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[James Demmel <demmel@cs.berkeley.edu>]

See "Why you should touch MAGMA".
Jim

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• To: demmel@EECS.Berkeley.EDU
• Subject: RapidMind Acquired; SGI Rumor Mill Keeps Grinding
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:49 -0700 (PDT)
• Original-recipient: rfc822;demmel@v40z-1.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

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Aug 20, 2009

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From the Editor RapidMind Gets Swallowed by Intel Another one bites the dust. Read More... SGI Rumored to Dump Graphics Visualization Group The SGI rumor mill keeps grinding along. Read More... Green Computing, TCO By Any Other Name Green computing is about the economics of computing, not the environment. Read More... More From the Editor... Feature Articles IBM Computing on Demand Evolves Toward Cloud Computing Service As IT budgets have gotten squeezed, more customers are looking at cloud computing as a way to avoid up-front capital costs, while getting access to as many CPU cycles as they need. In response, all the big IT firms are scrambling to develop a cloud computing product and services strategy, and IBM is no exception. Read More... SGI's Personal Cluster: Lots of Options, Lots of Challenges Earlier this month SGI announced its new CloudRack X2, a deskside (optionally rack-mountable) workgroup supercomputing solution aimed at the same crowd as Cray's CX-1. This latest evolution of the CloudRack line continues the move to more standard rack footprints. Read More... The Week in Review SGI cuts graphics division; Internet-scale businesses have developed their own approaches to storing big data; and the International Space Station gets a new number cruncher. John West recaps those stories and more in our weekly wrap-up. Read More... More Feature Articles... Top Headlines The Case for ECC Memory in Nvidia’s Next GPU Saudi Ready to Unveil Its Future 21st Century Technology in a 20th Century Data Center Why You Should Touch MAGMA The Cloud Computing Revolution Will Not Be Televised Itty-Bitty Lasers Hold Hope for Scalable Optical Processing InfiniBand Marches On Without Cisco More Top Headlines... Off the Wire Computer Scientists Diagnose Network Delays Platform Computing Toolkit Supports NVIDIA GPUs Cray Selects ASSET's ScanWorks Platform Fortinet Acquires Assets of Woven Systems Rice Tapped for Role in Computing Research Center Procter & Gamble Partners with NCSA I-CHASS/NICS Announce Availability of 2,000,000 CPU Hours LLNL Selects TotalView Debugger for 20 Petaflop System Force10 Supports Magic Cube Supercomputer Computer Scientists Introduce PortLand IBM Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards More Off the Wire... HPCwire Soundbite Weekly Podcast Podcast: Russia Falls for HPC; DOE Awarded Stimulus Money; Penguin Adds HPC On Demand In the August 14 podcast Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk about the Russian government's newfound interest in HPC and how US stimulus money is starting to work its way into the HPC research community. They also pick apart the latest news from Penguin Computing. Listen to the Podcast... Quote of the Week "If I could get a dollar per CPU-hour, I could pave the roads with gold bullion." -- David Gelardi, vice president, Systems and Technology Group for Worldwide Client Centers, IBM Read the Full Article... Click here to view the hottest jobs in HPC

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