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China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...which were developed by Dongarra, measure the floating-point computing power of high-performance systems. HPL is a software package that is an implementation of... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU?

...In the world of high-performance computing, graphics processing units are the talk of the town. But... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...boost after the European Commission announced plans to double its funding of high-performance computing. Annual investment in supercomputing equipment, training and research will go... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

UK to spend £145m on computing infrastructure

...has earmarked £145m for improvements on the country's e-infrastructure and high-performance computing, in the hope the technologies will spur business growth. Science... Read more

3 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

HP creates GPU server for high-performance needs

...them capable of improving graphics performance. They are also useful for cheap high-performance computing (HPC) and for emerging business needs such as cloud computing... Read more

6 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

Intel buys supercomputing network tech from Cray

...broadening our relationship with Intel, we are positioned to further penetrate the [high-performance computing] market," said Peter Ungaro, president and chief executive of Cray... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

Government details £158m pot for science IT

...it will invest £158m in IT infrastructure, including data storage, networks and high-performance computing, to support research institutions and industry. Announcing the move on... Read more

5 December, 2011 by Staff

IBM and Micron team up on fast memory chip

...Initially, the technology will be used in areas such as networking and high-performance computing, but Micron and IBM say it will eventually appear in... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Intel pins exascale dreams to Knights Ferry

...of the mainframe. – Kirk Skaugen, Intel Skaugen said he doubts Intel's high-performance computing (HPC) competitors, such as IBM with its Power7 chip architecture... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Scientist predicts digital brain by 2023

...developing a system to allow global researchers to access both the HPC (high-performance computing) system that will underpin the simulation, and the brain itself... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, is three times faster on the Linpack high-performance computing (HPC) benchmark than last November's winner, the Tianhe-1A... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...Cray has married GPUs and CPUs to create the XK6 high-performance computer, which it says is capable of scaling up to 50... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Lack of training hinders GPU adoption in HPC

...key obstacles hindering wider adoption of computation on graphics processing units in high-performance computing, an Nvidia executive has said. Simon See, chief solution architect... Read more

13 May, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing
By the numbers: PGS datacentre

By the numbers: PGS datacentre

...processing hall in Petroleum Geo-Services' Weybridge-based megacentre is geared towards high-performance computing scale jobs, crunching data gathered by an ocean-going fleet... Read more

28 February, 2011 by Jack Clark
Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

Nvidia looks to the future of GPU computing

...a car designer and a Tesla session for someone who's doing high-performance computing — and any combination of that mixture. That's the future... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

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