Supercomputing
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Intel, NEC team up to flex supercomputing might
News Both companies will jointly develop high-performance computing systems based on Intel processor to extend products to wider audience, say executives.
Tuesday, November 17 2009 07:11 PM
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Processors, NEC Corp., Richard Dracott, Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, Chip Company, processor, Supercomputing, supercomputer
Personal supercomputing, anyone?
Insight perspective Personal supercomputing may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it definitely exists, says Andrew Jones.
Monday, August 24 2009 11:54 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications, GPU, Consulting, Jones, Hardware, supercomputer, modeling, high-performance, desktop
APAC HPC users eye solid-state drives
News update Some supercomputing users in the region are trialing flash memory for added boost, says a vendor, but an analyst notes SSDs won't be common "anytime soon".
Tuesday, September 15 2009 07:52 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers
News At the Supercomputing 2009 conference, Microsoft releases an updated version of Windows Server for high-performance computers as well as a compute cluster version of its Excel spreadsheet.
Tuesday, November 17 2009 10:32 AM
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Linux server OS, Server platforms, Portland, Microsoft Corp., software, Conference, Server, Supercomputing, supercomputer
Cambridge takes supercomputing to the cloud
News The democratization of high performance computing gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer.
Tuesday, May 12 2009 09:47 AM
Tags: Supercomputing, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Pharmaceutical Company, Server, Hardware, processor, supercomputer, high-performance computing, Cambridge
Supercomputing budgets face financial storm
Insight perspective Rising budgets for high-performance computing projects are about to meet the chills of recession head on, and the consequences could harm benefits HPC can offer, says industry watcher.
Friday, November 21 2008 01:05 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Procurement, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, financial, shareholder, industry, agency, business case
Asia's 'bright' HPC future will take time
News Region's high-performance computing has promising future but it will take some time for Asia to catch up with the West, industry watchers say.
Friday, June 19 2009 07:10 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Cloud computing, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Region, Asia, India, Australia, Japan
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
News Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Friday, November 21 2008 03:40 AM
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Tool, DARPA, Computer, News.com, blog
Are supercomputers just better liars?
Insight Supercomputers may be far more powerful than ordinary machines, but that does not make their predictions infallible, says expert.
Wednesday, April 01 2009 09:24 AM
Tags: Supercomputing, R&D, Models, computer, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, high-performance computing, modeling, food
Is supercomputing just about performance?
Insight perspective Conflicting views on what that 'P' in 'HPC' really stands for, reflect important changes taking place within the field of supercomputing, says expert Andrew Jones.
Friday, November 07 2008 09:21 AM
Tags: Supercomputing, Power supplies, surge suppression, Consulting, P, Jones, Power supplies, surge suppression, performance, Hardware, software, software development
When supercomputing benchmarks fail to add up
Insight perspective Using benchmarks to choose a supercomputer is more complex than just picking the fastest system, says high-performance computing expert.
Sunday, July 05 2009 09:15 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Benchmarking, IT budgeting, Procurement, Consulting, Jones, performance, HotSpot, benchmarking, IT budgeting
What to do if your supercomputing supplier fails
Insight perspective High-performance computing providers often live on the edge--technologically and financially. But if your supplier fails, it need not be a disaster, says expert.
Sunday, February 08 2009 11:12 PM
Tags: Supercomputing, Financial, Risk Management, Supplier, Backup, Risk, QoS, Procurement, Consulting, Jones
IBM goes open source on supercomputers
News The company has integrated and open sourced a set of tools used on some of the world's top supercomputers.
Wednesday, August 06 2008 11:52 PM
Tags: Linux, Open source, Supercomputing, IBM Corp., IBM eServer BladeCenter, software, processor, supercomputer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux software
Cray turns to Windows for new supercomputer line
News The high-end computing specialist has announced it will use Microsoft's Windows HPC Server in a line of products aimed at universities, laboratories and departments within big businesses.
Wednesday, September 17 2008 06:28 AM
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Supercomputing, Cray Inc., software company, operating system, Server, supercomputer, ISV, Microsoft Windows, leader
Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500
News Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" finally bests IBM after three tries. The top 10, while still dominated by supercomputers housed in the U.S., had just one newcomer.
Tuesday, November 17 2009 10:39 AM
Tags: Supercomputing, Teraflop, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Sandia National Laboratories, Computer, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sun Microsystems Inc.




