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RSS supercomputerJaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News The list names the fastest supercomputer as the Jaguar - otherwise known as the Cray XT5 supercomputer. The Jaguar overtook the previous number one, IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer, which... [17 Nov 2009]
Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research With High-Performance Computing System
White Paper The organization worked with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to deploy the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system to support its efforts. Nationwide Children's Hospital, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the... [27 Jul 2009]
Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain With HPC System
White Paper The center opted to test the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2008 and was impressed with the results. The Las Vegas, Nevada - based National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment is... [25 Jul 2009]
University Speeds Research and Enhances Researcher Agility With HPC System
White Paper LONI decided to try the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer running the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California at Los Angeles is dedicated to the development... [25 Jul 2009]
Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News The IBM supercomputer housed at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, known as Roadrunner, maintains the lead it grabbed a year ago. Forschungszentrum Juelich also is home to the 10th place... [23 Jun 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Supercomputer projects were at the heart of this photo story which rounded up five examples of pioneering high-performance computing (HPC) research in the UK. By analysing data from telescopes trained on one piece of sky... [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo By analysing data from telescopes trained on one piece of sky for a long period of time the supercomputer can spot the regular dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun. Get yourself a supercomputer. [18 May 2009]
Uni takes supercomputing to the cloud
News This "democratisation of HPC" gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer to small- and medium-sized businesses. Calleja predicted this could be the... [11 May 2009]
Numerical Estimation of Electric Field Distribution in Wireless Office LANs Using the FDTD Method
White Paper The author used a typical office model and employed the FDTD technique and a supercomputer to estimate the field distributions inside the whole area of the room. The purpose of this study is to develop accurate and... [01 Apr 2009]
Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study The company's LSF grid technology exploits the idle processing power of computers on the team's local network to boost the capacity of the team's supercomputer. Following restrictions on car testing, Red Bull Racing now... [24 Mar 2009]
Grid Computing Now! - Grid Security
White Paper A compute grid is essentially a collection of distributed computing resources, aggregated to act as a unified processing resource or virtual supercomputer. Collecting these compute resources into a unified pool involves... [01 Mar 2009]
Interoperable Supercomputer Attracts Wider User Base at Leading University
White Paper Now, the supercomputer attracts new users, furthering research possibilities. Scientists at the University of Cambridge rely on High-Performance Computing (HPC), but only specialist researchers used the existing system... [27 Feb 2009]
IBM's latest supercomputer to harness 20 petaflops
News Seven months after IBM delivered the world's fastest supercomputer, it has announced an even speedier one with the computing power of two million laptops. IBM said on Tuesday it is developing the technology for its new... [03 Feb 2009]
University Improves Research and Saves 30 Per Cent of Budget With a High-Performance Computing Cluster
White Paper The department of physics at University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi was looking for a cost-effective way to build a supercomputer that was powerful enough to run complex mathematical research simulation and give... [01 Jan 2009]
Powering the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
White Paper The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) wanted to increase processing capabilities to keep up with rapid expansion of the SETI@home volunteer program, which constitutes the largest distributed supercomputer... [01 Jan 2009]
