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Met Office Promises More Reliable Forecasts Thanks To New £97m Supercomputer

New Cray CX40 system will be 13 times more powerful than its predecessor

10 years ago

Cray Rolls Out Urika-XA Hadoop Analytics Appliance

The system, which includes Intel chips and a storage combination that includes SSDs and HDDs, comes two years after Cray's…

10 years ago

IBM Opens Watson HQ In York Ahead Of Global Expansion

New headquarters one of several new offices around the world as Watson also gets a host of new partners

10 years ago

In Pictures: Astronaut Launches HP’s Water-Cooled Apollo

Space legend Story Musgrave unveils HP's water-cooled Apollo 8000 supercomputer

10 years ago

HPC Market Slides In 2013 – IDC

After a record year in 2012, the high-performance computing (HPC) market experienced a tougher year in 2013

11 years ago

IBM Creates Watson Unit, Pledges £608m Investment

IBM is to invest $1 billion in order to create a dedicated division for its Watson computing technology

11 years ago

Inside The World’s Most Interesting Data Centres

Data centres have to be efficient. That doesn't stop them being beautiful

11 years ago

Green500 Supercomputer List Reveals Intel, Nvidia Surprise

Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are used in the world's top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers

11 years ago

Cray Offers Up Tiered Storage Solution

Cray beefs up its enterprise credentials with the arrival of a tiered storage solution for HPC organisations

11 years ago

SGI To Bolster Big Data Credentials

SGI is making use of its supercomputer expertise to help companies tackle their big data needs

11 years ago

Cray Adds Nvidia GPUs and Xeon Phi To XC30 Systems

Cray's new supercomputer now includes Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia’s GPU accelerators

11 years ago

Cray Tweaks CS300 For Large Memory Workloads

Cray creates two new configurations of its CS300 machine to cope with high-memory workloads

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Supercomputers

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's this week's quiz on supercomputers!

11 years ago

Intel Claims Supercomputing Lead With New Xeon Phis

In the next version, Knights Landing, Xeon Phi gets its own CPU

11 years ago

China’s Tianhe-2 Takes Top500 Supercomputing Crown

Superfast machine uses 48,000 Intel coprocessors, but is a Chinese design, says Top500 editor

11 years ago

Scientists Use Nvidia GPU-Powered Supercomputer In HIV Breakthrough

Researchers used a Cray supercomputer powered by Nvidia GPUs to help determine the structure of the HIV protein shell

11 years ago

Cray Touts Low-Cost XC30-AC Supercomputer

Cray is offering customers a more affordable supercomputer solution as demand shows no sign of a slowdown

12 years ago

Italy’s Nvidia-Based Eurora Supercomputer Sets Green Record

Italian super-green speed demon hits 3MFLops per Watt of power

12 years ago

Intel Launches Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Intel has announced the first of its new Xeon Phi chips, with which it is looking to bring down power…

12 years ago

Cray Wants Supercomputer Crown With 100 Petaflop XC30

Cray XC30's Aries interconnects put it ahead of Titan

12 years ago

20 Petaflop Titan Supercomputer Is World’s Fastest: Gallery

A closer look at Titan, the world's fastest supercomputer

12 years ago

Intel Develops Powerful 48-Core Smartphone Chip

Intel is reportedly developing a very powerful processor for smartphones, said to be a 48-core chip

12 years ago

HP And Intel Team Up For Energy-Efficient Supercomputer

HP and Intel are using Xeon processors and ProLiant servers to build an energy-efficient supercomputer system

12 years ago

SuperMUC: Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer In Pictures

The world's number four supercomputer boasts a specially designed water cooling system

12 years ago

IBM Partners With Livermore Lab To Bolster HPC

IBM and Livermore Lab have teamed up to improve America's competitiveness in high-performance computing

12 years ago

US Leapfrogs Japan In Supercomputer Race

The US is now home to the world's most powerful computer, thanks to an IBM monster machine

12 years ago

Cray Makes Big Data Move With Analytics Appliance

Cray is aiming to assist companies dealing with 'big data' analytics with the launch of its new graph appliance

13 years ago

Amazon Offers Hourly Rental Of Cloud Supercomputer

Need a supercomputer but cannot afford the prices? Well Amazon is now offering hourly rentals of the world’s 42nd fastest…

13 years ago