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Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact
News They are getting serious traction," said Robert Pennington, interim director of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Supercomputing centre powers up
News The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, one of the larger buyers of supercomputers, said on Tuesday that it has purchased an SGI supercomputer called Cobalt that will contain 1,024 Itanium 2 processors, three terabytes of memory and...
[July 14, 2004, 9:30]
Sun starts pay-as-you-go supercomputing
News Sun Microsystems plans to announce a plan on Tuesday to let customers rent supercomputing power from the company's data centers, paying for exactly as much muscle as they need. The programme, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1 (55p) per...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
IBM cements its supercomputing dominance
News In the latest list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, released on Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, five of the top 10 systems are new to the list. Building one of the world's 10 fastest supercomputers...
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
AMD climbs supercomputing league table
News The number of systems using Intel processors dropped from 301 in June's version of the twice-yearly Top 500 supercomputer list to 263 on the new list, released at the SC06 supercomputing show in Florida on Monday.
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
TeraGrid supercomputing project expands
News In 2001, an alliance of academic supercomputing sites won a $53m NSF grant to build the Distributed Terascale Facility, known for short as the TeraGrid. Last year's design called for four computers with a total of 3,300 Itanium 2 processors, code...
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
News With the full configuration of 64 racks and roughly 131,072 processors, IBM hopes to achieve a speed of 360 trillion calculations per second -- 360 gigaflops in supercomputing argot. Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News The list, released twice each year on the eve of a supercomputing conference, shows the waxing and waning power of various manufacturers, the arrival of new technologies and the constantly increasing power of the world's number-crunching elite.
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
Linux to drive supercomputing cluster
News An Australian supercomputing consortium is poised to lease a Hewlett-Packard Itanium 2-based computing cluster to service a multi-year contract to assist car maker Holden in new vehicle design and development.
[May 20, 2003, 11:16]
IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Dell's Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee is working on a broader suite of tests so a government...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
HP dominates supercomputing leaderboard
News See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything from MP3 players and PDAs to supercomputing. Hewlett-Packard leads the herd with 159 systems on the list, which is set to be released on Monday, up from 137 six months ago.
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
Sun to shed light on supercomputing
News The companies plan to demonstrate a simple version of their technology at the SC05 supercomputing show in Seattle this week. Sun is looking to optical communications to carry out a radical supercomputer redesign.
[November 14, 2005, 8:35]
UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
News Microsoft is backing a UK universities project to research new ways of cutting the cost of supercomputing. Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing, which will look at cheaper ways of using supercomputing in areas including the aerospace...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
New boost for open-source supercomputing
News Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the collective computing power on computer networks, has signed a deal to commercialise an open-source supercomputing project. Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialise the...
[November 12, 2001, 14:41]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News The supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors, with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). The Evolocity cluster -- as it will be known -- will give Linux a...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat HPC Solution is Red Hat's attempt to take advantage of a growing market for supercomputing clusters, which are increasingly used by businesses for tasks requiring intensive computing power, such as data warehousing, line-of-business...
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide
News Its speed of 35.9 trillion calculations per second triggered US government fretting about the country's loss of the supercomputing crown. Congress is working on new bills that could increase supercomputing funding.
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Wales becomes supercomputing player
News The Welsh Assembly is putting supercomputing at the heart of a multi-million pound science and computing department announced last week. The facility, called the Institute of Life Science, is based at Swansea University and will receive £50m...
[January 11, 2005, 11:25]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News If InfiniBand catches on in supercomputing, it will threaten niche companies such as Myricom and Quadrics that currently sell proprietary networking hardware that does much the same thing as InfiniBand.
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
Powering up supercomputing
News How is that embodied in IBM's supercomputing research? Watson Research Center, is trying to take some of the pain out of supercomputing. Tilak Agerwala, vice president of systems at IBM's T.J. In a variety of projects with various universities and...
[December 18, 2003, 13:30]
