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The software has been written with a number of useful features for large HPC and cluster environments.. Its components include: Libfreeipmi - A C library that includes KCS, SSIF, and OpenIPMI drivers, IPMI 1.5 and IPMI 2.0 LAN communication interfaces, IPMI packet building utilities, IPMI command utilities, and utilities for ... (more)
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QC874.3 .R68 2013 - Invisible in the storm : the role of...
Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times-the use of mathematics in weather prediction.
Why Are Google & NASA Getting a Quantum Computer?Quantum computers...
Compared with the newest quantum computer from D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, even the world's most powerful supercomputers are ploddingly slow, The New York Times reports.
Thought experiment: build a supercomputer replica of the human brain
Henry Markram's Human Brain Project , backed by 1 billion euros funding Jan. 2013 from the European Commission, plans to integrate findings from the Allen Brain Atlas, the National Institutes of Health-funded Human Connectome Project, and the Brain project, Wired reports .
Using computers to fight disease
In this short animation, John Hengeveld , marketing director for high performance computing at Intel, shares his story of undergoing an appendectomy and learning that, as a result of a burst appendix, a rare and cancer-causing material was now circulating in his body.
Rain Launches the Livebook V HPC Notebook
The Rain Livebook V High-Performance Notebook features a 17.3" FHD display, discrete graphics and an "Ivy Bridge" Core i7 processor.
Supercomputer Watson's future revealed
On May 15, Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel interviewed IBM CEO Ginni Rometty as a keynote for the National Venture Capital Association's 40th anniversary conference, Venturescape.
Micron: The Electronics Industry Just Dodged A Bullet
The much maligned computer memory industry is utterly essential to virtually every corner of the digital electronics industry.
Scientific Computing/Instrument.
Nominations for SC13 Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards Due July 1
The SC13 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, is accepting nominations for three distinguished awards that will be presented at the conference in November.
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Kitware Develops a Customizable Simulation Framework to Provide HPC...
May 16, 2013 Kitware, a leading provider of scientific R&D software solutions, today announces new Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued development of an open-source, high performance computing simulation and computation framework.
Bionimbus Applies Cloud Power to Genetic Data-Crunching
A look at the Beagle supercomputer at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.
D-Wave Two Quantum Computer Selected for New Quantum Artificial Intelligence Initiative
The purpose of this effort is to use quantum computing to advance machine learning in order to solve some of the most challenging computer science problems.
Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua
Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language: -- This top-level code is plain Lua code.
YouTube by the numbers at Google I/O
Matt Frost, senior business product manager for the Chrome Web Media Team, listed these statistics at the Google I/O show for developers: That's obviously a lot of video, and Google has to pay a lot of money to store and stream that.
"This is a breakthrough moment for the National Weather Service and the entire U.S. weather enterprise in terms of positioning itself with the computing capacity and more sophisticated models we've all been waiting for," said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service.
AMD Introduces the World's Fastest Notebook Graphics Card
SUNNYVALE, CA, May 15, 2013 -- AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world's fastest notebook graphics card .
Agency grants RPI $1.8 million for upgrades to supercomputer
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority today announced $1.8 million in funding to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for critical upgrades to the electrical and mechanical infrastructure of the university's supercomputing center, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations .
Supercomputing center gets financial boost
It will be used to improve the energy efficiency of the computers, saving the university more than $1 million dollars a year.
Rensselaer awarded $1.8 million for supercomputer
The improvements come after Rensselaer announced in January that it was improving its supercomputer with a new system from IBM Corp.
Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall?
This is defined as one that passes linpack with a performance of one exaFLOPS sustained or better.