Supercomputing

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

Nvidia Buys HPC Compiler Expert The Portland Group

Chip manufacturer will use the acquired technology to boost its GPU supercomputer business

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

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

NVidia Launches Tesla K20 GPU Supercomputer Units

NVidia's new Tesla K20 GPU units power the world's fastest supercomputer - for now

12 years ago

Cray Expands Supercomputing Plans With Appro Acquisition

Cray is to spend $25m to buy Appro, adding to its capabilities in the computing cluster market

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

University of Oxford Launches Top GPU-Based Supercomputer

The “Emerald” is the most powerful system of its kind in the UK

12 years ago

UK Universities Launch Intel Supercomputer For Hire

The high performance computing cloud designed for research is now available to SMEs, on-demand

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

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

IBM Makes Blue Gene/Q Official

Big Blue's 100 petaflop Blue Gene is also green, giving two gigaflops per Watt.

13 years ago

Japan Retains Supercomputer Lead With Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s K Computer helped Japan retain the supercomputing crown after it passed the 10 petaflop barrier

13 years ago

Fujitsu Preps 23.2 Petaflops Supercomputer Launch

Fujitsu is commercially entering the supercomputer sector with the launch of a 23.3 petaflops machine

13 years ago

IBM US Pulls Plug On Federal Supercomputer Project

IBM is pulling out a project to build the world's fastest supercomputer because of rising costs and complexity

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

Japan Reclaims Supercomputing Crown

The computing arms race continues with the news that Japan now has the world's most powerful supercomputer

13 years ago

Intel Promises Exascale Supercomputing By 2020

Intel aims for 'exaflop' performance by the end of this decade, enabling more industries to access supercomputing

13 years ago

iPad-Wielding Watson Outsmarts Fry On Qi

Geek god Stephen Fry beaten in a Turing-esque iPad-fuelled face-off with IBM's new super-duper computer

14 years ago

UK Uses Supercomputer In Fight Against Cancer

Imperial College London and Cancer Research UK are leading mainstream supercomputer use in the UK

14 years ago

Analytics Speeds Doubled By IBM Storage Architecture

Announced at the Supercomputing 2010 show, IBM’s new architecture can double the speed of analytics processing

14 years ago

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"

14 years ago