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How to build your own supercomputer, HP-style
News As ranked by standard benchmarks, I-Cluster is ranked 385th worldwide and 15th in France for supercomputing. This means that, unlike with other clustered supercomputing projects, an organisation like a business could theoretically use the I-Cluster...
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
'Big Mac' gets an upgrade
News Although System X is faster, it is unclear how well the new machine will rank given that a number of new contenders are expected to arrive before the list is made public at a supercomputing conference next month.
[October 26, 2004, 15:10]
Is there a supercomputer in your future?
News It will be running Linux for the general-purpose supercomputing and technical markets," he said, "but it can also run HP-UX and Microsoft's .Net environment. Indeed, it is a precursor of a growing trend toward finding the solutions for future...
[January 6, 2003, 11:55]
IBM offers supercomputers for hire
News IBM has put a top priority on high-performance technical computing, a market that includes supercomputing at its high-end extreme. Petroleum Geo-Services and Halliburton subsidiary Landmark Graphics are among about 20 customers for IBM's general...
[March 11, 2005, 8:10]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News Caltech is involved in building the TeraGrid supercomputing network, which connects the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputer Centre, Argonne National Laboratory, the Caltech Centre for Advanced Computing...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
IBM rents out supercomputer brawn
News Managing hundreds of computers that make up the supercomputing cluster is difficult, but IBM lets PGS handle many of the duties, Turek said. See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything from MP3 players and PDAs to...
[January 9, 2003, 8:10]
Processor speeds up HP's Unix servers
News The supercomputing systems typically consist of several Superdomes joined in a configuration called "Hyperplex" that uses a high-speed switch from Myricom. See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything from MP3 players and PDAs...
[June 24, 2002, 8:49]
Google uses toolbar to unlock genes
News Distributed computing is just one part of the overhaul of the supercomputing world. Yet distributed computing has given supercomputing efforts popular appeal. The Internet search company invited 500 people to try out a new version of its toolbar...
[March 25, 2002, 9:33]
Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News The labs are funded by the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to advance supercomputing using machines made of comparatively inexpensive components.
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
Apple eases closer to clusters
News The Mac maker's machines made a surprise leap into the upper reaches of the supercomputing realm last year, when researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University used 1,100 Power Mac G5s to create a cluster that eventually ranked...
[January 8, 2004, 8:15]
Linux Networx to unveil new cluster design
News The LS-1, to be announced at the SC05 supercomputing show in Seattle, is geared for less sophisticated users, said Ben Passarelli, vice-president of product marketing. At Seattle's supercomputing show, Linux Networx will show a visualisation...
[November 14, 2005, 9:25]
HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market
News There has been a range of new and improved products announced this week in advance of the International Supercomputing Conference, which opens in Dresden on Wednesday. Microsoft and HP announced on Tuesday an extension of their long-running...
[June 26, 2007, 14:03]
SGI supercomputer breaks speed record twice
News Full results in the closely watched competition are released every June and November at supercomputing conferences; the newest Top500 list will be released Nov.organiser Jack Dongarra said. Even as Silicon Graphics trumpeted on Tuesday a new speed...
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
US pumps $148m into grid project
News The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will spend $148m (£82.2m) more during the next five years to expand the Extensible Terascale Facility, a collection of interconnected supercomputing facilities also called the TeraGrid.
[August 23, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft drops Windows cluster bomb
News A Microsoft programmer said last month that the company was aiming to have Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition ready in time for a launch at the SC2005 supercomputing conference in November, with a beta version coming this summer.
[April 6, 2005, 9:00]
IBM's Blue Gene to hit the shelves
News Monday is also the opening day of the SC2004 supercomputing show in Pittsburgh. IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane. The machine began life as a research project in 2000, is currently the world's fastest supercomputer, and has only four...
[November 8, 2004, 13:53]
Novell Case Study: Tokyo Institute of Technology
White Papers TITech wanted to build its supercomputing capabilities by integrating disparate computing models and provide access to a broader group of users. Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of the world's leading science and technology universities.
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
IBM opens new research centre
News IBM has opened a new centre designed to combine supercomputing, advanced maths, data mining and management consulting to tackle complicated business problems. Big Blue appointed William R. Pulleyblank to lead the new Center for Business...
[September 29, 2004, 8:40]
PlayStation 3 chip to power supercomputers
News Hofstee said Cell taps into an emerging "convergence between what we think of as supercomputing and what we use in the entertainment space". The "Cell" processor that will power the next version of the PlayStation game console will also be...
[December 6, 2004, 7:35]
Intel Multi-Core Performance Helps Solve Large-Scale Science and Business Problems
White Papers Created in 1986 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the five original centers of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer Centers Program.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
