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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The ORNL research team documented the atoms' unique behavior by first trapping groups of silicon atoms, known as clusters, in a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon called graphene. The silicon clusters, composed of six atoms, were pinned in place by pores in the graphene sheet, allowing the...
Bright partner ClusterVision extended an HPC system it previously built for the Center to 6 Tflop/s computer power, with Bright used for provisioning, job scheduling, monitoring and system management. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2012 Bright Computing announced that its partner ClusterVision, Europe’s dedicated specialist for HPC cluster solutions, has completed installation of an HPC cluster extension at the Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann (CRP-GL), one of Luxembourg’s...
TROY, Mich., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineers will have the opportunity to learn and collaborate with America's best minds in supercomputing development at the first PBS Works User Group Conference October 2-3, 2012, at the Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. High-performance computing (HPC) experts from industries including government, life science and manufacturing, will speak at the event, organized by the PBS Works division of Altair, a leading global provider of simulation...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Before the future has even had a chance to play out, researchers are already trying to improve Wi-Fi in cars. Several companies are starting to incorporate W-Fi in their new vehicles, and Ford Motor Co. expects that by 2015, 80 percent of the cars it sells in North America will have Wi-Fi built in, according to an Agence France-Presse article. Owners of Wi-Fi-equipped vehicles would need to pay for an Internet connection in order to...
Panasas Inc., has confirmed its presence at CIOsynergy’s upcoming event in Atlanta, where 150 CIOs and IT professionals will focus on the emerging trends in enterprise IT, and their impact on greater efficiency and cost effectiveness. Hoffman Estates, IL (PRWEB) June 21, 2012 CIOsynergy, a provider of thought leading conferences, today announced that Panasas will be a key sponsor of its event on June 29, 2012 at the W Atlanta – Downtown Hotel, in Georgia. Panasas, is the leader in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TransLattice, the geographically distributed database and application platform company for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, today announced the availability of its TransLattice Automation Kit (TAK). By enabling system administration professionals to easily script routine management functions, TAK provides a simple, efficient way to manage large clusters of TransLattice nodes. (Logo:...
TROY, Mich., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer and Altair Engineering, Inc. today announced that Acer Group has become a global authorized reseller of Altair's market-leading resource and workload management software product, PBS Professional®. A leader in worldwide computing, Acer has added PBS Professional as a pre-integrated option on all its high-performance computing (HPC) systems that are configured, deployed and managed as part of the overall system. The integrated solution...
HAVANT, UK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced that it will be exhibiting at the International Supercomputing 2012 Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany from June 18th through June 20th. This year marks the second year of Xyratex exhibitor level participation at ISC with a booth on the exhibition floor, informative presentations on 'The Next Generation of HPC Data Storage', a presentation in...
HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and green computing, will debut its newest innovative architecture, FatTwin(TM) at ISC, giving the public its first hands-on look at the future of power-efficient supercomputing. The FatTwin is a new 4U high-performance, high-capacity platform that offers versatile configurations for HPC with multi-node models that support...
U.S. researchers are perfecting simulations that show a nuclear weapon's performance in precise molecular detail, tools that are becoming critical for national defense because international treaties forbid the detonation of nuclear test weapons. The simulations must be operated on supercomputers containing thousands of processors, but doing so has posed reliability and accuracy problems, said Saurabh Bagchi, an associate professor in Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer...
