HPC

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

13 years ago

EU Builds Hybrid ARM-Based Supercomputer

The Mont Blanc Project's new low-power supercomputer in Barcelona will use Tegra and GPU chips

13 years ago

IBM Targets HPC With Platform Computing Buy

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

13 years ago

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

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

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

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

13 years ago

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

13 years ago

HP And Dell Unveil GPU-Powered HPC Servers

Upcoming HP and Dell servers highlight growing interest in graphics processors for high performance systems

13 years ago

NEC HPC Cluster Unlocks Universal Secrets

Albert Einstein Institute puts NEC high performance cluster to work on the massive forces shaping the universe

13 years ago

OCF Launches Rentable HPC Service

Businesses and public bodies now have the option to rent on-demand supercomputing power from OCF

13 years ago

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

14 years ago

HP Builds GPU-Optimised Server

Graphics chips wll revolutionise high performance computing, says HP

14 years ago

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.

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

Accelerators Boost Supercomputer Energy Efficiency

Systems that use accelerators are three times more efficient than those supercomputers that don't use accelerators

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

Intel Introduces Knights Corner HPC Platform

Intel officials have introduced "Knights Corner", a processing architecture aimed at the parallel computing applications

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago