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New AMD Chips, Nvidia GPUs In Cray Supercomputer
Cray's £118m Blue Waters machine will use new XK6 blades based on AMD and Nvidia technology
EU Builds Hybrid ARM-Based Supercomputer
The Mont Blanc Project's new low-power supercomputer in Barcelona will use Tegra and GPU chips
IBM Targets HPC With Platform Computing Buy
IBM is to acquire the Canadian clustering, grid and HPC software provider Platform Computing
Government To Fund Graphene Research Hub
Wonder-material graphene will get its own £50m research hub as part of the government's IT investment package
Does HPC Belong In The Cloud?
The cloud makes high performance computing more widely available - but introduces several problems of its own, says John Hengeveld
Intel Promises Exascale Supercomputing By 2020
Intel aims for 'exaflop' performance by the end of this decade, enabling more industries to access supercomputing
IBM Brings Supercomputing Into The Cloud Age
IBM has built the tools and resources required to pull together silos of HPC into a single, allocatable entity
AMD, Nvidia Chips To Feature In Cray Supercomputer
AMD’s 16-core 'Interlagos' Opteron chip and Nvidia’s Tesla 20-Series GPU will feature in Cray’s XK6 supercomputer
HP And Dell Unveil GPU-Powered HPC Servers
Upcoming HP and Dell servers highlight growing interest in graphics processors for high performance systems
NEC HPC Cluster Unlocks Universal Secrets
Albert Einstein Institute puts NEC high performance cluster to work on the massive forces shaping the universe
OCF Launches Rentable HPC Service
Businesses and public bodies now have the option to rent on-demand supercomputing power from OCF
China Makes World’s Fastest Supercomputer With Nvidia GPUs
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer in Tianjin uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs
HP Builds GPU-Optimised Server
Graphics chips wll revolutionise high performance computing, says HP
Intel Workstation Clusters For Low-Cost HPC Power
Intel claims that businesses can access HPC-levels of compute power using its cube-clustered computing concept.
Latest Dell Hardware Targets Cloud And HPC
AMD-based server highlighted as Dell unveils its new hardware designed to bring HPC and cloud computing capabilities to a wider customer-base
Hawking Team Uses Supercomputer To Explore Space
COSMOS is using one of the world's fastest supercomputers to analyse its data and research into the origins of the universe
IBM Uses Hot Water To Cool Zurich Supercomputer
An IBM water-cooled supercomputer at a Swiss University is heating nearby buildings with its waste heat
Accelerators Boost Supercomputer Energy Efficiency
Systems that use accelerators are three times more efficient than those supercomputers that don't use accelerators
UK Donates Skills – Not Cash – For EU Supercomputer Plan
The EU initiative will allow sharing of supercomputers across Europe, but the UK is only donating "resources and expertise"
Intel Introduces Knights Corner HPC Platform
Intel officials have introduced "Knights Corner", a processing architecture aimed at the parallel computing applications
Microsoft, Novell Point To Increased HPC Interest
More and more businesses are seeking high-performance computing (HPC) interoperability solutions, at least according to Microsoft and Novell
China Touts Supercomputing Credentials
China is touting its superpower credentials in the field of supercomputers, boasting of two of the world's top ten fastest supercomputers
Dell Powers New Laptops, Workstations With Latest Intel Chips
New lineup of Dell Vostro laptops feature Intel Core i7 processors and high-end M4500 workstation is first to combine Nvidia Quadro graphics