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Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

Supercomputer specialist Cray has been given $97m to upgrade the US's most powerful supercomputer, Jaguar, to a new petascale system named Titan that could take the Top500 lead Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Linux-based PlayStation grid is no game

...most powerful in the world. According to the New York Times, the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois assembled the... Read more

28 May, 2003 by Winston Chai

Supercomputing centre powers up

The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, one of the larger buyers of supercomputers, said... Read more

14 July, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Linux-based super computer for science from IBM

IBM has joined forces with the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), based at Illinois University, to create the... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

IBM dominates supercomputing list

...own engineering abilities, build the No. 5 system called Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. Clusters, which also can be assembled from higher... Read more

22 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Linux supercomputer to simulate space for NASA

...cluster had been a 1,024-processor system being built for the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. The NASA agreement also further cements the role... Read more

28 July, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

Red Hat tips communal storage

...used on a 2,500-processor cluster supercomputer called Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. Tungsten is currently ranked the fifth-fastest supercomputer... Read more

25 June, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact

...They are getting serious traction," said Robert Pennington, interim director of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. "There were a couple of small companies trying... Read more

18 May, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Small firm creates supercomputer Thunder

...They are getting serious traction," said Robert Pennington, interim director of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. "There were a couple of small companies trying... Read more

11 May, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Internet2 sets new speed record

...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... Read more

21 April, 2004 by Marguerite Reardon

Linux aims for ease of use

LinuxWorld: The next key battle for Linux may not be legal but practical, as the open-source operating system tries to make itself more user-friendly Read more

5 August, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium

...by the National Science Foundation and is a joint project of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, the San Diego Supercomputing Centre, Argonne National Laboratory... Read more

26 March, 2003 by Sandeep Junnarkar

IBM to build Europe's biggest supercomputer

The supercomputer, capable of performing 3.6trillion calculations per second, is due to be switched on by the end of 2002 Read more

18 May, 2001 by Peter Galli

Itanium stays in beta

The first IA-64 systems are shipping this summer, but they won't get much farther than development labs Read more

11 May, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

BT's hyperlink? Don't believe the hypertext

...the forerunner of Netscape and Internet Explorer -- coming along from the American National Centre for Supercomputing Applications in 1993. Looking closely at BT's patent... Read more

20 June, 2000 by Rupert Goodwins

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