The Advanced Clustering Technologies booth is set up and ready to roll at the 2011 Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium. If you're here today, stop by to see our AMD and Intel-based systems and learn more about our custom HPC solutions.

Couldn't make it to Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium this year? Come by our booth #2507 at SC11 next month in Seattle.

We're gearing up for our trip to the SC11 expo in Seattle, November 14-17th. Be sure to stop by our booth #2507 to see our turnkey high performance computing hardware up close and in person.

What else can you expect at this year's expo? Check out the Scientific Computing World preview for a sneak peek.

NASA announced an International Space Apps Challenge planned for 2012:

Demonstrating its commitment to the Open Government Partnership, NASA will work with space agencies around the world to coordinate an International Space Apps Challenge to be held in 2012 that will encourage scientists and concerned citizens from all seven continents – and in space – to create, build, and invent new solutions in order to address challenges of global importance.

Keep an eye on the challenge website for updates and more details as they become available, or sign up on the site to be updated via email.

Supercomputer simulations done by a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences identifies Sagittarius as the architect of spiral structure in our Milky Way. Read the article How the Milky Way Got Its Spiral on Spacedaily.com to learn more about the study findings.