High Performance Computing News

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Source: Ames Research Center - Comments MOFFETT FIELD, Calif.

The combination of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 provides HPC users an efficient and flexible infrastructure management solution that maximizes resources while lowering costs associated with running cluster environments across both Windows and Linux.

"Gordon", "Dash" - " First Supercomputers with SSDs Inside [11/05/2009 03:21 PM] by Anton Shilov The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems.

Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing with two new offerings.

Andy Patrizio : An analyst report has resurrected a rumor that's repeatedly died and is reborn like a phoenix -- that GPU vendor nVidia is looking to enter the x86 market.

Like the rest of the IT industry, Hewlett-Packard was apparently expecting Cisco Systems and EMC to announce their Acadia joint venture and Vblock virtualized data center infrastructure on Wednesday.

Much of the talk about cloud computing in data centers has been about enterprise workloads, but high-performance computing customers are getting some options as well.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.

EARLIER, WHEN DISCUSSING the possible integration of CPUs and GPUs on the system level, at least for high end systems, before the chip-level "sharing the die 'til we die" CPU-GPU on-die marriage happens, we looked into the most efficient ways of executing that integration.

Bloomington - Indiana University is celebrating its new $32 million data center built to protect computers from floods, power outages and even F5 tornados.

MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of custom computers for PC gamers and enthusiasts, unveils SHIFT, the everyday supercomputer that will reshape the current landscape of high performance computing.

Maingear has unveiled a personal "supercomputer" for PC gamers and enthusiasts. The Shift - which is housed in a tank-like steel skeleton - dissipates excessive heat with bottom to top airflow, aggressive liquid cooling and a 90 degree rotation of the motherboard.a The Shift also features user accessible expansion slots, eATX motherboard support, ...

The long rumored partnership between networking giant and server wannabe Cisco Systems, server virtualization juggernaut VMware, and storage powerhouse EMC will be announced this week, according to various reports.

The Tilera TILE-Gx processor allows up to one hundred individual cores to be addressed individually.

China announced its fastest supercomputer yet on Thursday in the country's latest show of its goal to become a world leader in technology.

MASSIVE DEVICE: China's fastest super computer Tianhe on the NUDT campus in Changsha, Hunan Province.

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion.

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 30th October, 2009 New Delhi, October 30 : China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.

Intel are readying a new standard for so-called " microservers ", based on the company's prototype targeted at low-traffic websites.

Making nanodevices work will require a deep understanding of how these and other nanostructures can be engineered and fabricated as well as their resultant strengths and weaknesses.