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The Passing of Steve Jobs

Dauger Research — 2011-10-05 20:01

We'll all miss you Steve.

Pooch 1.8.3 Ships

Dauger Research — 2011-8-24 20:01

Dauger Research ships version 1.8.3 of the Pooch family of clustering software today, updated for OS X 10.7 "Lion".

Atom in a Box on the iPad

Dauger Research — 2011-03-30 12:00

Rewritten from scratch, Atom in a Box HD is available today internationally via Apple's new App Store for the iPad. Long available on the Mac, Atom in a Box is educational and scientific software uses 3D real-time volumetric raytracing to present what the Hydrogen atom "looks" like. By presenting the Hydrogenic atomic orbitals in an immersive intuitive user interface, Atom in a Box stimulates appreciation of the aesthetic in science yet portrays its subject faithfully, appealing to all from children to Nobel laureates.

Supercomputing 2010

Dauger Research — 2010-11-16 19:00

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR present Supercomputing Engine Technology at booth 1319 at Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Pooch 1.8.1 Ships

Dauger Research — 2010-6-1 20:01

Dauger Research ships version 1.8.1 of the Pooch family of clustering software today with updated support for Open MPI and computer names composed of non-Roman characters.

Pooch QuickTime Exporter 1.3.1 Ships

Dauger Research — 2010-6-1 18:00

Dauger Research ships version 1.3.1 of the Pooch QuickTime exporter today, adding compatibility with iMovie '08 and '09 and more.

Pooch 1.8 Clusters Snow Leopard and Linux

Dauger Research — 2009-11-18 20:00

At Supercomputing 2009, Dauger Research announces version 1.8 of the Pooch clustering solution. This patented easy-to-use clustering technology, merging a modern graphical user interface with supercomputer-compatible parallel computing, debuts support of both Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" and 64-bit Linux compute nodes.

SEM on 64-bit Linux at Supercomputing 2009

Dauger Research — 2009-11-18 19:00

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR present the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica in the Exhibitor Forum E143 at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon.

DR at WWDC 2009

Dauger Research — 2009-6-8 19:30

Dauger Research is at the WWDC 2009, sold-out yet again! For many great events and meet-ups:

SEM in Great Britain

Dauger Research — 2008-12-2 05:30

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR present the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica in the "HPC in Industry" Session at MEW 19 in Daresbury, United Kingdom.

SEM at Supercomputing 2008

Dauger Research — 2008-11-20 12:30

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR present the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica in the Exhibitor Forum room 19 at Supercomputing 2008 in Austin, Texas.

Atom in a Box on the iPhone

Dauger Research — 2008-07-11 12:00

Atom in a Box is available today internationally via Apple's new App Store for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Long available on the Mac, Atom in a Box is educational and scientific software uses 3D real-time volumetric raytracing to present what the Hydrogen atom "looks" like. By presenting the Hydrogenic atomic orbitals in an intuitive user interface, Atom in a Box stimulates appreciation of the aesthetic in science yet portrays its subject faithfully, appealing to all from children to Nobel laureates.

SEM on Wolfram Store

Dauger Research — 2008-07-10 00:00

Wolfram Research offers the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica on their online store.

Ten Years of Mac Clusters

Dauger Research — 2008-6-12 01:30

In 1998, a time when the Bondi-blue iMac was new, two UCLA physicists invented the Mac cluster. As a side project, they "reinvented" the cluster computer to better advance their scientific research.

UCI Symposium Presenting New SEM Xserve cluster

Dauger Research — 2008-5-31 17:15

UCI's NACS has partnered with Advanced Cluster Systems, Dauger Research, and Wolfram Research to deploy a 32-core, 64 GB RAM Xserve G5 2 GHz computational cluster. The cluster is made available to campus researchers to evaluate the use of the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica. UCI researchers can apply for accounts for a limited time.

Pooch 1.7.6 Supports Open MPI

Dauger Research — 2008-4-24 10:00

New Pooch 1.7.6 supports Open MPI on Leopard. Pooch clustering technology is the leader in combining supercomputing technologies like Open MPI with the ease of use of the Macintosh, producing a solution that makes clusters accessible for users. Now in its tenth anniversary, Mac clustering shows how clustering should be.

Multicore Woes Confirmed

Dauger Research — 2008-03-18 08:00

Industry giants fund academia to find a way out of the doom of multithreading multicore. Our article at MacResearch "Multicore Eroding Moore's Law" is coming true. The cited Berkeley report says: "[The common multicore approach] may work from 2 or 8 processor systems, but is likely to face diminishing returns as 16 and 32 processor systems are realized."

