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Check out what one could do with 100k cores!

What would you do with 100,000 cores? - Big compute at global scale Learn how Towers Watson run insurance model on 100,000 cores in Azure.

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Juval Portugali of Tel Aviv University, an expert in the use of modelling and simulation, talks about how tools such as math modelling and virtual reality can be effectively used to plan cities:

Expert talks about modeling of city in Bangalore - India - DNA Dr Juval Portugali of Tel Aviv University, an expert in the use of modelling, simulation, and gaming in planning cities, spoke to DNA about the complex systems of planning cities

Announcing LINQ to HPC Beta 2. Check out the blog post:

Announcing LINQ to HPC Beta 2 - The Windows HPC Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs LINQ to HPC enables a new class of data intensive applications for Windows HPC Server by providing a sophisticated distributed runtime and associated programming model for large scale, unstructured data analysis that is easy to use and program. For deeper insights, it integrates with SQL Server 2008

Windows HPC Sever 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 announced! Read Ryan Waite's blog post to learn more about what's new in this release:

HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Released The essence of High Performance Computing (HPC) is processing power, and Windows Azure’s ability to provide on-demand access to a vast pool of computing resources will put HPC at the fingertips of a broader set of users. With this in mind we're excited to announce the release of a second ‘service p

Microsoft recognizes ProtonMedia for the second consecutive year for its innovation in life sciences with its ProtoSphere virtual collaboration technology. Find out why here:

PPD and ProtonMedia Win 2011 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award

GE Global Research Acquires a Cray Supercomputer

GE Global Research Acquires a Cray Supercomputer

Chasing Moore's Law: "Will Today's Supercomputers Lead to Self-Aware Machines?" Find out more here:

Will Today's Supercomputers Lead to Self-Aware Machines? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Supercomputers like Intel's and Japan's K computer are boasting ever-increasing performance. Are self-aware machines next?

Salmonella Clues: "Researchers at the University of Washington’s Baker Laboratory have tapped into Microsoft’s Azure cloud to get a better handle on protein structures and how they fold." Click here to read more:

HPC in the Cloud: Researchers Tap Azure for Salmonella Clues Microsoft's Azure cloud is helping researchers at the University of Washington understand how salmonella attacks and mutates.

Heterogeneous Computing and HPC Accelerators Discussed at the International Supercomputing Conference. Find out more here:

HPCwire: Heterogeneous Computing and HPC Accelerators, Disruptive Technologies in the Making At this week's International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, two of the biggest topics on the agenda are heterogeneous architectures and GPU/accelerator computing. Those emerging trends are joined at the hip, thanks mostly to the efforts of NVIDIA and their industry partners. Intel's

'K Computer' Takes the Crown: "Japan’s K Computer, which can crunch more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second, is the top supercomputer, according to the Top 500 list of high-performance systems." For more details click here:

Japan's 'K Computer' takes supercomputer crown | ZDNet The K Computer, housed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, puts Japan back in the top spot for the first time since Nov

Tesla shifts Russian supercomputer into overdrive: "...the system is currently used for computationally intensive research, such as global climate change, ocean modeling, post-genomic medicine and galaxy formation simulations." Click here to read more:

Tesla shifts Russian supercomputer into overdrive Moscow State University is upgrading its already formidable Lomonosov supercomputer with additional Nvidia Tesla GPUs. The tricked-out system is expected to couple 1,554 Tesla X2070 cards with an ...

Building one of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputing facilities:"...a massive new home for one of the world’s fastest supercomputers that may soon yield big benefits for science, Wyoming and humanity." Find out more here:

Future site of one of world's fastest supercomputers takes shape CHEYENNE, Wyo. — On a grassy plain on the eastern outskirts of the capital city, construction is proceeding smoothly on

GPU Supercomputing Accelerates China's Solar Energy Research: "Computer simulations are critical to the study of new materials and production methods..." Find our more:

HPCwire: GPU Supercomputing Accelerates China's Solar Energy Research In addition to the CAS-IPE led research, it is being used to explore the areas of oil exploration, drug discovery and weather modeling.

Check out how Symscape is making it's mark in the Cloud with its "HPC Burst to Azure" Caedium computational fluid dynamics application!

Microsoft Case Study: Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 - Symscape Symscape - Software Vendor Expands Computational Fluid Dynamics Reach by Adding Cloud

Record-Breaking Simulation: "...scientists ran a complex molecular dynamics (MD) simulation on Tianhe-1A's Tesla GPUs to achieve an impressive rate of 1.87 petaflops, or the same performance as 130,000 laptops." Find out more here:

Tianhe-1A supercomputer hits 1.87 petaflops Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have announced a record-breaking simulation on the Tianhe-1A GPU supercomputer. According to Nvidia spokesperson Andrew Humber, scientists ran a ...

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Asking for Jan Ciesko:

Dear SC community, lately I was asked the following and I wonder what you think: Imagine you'd have to visualize the parallel programming landscape as a mind map. What would the different nodes be? Would a categorization like this make sense for project coordination and discovery? thx, jan

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The top 10 GPU computing concerns addressed! Click here to read more:

HPCwire: Top 10 Objections to GPU Computing Reconsidered As we approach the four-year release anniversary of NVIDIA CUDA, arguably the ground zero of the GPGPU movement, there are many who have flirted, piloted and adopted the technology, but many more who are sitting on the sidelines for various reasons. In our work, we have come across many of the latte

A fine example of doing high performance computing in the Cloud! Read more:

Microsoft Case Study: Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 - Advanced Seismic Technologies Advanced Seismic Technologies - ISV Helps Customers Extend Seismic Imaging Capabilities from Cluster to the Cloud

Where do we stand on using personal genomics to treat and preemptively diagnose genetic diseases? Click here to find out:

HPCwire: Computing Personal Genomics The notion of "personal genomics" has generated a great deal of buzz over the last several years but according to one researcher, many of the promises that lie at the "plateau of productivity" for this technology are tied to some significant computational-side complexities.

