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• Open Source Spotlight - Yabi: Bringing drag-and-drop to supercomputers

  Supercomputers are powerful tools for scientists. They are also very expensive, so wasted time can mean a lot of wasted resources. But making the most efficient use of them is not the easiest proposition in the world; it's not just a case of clicking a button to analyse a protein. However, fitting out the world of supercomputers with a user-friendly, web-based interface is the focus of an open source project based at Western Australia's Murdoch University.

• IBM IOD 2011: IBM launches Watson-like software for healthcare

  IBM has released new predictive analytics software for the management of patient data in the healthcare industry, following the company's Watson supercomputer partnership with American health insurance company WellPoint.

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  Climate science chewing up supercomputing resources

  An "infinite" demand for Australia’s supercomputing resources could threaten the quality of climate change science if more high performance computing isn’t found, a leading academic in the field has warned.

• CSIRO sourcing hardware for Pawsey SKA supercomputing environment

  The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced that it will shortly move toward the procurement phase of its multi-stage petascale and real-time supercomputing Pawsey Centre project.

• 10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud

  High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?

• Supercomputing fest will spotlight world's fastest computers, high-performance issues

  One of the most fascinating and highly technical conferences in the IT industry will take place next week in New Orleans, when SC10 kicks off with seven days of big computers, and big solutions to big problems.

• Australian scientists say they're coming first in a world-wide race

  Australian scientists say they're coming first in a world-wide race to create a new breed of super computers set to transform the way we live.

• China flexes supercomputing muscle in Top 500 rankings

  China flexed its computing muscle with a supercomputer called Nebulae, rocketing to second place on the biannual Top500 list, which ranks the most powerful computers in the world.

• Unix server sales sink; IDC cites a perfect storm

  The Unix server business has been hit particularly hard during the current recession.

• The supercomputer on your desktop

  High-performance computing (HPC) has almost always required a supercomputer - one of those room-size monoliths you find at government research labs and universities.

• SGI offers supercomputing as a service

  SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market.

• Sandia tests supercomputer virtualization

  The U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the possibility of using virtualization to allow its researchers to make better use of its behemoth Red Storm supercomputer. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico are also participating in the project.

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  Govt brews national cloud for science

  Australian scientists will have access to a multi-million dollar national cloud network and $50 million towards a petabyte supercomputer and data centre within three to five years under slated improvements to the nation's grid networks.

• US Air Force taps PlayStation 3 for research

  The U.S. Air Force recently issued a request for proposals to purchase 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Does the Air Force plan to play lots of Grand Theft Auto?

• Gore says supercomputing can be killer app in climate change

  PORTLAND, Ore. -- Former Vice President Al Gore today told an audience of scientists, programmers and system builders at the SC09 conference here that their work is essential in the effort to avoid global catastrophe caused by climate change.