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Veteran technologist, entrepreneur and self-confessed 'geek' Steve Oberlin has joined Nvidia to help the company develop its high-performance computing initiative

Dr Thomas Sterling has become the first recipient of the HPC Vanguard Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership role in the HPC community's strategic push to achieve exascale levels of supercomputing performance

The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra is to receive the prestigious ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for 2013 during the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, SC13, in November

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has announced the appointment of Paul Grun as the new vice chair of the organisation

The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), an international forum within the IEEE, has named Argonne's Jeff Hammond a Young Achiever in Scalable Computing for 2013

A leader in computational materials design will bring an industry perspective to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year

H. Edward Seidel, senior vice president of research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), Germanys Tier-0 supercomputing institution, has appointed Michael Resch as its new chairman of the board of directors

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has welcomed T.P. Straatsma as its new scientific computing group (SCG) leader

D-Wave Systems, a commercial quantum computing company, has announced the formal launch of its US business