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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Supercomputing 'arms race' could prove costly: Obama The White House searches for better ways to make sure supercomputers ‘address our current national priorities.’ But how is supercomputing performance best measured across countries?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Why personal HPC systems haven’t hit mainstream yet 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’t taken off at most companies
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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
Thursday, August 03, 2006
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.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Microsoft snags Cray's chief scientist The chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. is leaving to take a job at Microsoft Corp. Burton Smith will leave the company on Dec. 7 to take the Microsoft job, he informed Cray last Sunday. He will also cease to be a director of Cray on Dec. 7, the company said
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Mob mentality creates supercomputer A group of computer scientists at the University of San Francisco plan to make a mega calculating machine out of a bunch of strangers' PCs.
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Uni supercomputer models Antarctica Simulating the Antarctic environment may involve a wealth of scientific know-how, but for the team involved with the Tasmania Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC), it's also about having the most advanced and steadfast computing power at your fingertips.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
IBM rolls out one of the world's fastest supercomputers IBM Corp. on Friday rolled out a Unix-based supercomputer capable of churning out up to a half trillion operations a second and that will be aimed at applications involving scientific and computing and business intelligence.
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