MacCast Cites Pooch + QuickTime

Dauger Research — 2008-02-22 20:00

Adam Christianson on his MacCast cites the Pooch QuickTime cluster solution on the February 22, 2008, edition of the podcast for Mac Geeks, by Mac Geeks. Have a listen! (at 52:10)

Seminar at Reed College

Dauger Research — 2007-11-28 16:00

Reed Physics invites Dauger Research to present on "Bridging the Scientifically Complex to the Mainstream" at 4 pm on November 28, 2007. If you're in the Portland area, please attend!

SEM at Supercomputing 2007

Dauger Research — 2007-11-15 13:30

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR present the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica in the Exhibitor Forum room A7 at Supercomputing 2007.

DR at Supercomputing 2007

Dauger Research — 2007-11-13 10:00

Advanced Cluster Systems and DR are present at booth #177 at Supercomputing 2007 on the Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica. Please come by to say hello!

Multicore Eroding Moore's Law

Dauger Research — 2007-10-10 12:00

MacResearch.org features an op/ed article Multicore Eroding Moore's Law questioning the party line and highlighting the what multicore really means for the computer industry.

Digital Production BuZZ Interview

Dauger Research — 2007-8-23 18:00

On Thursday, August 23, at 6 pm California time, the Digital Production BuZZ radio show interviews Dauger Research about how the Pooch cluster computing solution would be ideal to help applications processing video for compression, video editing, and more.

CLCAR Keynote Paper Online

Dauger Research — 2007-8-16 05:30

The Latinoamerican conference on HPC, CLCAR, in Santa Marta, Colombia, includes an invited presentation by Dauger Research on Computo de Cluster "Enchufar y Listo". Abstracts in Spanish and English are now available online.

Hollywood Presentation at MGLA

Dauger Research — 2007-7-09 08:00

Presenting in Hollywood at MGLA in the Barnsdall Art Park, Dauger Research shares how it uses clusters to accelerate video compression. Starting in the evening, the meeting includes our participation after Apple's presentation of Motion 3. We also contribute to the many door prizes, so please come if your in the Los Angeles area!

Video Compression on Clusters Updated

Dauger Research — 2007-6-11 08:00

Dauger Research announces video compression technology using clusters updated at WWDC 2007, enabling multiple movie sizes to be compressed at once, accelerating throughput of content delivery faster than any other on general-purpose hardware.

WWDC 2007 Presentation

Dauger Research — 2007-6-1 08:00

Dauger Research presents at WWDC 2007 Scientific Poster Session on bringing HPC to the mainstream, with specific applications to Mathematica and Final Cut Pro via QuickTime H.264 encoding.

CLCAR Keynote Speaker Invite

Dauger Research — 2007-5-1 08:00

The Latinoamerican conference on HPC, CLCAR, in Colombia has invited Dauger Research to provide a keynote speaker on Computo de Cluster "Enchufar y Listo".

Pooch QuickTime Exporter v1.1 Update

Dauger Research — 2007-4-19 10:00

Version 1.1 of the cluster video compression technology adds Apple TV-optimized presets using H.264 and MPEG-4 settings with AAC and more.

New Cluster Video Compression Technology Released

Dauger Research — 2007-1-9 20:00

Dauger Research releases a new QuickTime plug-in to compress video on Mac clusters for commercial video editing apps like iMovie and Final Cut Pro.

Podcast Video of PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica

Dauger Research — 2006-12-13 12:00

Video of Presentation given PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica at Wolfram Technology Conference by Advanced Cluster Systems and Dauger Research posted online and as a iTunes video podcast

SC06 Minority Outreach Program

Dauger Research — 2006-11-14 12:30

Professor Floyd James of North Carolina A&T presents Dauger Research technology at 3:30 pm on November 14 at the Minority Outreach Program booth at Supercomputing 2006 in Tampa.

Seminar at Occidental College

Dauger Research — 2006-11-7 16:30

Occidental College Physics invites Dauger Research to present on "Bridging the Scientifically Complex to the Mainstream" at 4:30 pm on November 7, 2006. If you're in Southern California, please attend!

Wolfram Conference 2006

Dauger Research — 2006-10-12 12:00

Advanced Cluster Systems and Dauger Research presents the PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica at 2 pm Thursday at the Wolfram Technology Conference 2006.

