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Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future missions and scientific research. Back in July 2007, Nasa signed a supercomputer support deal with Computer Sciences Corporation, potentially...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News The Storm worm botnet, a network of compromised computers, has been estimated to control between one million and five million machines, which one researcher said makes it more powerful than IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Market Montage Solution Supports 200,000 Updates Per Second With SQL Server 2005

whitepaper Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation NMS (requiring dealers to use best-available pricing when executing securities orders), it thought it would need a Cray supercomputer or other specialized solution.

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation: Shared SGI Systems Power Research Statewide

whitepaper The Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation (QPSF) is based on a simple philosophy: pool funds, acquire major supercomputing and visualization systems, and share these resources over a broadband network.

Tags: high performance computing, memory, processor, visualization

[10 Apr 2008]

Grid Computing Takes Off in the Enterprise

whitepaper A secondary, but perhaps equally important, difference is that in both a supercomputer and a cluster, all the computing resources are under the control of a single organization and are usually dedicated to a single task.

Tags: high performance computing, grid, processors, supercomputers

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process. This is the headquarters of Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes where the cars for the Red Bull Racing...

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Red Bull F1 racing up the grid

News Using a combination of computer aided design, wind tunnel analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the team uses a supercomputer to deal with the data produced. The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing to boost development...

Tags: f1, power, supercomputer, development

[07 Mar 2008]

Configuring HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack for Blade Deployments of Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003

whitepaper However, many of the skeptics have been won over by Microsoft's implementation and its demonstrated ability to actually perform at supercomputer levels. Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CSS) 2003 is Microsoft's recent entry into the High...

Tags: application servers

[14 Feb 2008]

Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation

News After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week. We have been somewhat absent in the supercomputer market in the last few years. IBM has dominated the supercomputer rankings...

Tags: sun, ibm, supercomputer, chips

[14 Feb 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.

Tags: cray, supercomputer, scientists, power

[15 Jan 2008]

OARnet Builds Statewide Optical DWDM Network to Meet Exploding Bandwidth Demand of Universities

whitepaper 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...

Tags: optical networking

[10 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Seoul National University (SNU)

whitepaper A high performance Ethernet solution from Nortel is being leveraged to provide a powerful network infrastructure for the 180 systems that form PEGASUS, the fastest supercomputer in Korea. SNU was established in 1946 to become the first national...

Tags: ethernet

[18 Dec 2007]

Renault F1's tech race never stops

News Another project the team is working on is a new supercomputer which will be used to aid the complex modelling and design processes. The Renault F1 team's IT department is in for a busy time from now until the Formula One World Championship kicks...

Tags: f1, supercomputer, systems, renault

[22 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing

Cheat Sheet Blue Gene/L is the most powerful supercomputer in existence but the criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs with a combined computing power greater than that of Blue Gene/L's.

Tags: supercomputing, blue gene, petaflop, ibm

[20 Nov 2007]

Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner

News IBM had the fastest computer on the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list, which was released yesterday at the SC07 conference in Reno, US. The top machine, the Blue Gene/L supercomputer - located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - is capable of...

Tags: petaflop, intel, supercomputer, ibm

[13 Nov 2007]

Supercomputer helps cut drug research time

Case Study Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high performance computing integrator OCF - to dramatically cut analysis time from weeks to minutes.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: research, supercomputer

[18 Sep 2007]

Is this the malware mother of all botnets?

News Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. The Storm Worm botnet has been estimated to control between one...

Tags: supercomputer, storm worm, botnet, worm

[12 Sep 2007]

Nasa gets supercomputer booster

News Nasa has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for the provision of supercomputing support over the next decade. The deal is initially for two years, with eight one-year options, and could be worth up to $597m if all the options...

Tags: research, support, csc, supercomputer

[24 Jul 2007]

Supercomputer boost for AT&T Williams F1 team

News The AT&T Williams Formula One team has completed the installation of a new supercomputer to boost the aerodynamic development on its 2007 racer. The supercomputer can run at up to eight teraflops and is around four times more powerful than the team...

Tags: processor, data, supercomputer, lenovo

[20 Jul 2007]

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