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"Hyperion Cluster A New Way to Do Business
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed Hyperion. [High resolution image]
Hyperion brings together Dell, Intel, Supermicro, QLogic, Cisco, Mellanox, DDN, Sun, LSI and RedHat to create a large-scale testbed for high-performance computing technologies critical to NNSA’s work to maintain the aging U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without underground nuclear testing, and industry’s ability to make petaFLOP/s (quadrillion floating operations per second) computing and storage more accessible for commerce, industry and research and development.
“Hyperion represents a new way of doing business. Collectively we are building a system none of us could have built individually,” said Mark Seager, LLNL project leader. “The project will advance the state-of-the-art in a cost-effective manner, benefitting both end users, such as the national security labs, and the computing industry, which can expand the market with proven, easy to deploy large-and small-scale Linux clusters.”
The goal of the project is to provide a development, testing and scaling environment for new cluster technologies and infrastructure critical to the mission requirements of NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program. This includes testing new hardware and software technologies and forming long-term relationships to ensure continuity in the development of new technologies for ever-larger systems over the long haul."
Thomson Reuters Celebrates Ten Innovative Sites And Services Using Opencalais - Thomson Reuters
THOMSON REUTERS CELEBRATES TEN INNOVATIVE SITES AND SERVICES USING OPENCALAIS
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Technology News - The New York Times
Google and I.B.M. are offering help to universities to get students to cope with vast amounts of data.
A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea - NYTimes.com
Thirty years ago, Mr. Wallach was one of a small team of computer designers profiled by Tracy Kidder in his Pulitzer Prize winning best seller, “The Soul of a New Machine.”
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial (LSST) v2.0
A Beginners Handbook for New Linux Users / Sys Admins and School Students Studying Linux or Computer Science.
WebMasterCert.com » An Overview Of High Performance Computing And Challenges For The Future
An Overview Of High Performance Computing And Challenges For The Future
Illuminating Dark Economies § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
MEASURING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY FROM OUTER SPACE IS A NEW FRONTIER IN THE STRUGGLE TO QUANTIFY HUMANITY’S IMPACT ON THE NATURAL WORLD.
The Four Hundred--Start Planning for Power7 Iron Now
IBM's future Power7 chip may be just about done as far as the engineering is concerned, and its server designs might also be more or less completed as well. But there is plenty of time yet to tweak the boxes, and I doubt very much that the final packaging and pricing for the future Power7 machinery is anywhere close to being set. Which is a pity, really.
HPC @ LSU | Systems | Philip
Philip, a new supercomputer-- named after one of the first Boyd Professors (A Boyd Professorship is the highest and most prestigious academic rank LSU can confer on a professor) at LSU -- chemistry professor Philip W. West, is a 3.5 TFlops Peak Performance 37 compute node cluster running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system. Each node contains two latest Quad Core Nehalem Xeon 64-bit processors operating at a core frequency of 2.93 GHz. Philip was delivered to LSU in May, 2009 and is to be open for general use to LSU users.
Computational Complexity: The Mystique of the Open Problem
The Mystique of the Open Problem
Posted by Lance
The story goes that Andrew Wiles dreamt of proving Fermat's last theorem when he was a kid. No surprise since all of us math-loving kids dreamed of solving this famous problem. We certainly talked about it much longer than the more important Fermat's Little Theorem which already had a proof. Now my kids have never heard of Fermat's last theorem. Why should they? Nothing there left to dream there.
It is the challenges that inspire. It was much more interesting to go to the moon in the 60's than it is today. Computational complexity is blessed with such a great challenge, one of extreme theoretical and practical importance, that brings needed attention to our small domain.
My CACM article on P v. NP has proven very popular in great part because of the excitement of the unknown. In that article I wrote "Perhaps we will see a resolution of the P versus NP problem in the near future but I almost hope not." For much as I'd like to see a proof that P ≠ NP, I would also hate to lose that mystique. Who would read an article on the status of P v. NP if the status was "proven 15 years ago"?
Let me note one correction in the article pointed out by Andrew Appel: It was Armin Haken, and not his father Wolfgang, that showed that there are no short resolutions proofs for the pigeon hole principle.
The New York Times Upgrades Its Congress API - Lets You Compare Voting Records
The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile).
The latest version of the Congress API includes two new features that give developers access to more information:
Retrieval of bills cosponsored by an individual member and all of the cosponsors for a particular bill
Compare the voting records of two members of the House or Senate to see how often they agree and disagree
TomTom, portable GPS car navigation systems - OpenLR™ - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing
OpenLR™ - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing
TomTom is launching OpenLR™ as royalty-free technology and open Industry Standard, and it invites the ITS Industry to join and adopt it.
This step will facilitate new business opportunities in various areas of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) such as traffic information services, map content exchange and Cooperative Systems where precise and compact dynamic location information is needed. The map-agnostic feature of OpenLR™ enables reliable data exchange and cross-referencing using digital maps of different vendors and versions.
OpenLR™ will help to enhance existing applications and will generate opportunities for new services. It is expected, that the universal location referencing technology will greatly support key actions of the ITS Action Plan of the European Commission.
TomTom will lead the further development and maintenance of the OpenLR™ system and invites the stakeholders in this industry to enhance OpenLR™ and contribute to its evolution.
TomTom Launches Open Source Navigation Project
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
Camera 2.0
Computational photography refers broadly to sensing strategies and algorithmic techniques that enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography. The output of these techniques is an ordinary photograph, but one that could not have been taken by a traditional camera. Representative techniques include high dynamic range imaging, flash-noflash imaging, coded aperture and coded exposure imaging, photography under structured illumination, multi-perspective and panoramic stitching, digital photomontage, all-focus imaging, and light field imaging.
San Diego supercomputer yields exceptional speed increase
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has taken a significant step forward for scientific processing by developing the first of its kind High-Performance Computing (HPC) system which utilizes flash memory. Commonly used in household electronics such as digital cameras and cell phones, flash is generally considered a faster storage medium than traditional hard drives due to the fact that there are no moving parts, as opposed to the traditional drive which stores information on magnetic plates which must be individually accessed.
NIH Research Database Gets a Makeover
NIH Research Database Gets a Makeover
HDM Breaking News, September 8, 2009
The National Institutes of Health has added funding information for grants and contracts to its NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool, called RePORT. The RePORT Web site is an online repository of reports, data and analyses of research-related funding.
Making news more searchable and identifiable with hNews: could it even lead to a new business model for journalism? - Editors Weblog
The essential benefit of hNews is that by identifying content more clearly and making more of its key information machine-readable it therefore becomes easier to search for. It also could lead to the development of different ways to search via different applications. Kasi was enthusiastic about the advantages of this for the AP. "AP clearly believes that being able to better identify each piece of content for better search discovery, better linking, better aggregation allows ultimately for the customer to see more content, more trusted content, from editorial sources," he said. "Microformats are a very simple, elegant way to do that on a pretty large scale basis," he added, allowing the AP to "prime the content better for search purposes even before it gets to the publisher."
Even Among the Tech Savviest, Social Media Starts ‘Underground’: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
n a new study released this week found that many of the most successful social media initiatives on company intranets start as underground, grassroots efforts led by front-line workers, and which later are officially sanctioned by the enterprise.
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