QuickTime Compression on Clusters in Beta

Dauger Research — 2006-10-9 10:00

Dauger Research debuts a QuickTime plug-in to compress video on Mac clusters as a beta for commercial video editing apps.

PoochMPI for Mathematica

Dauger Research — 2006-8-7 10:00

PoochMPI Toolkit for Mathematica combines Wolfram Research's Mathematica with the easy-to-use, supercomputer-compatible Pooch clustering technology of Dauger Research.

DR Presents at WWDC 2006

Dauger Research — 2006-8-2 10:00

At WWDC 2006's first-ever science poster session, DR will be presenting on how the Pooch clustering solution helps modeling of multiparticle quantum systems. See the sessions on Wed at 7pm, Thurs at 9am, and in the podcast!

DR Goes Universal

Dauger Research — 2006-5-18 9:00

Entire DR product line released as Universal. Both its parallel computing technology and its scientific simulation and visualization technology today run as Universal Applications on Macs powered with PowerPC or Intel.

WWDC 2006 Sites DR

Dauger Research — 2006-5-23 10:00

"Make Powerful Connections" with Dauger Research - Apple's latest web and email publicity centered around developer testimonials pictures Dauger Research in San Francisco.

Pooch 1.7 Supports Universal Clustering

Dauger Research — 2006-5-17 15:00

New Pooch 1.7 goes Universal! It's also the first to support launching Universal Applications in parallel on mixed clusters of Intel and PowerPC Macs. With a host of new features, this Pooch changes the clustering world.

Parallel Computing Manager Debut

Dauger Research — 2006-5-17 9:00

Parallel Computing Manager cluster software introduced for running and and managing clusters in the enterprise. PCM is an unmatched combination of powerful tools to manage and maintain cluster resources, maximizing the power of cluster computing for its corporate and institutional clients. Today PCM debuts as a Universal Application.

DR in MacTech Magazine

Dauger Research — 2006-2-23 10:00

MacTech's February 2006 feature article cites Pooch and Dauger Research. This magazine, focused on Macintosh developers, spotlights an example of high-performance computing.

DR Releases Pooch 1.6.5

Dauger Research — 2006-1-18 22:00

Pooch v1.6.5 ships today! This update to the Pooch family includes new scripting and user database access to Pooch Pro for administrators.

Frank Peters Podcast Interviews DR

Dauger Research — 2006-1-9 22:00

The Frank Peters Show interview of DR about our technologies in high-performance computing with a discussion of industry trends is available today! This podcast is part of a series "Interviewing the Titans of Industry".

JCP Publishes New Quantum Article

Dauger Research — 2005-11-20 09:00

In the Journal of Computational Physics, a new article on a technique utilizing HPC to model complex, dynamic quantum systems based on Feynman path integrals is published.

DR Website Update

Dauger Research — 2005-10-03 09:00

The Dauger Research gets a full update, featuring an all-new DR Vault and a cross-linked Pooch web site.

Omneta Chooses Dauger Research's Pooch Pro

Dauger Research — 2005-09-21 09:00

Omneta selects Pooch Pro, clustering technology of Dauger Research, Inc., to run its distributed supercomputer cluster. Dauger Research's Pooch technology form the software backbone of their supercomputer and the basis for Omneta's RAP ("Rent-A-Processor") services.

DR to Speak at UC Irvine at Apple HPC Briefing

Dauger Research — 2005-06-20 09:00

At a special HPC Briefing at UC Irvine, Apple invites Dauger Research to speak on Pooch and high-performance computing with Mac clusters. Demonstrations of Pooch will be provided. These presentations are inspired by the success of DR's appearance at WWDC 2004 and 2005 and in Apple's Seminar Series on HPC. Starts on June 22 at 9 am in the University Club Library.

Apple Invites DR to Speak at WWDC 2005

Dauger Research — 2005-06-01

At WWDC 2005, Apple invites Dauger Research to speak on Tuesday at 3:30 in Session 606: "Mac OS X and Scientific Computing" and demonstrate how the Pooch clustering solution inspires scientific users and developers to excel on the platform. Motivated by the success of DR's presentations at WWDC 2004 and in Apple's Seminar Series on HPC, this session is hosted by Apple's Senior VP of Software Engineering, Dr. Bud Tribble.

New Pooch v1.6 Taps Tiger, Grid, and Web

DR's Pooch Team — 2005-05-10

DR releases v1.6 of Pooch and Pooch Pro clustering software today. Leveraging new technologies introduced with OS X "Tiger", the Pooch family introduces new enhancements, including "playlist"-like node lists and network tools, enriching the user experience of supercomputer-compatible cluster computing. Long recognized as a leader in cluster solution providers, Dauger Research delivers the latest powerful tools to manage and maintain cluster resources.

"Keeping America Strong" Award Goes to DR

Dauger Research — 2005-05-02

Dauger Research, Inc., is the proud recipient of the "Keeping America Strong" award, part of a special television broadcast hosted by William Shatner. This production is one of a "Heartbeat of America" TV series focusing on innovative small businesses performing breakthrough work. The program features interviews by Doug Llewelyn, well-known as "The People's Court" reporter, of the team running Dauger Research, with a special focus on the only easy-to-use yet supercomputer-compatible cluster computing solution.

DR to Present at WWDC 2005

Dauger Research — 2005-05-01

MacEnterprise is hosting a special MacEnterprise Day on Sunday, June 5, in San Francisco in connection with WWDC 2005. One of the tracks in their "Thinking Outside the Box" Presentation series is on Parallel Computing Software for OS X, where Dauger Research is presenting.

DR to Present at ICCS 2005

Dauger Research — 2005-04-30

In Atlanta, Georgia, Emory University hosts the 2005 International Conference on Computational Science aiming to bring together scientists of all disciplines to discuss problems and solutions for research utilizing computation. Glad to be part of the program, Dauger Research is speaking in a workshop on "Plug-and-Play" Cluster Computing: HPC Designed for the Mainstream Scientist at 3:40 pm on Monday, May 23. If you are in the area, please attend.

Apple Seminar Series on HPC featuring Dauger Research Continues into Week 7

Dauger Research — 2005-04-25

Apple invited Dauger Research to present as part of the Apple Seminar Series, presenting the Pooch Application and code optimization techniques for high-performance computing. This series, "Apple and High Performance Computing", inspired by the success at Dauger Research's presentation at WWDC 2004, continues.

CiSE Cluster Issue Publishes "Must-Read" Article on Mac Clustering

Dauger Research — 2005-04-02

Computing in Science and Engineering, a joint publication of IEEE and the American Institute of Physics, just published a special issue (March/April 2005) focused on Cluster Computing. "This article is a must-read for anyone who wants to apply clustering ... but faces limited resources for actually managing the cluster." - Guest Editor's Introduction

"Dawson" Cluster exceeds a TeraFlop using 256 2-GHz G5's

Dauger Research — 2005-01-11

Dauger Research, Inc., announces today that a new milestone for cluster computing and the Macintosh platform has been accomplished. Software written by researchers at Dauger Research and the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) achieved 1.21 trillion floating-point operations per second on a cluster of 128 Dual-Processor Xserve G5s.

"Plug and Play" Cluster Solution Adds Support for LAM/MPI and Myrinet hardware

Dauger Research — 2004-09-21

DR ships version 1.5.5 of Pooch, the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. This version introduces new technologies to access and run clusters behind firewalls and automatically access job output. In addition, it adds support for the use of Myrinet hardware from Myricom and the open-source LAM/MPI implementation.

"Plug and Play" Cluster Software's Pro Version Debuts

Dauger Research — 2004-06-28

While releasing version 1.5 of Pooch, Dauger Research, Inc., debuts Pooch Pro, an enhanced version of the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. Pooch Pro debuts new supercomputer-level capabilities to administrate and control cluster resources. Pooch Pro provides an unprecedented and unmatched combination of powerful management and maintenance of cluster resources with a modern, drag-and-drop, graphical user interface. With its intuitive dynamic job queue and scheduling system, this new version of Pooch makes supercomputing capabilities accessible, maximizing the power of clusters for its users.

Dauger Research Exhibits and Presents Cluster Computing at Apple's 2004 Developer Conference

Dauger Research — 2004-06-21

Visit the Dauger Research Booth of WWDC 2004! On June 28-30, 2004, Dauger Research exhibits the latest in easy-to-use, supercomputer-compatible cluster computing at Apple's Developer Conference held in San Francisco, California. In addition, Apple has invited Dauger Research to present in their High-Performance Computing track! Dr. Dauger will be a guest speaker at Session 642: "HPC Software Optimization" on Thursday at 2 pm. - Don't miss this session!

"Plug and Play" Cluster Solution Adds Queuing, Scheduling, and Sports Updated Graphical User Interface

Dauger Research — 2004-01-06

MACWORLD EXPO, San Francisco - DR delivers version 1.4 of Pooch. This version debuts a new graphically-based, dynamic job queue and scheduling system taking advantage of Pooch's built-in heuristic functions and cluster diagnostics. It also sports an updated graphical user interface taking advantage of features introduced in Panther, Apple's latest Mac OS X. From Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations: "Leveraging the power of the Macintosh platform, Pooch 1.4 delivers easy to use software for numerically-intensive parallel computing."

