High Performance Computing News

The Illinois Medical District is planning an expansion that could create 2,500 to 4,500 jobs and more than $300 million in new revenue in the next 10 years, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Plans include the development of 55 vacant acres and building a high-speed fiber optic line linking researchers to the University of Illinois' supercomputer ... (more)

The acclaimed young playwright tackles the epic chess battle between grandmaster Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Blue in The Machine The 1997 match between chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov and IBM supercomputer Deep Blue is a crucial moment in the history of humans and technology.

In a new twist on what Raspberry Pi devices are capable of, they're being chained together to form supercomputers and powerful clusters.

SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UVTM 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

Internet2 has established a direct peering relationship with two Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Microsoft Office 365 Education.

Rather than treat grid, cloud, and high-performance computing as separate and distinct approaches, this month's CN theme focuses more on interoperability among these methodologies - and the issues that arise along the way.

It may be a world-wide first--a Tulsa supercomputer was unveiled Thursday, and it's open to the public.

Fluid dynamics Particle physics Medicine Structural engineering , dams, bridges, and more) Realize that the government does a huge amount for science.

Since the 18th Century, scientists have been aware that the Sun oscillates between periods of high and low solar activity in an 11-year cycle.

Surely a somewhat trimmed-down version of this same GPU would be used to power a less expensive product before long, right? Well, yep.

Cardiff, UK. 23 May 2013: IQE plc announces that vertical cavity surface emitting laser devices using wafers produced at its Cardiff, UK facility have broken the 40 Gbit/s barrier at high temperatures.

The power of all the computers networked together to maintain the digital currency's system far exceeds the combined processing strength of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers.

IBM's Watson supercomputer has been riding high for the past couple of years. It won a game of Jeopardy , went to university and did a stint at a cancer lab .

Boot up or resume from hibernate in seconds. Supporting Resources Visit the 2013 AMD Mobility APU landing page for videos, photos and more.

A news release from Sandia National Labs discusses the fall and rise of the human brain as a model for computers.

Nvidia's GPGPU development has been largely aimed at the high performance computing and academic markets, however the firm is promoting it for the enterprise with its Grid GPU virtualisation technology.

So what do you do with a computer than can carry out 16.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second? At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you simulate the interactions between ultrapowerful lasers and dense plasmas in a quest to unlock fusion energy.

NOVA takes a thrilling ride with tornado hunters investigating ingenious new approaches that will one day help forecasters stay one step ahead of devastating twisters.

The Genome Sciences Centre is seeking a Post-doctoral Fellow for the Bioinformatics Technology Lab to conduct scientific research in the areas of bioinformatics and genomics, specifically related to biological sequence assembly, analysis and annotation in cancer research.

Conducted in the Amazon Web Services cloud, the environment was created to accelerate the screening of potential new cancer drugs.