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| Electronic Glue Promises Less Expensive Semiconductors |
| Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices that convert sun light and waste heat, respectively, into useful electrical energy ...continue |
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| Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor |
| Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The engineers have found a way to build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive, readily available materials. ...continue |
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| World's Strongest Laser Unveiled at California Lab |
| The world's most powerful laser, created to help keep tabs on the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile while also studying the depths of space, has been unveiled in California. It creates conditions similar to the inside of stars. ...continue |
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| Understanding Associations among Faces in Streaming Video |
PNNL researchers achieve greater algorithm and processor flexibility
Steve Reinhardt
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are accomplishing high-throughput analysis of unstructured data with parallel KD algorithms using an approach that allows users to use familiar desktop tools to do their analyses and then to automatically parallelize the code to run on HPCs ...continue |
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| Quantum Computing Spins Closer |
| Researchers have employed ultrafast lasers to set a new speed record for the time it takes to rotate the spin of an individual electron and confirm the spin's new position ...continue |
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| World's Smallest Storage Space in Atom’s Nucleus |
| An international team of scientists recently performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory by storing information at the nucleus of an atom ...continue |
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| ARTICLES |
| Computing Climate Change: Just the Tip of the Iceberg |
Phillip M. Dickens, Ph.D.
Scientific grid portal will host climate-change models, offer special public Web interface
A team is creating Maine’s first scientific grid portal that will execute climate-change models and provide high-resolution visualizations of output data in real time for use by researchers as well as students and educators in the state’s public school system. ...continue |
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| Numerical Precision: How Much is Enough? |
Rob Farber
As we approach ever-larger and more complex problems, scientists will need to consider this question
The advent of petascale computers and teraflop-per-board graphics processors has raised the question of “how do we know that anything we compute is correct?” ...continue |
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| Will Any Answer Do? |
Andrew Jones
Can supercomputers make simulation answers more accurate?
Computer modeling now supports nearly every area of scientific research and is a viable method of getting useful predictions to explore phenomena and test hypotheses, but is it more accurate? ...continue |
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| Validation: Assessing the Legitimacy of Computational Results |
Rob Farber
Evaluating the truth and justification of scientific beliefs is an essential part of computation-based science
Validation is a critical part of the scientific process and of scientific computation. While not sexy, the validation process ensures that responsible research is being performed and that legitimate results are being produced ...continue |
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| Next Generation Sequencing: Elements for Success |
Suzanne Tracy, Editor in Chief
Meeting dramatically increased computational and storage requirements of today’s life science instruments
The latest generation of life science instruments boasts both huge advances in technology as well as significant reduction in costs ...continue |
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| Unleashing the Potential of High-Performance Clusters |
Clement T. Cole
Standard architecture could enable affordable HPC transition
Over the last five years, the HPC community has witnessed a rapid and dramatic shift to a lower-cost implementation using multiple computing elements that operate on a common task in parallel: referred to in the common idiom as a "cluster" ...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 |
| Ultra Quiet Office Cluster |
| The Ultra Quiet line of office clusters features customizable, compact supercomputers with the Intel Xeon 5500 processor, ...continue |
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| RNAcache |
| RNAcache allows servers to leverage a large pool of memory by loading entire working datasets into a single shared, virtual memory pool for simultaneous accessing and processing ...continue |
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| ProLiant SL6000 Scalable System |
| The ProLiant SL6000 scalable system is a standards-based multi-node system designed specifically for scale-out environments ...continue |
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| PowerEdge R410 |
| The PowerEdge R410 is a two-socket 1U server designed for compute intense applications in space-constrained data centers or HPC environments ...continue |
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| Bullx Supercomputers |
| Designed to be environmentally efficient, ultra-dense and ultra-high performance, bullx supercomputers consist of ultra-dense blade servers connected by two to three times fewer cables than standard configurations ...continue |
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| Altus Family of Servers |
| The Altus family of servers, including the Altus 1701 and 2701 dual-processor enterprise servers, the 1702 twin-node HPC cluster server and the 2704 quad processor enterprise server ...continue |
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