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unusual facts about high performance computing



Matt Wood

Matt Wood leads scientific and technical computing at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, where he drives programs around high performance computing, data-intensive science and big data.


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AMAX Information Technologies

In 2008, AMAX introduced a line of high performance computing products based on the Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer, with GPU technology.

Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.

Danto Engineering Development Center

"The Danto center also houses a high-performance computing lab to study energy efficiency, funded in part with a grant of large mainframe computers from Sun Microsystems”.

High Performance Computing Act of 1991

The High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA) is an Act of Congress promulgated in the 102nd United States Congress as (Pub.L. 102–194) on 1991-12-09.

Holyoke, Massachusetts

For example, a coalition of universities and tech companies are building the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, an energy-efficient, high-performance computing center, in Holyoke, expected to open in 2012.

Maui Cluster Scheduler

Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), University of Southern California (USC), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others.

Prace

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), a European scientific association in the field of high performance computing

ROCE

RDMA over Converged Ethernet, used in computer science (high-performance computing)

Scinet

SciNet Consortium, Canadian consortium for high-performance computing

SCinet, high-performance network built annually at the International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications