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Green Supercomputing in a Desktop Box
January 1, 2007 12:00am PST
The advent of the Beowulf cluster in 1994 provided dedicated compute cycles, i.e., supercomputing for the masses, as a cost-effective alternative to large supercomputers, i.e., supercomputing for...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The Ohio Supercomputer Center Asserts Its Position in the Industry and Boosts Processing Capacity With an IBM System Cluster 1350 Solution
January 4, 2010 12:00am PST
The Ohio Supercomputer Center had been relying on a number of High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to serve its customers. Unfortunately, these systems had become outdated. The organization...
Provided by: IBM
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On-Demand Model Broadens Reach of Supercomputing With Familiar Environment
March 1, 2010 12:00am PST
The Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) is on a mission to bring supercomputing to "Main Street" America. The Montana facility offers on-demand, Internet-based supercomputing services to...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain With HPC System
May 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
The Las Vegas, Nevada - based National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment is a full-service supercomputing facility with a mission for excellence in education and research. The...
Provided by: Microsoft
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University of Bristol Powers Up New IBM Supercomputer
December 10, 2008 12:00am PST
The University of Bristol wanted to increase the speed and capacity of its supercomputing facilities, creating a new centralized resource for all users. The University wanted to create a scalable,...
Provided by: IBM
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Green Supercomputing Comes of Age
February 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Energy-efficient (green) supercomputing has traditionally been viewed as passé, even to the point of public ridicule. But today, it's finally coming into vogue. This paper describes the authors'...
Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Understanding Supercomputing by 2002 by Scientific American, Inc., and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. 3.0.1 (Mobile)
May 17, 2010 12:00am PDT
Understanding Supercomputing2002 by Scientific American, Inc., and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.Grand Central PublishingDecember 2 2002In this book you'll discover what constitutes a...
Provided by: Iceberg Reader
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Red Hat Provides Castile and León With a Reliable and Flexible Infrastructure for Its Supercomputing Centre
April 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
The Supercomputing Centre of Castile and León (FCSC) is a public body that was established in early 2008. The FCSC wanted to build a new hardware and software infrastructure for the Supercomputing...
Provided by: Red Hat
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Swinburne University of Technology's Supercomputer Searches for the Secrets of the Universe While Minimising Its Footprint on Earth
December 14, 2007 12:00am PST
The Centre wanted to build a new supercomputer that could support large increases in the number of users and jobs, and process time-critical data from some of the largest radio telescopes in the...
Provided by: Dell
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Examining the Viability of FPGA Supercomputing
November 16, 2006 12:00am PST
For certain applications, custom computational hardware created using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can produce significant performance improvements over processors, leading some in...
Provided by: Hindawi Publishing
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Performance Characteristics of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Implementations of NAS Parallel Benchmarks SP and BT on Large-Scale Multicore Supercomputers
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) are well-known applications with the fixed algorithms for evaluating parallel systems and tools. Multicore supercomputers provide a natural programming paradigm...
Provided by: Texas A&M University
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Evaluation of Task Assignment Policies for Supercomputing Servers: The Case for Load Unbalancing and Fairness
January 1, 2011 12:00am PST
While the MPP is still the most common architecture in supercomputer centers today, a simpler and cheaper machine configuration is growing increasingly common. This alternative setup may be...
Provided by: Carnegie Mellon University
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Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
April 26, 2010 12:00am PDT
Supercomputers and clouds both strive to make a large number of computing cores available for computation. More recently, similar objectives such as low-power, manageability at scale, and low cost...
Provided by: Boston University School of Management
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The Supercomputer on Your Desktop
February 16, 2010 12:00am PST
High-Performance Computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths that find at government research labs and universities. And while those systems...
Provided by: IDG (International Data Group)
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Powering Italy's Information Society: Cineca Takes Supercomputing Performance to New Levels and Lays the Foundations for Virtualization
September 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
Cineca powers Italy's information society as a nonprofit consortium. It provides High-Performance Computing (HPC) services that enable scientists, researchers, educators, students, government, and...
Provided by: Cisco Systems
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Extracting the Textual and Temporal Structure of Supercomputing Logs
August 25, 2009 12:00am PDT
Supercomputers are prone to frequent faults that adversely affect their performance, reliability and functionality. System logs collected on these systems are a valuable resource of information...
Provided by: University of Minnesota
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Improving the Availability of Supercomputer Job Input Data Using Temporal Replication
May 13, 2009 12:00am PDT
Storage systems in supercomputers are a major reason for service interruptions. RAID solutions alone cannot provide sufficient protection as 1) growing average disk recovery times make RAID groups...
Provided by: North Carolina State University
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Sun Builds Japan's Most Powerful Supercomputer for Japanese "MIT"
September 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
The Tokyo Institute of Technology - better known as Tokyo Tech wanted to establish a cost-efficient supercomputer grid environment to support advanced research. Provide High-Performance Computing...
Provided by: Sun Microsystems
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Leading Supercomputing Center in Italy Eases Use, Improves Access With New Cluster
June 12, 2008 12:00am PDT
CINECA wanted to make supercomputing resources available to more researchers from private industry sectors, but many were unfamiliar with its Linux-based tools and interfaces. To improve access to...
Provided by: Microsoft
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Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
April 30, 2008 12:00am PDT
Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex research since 1992. Undertaking ground breaking research, users require cutting edge technology that provides optimum performance....
Provided by: Dell
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