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HPC-18 Conference Registration Open

Registration is now open for the 18th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPC-18).

Oracle Announces Big Data Appliance

Oracle Big Data Appliance combines hardware and software to allow the acquisition, organization, and analysis of large data sets.

AMD Launches Fastest Single-GPU Graphics Card

AMD recently released the AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card for desktop PCs, hailing it as the world’s fastest single-GPU graphics card and the only GPU based on 28nm production technology.

NVidia Opens CUDA Compiler Code

Source code for the NVidia CUDA LLVM-based compiler is available to qualified academic researchers and software tools developers.

XSEDE Conference Announced

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment conference of 2012 to be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

OpenACC Announced

NVidia, Cray Inc., the Portland Group (PGI), and CAPS enterprise have partnered to develop a new parallel programming standard known as OpenACC.

AMD Fusion12 Call for Papers Now Open

AMD announces the Fusion12 Developer Summit (AFDS) June 11-14, 2012.

Silicon Mechanics Announces Research Cluster Grant

Silicon Mechanics announces research cluster grant.

Drizzle Database Supports ZeroMQ Messaging

With its latest release the MySQL fork Drizzle supports messaging through the ZeroMQ broker.

SmartOS Weds Open Solaris to Linux KVM Virtualization

Joyent releases the SmartOS operating system, that brings together Open Solaris and Linux KVM.