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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]
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]
Tough choices for supercomputing's legacy apps
Comment The future direction of supercomputing may seem dazzling, but it raises difficult questions about the survival of important software at the heart of today's facilities, says Andrew Jones. The supercomputing community generally agrees that the...
[November 12, 2009, 14:44]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (SCAS), is host to the second largest supercomputer in Australia. They wanted to increase the processing power of the supercomputing facility by 1000 percent.
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
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]
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]
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]
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]
UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
Talkback Microsoft and supercomputing.excuse me but they don't even manage to run 64bits yet (on all there software). Ha ha ha And they are only a big toymaker (xbox). Great put a 1000000$ computer whith some slow windows os and get a virus whithin seconds...
[November 16, 2005, 11:16]
UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
News Microsoft is backing a UK universities project to research new ways of cutting the cost of supercomputing. Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing, which will look at cheaper ways of using supercomputing in areas including the aerospace...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
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]
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]
Leading Supercomputing Center in Italy Eases Use, Improves Access With New Cluster
White Papers CINECA wanted to make supercomputing resources available to more researchers from private industry sectors, but many were unfamiliar with its Linux-based tools and interfaces. Researchers will be able to connect to the new cluster from remote...
[November 7, 2008, 0:01]
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]
