News archive for October 2007

DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative awards 2008

31st October 2007. Filed under: Announcements

Oct. 31 — Europe’s HPC infrastructure DEISA has announced that 45 projects were awarded a total of about 30 million hours of computing time on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers as part of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative.
The DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) EU funded Research Infrastructure is constituted of a number of leading […]

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Feature: Investigating bird ‘flu

30th October 2007. Filed under: Announcements

EPCC is working with evolutionary biologists to understand why H5N1-type avian ‘flu can be so deadly.
All influenza derives from wild species of waterfowl in which a very large number of different strains can be found. Three of these strains, called H1N1, H2N2 and H3N2 were responsible for human pandemics in the 20th century. The first, […]

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Scottish Technology News: FHPCA Maxwell

23rd October 2007. Filed under: News, Media coverage

The FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance (FHPCA) is continuing to promote Scotland as a hub of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The Alliance, run from the University of Edinburgh by the EPCC, draws on the expertise and vision of both Scottish and international companies and the support of Scottish Enterprise. Hardware and software developed […]

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OpenMP 3.0 draft available

23rd October 2007. Filed under: Announcements, Press releases

21 October 2007
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce the release of a draft of Version 3.0 of the OpenMP specification for public comment. This is the first update to the OpenMP specification since 2005.
This release adds several new features to the OpenMP specification, including:

Tasking: move beyond loops with generalized tasks and support complex and […]

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