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HP-CAST
hp.com/techservers/cast
Hewlett-Packard Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical computing users group.
The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT)
grid.org.il
The IGT is a non-profit organization of leading vendors, ISVs, customers and academia, focused on knowledge sharing and networking for developing Enterprise Grid, Virtualization, SOA and SOI solutions. It is open, independent and vendor-neutral.
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Pixar animation software to get boost on Windows supercomputers
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday August 13 2008 @ 04:42PM EDT views: 643
Computerworld: The rendering software behind such hit animated movies as The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Monsters Inc. should become even more powerful when it becomes available on Microsoft Corp.'s most advanced operating systems later this year.
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HPC helps speed up business processes
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday August 13 2008 @ 01:32PM EDT views: 607
TheStar: KUALA LUMPUR: Businesses with workloads that include solving mathematically complex problems, especially in time-sensitive engineering, scientific and financial industries, should consider utilising Microsoft’s High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to speed up their manufacturing processes.
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HP Sees Potential in HPC
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Monday August 11 2008 @ 05:16PM EDT views: 592
CXOtoday: HP is banking on high-performance computing (HPC) to increase its foothold in fast growing segments such as oil & gas, automotive design, digital content creation and financial services. These are computing-intensive segments that require faster, more intense and reliable computing that commercial applications may not be able to cater to, entirely on their own.
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Dell Cluster Runs Windows, Linux Apps Concurrently
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Monday August 11 2008 @ 05:13PM EDT views: 617
GRIDtoday: Miniature computers are everywhere -- on silicon chips in our cell phones, watches, kitchen appliances, and even our automobiles. Going through a normal day without benefiting in some way from one or more of these tiny computers is practically impossible.
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Parallel Processing Takes Center Stage
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Monday August 04 2008 @ 01:57PM EDT views: 609
ITBusinessEdge: Virtualization, cloud computing and other headline-grabbing developments are set to vastly remake the enterprise in the next few years. But there is one technology that trumps them all, although it has gotten relatively little attention to date.
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DATAllegro? Is Microsoft Buying the Wrong Company?
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday July 30 2008 @ 05:01PM EDT views: 595
Intelligent Enterprise: My first thought on learning of Microsoft's plan to acquire DW appliance vendor DATAllegro is that MS is buying the wrong company. Yes, DATAllegro's parallelized database technology will fill a big gap in Microsoft's DW product line, namely that SQL Server doesn't scale to the top end, but the technology isn't compatible and will take years to build into SQL Server. I'd think it's Dataupia that would, without disruption, close the gap. No, this deal is about gutting the DATAllegro appliance. Look at the details...
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Cloud Computing Is the Plan says Ballmer
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday July 30 2008 @ 04:59PM EDT views: 609
Wireless Business & Technology: Ballmer highlighted software-plus-service, associating it with a 'platform in the cloud and delivering applications
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IBM Blades Destined for Rackable Modular Data Center
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday July 30 2008 @ 04:56PM EDT views: 571
eWeek: IBM is preparing to offer its BladeCenter blade system as part of Rackable's ICE Cube modular data center, which some believe has the potential to be part of an IT infrastructure for high-performance computing and Web 2.0.
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BLADE Network Technologies Delivers First 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch...
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Wednesday July 30 2008 @ 04:54PM EDT views: 633
BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), announced its new 10 Gigabit Intelligent L3 Switch and 1Gb Intelligent L2 Switch with SmartPanel for NEC SIGMABLADE blade server systems. Now NEC blade servers can provide the high-throughput, low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity required for energy-efficient server virtualization workloads and converged "single fabric" networks. Designed for small and medium businesses, BLADE's SmartPanel can be deployed for easy-to-use Gigabit Ethernet connectivity without sacrificing the benefits of embedded Ethernet switching.
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Stanford High Performance Computing Conference IV
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Posted by Steve Jones on Thursday July 10 2008 @ 11:37AM EDT views: 646
This year's conference has been extended to two full days including research presentations, hands-on cluster building, selected talks from HPC visionaries and workshops that include real-world problems and ways to solve them using software tools. Learn the latest best practices for using, managing and building HPC clusters using the worlds most popular open source cluster software. Hear experiences of real users applying this open source software in a wide range of research and educational environments. Interact with others facing and addressing challenges similar to your own. See presentations from researchers using these cluster resources.
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Acumem Partners with Lifeboat Distribution
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Posted by Mats Hovmoller on Thursday July 10 2008 @ 11:37AM EDT views: 598
Acumem announces partnership with international specialty software distributor Lifeboat Distribution to distribute its multi-core optimization tools, initially SlowSpotter and SlowSpotter Pro, globally.
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Microsoft scrapes into top 500 supercomputer list, but IBM rules supreme
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Posted by Ken Farmer on Monday June 30 2008 @ 04:20PM EDT views: 695
iTWire: IBM has obliterated the competition in the supercomputing stakes with the top 10 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, but Microsoft has surprisingly scraped in at number 23 with its Windows HPC Server system. While Microsoft is an unlucky 13 numbers away from the top 10, does the wow start now?
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