Supercomputing
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Personal supercomputing, anyone?
Insight perspective Personal supercomputing may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it definitely exists, says Andrew Jones.
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".
Tags: Supercomputing, Memory, NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Computing, e-mail, I/O, hard drive, high-performance, flash memory
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Procurement, Consulting, Jones, supercomputer, financial, shareholder, industry, agency, business case
Sun aims HPC at small organizations
News New storage, cluster systems and software aim to take high-performance computing to smaller organizations, departments and branch offices.
Tags: Supercomputing, SMB, Open-source Software, File System, Storage, Sun Fire, Sun Fire Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Storage Cluster, HPC Software Solaris Developer Edition Beta 1
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Pharmaceutical Company, Server, Hardware, processor, supercomputer, high-performance computing, Cambridge
Roadrunner pips Jaguar on supercomputer list
News Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list.
Tags: Supercomputing, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asia, Chip, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, supercomputer, U.S., barrier
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.
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, DARPA, Tool, 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.
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.
Tags: Supercomputing, Power supplies, surge suppression, ROI, Consulting, P, Jones, Power supplies, surge suppression, performance, Hardware, software
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Supercomputing, Cray Inc., software company, operating system, Server, supercomputer, ISV, Microsoft Windows, leader
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News The Linux leader aims to make more of a dent in the high-performance-computing market with a platform it claims can be up and running in under an hour.
Tags: Supercomputing, Linux, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., data warehouse, software, job, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