Dauger Research Exhibits at SuperComputing 2003

Dauger Research — 2003-11-17

Dauger Research at the Apple Booth of SuperComputing 2003! Apple Computer invited Dauger Research to exhibit the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application and the latest news regarding powerful, easy-to-use cluster computing at the SuperComputing held on November 17-20, 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Dauger Research manned its station for the duration of the exhibition.

New Discussions and Tutorials Introduces Users to Parallel Computing

Dauger Research — 2003-09-01

By creating and supporting Pooch, we hope to make parallel computing accessible to the user. In this spirit, we have written a new series of discussions and tutorials and posted them on the Pooch web site. We encourage you to begin with the Parallelization page, introducing the issues involved with designing and writing parallel code, then see how these concepts apply to three example codes: Parallel Knock, Parallel Adder, and Parallel Pascal's Triangle. You are welcome to download and examine the source code in these examples.

Pooch Taps Unused Cycles and Extends Command-Line Support

Dauger Research — 2003-06-20

Huntington Beach, California, USA - Dauger Research, Inc., is shipping version 1.3.5 of Pooch, the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. This version debuts new features designed to take advantage of the untapped power of a Mac computer lab or other administered environment. It also extends its command-line support with a new suite of command-line tools and the ability to install Pooch via a command line, capabilites designed for the Compute Node Xserve.

Dauger Research debuts its new online store

Dauger Research — 2003-06-10

The Dauger Research Store is open for business! Customers can now order software products of Dauger Research using secure, online ordering.

Atom in a Box referenced in Physics Today

Dauger Research — 2003-05-00

Physics Today published an article by Professor Frank Wilczek of MIT that references Atom in a Box. While emphasizing the beauty of quantum mechanical theories, he says to the reader, "let me urge you to contemplate the wave-mechanical hydrogen atom, using Dauger's remarkable shareware 'Atom in a Box'. ... [it] represents a deep aspect of reality." The article appears on page 11 in the Reference Frame section of the May 2003 issue of Physics Today. We thank Professor Wilczek for his software registration and kind comments!

Dauger Research Presents at FOSE 2003

Dauger Research — 2003-04-08

Dauger Research at the Apple Booth of FOSE 2003! At the invitation of Apple Computer, Dr. Dean Dauger of Dauger Research presented Pooch, the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application, and the latest news regarding powerful, easy-to-use cluster computing at FOSE, the information technology expo for the government marketplace held on April 8-10, 2003, in Washington, D. C. The presentation was scheduled for Wednesday, April 9, and the Dauger Research station was manned for the duration of the show. We also demonstrated Pooch for those who visit the Dauger Research station!

Xserve Cluster achieves over 1/5 TeraFlop using 66 1-GHz G4's

Dauger Research — 2002-11-14

Huntington Beach, California, USA - Dauger Research, Inc., announces today that a milestone for cluster computing and the Macintosh platform has been accomplished. Software written by researchers at Dauger Research and the University of California, Los Angeles, achieved over 217 billion floating-point operations per second on a cluster of 33 Xserves.

Review of Mathematica 4.2 Posted on AppleLust

Dauger Research — 2002-10-24

The President of Dauger Research reviews the latest update to Wolfram Research's symbolic and technical mathematics package. On the AppleLust web site, Dr. Dean Dauger of Dauger Research and Pooch fame reviews the latest update to the symbolic and technical mathematics package, Mathematica 4.2.

"Plug and Play" Parallel Computing Combines Rendezvous, Multiprocessing, and Cluster Computing

Dauger Research — 2002-10-16

Huntington Beach, California, USA - Dauger Research, Inc., has shipped version 1.3 of Pooch, the Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. The latest version of the cluster management software now enables application writers to take advantage of multiprocessor Macs and cluster computing using just one API.

USC 76-Node Macintosh Cluster Achieves 233 GigaFlops

Dauger Research — 2002-01-11

Los Angeles, California, USA - Researchers and staff at the University of Southern California (USC) collaborated with scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) to achieve a milestone for cluster computing and the Macintosh platform. Software from Dauger Research, Inc., and UCLA achieved 233 Gigaflops on a Macintosh cluster at USC's Language Arts computer lab and other USC facilities.