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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 Cluster Boosts Boeing's Delta IV Rockets
White Papers In 2001, a team of engineers at Boeing Space and Communications in Huntington Beach, California, acquired a new AMD Athlon MP- based Linux Supercomputing cluster from Linux Networx to perform aerodynamic analyses for a new family of rockets, named...
[April 24, 2007, 0:00]
Supercomputing - Technological Changes In Approach
White Papers But changes in technology over the years have changed the approach to supercomputing. This paper will examine how the changes in technology have influenced the approach to supercomputing from do-it-yourself clusters to the mega-complex.
[May 26, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft Takes On Supercomputing
News Microsoft claims that running the software on the latest low cost computers represents "a 500x drop in the price of supercomputing" in the last eight years. It has taken two years for Microsoft to prepare its first supercomputing software after...
[June 9, 2006, 14:25]
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]
US Urged To Take Supercomputing Beyond Clusters
News The popular "clustering" approach to supercomputing is indeed useful, but US researchers need to explore different directions in the field to ensure the country's security, an academic panel has concluded.
[November 15, 2004, 7:45]
Sun Starts Pay-as-you-go Supercomputing
News Sun Microsystems plans to announce a plan on Tuesday to let customers rent supercomputing power from the company's data centers, paying for exactly as much muscle as they need. The programme, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1 (55p) per...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
The School Of Computing At The National University Of Singapore Gains Supercomputing Performance By Building A Cluster Of Linux-Based Dell Servers Running Intel Processors
White Papers To accomplish this goal, the School of Computing had to build a supercomputing architecture that would provide far more processing capacity at a cost 10 times lower than previous levels. The National University of Singapore is a leading global...
[September 27, 2005, 0:00]
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]
HP Dominates Supercomputing Leaderboard
News See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything from MP3 players and PDAs to supercomputing. Hewlett-Packard leads the herd with 159 systems on the list, which is set to be released on Monday, up from 137 six months ago.
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
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's Roadrunner To Smash Supercomputing Records
News Those types of giant leaps, though, are becoming common in the supercomputing world, thanks in large part to the magic of clustering. IBM once again dominated the competition in semi-annual rankings of supercomputers, but the big news is what's...
[November 13, 2007, 7:24]
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]
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]
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]
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]
