• Comparing MPI and OpenMP, Interesting article comparing shared and distributed-memory approaches to parallel computing can be found here.
  
  
• Scientific Computing on Meeting Research Needs in a Changing HPC Landscape, Article on future needs of Canadian researchers, Click here to read the article.
  
  
• HPCWire Article on Victoria Falls Cluster, HPCWire runs article describing benefits of the Ultrasparc T2 based Victoria Falls cluster, Read the article here.
  
  
• HPCWire Article on HPCVL and Sun Microsystems, Article on the relationship between HPCVL and Sun Microsystems, Click here to read the article.
  
  
• HPCWire Article on Victoria Falls Cluster, HPCWire runs article describing benefits of the Ultrasparc T2 based Victoria Falls cluster, Read the article here.
  
  
• CFI/NSERC Funding Announcement, $88 Million Investment Creates National High Performance Computing Network. Read the Press Release here here...
  
  
• HPCVL Awarded $11.5M, The Ontario Government recently awarded HPCVL $11.5. Please see press release here
  
  
• Sun HPC Consortium, summary of recent Sun HPC Consortium meeting in Tampa Bay. Includes summary of HPCVL's Director Ken Edgecombes presentation. See details here...
  
  

Archived News

• HPCVL enters into MOU with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. 01/11/08
  HPCVL has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Center for Computing and Communication at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The partnership was developed through the Sun Microsystem\342??s Center of Excellence program. T he Memorandum has helped build a framework for the exchange of common experience and research related to high performance compu ting, and build a strong relationship between the two organizations. As a part of that effort, Aachen University experts on HP C methodologies gave workshops as a part of HPCS 2009 in Kingston in June 2009.

• ITBusiness article on the HPCVL secure remote access Portal. 07/11/06
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• HPCVL Announces Major Hardware Expansion
  HPCVL is pleased to announce the installation of eight Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 systems. Each system has sixty-four 2.5 2 GHz quad-core SPARC 64 chips and 2 TB of RAM. The cluster has a TPP of over 20 TFLOPS of performance and will help research ers tackle new problems currently out of reach. For more information, check out our hardware page or Sun's website.

• HPCVL Expands Again
  HPCVL is pleased to announce the availability of our Victoria Falls cluster. This cluster is based on S un Microsystems 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2+ processors which have eight CPU cores and each core capable of running eight "thread s" simultaneously. This is an exciting development as it is the first massively Chip Multithreaded (CMT) installation fo r research in Canada and is a paradigm shift. Altogether there are approximately 10,000 threads available. For details see the: HPCVL Victoria Falls Cluster page.
  

• HPCVL The High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) today announced the launch of its Secure Grid Portal (SGP). 01/11/06
  Read the Press Release here (pdf) or (.doc)...
  
  
• Article in ITBusiness on recent $11.5M pledge from Ontario Government. 22/09/06
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• ITBusiness Article on HPCVL Expansion Celebration and Scott McNealy's Speech.16/06/06
  Read the article here...
  
  
• Sun adds UltraSparc to open source strategy. 07/12/05
  Click here for the Press Release...
  
  
• Entrust Secures One of Canada's Most Powerful High-Performance Computing Labs 02/06/05
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• High-performance computer lab invests in Sun servers. 19/05/05
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• HPCVL Advances Work in Stem-Cell Research, Economics, Physics and Psychology Using Sun Technology. 20/05/05
  Read the Article here...
  
  
• HPCVL strikes partnership with NAG. 11/02
  Please check here for the press release.