High Performance Computing News

The software has been written with a number of useful features for large HPC and cluster environments.. Its components include: Libfreeipmi - A C library that includes KCS, SSIF, and OpenIPMI drivers, IPMI 1.5 and IPMI 2.0 LAN communication interfaces, IPMI packet building utilities, IPMI command utilities, and utilities for ... (more)

Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times-the use of mathematics in weather prediction.

Compared with the newest quantum computer from D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, even the world's most powerful supercomputers are ploddingly slow, The New York Times reports.

Henry Markram's Human Brain Project , backed by 1 billion euros funding Jan. 2013 from the European Commission, plans to integrate findings from the Allen Brain Atlas, the National Institutes of Health-funded Human Connectome Project, and the Brain project, Wired reports .

In this short animation, John Hengeveld , marketing director for high performance computing at Intel, shares his story of undergoing an appendectomy and learning that, as a result of a burst appendix, a rare and cancer-causing material was now circulating in his body.

The Rain Livebook V High-Performance Notebook features a 17.3" FHD display, discrete graphics and an "Ivy Bridge" Core i7 processor.

On May 15, Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel interviewed IBM CEO Ginni Rometty as a keynote for the National Venture Capital Association's 40th anniversary conference, Venturescape.

The much maligned computer memory industry is utterly essential to virtually every corner of the digital electronics industry.

The SC13 international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, is accepting nominations for three distinguished awards that will be presented at the conference in November.

May 16, 2013 Kitware, a leading provider of scientific R&D software solutions, today announces new Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued development of an open-source, high performance computing simulation and computation framework.

A look at the Beagle supercomputer at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.

The purpose of this effort is to use quantum computing to advance machine learning in order to solve some of the most challenging computer science problems.

Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language: -- This top-level code is plain Lua code.

Matt Frost, senior business product manager for the Chrome Web Media Team, listed these statistics at the Google I/O show for developers: That's obviously a lot of video, and Google has to pay a lot of money to store and stream that.

"This is a breakthrough moment for the National Weather Service and the entire U.S. weather enterprise in terms of positioning itself with the computing capacity and more sophisticated models we've all been waiting for," said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service.

SUNNYVALE, CA, May 15, 2013 -- AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world's fastest notebook graphics card .

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority today announced $1.8 million in funding to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for critical upgrades to the electrical and mechanical infrastructure of the university's supercomputing center, the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations .

It will be used to improve the energy efficiency of the computers, saving the university more than $1 million dollars a year.

The improvements come after Rensselaer announced in January that it was improving its supercomputer with a new system from IBM Corp.

This is defined as one that passes linpack with a performance of one exaFLOPS sustained or better.