A Dark Matter for Astrophysics Research: "Running on the Pleiades supercomputer at NASA Ames, it took roughly 6.5 million CPU hours to run a simulation of a region of the universe done with 8 billion particles, making it one of the largest simulations that has ever been done in terms of particle numbers." Read more here:

HPCwire: A Dark Matter for Astrophysics Research Projects like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have provided a wealth of cosmological data for scientists to explore in detail. However, making use of those terabytes -- and generating far more data in the process of simulating and analyzing new concepts -- is highlighting the bottlenecks for scientific

At TechEd 2011 in Atlanta, Microsoft elaborated on its vision of the cloud. Click here to read more:

Microsoft's Evolving Vision of the Cloud At TechEd 2011 Microsoft articulated the company's cloud offerings, which have evolved very quickly and are now at the point where many businesses may want to seriously consider one or more of these cloud options.

Watch this video to learn how High-performance Computing in the Cloud works with Windows HPC Server + Windows Azure!

Taking High Performance Computing to the Cloud: Windows HPC and Windows Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) is expected to be the single largest workload on Windows Azure. This session discusses how Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2 enables customers to easily run their HPC applications on Windows Azure.

Microsoft's Dr. Reed will discuss today’s most important technology trends at The Austin Forum! Check out his interview with Modeling The World at http://on.fb.me/kzf2qn

Austin Forum Join us on June 7 for an exciting session with Dr. Dan Reed, Microsofts Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy and Strategy (TS&P) and the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG). Dr. Reed will discuss disruptive technology trends as well as the opportunities and challenges that they present from busi

Cray Unveils Its First GPU Computer – the XK6. Find out more details here:

HPCwire: Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer Cray has released the details of its GPU-equipped supercomputer: the XK6. The machine is a derivative of the XE6, an AMD Opteron-based machine that the company announced a year ago. Although Cray is calling this week's announcement the XK6 launch, systems will not be available until the second half

According to [Georgia State University], Gary Hastings developed a way of interpreting measurements behind the molecular interactions during the photosynthesizing process, thus offering researchers enhanced ability to develop mathematical models of the process. Click here to find out more:

HPCwire: URSA Supercomputer Illustrates Plant Processes A physics researcher at Georgia State University used the school's URSA super to simulate photosynthesis.

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A New Generation of Smarter, Not Faster, Supercomputers: As the exascale era looms, a number of research groups are pinpointing the bevy of barriers that the next generation of elite [supercomputer] systems will bring. Find out more here:

HPCwire: A New Generation of Smarter, Not Faster, Supercomputers When it comes to the power-hungry systems of the pending era of exascale, next-generation systems will need to employ "brains" not just brawn to tackle new challenges. This is a concept Bill Nitzberg of Altair's PBS Works described to us this week as he highlighted the ways smarter management can ta

Cloud Storage Best Practices: StorSimple, a leading provider of Windows optimized Hybrid Cloud Storage technology, today announced a joint webinar with Microsoft featuring Rockford Construction’s award winning usage of Windows Azure and StorSimple. Find out more here:

HPC in the Cloud: Microsoft and StorSimple to Host Webinar on Cloud Storage Best Practices for the E StorSimple, the leading provider of Windows optimized Hybrid Cloud Storage technology, today announced a joint webinar with Microsoft featuring Rockford Construction's award winning usage of Windows Azure and StorSimple.

A Virtual View Beneath the Skin: Microsoft researchers have developed a handheld device that gives physical-therapy patients a virtual view beneath the skin to see what an injury looks like inside. The hope is that this will make them a little more eager to keep doing their therapies. Find out more here:

A Virtual View beneath the Skin - Technology Review A device that projects anatomical images onto the body could help patients "see" their injuries—and encourage them to do their exercises.

A 16-year-old high school student may have found a new, viable treatment for cystic fibrosis through the use of computer simulations. Read more here:

Sixteen-Year-Old Helps Develop Possible Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis Marshall Zhang's treatment proved to be effective on living cells

DNA sequencing in the Cloud opens doors for a world of possibilities. Read more:

HPC in the Cloud: Opening Sequences for HPC on Demand Next-generation sequencing has opened a world of possibilities for science and medicine, but for providers of remote high performance computing like Penguin Computing via its HPC on demand service, the new world of massive genomics analytics has opened other doors--for researchers and their own busi

Gordon, a cutting edge supercomputer, can process a tsunami of digital information, besides tackling new challenges in data storage and massive datasets. Click here to read more:

Supercomputer Gordon can process tsunami of data - Economic Times WASHINGTON: Gordon, a cutting edge supercomputer, can process a tsunami of digital information, besides tackling new challenges in data storage and massive datasets. "Gordon is a supercomputer that

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Microsoft have selected thirteen cloud computing projects for monetary and infrastructure funding. From research focused on energy, sustainability, genomics, medicine and the IT systems themselves, these undertakings find innovative ways to maximize valuable data for the good of all. Find out more here:

HPC in the Cloud: National Science Foundation Partnership Funds Cloud-Society Research The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Microsoft have selected thirteen cloud computing projects for monetary and infrastructure funding. From research focused on energy, sustainability, genomics, medicine and the IT systems themselves, these undertakings find innovative ways to maximize valuable