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AMD Targets Data Centres With $35 Billion Purchase Of Xilinx

More competition for Intel, as AMD signals deepening push into data centre market with $35 billion purchase of US-based Xilinx

Folding@Home volunteers utilise home PCs to create world’s fastest supercomputer to help tackle deadly Coronavirus pandemic

Veteran supercomputer maker Cray is to be acquired by HPE, to power its HPC push in the years ahead

Volkswagen to carry out traffic optimisation, material, and machine learning research on Google quantum computer

Expanded data centre offerings as Chinese PC maker reinvigorates HPC portfolio with two new brands

Supercomputing investment of £15m to drive ‘world-class scientific research’, as well as create jobs and industry partnerships

World’s faster supercomputer. Obama orders creation of computer capable of 1,000 petaflops

The UK launches a data centre tailored especially for academic and medical research communities

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

Intel establishes Parallel Computing Centres around the world as it seeks to drive HPC hardware improvements

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

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

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

Compuware is offering new management tools to provide IT departments with deep transaction management

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

Intel is adding to its HPC portfolio with the purchase of the networking assets of supercomputer maker Cray

IBM is to acquire the Canadian clustering, grid and HPC software provider Platform Computing

Fujitsu will re-enter the European market with a £15m lighthouse supercomputing partner project

More and more businesses are seeking high-performance computing (HPC) interoperability solutions, at least according to Microsoft and Novell