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A story in the San Jose Mercury News last week cited officials confident that NASA’s Ames Research Center, located in Silicon Valley, will benefit from the proposed FY11 budget “We’re highly confident that we’re going to get more money, and we do believe it’s going to enhance employment here, and in Silicon Valley,” said Lewis Braxton [...]

Thierry Manfe has a post at the Sun HPC blogs helping beginners navigate the esoterica of compiler options in the Sun Studio compilers Sun Studio offers a unique set of optimization features dedicated to processor instruction set that help me squeeze out the best perf out of C, C++ or Fortran code. Yet these options are [...]

Last week Dr. Arden Bement, Jr., Director of the National Science Foundation in the US, announced that at the end of his term he will be stepping down to lead Purdue University’s new Global Policy Research Institute. Bement was appointed to a six year term as the 12th director of the NSF by the second [...]