»Tachyum Touts Benefits of Universal Processor at HOT CHIPS 2018

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 16, 2018 — Tachyum CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak from Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. will discuss how its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip combines the best attributes of CPU, GPU and TPU architectures to overcome high-performance computing challenges at HOT CHIPS 2018: A Symposium on High-Performance Chips at the Flint Center for the […]

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»DOE Funds 13 Projects Under Fifth Round of HPC4Manufacturing Program

Aug. 15, 2018 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which manages the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program to use supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing, today announced the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $3.8 million for 13 industry projects under the program. The awards mark the fifth round of selectees for the […]

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»OmniTier’s CompStor Cluster Brings De Novo Analytics to Genomics

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 15, 2018 — OmniTier Inc., an application-specific, high performance solutions company, announced that in a joint study with researchers at the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine, the company successfully demonstrated human DNA variant calling using de novo global assembly techniques with breakthrough performance and cost. Using the well-characterized NA12878 short-read sequenced genome dataset, the […]

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»Linda Gesenhues and Markus Höhnerbach Receive 2018 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships

NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2018 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, announced today that Linda Gesenhues of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Markus Höhnerbach of RWTH Aachen University are the recipients of the 2018 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Gesenhues is being recognized for her work on finite element simulation of turbidity currents with an emphasis […]

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»Asetek Reports Q2 2018 Results

Aug. 15, 2018 — Asetek reported revenue of $19.5 million in the second quarter of 2018, a 75% increase from the second quarter of 2017. First-half 2018 revenue amounted to $33.4 million, representing growth of 48% compared with the first half of 2017. The change from prior year reflects an increase in desktop revenue driven by […]

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»Offering Across-the-Board DDR4 Anti-Sulfuration Free-of-Cost

Innodisk is introducing sulfur protection for all DDR4 modules – without any added cost! Sulfur contamination can severely affect unprotected memory modules. The sulfur reacts with the silver found in the DRAM resistors, which slowly corrodes until conductivity is lost! Other than industries were sulfur is a known threat, such as mining and petrochemical facilities, […]

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»NREL ‘Eagle’ Supercomputer to Advance Energy Tech R&D

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has contracted with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for a new 8-petaflops (peak) supercomputer that will be used to advance early-stage R&D on energy technologies spanning multiple DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. The new system, Eagle, is on its way […]

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»Oracle Java 8 Launched with Lambda Expressions for Parallelism
The new Java positioned for convergence across the stack and for parallelism

»TechExcel DevSuite 9.3 ALM
Manage requirements with customization based on project complexity

»XebiaLabs: Why Dev Needs DevOps
New versions of XL Deploy and XL Release

»Nvidia CUDA 6 Now Free To Download
A promise of an easier parallel programming model

»Intel Updates Cluster and Parallel Studio XE 2013
Updates for Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 and Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013

»A New Measure For Agile Team Effectiveness
Software Development Performance Index (SDPI) developed with Carnegie Mellon

»IPython 1.0 Language-Agnostic Architecture
Architecture for interactive computing, includes parallel tools