high performance computing in news
PC vendors under the microscope
News Though meant for surfing the web, and some productivity applications, they're not sufficient for a full computing experience. The brand also has a presence in all major markets, including the ones that still have a... [17 Nov 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News Heterogeneous server systems are an emerging trend in high performance computing - to cope with the most demanding workloads - where previously a dedicated appliance may have been used.... [15 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News IBM on Monday launched a major cloud computing initiative, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google. The concept of cloud computing incorporates... [06 Oct 2008]
HP laptop claims 24 hour battery life
News HP has said it has achieved a mobile-computing milestone by getting its EliteBook 6930p to operate continuously for 24 hours on a single battery charge. From October, customers will be able to purchase an HP EliteBook... [11 Sep 2008]
Met Office gets £33m supercomputer
News The extra computing power will give the Met Office the capability to do more accurate and detailed short range weather forecasts through high resolution computer simulations, and it will also allow... [04 Aug 2008]
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News Willy Chiu, a vice president in IBM's high-performance, on-demand solutions division, said: "Cloud computing is fundamentally about re-engineering the world's computing... [04 Aug 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News James Governor, an analyst with RedMonk, said the deal was "a nice win" for Parallels and would take the company into the high-end of HP computing. Serguei Beloussov, chief executive of Parallels, said:... [03 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase efficiency by lowering power consumption. But a noted Google engineer has argued the two styles of... [25 Jun 2008]
Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Kevin Campbell, chief executive of outsourcing at... [12 May 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Offshoring is about working where there is access to... [21 Apr 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News The Texas Advanced Computing Center (Tacc) at the University of Texas will dedicate a Constellation System from Sun on 22 February, said John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun, speaking at the company's... [14 Feb 2008]
IT skills shortage hits 10-year high
News The annual poll of 244 organisations, which provides salary and employment details for 5,493 IT staff, was undertaken by the National Computing Centre. You're not alone… Health warning to overweight IT managers ... [11 Feb 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News Hector - or High-End Computing Terascale Resource - can handle 63 trillion calculations per second, which is the equivalent processing power of 12,000 desktop systems and four times faster than its... [15 Jan 2008]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Virtualisation enables hardware to run multiple virtual machines, offering benefits such as the ability to run different operating systems on one server and to increase flexibility, availability and speed of deployment of... [14 Sep 2007]
Nasa gets supercomputer booster
News The deal will also see support - as well as high performance computing research - given to the Nasa Center for Computational Sciences at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Nasa has signed... [24 Jul 2007]
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