High Performance Computing (HPC)

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Commentary: The Database Revolution Happening In Healthcare

Roger Foster | Government Health IT | September 3, 2014

...We’re talking about the enterprise Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS) industry. The battle lines are being drawn between startup technologies wrapped around specialized Not only Structured Query Language (NoSQL) hardware, software, and services against the traditional RDBMS vendors — and healthcare business executives, hospital CIOs and federal leaders around the Washington Beltway would be wise to understand the disruptive implications...

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High Performance Computing – Is HPC Now an Enterprise Proposition?

Staff Writer | Computerworld UK | May 28, 2012

High performance computing (HPC) has long been the preserve of academic institutions and highly specialised industries needing to run data hungry applications that carry out advanced analytics and rapid simulations....But, while HPC is used by top research groups studying the intricacies of the universe or cracking the genetic code that make us, what will the main benefit of HPC be to the enterprise? Read More »

IBM's Potential x86 Server Sale To Lenovo Highlights Oncoming Train

Larry Dignan | ZDNet | April 19, 2013

IBM famously unloaded its PC business to Lenovo well before the post PC era hit. Is Big Blue bailing on commodity servers before the floor falls out? Read More »

Kitware Announces Exascale Exhibition at SC15

Press Release | Kitware | November 10, 2015

To share Kitware’s latest developments in exascale visualization, the company is pleased to announce that it will once again be part of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, better known as Supercomputing (SC). SC15 will be held in Austin, Texas, from November 15 to November 20, 2015. As one of the primary contributors to the open-source Visualization Toolkit (VTK), ParaView, and CMake, Kitware is working closely with customers and collaborators to build the foundation for exascale visualization. 

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Kitware Receives Honor in 2015 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Share Article

Press Release | Kitware, HPC Wire | November 17, 2015

Kitware, Inc., has been recognized on behalf of the ParaView community in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2015 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15), in Austin, Texas. The list of winners was revealed at the HPCwire booth at the event and on the HPCwire website, located at http://www.HPCwire.com. Kitware accepted the following honor for ParaView: Readers' Choice - Best HPC Visualization Product or Technology

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No Longer Why Open Source, But How To Do Open Source

Mark Hinkle | Open Source Delivers | May 7, 2014

Fifteen years ago I spent a good deal of my time evangelizing open source software...Today I spend more time educating perspective open source participants on how they can leverage open source to reduce development costs, improve operational efficiency and drive customization for their own purposes.

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OpenStack Based eMedLab Enables Cloud-based High Performance Computing for Medical Research

Staff Writer | Scientific Computing World | December 17, 2015

eMedLab, a partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions, is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system to support the efforts of hundreds of researchers studying cancers, cardio-vascular and rare diseases. The research focuses on understanding the causes of these diseases and how a person’s genetics may influence their predisposition to the disease and potential treatment responses...

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Recently Developed Nanomaterial May Be Suitable For Use In Desalination

Press Release | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | April 24, 2014

Research results in computational modeling indicate that a newly developed nanomaterial may be suitable for applications in water desalination and other purification. The research was conducted by Vincent Meunier, the Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky ’70 Constellation Professor of Physics, Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in cooperation with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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SysFera and Kitware Partner to Integrate HPC Technologies For Improved Scientific Data Analysis

Press Release | Kitware , SysFera | October 21, 2014

SysFera, a software innovator that simplifies management and accessibility of high performance computing (HPC) environments, and Kitware, a leading R&D software provider for scientific data analysis and visualization, announced today that they are integrating their two core products...

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