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• Intel puts "millions of engineering hours" into oneAPI

  Intel has launched the oneAPI "industry initiative" to deliver a unified and open programming experience to developers on any architecture.

• Australia’s fastest ever supercomputer to go live in November

  ​Australia’s fastest supercomputer is about to get 10-times more powerful, thanks to a multi-million dollar upgrade to be delivered by Fujitsu Australia.

• Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appoints new executive director

  The position became vacant in November last year after a leadership shake-up at the high-performance computing facility saw Neil Stringfellow leave the role.

• NCI gets $70m to replace Raijin and return to world top 25

  ​The National Computational Infrastructure​ (NCI) based at The Australian National University will receive a $70 million funding boost to replace its ageing supercomputer, Raijin.

• CSIRO doubles compute power with $4m HPC

  ​CSIRO has begun using its new $4m Dell EMC supercomputer, which will soon help to bring vision to the blind through the use of multi-layered neural networks.

• Helping Data Centers Cope With Big Data Workloads

  Big data workloads tend to suck up enormous amounts of compute resources, which can create serious log jams in your data center if the workloads aren't scheduled optimally. Adaptive Computing's Big Workflow is designed to leverage HPC and cloud technologies to help data centers adapt to big data.

• Indiana University dedicates biggest college-owned supercomputer

  Indiana University today dedicated the fastest supercomputer owned by a university to date -- the new Big Red II system.

• The hottest startups are targeting the enterprise

  While some of the most successful consumer Internet companies are capturing the headlines today, more than 70 per cent of venture exits in the last two years valued at over $500 million have been in the enterprise sector.

• Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in Amazon's cloud

  High performance cloud computing company Cycle Computing is no stranger to spinning up massive clusters of servers in Amazon's public cloud, but this week the company says it recently ran one of its largest jobs ever, one that used 10,598 multi-core instances

• Start-up transforms unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters

  When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving utilization of computing resources, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060710-tech-argument-citrix-vmware-microsoft.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2010-06-18">VMware</a> and its x86 virtualization software may be what that comes to mind.

• EMC, HP, DiData cash in on Queensland Government IT spendathon

  The Queensland Government is to spend $12 million on consolidating its technology infrastructure under its state-owned ICT services provider CITEC.

• HPC meets cloud computing with Dell's new server

  With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell's is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics.

• Amazon introduces cluster computing for HPC apps

  Amazon Web Services says its latest cluster computing service, which it announced Tuesday, can provide the same results as custom-built infrastructures for high-performance applications at organizations that don't want to build their own.

• Bull bills Tera 100 as Europe's first petaflop computer

  French server and services company Bull has just turned on a new supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) that it hopes will reach a peak performance of 1.25 petaflops later this year.

• Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot

  A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.