UK Scientific Research Gets a Turbo-Charge
By ADMINISTRATOR on June 28, 2008 (5:35:15 PM) America/Los_Angeles
An upgrade of University of Westminster’s previous 32 node High Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC) with a new 96 node HPCC, is providing a significant threefold increase in its contribution to the UK’s grid computing facility for researchers, the National Grid Service – NGS.
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July 15 application deadline to apply for computational time on TeraGrid
By ADMINISTRATOR on June 28, 2008 (5:32:45 PM) America/Los_Angeles
Over 300 million SUs are now available for scientific discovery: Scientists, engineers and other U.S. researchers may apply by July 15 (12:00 midnight local times) for allocations of high-performance computer time, storage and systems resources available through the TeraGrid, a partnership of 11 nationwide sites, sponsored by the Office of Cyberinfrastructure of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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RAID Inc. selected by University of Utah
By ADMINISTRATOR on June 28, 2008 (5:31:31 PM) America/Los_Angeles
HPC Center increases productivity and decreases cost, while increasing availability and scalability: RAID Inc., a customized storage solutions and services provider specializing in leading edge technologies, today announced it is working with the University of Utah’s Center for High Performance Computing to provide customized, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions to support their growing data storage libraries.
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Institute for CyberScience to expand computing power for research
By ADMINISTRATOR on June 28, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) America/Los_Angeles
The computer that once filled a room is now on your desktop, the memory is on your key chain, but there are still projects that require computing and storage capacity far beyond a room full of desktops. The Penn State Institute for CyberScience ( ICS@PSU ) aims to meet aims to advance discovery through computing and information science.
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