High Performance Computing News

SGI , a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced that it was ranked number ONE in the "Top Five Vendors to Watch" list by HPCwire readers, and garnered a second place honor on the same list compiled by HPCwire editors for its 2009 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards.

The cluster of PlayStation 3 consoles is already being used for research into high-def video processing and systems with brain-like properties.

Magny-Cours as AMD 'comeback kid' Posted in Enterprise , 16th November 2009 05:02A GMT SC09 In the supercomputer racket, you can be a niche player, a volume server maker with some HPC smarts, or a carcass that one of the other two feasts on.

Under terms of the agreement, KACST will purchase an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to enable KACST scientists to perform complex simulations and computational modeling.

A supercomputer built on microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices topped the semiannual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but others built on Intel 's technology dominated the rest of the list.

SGI , a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today unveiled Altix UV , expanding the definition of supercomputing.

SC09 The Hybrid Multicore Consortium is on a mission that perhaps all of computing - on the desktop and in the data center - will one day embark on: making hybrid computing architectures as easy to program and use as monolithic platforms have been.

Brown University and IBM today announced the opening of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer at Brown's Center for Computation and Visualization.

SC09 Hewlett-Packard may not dominate the HPC headlines, but it does serve up a lot of iron that runs HPC applications.

Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming.

SC09 -- QLogic Corp. , a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, along with other high performance computing industry leaders, was awarded HPCwire's Editor's Choice for "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry" at SC09.

The fastest supercomputer on the November 2009 list based on an open systems approach , the Pleiades supercomputer ranked sixth overall.

Supercomputer developers were issued a "call to action" to address the needs of the "3D Web" at the SC09 conference here.

Intel Labs Europe is joining a handful of French institutions to investigate large-scale computing challenges that face today's information technology industry.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Amazon.com Inc. is to high performance computing what McDonald's is to food: fast, cheap, but with a limited menu.

Netlist is demonstrating the world's first 16GB 2 virtual rank double-data-rate three, registered dual in-line memory module , HyperCloud.

Scientists at IBM said they'd made progress towards creating a computer system that will simulate and emulate the human brain for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition.

Milky Way One supercomputer According to the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers released Nov.

Microscale rearrangements of genes among 12 Drosophila species. Each gene is indicated by a colored line, showing how gene order is shuffled during the evolution of these species.

Three dimensional web technologies will save the high performance computing industry from its current state of financial stagnation, Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicted at the SC09 supercomputing conference .