The Reg HPC: Cash-strapped students hungrily eye up old, unloved racks [ Thu Oct 31 2013]

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Cash-strapped students hungrily eye up old, unloved racks
Student clusterers in flop-per-dollar face-off
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/25/hpc_on_the_cheap/

How much supercomputing can you do with $2,500 worth of hardware? The
four teams competing in the SC13 Student Cluster Commodity Track
Competition will answer precisely this question - and more.

The Commodity Track is a new addition to the SC Student Cluster
Competition event this year.

We all know and love the Standard Track: university teams build the
fastest cluster they can, then compete live at the show to see who can
turn in the best numbers on a set of HPC applications. The only limit
on Standard Track competitors is the 26 amp (115 volt) power cap and
the requirement that their gear fits in one rack.

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Intel: Our first five parallel-computing schools are open for business
Boffins primed to make new programmers think less sequentially
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/24/intel_opens_first_five_parallel_computing_centres/

Chip giant Intel has begun funding research into ways to make
applications easier to write for parallel processing systems, and to
teach those methods to future generations of computer engineers and
scientists.

The first five institutions to qualify as Intel Parallel Computing
Centres are: the Konrad Zuse Information Technology Centre in Berlin
and Bologna's Cineca in Italy, and three universities in the US: Texas,
Tennessee and Purdue.

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Avert your eyes! Hortonworks mates Hadoop beast with SAS
New pact to mesh the elephant with data giant
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/19/hortonworks_sas_partnership/

Hadoop company Hortonworks is teaming up with SAS on a strategic
partnership to integrate its analytics platform with SAS's suite of
data technologies.

The alliance was announced on Friday and will give enterprises a
"SAS/ACCESS" interface into the Hortonworks Data Platform, which will
let them run tools such as Visual Analytics alongside Hadoop.

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