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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
At the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure's Blue Waters and TeraGrid...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | April 9, 2009
The new Fujitsu FX1 supercomputer in Japan has a peak performance of 110.6 teraflops, making it the most powerful machine in Japan and the most efficient supercomputer...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
The 2009 High-Performance Computing Adoption Conference will be held May 11-13 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel. The three-day event will define...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
What’s faster than the speediest supercomputer? How about a high-speed grid linking 12 world-class supercomputers? That’s what a European research consortium has... From ICT Results | April 6, 2009
David A. Patterson, former ACM President and Director of University of California, Berkeley's Parallel Computing Laboratory and the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive...ACM From ACM News | April 6, 2009
Scientist Dr. Russ Miller (pictured) is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State, to qualified users worldwide for solving... From ACM News | April 6, 2009
The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's...Newswise From ACM News | April 3, 2009
The EuroSys 2009 conference, sponsored by the European chapter of ACM's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, will focus on computer system research that...ACM From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet's routing system, which are caused by companies...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
Researchers from Dortmound, St. Petersburg, Washington, and the Rurh-Universitaet-Bochum (RUB) in Germany have succeeded in aligning electron spin. The researchers...Ruhr-niversity Bochum (Germany) From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) recently assembled a panel of technology experts to discuss various emerging research technologies,...EE Times From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2009
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has announced the launch of the Center for Next-Generation Digital Media, a new campus center dedicated to inventing...California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2009
I.B.M. has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in...The New York Times From ACM News | March 24, 2009
Researchers have developed components that could someday be used to develop quantum computers, say scientists at the University of Manchester and the University...niversity of Manchester From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2009
The 2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computer Conference will feature papers, panels, workshops, poster sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings, a doctoral...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2009
ACM has announced the winners of five prestigious awards honoring innovations in computing technology that benefit society through their profound impact on the...AScribe Newswire From ACM News | March 18, 2009
This year's SC09 conference will focus on the role of high-performance computing (HPC) in biological sciences, environmental sustainability, and the emerging three...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2009
Microsoft's Dan Reed is the director of the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) organization, whose overall goal is the transformation of the way people construct and...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2009
IBM researchers are exploring ways of using social computing to encourage greater collaboration among enterprise users in an effort to make it easier for businesses...CNET From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2009
Technology will help solve some of the most pressing issues the world is facing, says ACM president and University of Southampton professor Dame Wendy Hall. Hall...Silicon.com From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2009