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IBM Power servers to outrun Watson

IBM aims to gain server dominance with faster Power servers

New polymer can cut supercomputing cost

Dow Corning and IBM scientists develop a new high-performance silicone-based material that can make supercomputers more energy efficientrn

Japan answers China’s supercomputing surge

Japan's K Computer passes 8 petaflop barrier, but also sets new power consumption record. The Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer, took the number one position last November with a performance of 2.57 petaflops

Supercomputing ‘arms race’ could prove costly: Obama

The White House searches for better ways to make sure supercomputers

Quebec supercomputer opens for business

The new 7,680-core system was built to help researchers from across the country in areas such as climate modeling, physics, and cosmology. Plus, where Canada stands in the HPC space

Why personal HPC systems haven

Multi-million dollar supercomputers take up most of the headlines, but many organizations are now considering the addition of smaller, personal supercomputers to their desktop fleet. Despite some strong global sales, find out why the idea still hasn

Project Lead Scientist

A medical researcher studying the structure and interaction of proteins found the resulting diagrams resembled a huge black hairball. IBM came to the rescue with a machine that does 12 teraflops

Microsoft opens Windows to low-cost, high-performance computing

Microsoft Inc.'s forays into high-performance computing (HPC), with its roll out of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 earlier this month, is unlikely to affect Linux's pre-eminence in this space, a Canadian analyst says.

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