High Performance Computing News

Seven Harvard-affiliated researchers will receive grants to support collaborative projects in high performance computing.

Telemedicine has been around since the 1990s, but psychiatrists say it's increasingly used to treat remote patients as technology and security improves, and prices drop.

On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange.

And unlike the film Armageddon - where Bruce Willis and his crew of stars fly a space shuttle to an oncoming Asteroid to drill a warhead into its core - the nuclear payload could be delivered by rocket.

Hard to answer: Upper House member Renho during the 2009 jigyo shiwake budget-review sessions.

The moment Hideaki Fujitani unlocks the heavy door and enters the room, the buzzing noise - which sounded like a simple hum from the outside - gets much louder.

Welcome to the machine: The "K computer," which can achieve 10 petaflops, is housed in the RIKEN AICS building in Kobe's Port Island TOMOKO OTAKE PHOTO In today's ever-more digitalized world, we all have a tale or two to share about how personal computers have let us down: like how they refused to let us run different programs at the same time or ... (more)

For your weekend reading, here's a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

Shown is an analysis that illustrates how a mutation aggregates superoxide dismutase proteins into ever larger clumps, a process that researchers believe contributes to motor neuron damage, causing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

Up to 800 jobs could be on the way to the Rochester area because of the partnership between the University of Rochester and IBM.

Noblis Inc. chief technology officer Gilbert Miller said at the supercomputer's unveiling that the new operation in Danville "is focusing on how we use technology to solve real-world problems." A former tobacco processing plant in this Southside Virginia city is now the home of a supercomputer that local and state officials hope will help attract ... (more)

On Friday officials unveiled the Cray XMT2 supercomputer at the new Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing.

"I can't tell you the amount of enthusiasm and excitement we have about this machine," said Miller.

Supermicro's advanced server Building Block Solutions A offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized computing solutions.

This division, called YarcData, will be led by Arvind Parthasarathi, who has been appointed to the new position of senior vice president and general manager of YarcData.

The energy usage of electronic devices could be reduced simply by changing and improving the way it is measured, a study from the Australian National University has found.

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Commerce, will stop using BlackBerry phones later this year and instead supply workers with Apple's mobile devices.

A new computer simulation is showing Earth's magnetosphere in amazing detail - and it looks a lot like a huge pile of tangled spaghetti .

Helps Developers Quickly Launch a Big Data Cluster in the Cloud; HPCC Systems Thor Cluster Hosted on Amazon Web Services Atlanta, GA February 9, 2012 - HPCC Systemsa from LexisNexisA Risk Solutions announced today that it has launched a new solution, One-Click Thor, to allow AWS account holders to launch and configure a Big Data Thor cluster with ... (more)