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InfiniBand backer Voltaire files for IPO
News Several major companies, including Intel and IBM, once envisioned InfiniBand as a general-purpose server communication technology, but instead it has found its main niche linking numerous servers together into high-performance technical computing...
[July 11, 2007, 8:56]
AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News According to PC makers, the computing public's hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner rather than later, be surpassed by even more powerful chips.
[March 9, 2000, 9:12]
Bright new future of multicore, circa 1994
Blog As the article says, in Deutchglish via the fine offices of Google translation, "For the "Visual Computing" and in a later version for High Performance Computing is thought Larrabee, a processor, which has so far received 16 to 24 seeds traded...
[July 9, 2008, 13:58]
Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters
News While Linux is popular in the high-performance computing cluster market, Microsoft is working to make its Windows operating system competitive in the market. Quadrics, a company that sells networking gear to link lower-end machines into a cluster...
[June 3, 2004, 8:50]
Weaving grid computing into Web services
News The same notions that came out of the high-performance technical computing community could be put into place for other purposes such as support of e-business and Web services," said IDC analyst Jean Bozman.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Cisco buys Topspin
News These "server fabric switches" are designed to provide data centres with high-performance networking service in areas such as grid computing, clustered applications and server virtualisation. The acquisition gives the networking giant access to...
[April 15, 2005, 9:35]
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition review
Reviews Unaware of ATI's new specs, we feared these extreme wattage demands represented the beginning of a cumbersome new era in performance computing, one bristling with heat sinks, nitrogen cooling, and mini-van-size PC cases.
[May 5, 2004, 9:30]
UK e-science centre pushes grid computing
News Among its activities, the centre will host the Fifth Global Grid Forum and the eleventh IEEE conference on High Performance Distributed Computing in July. The government believes that research is increasingly shifting toward the use of high-speed...
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
A Year Ago: AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News According to PC makers, the computing public's hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner rather than later, be surpassed by even more powerful chips.
[March 9, 2001, 6:00]
Chip wars: Is there life after 1GHz?
News According to PC makers, the computing public's hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner rather than later, be surpassed by even more powerful chips.
[March 8, 2000, 8:59]
Dual-core servers review
Reviews This power can be used to full advantage for consolidation and virtualisation projects, as well as for high-performance clustering and grid computing applications. Add in other recent technological advances such as bigger cache sizes, plus faster...
[February 26, 2007, 15:21]
AMD upgrades Opterons
News To date, the chip has seen a string of wins in supercomputers and also high-performance computing clusters. IT managers, small and medium businesses and workstation users are increasingly interested in products that meet their immediate needs for...
[November 17, 2003, 16:45]
US Army contractor buys Mac supercomputer
News Hewlett-Packard and IBM dominate the market for high-performance technical computing, with sales of $1.79bn and $1.62bn, respectively, in 2003, according to researcher IDC. A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
Never mind Dempsey, here are the Woodcrest numbers
News Woodcrest, the first server processor that will be released using Intel's new Core architecture, posted better results than AMD's Opteron 285 processor on several general-purpose server benchmarks developed by industry consortiums such as the SPEC...
[May 24, 2006, 10:25]
Rackable takes SGI name after purchase
News The new SGI's portfolio will include high-performance products for medium- and large-scale datacentres and high-performance computing (HPC). The datacentre hardware specialist Rackable Systems is to adopt SGI as its new name across the globe, after...
[May 12, 2009, 13:05]
Cray moves into the lower echelons of the computing market
News Rivals include IBM and Hewlett-Packard, the two major suppliers of high-performance computing equipment, as well as Dell, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and NEC. Cray specialises in high-performance technical computers, but faces competition...
[October 5, 2004, 10:25]
HP to build Linux supercomputer
News This demonstrates to the world there is more than one top player in the high-performance computing space," Martin Fink, general manager of HP's Linux Systems Operation, said in a conference call after the announcement.
[April 17, 2002, 9:14]
AMD touts importance of 'balanced' platform
News Technology innovation from both AMD and ATI (which it acquired in 2006), said Hook, meant users get both performance gains in computing power and graphics rendering and displays at affordable prices. The future of computing is visual, AMD...
[April 30, 2008, 9:18]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News Today's PowerPC-based blades are used chiefly for high-performance technical computing tasks, but the ability to run i5/OS and to use mainstream Power processors is likely to mark a shift toward conventional business computing tasks.
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
Microsoft to deliver Unix conference keynote
News Green, Microsoft's local Unix Interoperability and High Performance Computing specialist, will update the conference on his company's "Unix and open source-related activities, including their efforts to provide a POSIX environment in Windows, and...
[October 13, 2005, 13:25]
