Academics Search For Clues After Supercomputer Attacks
News The attacks compromised servers at several supercomputing labs and universities, including the San Diego Supercomputing Centre, the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications and Stanford University.
[April 16, 2004, 10:20]
Supercomputing Centre Powers Up
News The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications, one of the larger buyers of supercomputers, said on Tuesday that it has purchased an SGI supercomputer called Cobalt that will contain 1,024 Itanium 2 processors, three terabytes of memory and...
[July 14, 2004, 9:30]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News Until now, SGI's largest-announced Linux cluster had been a 1,024-processor system being built for the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. SGI said it has already delivered the first three of the new Altix systems to NASA's Ames Centre...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
SuSE Tailors Linux For Itanium
News The TeraGrid is funded 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 and the California Institute of Technology.
[March 26, 2003, 15:18]
Supercomputing: Small Firms Making A Big Impact
News They are getting serious traction," said Robert Pennington, interim director of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron...
[May 18, 2004, 11:35]
Small Firm Creates Supercomputer Thunder
News They are getting serious traction," said Robert Pennington, interim director of the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. Utah's Linux Networx, for instance, is building two supercomputing clusters based on Advanced Micro Devices...
[May 11, 2004, 10:30]
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 Dominates Supercomputing List
News Dell's Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications And clusters let Dell, a company better known for its reliance on Intel and Microsoft research than its own engineering abilities, build the No.system called Tungsten at the...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Microsoft To Open Source? Not Likely...
News Instead, the more than 50 licenses it has with universities and government labs -- including the Sandia National Laboratories and the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications -- have enabled researchers working on "cutting-edge computer...
[April 9, 1999, 15:07]
Linux-based PlayStation Grid Is No Game
News According to the New York Times, the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois assembled the $50,000 (£30,000) machine out of components bought in retail shops.
[May 28, 2003, 8:52]
Red Hat Tips Communal Storage
News Lustre also is used on a 2,500-processor cluster supercomputer called Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. The software employs the open-source Lustre project, is geared for high-performance computing tasks and is used...
[June 25, 2004, 14:45]
IBM To Build Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News In January, IBM and the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced they were working together to create the world's fastest Linux supercomputer in academia.
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
Itanium Stays In Beta
News In keeping with the early-adopter theme, one of IBM's first customers for the workstation will be the US' National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Two key elements will be missing from Itanium products when they first ship, a large...
[May 11, 2001, 15:35]
Microsoft Explores Office Of The Future
News See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything from MP3 players and PDAs to supercomputing. Potential applications include a videoconferencing situation where several people seated around a table need to be featured on the...
[September 27, 2002, 15:00]
BT's Hyperlink? Don't Believe The Hypertext
News Berners-Lee wrote the first Web browser and Web server programs on his NeXT Cube, with Mosaic -- the forerunner of Netscape and Internet Explorer -- coming along from the American National Centre for Supercomputing Applications in 1993.
[June 20, 2000, 13:37]
Xbox Clusters Up At Linux Expo
News The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois has built a 65-node Linux cluster with PlayStation2 consoles Microsoft may have failed to occupy the stand it booked at this year's Linux Expo in London's Olympia conference...
[October 10, 2003, 10:30]
