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SGI to announce high performance Linux project
News Silicon Graphics has begun work on an open-source version of a development tool for high-performance computing programmers that has been available only as a proprietary product, the company plans to announce on Thursday.
[October 21, 2004, 12:45]
Sun touts high-performance computing for Web 2.0
News At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are benefiting from high...
[April 28, 2008, 13:47]
NetApp aims to marry high performance and high capacity
News The launch of Ontap GX comes two and a half years after NetApp bought Spinnaker Networks, the high-performance storage software specialist, for $300m (£163m). Ontap GX aims to offer access to mass storage that can be accessed and moved quickly, and...
[June 12, 2006, 15:10]
SGI releases Itanium friendly servers
News Computer manufacturer SGI launches a new range of high-performance servers Tuesday that it believes will make for a smooth transition towards the Itanium processor. Numaflex technology allows users to build these high-performance computers out of...
[July 26, 2000, 14:03]
PC makers rev up 3GHz releases
News Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. But building high-end desktop is still worth the effort for manufacturers, as the high-end PCs are generally more profitable than are more...
[November 12, 2002, 15:46]
Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier
News Intel's new 3GHz Pentium 4 chip should soon let loose a torrent of new, high-performance desktop PCs. But building high-end desktop is still worth the effort for manufacturers, as the high-end PCs are generally more profitable than are more...
[November 13, 2002, 7:39]
Intel delays new P4 due to 'anomalies'
News A possible glitch with its new processor has thrown a monkey wrench into Intel's plans to bring out new high-performance chips for top-of-the-line PCs. Boosting the performance of a chipset improves the performance of a PC.
[April 14, 2003, 14:05]
RNA launches memory-virtualisation software
News RNA Networks, a start-up company based in Oregon, has launched what it claims to be the first high-performance networked virtual memory system. With this capability, organisations can potentially use a very large amount of memory to improve...
[February 4, 2009, 16:19]
Is supercomputing just about performance?
News HPC: does it stand for high-performance computing, or is it high-powered? Originally the P in HPC stood for 'performance' and, to professionals in the field HPC will always mean 'high-performance computing' also known as supercomputing.
[October 30, 2008, 15:49]
Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters
News Quadrics, a company that sells networking gear to link lower-end machines into a cluster that acts like a single high-performance computer, has begun selling its newest technology to smaller customers.
[June 3, 2004, 8:50]
Sun aims HPC at small organisations
News Sun on Tuesday introduced storage, cluster systems and software aimed at bringing its high-performance computing expertise to smaller organisations, departments and branch offices. Sun Storage Cluster is built on Sun Fire servers and hybrid data...
[November 19, 2008, 12:56]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft.
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
HP takes aim at 'scale-out' datacentres
News HP has joined Dell, IBM and SGI in launching a range of products tailored to cloud, Web 2.0 and high-performance computing. Scale-out computing uses very large numbers of small servers in a datacentre, an approach often favoured for high...
[June 12, 2009, 15:29]
Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers
News Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing -- a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming -- with a first version planned for the second half of 2005. But Microsoft has been "hot and cold, hot and cold, hot and cold...
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
Chinese supercomputer heads towards top of rankings
News A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing. They're expecting it to be in the top 15, based on...
[June 4, 2004, 9:20]
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing, a company that provides high-performance computing resources to researchers, scientists and engineers, has begun offering its services in the cloud. The most popular cloud infrastructures today, such as Amazon EC2, are not...
[August 13, 2009, 17:01]
SGI counts in Montecito
News Silicon Graphics plans to overhaul its high-performance Altix computers a year from now to accommodate dual-core Itanium processors from Intel. SGI, which specialises in machines for high-performance technical-computing jobs such as aerodynamics...
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
IBM puts Opteron on the rack
News IBM on Tuesday will give supercomputing aficionados a glimpse of an Opteron chip-based system that is geared for high-performance tasks. One difference between IBM's high-performance computing business and that of its competitors is its programme...
[June 24, 2003, 11:20]
Is there a supercomputer in your future?
News The High Performance Computing (HPC) division of NEC has created an interesting problem for IT managers looking for the future direction of big enterprise systems. System performance in a business environment
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
News Sun has updated its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage. The portfolio also gets an upgrade for Sun Studio 12, the company's high-performance parallel application development suite, and a...
[June 23, 2009, 13:23]
