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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]
Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain With HPC System
White Papers The Las Vegas, Nevada - based National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment is a full-service supercomputing facility with a mission for excellence in education and research. The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
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]
Sun seeks supercomputing glory
News More details, along with other supercomputing papers from competitors, will be presented at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, this week. Each company is readying its own products and will make announcements at the...
[June 26, 2007, 9:47]
Nasa signs up supercomputing support
News Nasa has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for the provision of supercomputing support over the next decade. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) will provide support services to Nasa's Advanced Supercomputing Division at the...
[July 25, 2007, 9:19]
Wales becomes supercomputing player
News The Welsh Assembly is putting supercomputing at the heart of a multi-million pound science and computing department announced last week. The facility, called the Institute of Life Science, is based at Swansea University and will receive £50m...
[January 11, 2005, 11:25]
Linux to enter supercomputing top five
News The supercomputing cluster will consist of 962 nodes running on 1,920 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors, with a theoretical peak of 9.2 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). The Evolocity cluster -- as it will be known -- will give Linux a...
[July 17, 2002, 13:10]
Advancing Research and Development: The Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe (SSCK)
White Papers The Scientific Supercomputing Center Karlsruhe (SSCK) provides high performance computational services and resources for the scientific and industrial communities in the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide
News Its speed of 35.9 trillion calculations per second triggered US government fretting about the country's loss of the supercomputing crown. Congress is working on new bills that could increase supercomputing funding.
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Linux to drive supercomputing cluster
News An Australian supercomputing consortium is poised to lease a Hewlett-Packard Itanium 2-based computing cluster to service a multi-year contract to assist car maker Holden in new vehicle design and development.
[May 20, 2003, 11:16]
IBM aims Blue Gene at supercomputing top spot
News With the full configuration of 64 racks and roughly 131,072 processors, IBM hopes to achieve a speed of 360 trillion calculations per second -- 360 gigaflops in supercomputing argot. Blue Gene" is an ambitious project to expand the horizons of...
[November 14, 2003, 8:40]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News The list, released twice each year on the eve of a supercomputing conference, shows the waxing and waning power of various manufacturers, the arrival of new technologies and the constantly increasing power of the world's number-crunching elite.
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
Mac cluster rises in supercomputing ranks
News Early tests using only a few of the cluster's 2,200 processors showed a higher estimated performance, while more recently the system reached 8.1 teraflops, which would have placed it at No.in the supercomputing list.
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
IBM dominates supercomputing list
News Dell's Tungsten at the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications Linpack measures one aspect of supercomputer performance, but list organiser Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee is working on a broader suite of tests so a government...
[June 22, 2004, 11:35]
TeraGrid supercomputing project expands
News In 2001, an alliance of academic supercomputing sites won a $53m NSF grant to build the Distributed Terascale Facility, known for short as the TeraGrid. Last year's design called for four computers with a total of 3,300 Itanium 2 processors, code...
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
Powering up supercomputing
News How is that embodied in IBM's supercomputing research? Watson Research Center, is trying to take some of the pain out of supercomputing. Tilak Agerwala, vice president of systems at IBM's T.J. In a variety of projects with various universities and...
[December 18, 2003, 13:30]
Sun to shed light on supercomputing
News The companies plan to demonstrate a simple version of their technology at the SC05 supercomputing show in Seattle this week. Sun is looking to optical communications to carry out a radical supercomputer redesign.
[November 14, 2005, 8:35]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News If InfiniBand catches on in supercomputing, it will threaten niche companies such as Myricom and Quadrics that currently sell proprietary networking hardware that does much the same thing as InfiniBand.
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
Opteron flexes supercomputing muscles
News The latest list was expected to be unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany on Wednesday. AMD's Opteron chip soared up the latest ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, while Intel's Itanium continued to fall...
[June 28, 2006, 16:05]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat HPC Solution is Red Hat's attempt to take advantage of a growing market for supercomputing clusters, which are increasingly used by businesses for tasks requiring intensive computing power, such as data warehousing, line-of-business...
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
