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Sun's Interest in Working Closely with University Personnel Makes Aachen a Center of HPC Excellence
White Paper The Aachen University of Technology, one of the leading technical universities in Europe, has begun implementing the largest Sun Microsystems supercomputer in the world. Aachen wanted to replace outdated vector approach to supercomputing with open... [03 Jul 2008]
OARnet Builds Statewide Optical DWDM Network to Meet Exploding Bandwidth Demand of Universities
White Paper The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is the networking arm of Ohio's high-performance computing and networking center, also known as the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). OARnet wanted 30% growth in aggregate bandwidth demand per year and 25... [03 Jul 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. The supercomputer is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computer Facility and will cost £113m over six years. [15 Jan 2008]
Leibniz Computing Center Achieves 10x Faster Supercomputer Data Services With NetApp Solution
White Paper The Leibniz Computing Center provides IT services for Munich universities and for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The challenge was to implement a storage solution to deliver project file services in a 4,096-CPU SGI Altix 4700... [20 Jul 2007]
Novell Case Study: Leibniz Computing Centre
White Paper The Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre) operates a supercomputer for scientific research, based on the SGI Altix 4700 server platform and running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Founded in 1962, the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) is based... [13 Apr 2007]
Novell Case Study: Tokyo Institute of Technology
White Paper The main challenge the university faced in creating its system was less in developing a proprietary solution from scratch, than in taking advantage of generally available technologies, such as open source and various packaged software, while... [04 Apr 2007]
HP's First Latin American Itanium-Based High Performance Cluster Comes to Universidad De Chile
White Paper The new platform would provide a means for the Universidad de Chile to collaborate with other universities in South America and the Pacific Rim through a supercomputer grid in conjunction with the Supercomputing Center at the University of San Diego. [05 Jul 2006]
Supercomputing for students
News Nottingham University will start building what it claims is the biggest academic supercomputer, with over 1,000 processors, in Europe next week. Dr Frazer Pearce, who is leading the project, said the £1.3m supercomputer consists of 512 AMD Opteron... [10 Feb 2005]
Sun Helps Improve Italian Consortium's Supercomputing Services
White Paper CASPUR, a consortium of six Italian universities delivering supercomputer services, uses Sun Microsystems' technology to stay in the forefront. CASPUR was looking to add a new resource management technology to increase its computing power. [11 Nov 2004]
Sun Helps Improve Italian Consortium’s Supercomputing Services
White Paper CASPUR, an association of six Italian Universities delivering supercomputer services, turned to Sun Microsystems for help in this field. Providing the fastest and most cost-effective computing power can become overwhelming for a company. [25 Feb 2004]
The universe in a computer? It's not as silly as it sounds...
News Supercomputer vendor SGI has signed a deal with Cambridge University to set up a grid computing network with the power to model the history of the universe. SGI's visualisation tools will allow graphical representations of galaxy formation and the... [17 Jul 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet Compaq gone fission for French supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a51388 SGI goes live with supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a50720 Many tech companies, think tanks and universities are developing frameworks and software for managing grid... [11 Apr 2002]
IBM's grid project gets the mass-market treatment
News The technology, based on a mixture of existing XML formats and new IBM standards, will allow businesses to share applications and computing power across an organisation, or a network of partners, forming a supercomputer by harnessing together many... [20 Feb 2002]
Those were the days: The BBC Micro remembered
News Taskis also waxed lyrical about the reliability of the machine, claiming he heard a story from a colleague about a University of London BBC Micro which was considered the only piece of kit solid enough to poll a Cray supercomputer to make sure it... [01 Feb 2002]
Finnish government lines up Linux in £3.1m deal
News The Finnish Ministry of Education has decided to replace its existing Cray T3E computer with a supercomputer running Linux. Paavo Ahonen, project manager, from the Computer Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Education said: "The supercomputer will be... [30 May 2000]
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