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May 4, 2005 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for "Green Destiny & mpiBLAST: Hardware & Software for Super-Efficient Supercomputing".
April 4, 2005 Feng gives a keynote speech on "The Evolution of Power-Aware. High-Performance Clusters: From the Datacenter to the Desktop" at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
June 24, 2004 Feng and Hsu receive the Innovative Supercomputer Architecture Award from the International Supercomputer Conference for "Green Destiny and its Evolving Parts".
November 19, 2003 Green Destiny gets slash-dotted again in Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny.
October 16, 2003 Green Destiny wins an R&D 100 Award.
August 2003 The BBC News reports on "Green Destiny: A 'Cool' 240-Node Supercomputer in a Telephone Booth".
June 29, 2003 The Register reports on the confluence of Green Destiny and mpiBLAST in "Los Alamos lends open source hand to life sciences".
March 15, 2003 CIO Magazine dubs creators of Green Destiny as "blade runners" in "Servers on the Edge".
December 2, 2002 BusinessWeek tabs Green Destiny as an innovation to keep an eye on.
November 15, 2002 mpiBLAST v0.9 is available as a beta release.
July 8, 2002 The success of Green Destiny, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, leads to the the birth of mpiBLAST, a novel open-source parallelization of NCBI BLAST.
June 25, 2002 Green Destiny makes it to slashdot.
June 25, 2002 The New York Times writes about Green Destiny.
May 17, 2002 Gordon Bell and Linus Torvalds on-hand to officially launch the "Supercomputing in Small Spaces" project.
May 1, 2002 Three-million body, three-dimensional hydrodynamics simulation of a supernova core-collapse completed.
April 23, 2002 One timestep of a one-billion particle simulation completed in a few hours
April 15, 2002 240-node Bladed Beowulf (code-named "Green Destiny") comes on-line.
April 2, 2002 Parts for our 240-node Bladed Beowulf arrive.
March 27, 2002 Order for our 240-node Bladed Beowulf placed
November 13 - 15, 2001 Public demonstration of the MetaBlade and MetaBlade2 Bladed Beowulfs at SC2001.
October 9, 2001 A 24-node Bladed Beowulf (code-named MetaBlade) comes on-line.
September 28, 2001 Project conception.
   

 

 

 
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