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Small firm creates supercomputer Thunder

...a company with about as many employees as a real-estate office. California Digital, a 55-person company located on the outskirts of Silicon Valley... Read more

11 May, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

IBM dominates supercomputing list

...powerful supercomputers, as of June 2004: 1: NEC's Earth Simulator 2: California Digital's Thunder at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 3: Hewlett-Packard's... Read more

22 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact

...Srinidhi Varadarajan, the brains behind Virginia Tech's cluster, also serves as California Digital's chief technology officer.) Many of these cluster contracts still go... Read more

18 May, 2004 by Michael Kanellos
It's the end of your data as you know it

It's the end of your data as you know it

What's the lifespan of digital media — five, 10, 50 years? The truth is that no-one really knows, and that has left a lot of experts worried Read more

23 April, 2007 by Matthew Broersma

Google to digitise books from University of California

...Internet Archive, Yahoo and Microsoft. Jennifer Colvin, strategic communications manager at the California Digital Library, which works on digitisation projects for the UC school system... Read more

9 August, 2006 by Elinor Mills

Nocona leads Intel's charge into 64-bit

The first servers to use Intel Xeon chips with 64-bit extensions will be announced on Monday Read more

2 August, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers

...said. And Linux is popular on clusters, too. No. 2 system "Thunder," California Digital's 4,096-processor machine built for the Lawrence Livermore National... Read more

24 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Chinese supercomputer heads towards top of rankings

...list," Ludden said. A likely candidate for the upcoming June list, a California Digital system called Thunder at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has more than... Read more

4 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Intel plans supercomputing push

...Thunder cluster, for instance, is a four-processor, Itanium 2 server from California Digital. The machine is expected to take only five months to build... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

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