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RSS supercomputerIntel Multi-Core Performance Helps Solve Large-Scale Science and Business Problems
White Paper Created in 1986 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the five original centers of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer... [01 Jan 2009]
IBM, Harvard use cloud for solar power hunt
News Using a traditional supercomputer cluster to run the analysis would take 22 years. Harvard University and IBM have launched a project to harness the computing muscle of thousands of computers to discover cheap solar... [08 Dec 2008]
Co-Design of Massively Parallel Embedded Processor Architectures
White Paper Existing approaches for mapping computational-intensive algorithms to parallel architectures either consider the implementation in dedicated hardware or the implementation on a given supercomputer. This paper introduces... [03 Dec 2008]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo The biannual TOP500 supercomputer list was published this month and silicon.com offered a behind the scenes look at the world's five most powerful machines. Attendees got to have a play with Microsoft's Vista... [27 Nov 2008]
Your chance to win a third generation iPod Nano
News Which supercomputer was ranked at number three on the biannual TOP500 supercomputer list in November this year, according to the photo story on silicon.com? Please note: this competition is now... [27 Nov 2008]
Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword"
Comment Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was ranked 14th in this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters list. He has invented and commercialised a raft of innovative technologies - including a... [19 Nov 2008]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo The Roadrunner supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory took the top spot on the biannual TOP500 supercomputer list - a position it's held since June 2008. Not only is it the most powerful... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high command. Here silicon.com visits the... [13 Nov 2008]
Photos: Brain of Britain
Photo The Merlin computing cluster at the Cardiff University is one of the fastest supercomputers in a UK university. The processing powerhouse at the heart of the High Performance Computing Centre of Excellence has about four million... [07 Nov 2008]
Supercomputer Center Adds Windows HPC Server to 1,200-Node Cluster Options
White Paper To meet the new and expanding needs of its academic and industrial users, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois must support the platforms with which those users are familiar, which... [07 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine - depicted in the Hollywood film of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer... [06 Nov 2008]
High Performance File I/O for the Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
White Paper Parallel I/O plays a crucial role for most data-intensive applications running on massively parallel systems like Blue Gene/L that provides the promise of delivering enormous computational capability. [22 Oct 2008]
Using Grid Services From Behind a Firewall
White Paper Grid services promise the power of the supercomputer to the average desktop user. However, as with all forms of distributed computing, they rely on the sending and receiving of messages between components for the system... [13 Oct 2008]
Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
White Paper The university implemented Dell PowerEdge servers in a high performance computing cluster that has become the fastest academic supercomputer in the country. Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex... [11 Oct 2008]
Why green tech is more influential than ever
News IBM's chief engineer Don Grice who made number 15 on the list, for example, was chosen for the hybrid blade-based architecture he has developed for the Roadrunner supercomputer. The latest Agenda Setters list includes... [08 Oct 2008]
