, “Is cloud computing a useful computational platform for the computational problems you and your institution need to address?” ...continue |
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| Ensuring Value in HPC Procurements |
A few benchmarking tips from HECToR
Chris Armstrong
Will the investments your research organization makes in high performance computing resources really pay off ...continue |
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| Hybrid-core Computing Punching through the power performance wall |
Squeezing more out of the same number of transistors is the name of the game
Tony M. Brewer
The last decade has seen continuous improvements in cost-per-unit of performance of commodity processors, leading to their near-universal adoption by the high performance computing (HPC) community ...continue |
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| Scientific Process Automation Improves Data Interaction |
Terence Critchlow
Workflow infrastructure automates time-intensive manual processes
Common requirements form the foundation and templates on which to build a scientific workflow infrastructure ...continue |
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| Pumping Up Power Efficiency |
Claire Gould
Lean, green systems and high-performance “smart” processors provide an energy edge
What do you do when the “need for speed” collides with demands for reduced operating budgets and lower environmental impact? ...continue |
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| Opening Minds: The Greatest Architectural Challenge |
Rob Farber
Several computer architectural trends provide significant performance benefits
The annual supercomputing conference, now in its 22nd consecutive year, always puts the newest, most novel, and best of the latest generation computer technology on display. As the show approaches, I find it to be a good time to reflect upon trends in the current generation ...continue |
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| MULTIMEDIA AND EVENTS |
| Virtually All You Need |
Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
Virtualization is a hot buzzword in the computing industry today. What does it mean? What are the benefits? What technologies are available? How might it apply in a high performance computing world? "Virtually All You Need: Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization," the latest in Scientific Computing's educational Webcast series, will discuss attaining real value from server virtualization both today and tomorrow. Leading-edge Trends and Technologies in Server Virtualization ...continue |
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| Crossing the Chasm |
High performance computing goes mainstream
Jennifer A. Miller, Managing Editor
High performance computing is becoming a transitional area for productivity workers engaged in the engineering disciplines, research, analysis, design, rendering and animation, as well as ancillary work activities. Applications that used to be performed on Microsoft Windows or Linux desktops, where large-scale computing was once cost prohibitive, can now be migrated to cost-effective compute clusters for improved, scalable application performance. ...continue |
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| Performance, Pricing and Reliability: Selecting and configuring scalable CAE computing solutions |
Selecting and configuring scalable CAE computing solutions
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
The past year has seen dramatic introductions of faster multi-core high performance computing solutions, as well as new choices of operating environments and cluster switches. However, the average computer-aided engineering user is challenged to sift through these choices and to select a computing solution that achieves a fast, reliable and affordable job throughout. For example, which multi-core microprocessor architecture is the fastest? Can customers get the performance ...continue |
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| Emerging HPC Trends |
High performance computing joins the mainstream
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
The door on the high performance computing world is opening to new and exciting solutions. Once restricted to high-level researchers and academia, HPC is rapidly moving toward more mainstream applications. Recently, an expert panel came together to explore the significant shift that is occurring in the state of the industry, take a close look at recent trends, and provide insight into changes that are occurring in today’s user experience ...continue |
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| Are Scale-up Linux Systems Ready to Meet HPC Demands? |
Examining the present and future of platforms built around industry-standard chips
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
Many analysts and IT managers agree that the continued growth of Linux signals the beginning of the end of proprietary hardware and software as the solution for high-end computing. Recently, a panel of experts came together for a live Webcast entitled Scale-up Linux Goes Mainstream. The panelists examined how large scaled-up Linux systems that are built around industry-standard computer chips are now readily available and becoming ...continue |
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| PRODUCTS |
| StorNext 4.0 |
| Quantum Corp’s StorNext data management software enriches data sharing and management in high-performance, high data growth environments. It provides enhanced high-speed data sharing and management capabilities, ideal for media and entertainment, life sciences and other high-performance computing environments ...continue |
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| PowerPC 7448 Multicomputer(2) |
| Upgrades to the RACE++ Series PowerPC Multicomputer offer faster clock speeds and larger memory options, resulting in accelerated application performance of up to 30 to 50 percent over previous RACE++ products. The 7448 multicomputer is now also offered for use in rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled environments ...continue |
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| FOXC Beta |
| The OpenCL compiler for x86 architecture allows software developers to take advantage of multi-core x86 CPUs to develop OpenCL-based software. The source-to-source compiler uses OpenCL code as the input source while the output source file is an optimized, readable C code ...continue |
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| ePX Software |
| enParallel's ePX software technology enables the use of scatter-gather, CPU/GPU process pipelining and advanced GPA resource scheduling which turns the standard laptop or desktop system into a supercomputer. ePX software effectively runs on any personal computing system with the supporting GPA hardware configuration and with standard operating systems like Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS ...continue |
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| Tesla Bio Workbench |
| The Tesla Bio Workbench system enables scientists to push the boundaries of biological research by turning a standard PC into a “computational laboratory” capable of running complex bioscience codes in fields such as drug discovery and DNA sequencing ...continue |
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| ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express Module |
| The ATI Radeon E4690 MXM offers high-performance graphics and HD video playback for graphics-intensive embedded systems in a compact form actor. This product features more than triple the 3D graphics performance of previously available solutions with low CPU utilization and improved picture quality ...continue |
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