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Supercomputers
Talkback Interesting talk about supercomputers but I wonder if your comparisons are accurate? The Cray devices were vector processors which relied on the ability of the system to carry out numerous calculations in parallel but only if the problem (usually...
[July 6, 2007, 19:13]
Supercomputers go even larger
News It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Top500 ranking of supercomputers, released twice a year by researchers at the universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, experienced heavy turnover, with...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
EU supercomputers to be used for fusion modelling
News The European Commission announced on Monday that it has opened up a network of distributed supercomputers for use in nuclear-fusion research. Scientists for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) nuclear-fusion project will...
[January 26, 2009, 16:46]
Supercomputers produce numerical results of unknown accuracy
Talkback So it is a fact: Supercomputers produce wrong numbers faster than ordinary computers! Since many years it is known that computers produce numerical results of questionable accuracy. This is an effect of the finite length of numbers in storage.
[March 26, 2009, 10:36]
Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers
News On the newest list of the top 500 supercomputers released this week, 291 were identified as clusters, the list organisers said. Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing -- a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming...
[June 24, 2004, 9:35]
IBM supercomputers to simulate climate change
News Clustered machines, such as Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Apple G5 supercomputer or Sandia National Laboratories' upcoming Cray-based Red Storm are catching on in the supercomputing realm, growing more common on the top 500 list of the most...
[February 11, 2004, 10:20]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News IBM has won a $290m government contract to build what are expected to be the world's two fastest supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the company plans to announce on Tuesday. In 1993, IBM got its first systems onto the Top500...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
PlayStation 3 chip to power supercomputers
News Besides workstations, game machines and TV sets, Cell is also likely to power certain types of scientific supercomputers, streaming media servers and image analysis systems, all of which have continually expanding needs for processing power.
[December 6, 2004, 7:35]
IBM goes open source on supercomputers
News IBM has released its first certified open-source software for Linux-based supercomputers, marking the tenth anniversary of its involvement with Linux. Released at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, the IBM HPC Open Software...
[August 6, 2008, 14:54]
Copper supercharges supercomputers
News While consumers won't purchase the new supercomputers, which will be used by researchers in health care or by scientists working to predict weather patterns, they may benefit from them indirectly. IBM's supercomputers, which are generally very...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
Microsoft wants Windows on supercomputers
Talkback lol. Windows is bad enough on a fileserver.
[June 24, 2004, 13:01]
HP teams up for Linux supercomputers
News Hewlett-Packard has signed a partnership with Linux NetworX under which each company will use technology from the other for lower-cost supercomputers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Linux NetworX will use HP's Itanium 2 servers as...
[December 11, 2002, 10:23]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
Talkback SCO should be charged with extortion.
[March 24, 2004, 16:51]
Should programming supercomputers be hard?
Comment So it is hardly surprising that the question of how to make programming supercomputers easier is a popular topic at high-performance computing (HPC) conferences. The largest supercomputers in leadership-class facilities should quite rightly be...
[October 1, 2009, 11:41]
Windows for supercomputers by November
Talkback Yea, no one uses C#! Oh wait.yea they do!
[March 5, 2005, 16:52]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
Talkback Suprise, Suprise. Their stock has been on a downward slide recently so it was only a matter of time before they threatened legal action *again*. Do they really have the resources to take on IBM, Novell, AutoZone, Chrysler and now the US goverment ?
[March 22, 2004, 13:18]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News Linux is widely used for supercomputers made of clusters of lower-end machines, and the Energy Department is an avid consumer of such machines to support work such as ensuring nuclear weapons' reliability and forecasting global climate changes.
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
Talkback The fault lies more in the US legal process and less in the actions of SCO.
[March 22, 2004, 15:02]
Windows for supercomputers by November
Talkback Ok, so you can run your modelling on Windows instead of UNIX, so you can watch it go south just 5 hours before you finish crunching your results. Right. And you can conveniently write your apps in COBOL, I mean C#.
[March 4, 2005, 21:16]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
Talkback Does it mean that SCO stands for anti-nuclear weapon movement? I'd like to hear Mr Bush's comment.
[March 22, 2004, 15:49]
