This week SC09 announced (warning, PDF) the focus areas for its technical program. This year the conference is placing special emphasis on biocomputing, sustainability, and the 3D internet “We chose ...

Looks like instead of using mockups NVIDIA has got some working samples ready of their upcoming GPU codenamed Fermi. Should you by any chance visit SC09 (Super Computer Convention) on Tuesday go to ...

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Justin Rattner from Intel talked about Larrabee at the SC09 conference and showed a demo where 1 teraFLOPS is reached (by overclocking the card). In pale comparison, the latest Radeon HD 5970 already ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) will join with other leaders in next-generation networking at this week’s SC09 Conference in a multi-vendor demonstration of 100 Gigabit ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Facebook for scientists -- but built to facilitate serious research rather than socializing -- and an award-winning method for putting idle computers to work on scientific ...

I was at former Vice President Al Gore’s keynote talk on Thursday at SC09. I had great seats; four or five rows back and off to the left. Fun fact: this was the second time he’s been at the show — ...

A research team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has won the Storage Challenge competition at ...

FPGAs are more commonplace in Portland this week than I thought. The last FPGA Gurus post described Convey Computer’s presence at the SC09 conference in Portland, and how supercomputers might see ...

* Virtualized HPC: The popularity of commodity hardware in HPC has encouraged a growing cadre of vendors to employ virtualization schemes to create big powerful machines from industry-standard ...