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Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC
12 November 09 07:41 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Now what computational scientist wouldn’t want one of these under their desk.  I like the tagline, “putting ‘work’ back into workstation” . Cray Brings Windows 7 to HPC by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor If you thought Windows 7 was just for mere Read More...
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Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
08 May 09 10:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters – it brings together HPC clusters and databases to do efficient processing and data management.  It’s name and design also pays homage to Jim Gray – who helped  champion the use of relational Read More...
Windows HPC Server 2008 cracks Top 10 in Top 500 list
17 November 08 09:34 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The latest Top 500 list was released at Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, Texas today and Windows HPC Server 2008 was part of the #10 placed machine [ Dawning 5000A] from Shanghai Supercomputer Center .  This is the top machine outside Read More...
HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
18 June 08 11:01 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The Top500 list was released and the cluster at NCSA came in at 23rd running a beta of Windows HPC 2008 .  What’s really interesting is the 77% efficiency and that it only took 4 hours to install the 1200 node cluster. Press Article - Windows HPC Read More...
Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
28 March 08 09:16 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational fiance models for university courses - there is a good paper on the implementation.  It would be good to see if the same Read More...
Silverlight-based cycle stealing
28 January 08 12:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...
January update to Science @ Microsoft
19 January 08 12:02 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site ( www.microsoft.com/science ) is up: Spotlighting the SwissEx Collaboration with EPFL. A feature entitled “Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure with Comparative Sequence Read More...
MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
17 January 08 05:11 PM | eScience | 2 Comments   
It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#.  It would be good to hear about implementations using MPI.net and how it works.  It would also be neat to see someone test out MPI.net with F# .  Can't wait to Read More...
Windows-Based Supercomputers Make Top 500 List
27 June 07 03:29 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Great to see 2 Windows CCS machines on the new Top 500 list 106 - Rainer from the Windows HPC Group 193 - Mitsubishi FJ Securities Also look for the Microsoft Excel Add-in to drive all the LinPack benchmarks - should be released soon at http://windowshpc.net Read More...
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2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI
04 May 07 02:02 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Announcing the 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/escience2007/ October 21-23 2007 The Friday Center for Continuing Education UNC-Chapel Hill 100 Friday Center Drive Chapel Hill NC 27599-1020 The use of computers Read More...
Microsoft Research uses CCS to search for HIV targets
28 February 07 05:00 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
It good to see the work David Heckerman and Carl Kadie from MSR are doing written up in a case study talking about the benefits of using the Windows Compute Cluster Server... From Doug Lindsey's blog... Microsoft Research uses CCS to search for HIV targets Read More...
The BioTeam Delivers Informatics Solution on Microsoft CCS
19 December 06 07:08 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
This is great news for the Bio researchers...info at iNquiry Bioinformatics Portal for Microsoft Compute Cluster Server - they also mention the "The Scientific Desktop" "The scientific desktop" aims to build a bridge between common computing tools and Read More...
HPC Leaders Demonstrate Interoperability Using OGF Specs
15 November 06 01:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Saw this demo while at SC06 today - this is great news for folks looking to use HPC clusters. The Open Grid Forum (OGF) announced its interoperability demonstration at the Supercomputing 2006 (SC06) conference showing the work being done towards interoperable Read More...

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