Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters
Talkback Why the latched on comment about Microsoft? The only thing they offer in this area currently is vapourware.
[June 3, 2004, 9:21]
Supercomputer firm aims switch at smaller clusters
News The QsNetII E-series equipment was used in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Thunder supercomputer, made of 1,024 four-Itanium servers and completing 19.9 trillion calculations per second. Quadrics, a company that sells networking gear to...
[June 3, 2004, 8:50]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News Sun on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that company executives claim will vault the company back into the top ranks of supercomputer manufacturers. In the last Top 500 Supercomputer list, published in...
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer
White Papers University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. The University went out to tender for a new supercomputer, based on an EU procurement framework.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News Sun has shown more ambition than success with its supercomputer effort, though its presence on the Top500 list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers more than doubled from 37 systems in June 2002 to 88 this month.
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
IBM to build Europe's biggest supercomputer
News Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences has awarded IBM a multimillion-dollar contract to build Europe's largest non-classified supercomputer, IBM announced to-day. The deal, worth "tens of millions of dollars," will see...
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
IBM delivers Europe's biggest supercomputer
News IBM this week delivered Europe's largest supercomputer, a 1,312-processor cluster based on 41 of the company's p690 servers, to Germany's Research Centre Juelich, one of Europe's leading scientific institutes.
[February 19, 2004, 15:54]
Linux supercomputer to simulate space for NASA
News In the new supercomputer, each 512-processor system will run its own copy of Linux and connect to the others with an InfiniBand switch from Voltaire. NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics and chipmaker Intel to develop a major...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
US army purchases massive supercomputer
News The US Army Research Laboratory has elected to buy an IBM supercomputer with 2,304 AMD Opteron processors, the companies plan to announce on Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The cluster is connected with an InfiniBand switch from...
[August 3, 2004, 9:15]
IBM readies retail supercomputer
News That was the case for the p5-575's star customer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ASC Purple, a supercomputer for predicting whether nuclear weapons will continue to work as they age. IBM sells its own switch to link computers into a high...
[February 11, 2005, 8:00]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News InfiniBand isn't cheap, but supercomputer customers are used to paying a premium for better performance. Los Alamos National Laboratory has installed a major supercomputer made of 128 computers interconnected by InfiniBand, and a host of InfiniBand...
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Dawning's 4000A at Shanghai Supercomputer Centre One of them -- a 168-processor system at the Joint Supercomputer Centre in Moscow -- uses IBM's JS20 blades. Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
Sun starts pay-as-you-go supercomputing
News Sun is not first with the idea of renting out supercomputer power, a service often geared for customers that have surging processing needs. Although IBM and Hewlett-Packard offer competing rent-a-supercomputer programmes, Sun is trying to make...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
Apple to ditch PowerPC for Intel processors
News The chips show up in everything from networking equipment to IBM servers to the most powerful supercomputer, Blue Gene/L. Apple successfully navigated a switch in the 1990s from Motorola's 680x0 line of processors to the Power line jointly made by...
[June 6, 2005, 9:10]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced that it has broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. Blue Gene/L first became the top-ranked supercomputer a...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Lab to sample Linux for weapons work
News Los Alamos National Laboratory is buying a $6m (£3.8m), 2,048-processor Linux supercomputer to run its nuclear weapons simulation software, an effort that will test the limits of these less expensive megamachines.
[September 24, 2002, 7:33]
AMD cool Opterons to heat up battle with Intel
News And a new NASA Supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics requires liquid cooling for its newer components. Servers could be set to shut it off during predictable peak demand periods or switch it on to conserve backup battery power during power...
[December 6, 2004, 7:15]
Grid computing to tackle climate change
News Wakefield said that the World Community Grid was "much faster than a single supercomputer", and that this processing speed was needed due to the complexity and number of variables involved in weather calculations.
[September 4, 2007, 16:12]
Supercomputers go even larger
News Big Blue is aggressively funding two major types of supercomputer research: first, its expensive Unix servers linked together with a high-speed "SP" switch, and second, larger numbers of less expensive computers using Intel processors and the...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system
News On Tuesday, the company announced a new quad data rate (QDR) switch, new cluster deployment software, and a revamp to its grid-computing engine that is designed to provide better support for private and public clouds.
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