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<endeca_term>Supercomputing</endeca_term>'s future: Is it CPU or GPU

Supercomputing's future: Is it CPU or GPU

...parallel, scalable and robust software development. Jones is well known in the supercomputing community. He is a former head of HPC at the University of... Read more

16 June, 2010 by Andrew Jones
Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...performing supercomputer in the world on Monday, as determined by the Top500 Supercomputing List. The K Computer, which is housed at the Riken Advanced Institute... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

Nvidia boss: Power limits shape supercomputing

...used in high-performance computing. One of the primary reasons the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre chose to build its system with Nvidia's GPUs and ARM... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
Is power-hungry <endeca_term>supercomputing</endeca_term> OK now

Is power-hungry supercomputing OK now

...supercomputers for The Exascale Report, a magazine focused on the evolution of supercomputing and the targeted 1,000-fold increase in compute power in the... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Andrew Jones

Wales gets £40m for supercomputing project

...Wales is set to receive £40m to build supercomputing resources for research use by businesses and universities in the region. The... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

IBM shows off one terabit per second 'Holey Optochip'

...the chip eventually scales — could provide a bandwidth boost that alters the supercomputing and datacentre landscape. Scientists from IBM presented the prototype at the Optical... Read more

9 March, 2012 by Larry Dignan

MPs: Met Office needs more powerful supercomputer

...offer better climate models and weather forecasting, but does not have the supercomputing power to run these models, Science and Technology Committee MPs wrote in... Read more

21 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...Supercomputing in Europe is set to get a boost after the European Commission... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Welsh HPC grid project signs £15m deal with Fujitsu

...Fujitsu to provide IT hardware, software and consultancy for a Welsh distributed supercomputing grid. HPC Wales has signed a £15m IT deal with Fujitsu to... Read more

22 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM exec: China to overtake Europe in supercomputing

...China is poised to eclipse Europe in supercomputing as countries compete to gain ground on the US, according to IBM... Read more

26 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Intel buys supercomputing network tech from Cray

The company is to purchase Cray's high-speed interconnect technology and related intellectual property Read more

25 April, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

IBM's third-generation Blue Gene aims for 100 petaflops

...IBM has revealed a supercomputing architecture that can reach 100 petaflops, 10 times more powerful than the... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

US links supercomputers at 100 gigabits a second

...supercomputers at DOE national labs was announced on Monday at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle.Energy secretary Steven Chu said the $62m (£39m) project... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Europe taps Nvidia for ARM-based supercomputer

...in 2011. The Mont-Blanc project is being led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. The scheme has three main objectives: to design an exascale computer... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...The US is fighting back for pole position in global supercomputing, after seeing its lead lost first to China, then Japan. The US... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

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